@bob my closest friend coaches and played soccer forever. I get tired of hearing him go on about it.
I don’t mean everyday I could care.
I forgot to update you all. In the test match against Northants we lost by 205 runs, a complete thrashing. In the 1 dayer against Middlesex yesterday we lost by 34 runs. All in all not a good week for the Chesterfield “Festival of Cricket”, a bit of a dissapointment but an entertaining one. Stefan
Went to see Gloucestershire in a 4-dayer against Essex earlier in the season. Think it’s pretty sad that they charge £15 for a day’s play. There were only 200-odd people there and most of those were members. Perhaps Glos. would win a few games if they could get a decent crowd through the gates!
@brig it’s £15 a day at Derbys too. They had a special discount ticket for the games in Chesterfield, £50 for 6 days. As for attendances against Yorks there was nearly 4000 there, at most of the days vs Northants there was about 400ish, and against Middx there was about 2500 there. Don’t know the official figures just my guesses. Stefan
Dublin made the gaelic football finals yesterday first time since 1995 by beating Donegal 0-9 to 0-6 and we’re playing Kerry in the finals, like so many times in back in 70’s. Great!
@AllanH I’ve been intrigued by the Gaelic sports for some time. We get the Ulster football championship on the Beeb and occasionally some Scottish shinty (the game all the Gaelic kids in my school used to play!)
@Walrus1985 I’m sure you’re immensely pleased that Yorkshire have been relegated in the LVCC 
Will be watching your final game against Surrey very closely. Would be nice if at least one of the London teams stays down next year (The Oval is much easier to get to for away games than bloody Northampton!) Having said that, 400-8 at stumps on the first day isn’t hugely encouraging!
Haha, Dublin won the GAA football championship yesterday, and with Ireland’s win over Australia saturday morning, sports weekend was perfect. Cheers to all hungover sports fans!
@brig yes I am delighted that Yorks. were relegated, I look forward to some interesting Derby matches next year. I was also impressed by the fact that Derbys. didn’t finish bottom. Hopefully we can go for a top 3 finish next year. Also 3 of my local football teams are having mixed seasons. Alfreton Town are having a nightmare start to their first, (and probably only unfortunately), season in the Conference National. Their rise has been meteoric, and probably a little too fast. Chesterfield FC, my local professional team, (also my first love footy wise, but waaaaaaayyy too expensive to go now, that’s why I follow a non league team.),have finally kick started their season, after winning League Two last year. And my team, that I am a member of and season ticket holder of, Sheffield FC, the oldest club in the world, are doing fantastic. We are top of the league, 1 point clear. Lovely, jubbly! Stefan
Very good, Stefan. Nice to see local sports appreciated.
@allan I only support local clubs. I tell you something round here we must have the biggest concentration of Man U, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea fans per capita anywhere. Thing is most of these folks who “support” these clubs have never seen a football match in the flesh, and if they have it certainly isn’t the club they suposedly “support”. Glory hunters really piss me off. Stefan
@Walrus Interested to hear that you’re a Sheffield FC fan. The closest we have age-wise in Scotland is Queen’s Park FC (est. 1867). They are 100% amateur and in the bottom division of the league, and yet they both own and play at Hampden Park (where the national team plays). The stadium has a capacity of 52000, but they’re lucky to attract 500+ to their home games. Hilarious stuff.
@brig I think, although I could be mistaken, that SFC played Queen’s Park for SFC’s 100th anniversary in 1957. For SFC’s 150th 4 years ago we played Inter Milan, and Ajax at Bramall Lane, Sheffield United’s home ground. Stefan
Here in the states there’s a (american) football team–the Dallas Cowboys–that started to call itself “America’s Team” back in the 70s or 80s. Sickening, to me at least, partly because I’m a NY Giant fan, and we play in the same division. Anyway, there’s at least one other team–the Pittsburgh Steelers–who arguably could/should own that title of “America’s Team”. There’s a story that the owner of the Steelers, upon being asked his feelings about the “America’s Team” label, replied something like, “We don’t want that. We’re Pittsburgh’s team.” Pretty cool, I think.