Huddersfield Town 1-2 Doncaster Rovers
**Groan**, nah, we never wanted to win this Mickey Mouse Trophy anyway, no, we didn't want a trip to the Millenium Stadium in March, no...... **groan**
It wa a match I didn't really get into - not my fault and I'll tell you why. I listen to radio commontaries through HTFC World, supplied via BBC Radio Leeds. Now, with Leeds, Bradford and Town all playing on the same night, and only two frequencies to split the matches, they decided to give Paul Ogden and Kieran O'Regan the night off and just send a reporter there instead!!! There was no way on this earth I wanted to listen to Scunthorpe v Bradford, with only the odd return to our ground, I was a bit cheesed off. Then inspiration struck. I scanned down to find the Doncaster commontary - ok, I knew it would be biased towards them, but at least, I thought I would get 90 minutes. And I did - of the strangest commontary I have ever heard.
The Doncaster commontator was some old boy who didn't seem to know any of Towns players, either by sight or name (as he was constantly correcting himself or mispronouncing their names), except for Boothy. And as for Doncaster, it seemed there was only three of their players on the pitch as he only appeared to mention Lewis Guy, Chris Thornton and Jason Price. I candidly thought that perhaps the regular Doncaster commontator had not turned up, so BBC Radio Sheffield (I believe they were the culprits) had gone over to the Pink Link Stand looking for a volunteer!!!
The commontary was so misjointed, a lot of "...good ball son, well played lad..." - not mentioning which player it was. I was struggling to keep up. Then, just after Doncaster scored their first ("..its in...") the commontators mobile phone went off and (I kid you not) he answered it, and had a conversation "...I can't talk right now, I'm doing a commontary..." (I swear I am not making this up) "...well, alright go on then...well you'll have to ring them back won't you..." - all this while I could hear the match continuing in the background, it was completely bizarre. When he had finished, he sort of apologised "...sorry about that...", I was listening in total disbelief.
Second half, and Town got back into the game when Pav (or Paul as our elderly friend kept calling him) challenged the Doncaster keeper, who fluffed his clearance straight to Boothy who made no mistake form 25 yards (that was courtesy of Teletext by the way, I actually had the impression that Boothy had tapped it into an empty net).
I thought at that point we would either win, or it would go to penalties, but I sort of got the idea that Doncaster were having a few decent chances near the end - something about Donny missing an open goal, and something about hitting the side netting, but then almost out of nowhere (there didn't seem to be any build up), and a Nathan Clarke mistake (thank you Teletext), Lewis Guy scored what turned out to be the winner in the 87th minute. I knew we wouldn't come back from that. A disappointing night all round, altough when I went down to the social club afetrwards to join my hubby (who had been watching the Man U game on a big screen), the regulars were very sympathetic ("...hadrd luck Ju, never mind ay...").
As I said, we didn't want to win this trophy anyway............
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No news on Jacko v The FA - I presume it was postponed, as there's no news anywhere of what went on I'm guessing it has been held over, maybe to today.
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