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(This article was first published in the Worthing FC Programme in the 2002-2003 season)
A do, do, do, a da, da da…
Bedstead
Not one, but two trips to Merland Rise in the space of 8 days. Your usual, sir? Marvel at the car park catering – at least the masses queuing to get in won’t starve! Another innovative feature of the ground is a toilet where you can sit back, relax, and view the whole game from your throne.
As cold last Tuesday as Ice Station Zebra, mind and wrap up warm for this one. Will we see a bigger crowd that last week, where various estimates arrived at figures of 45-60? At least the players will be comfortable with the surroundings, as they face their 4th game in 8 days (with another 3 to be played by the following Wednesday). The non-stop glamorous whirlwind of Ryman Div 1 South continues.
Bedstead will no doubt still be smarting from their 2 goal give-away in the dying seconds at Woodside. It’s a game of three halves…
Can we play here every week? Yes, apparently.
Egham Town
A slightly decrepit ground, complete with decaying corrugated iron, carpeted toilets (with all manner of new fungal species developing in a unique biospheric environment. The bonus is covering on all four sides; the catch is that the large social club style bar (not averse to hosting Karaoke evenings) is over the fence. Marvel at the car park with not one, but TWO, entrances. Well, ours has even more – its called Bulkington Avenue.
Scene of the crime earlier this season against Staines, when a cling film-covered goal mouth prevented an avalanche of Rebels’ goals – this was the game that turned the tide, ushering in a winter of discontent.
Jimmy’s Travel Tips: Why not add a bit of variety to YOUR day? After travelling up on the team coach and watching your side battle to a draw, why not verbally abuse your players from the sidelines before storming off to the station before the final whistle, where you can be whisked back to Sussex in total discomfort on ancient rolling stock, prone to arbitrary delays (“This service has been delayed due to a Pikachu on the line”), in just under two hours? All on your own. You know it makes sense.
Lewes
Like the juicy, succulent filling between two dry stale bits of crust, Lewes come up against the Rebels roadshow immediately after facing Horsham and just 3 days before the visit Bognor in a spicy West Sussex sandwich.
What’s currently got a entire parka of groundspotters (yes, that is the collective noun) scratching their heads is how did the Dripping Pan ever got an A grade, particularly with THOSE toilets… perhaps they tightened their nuts in time?
Will the game finally go ahead? Will Lewes want to face a Worthing side in full flight, who notched 5 in their last away game? Will more mysterious holes appear miraculously on the pitch? Has Jimmy been to Robert Dyas for a bigger spade? And most important of all, has Jimmy renewed his Network Card? Platform 2 for 8.57 to Crawley…
Hi ho… Hi ho, it’s off to Lewes we go, with a bucket and a spade to stop the game being played, hi ho…
It’s not a bird, it’s not
a plane, it must be Dave, he’s on the train
The Flying Horseman
7th Feb 2004