LittlePhilHill

The atmosphere. Where we were fans were arguing amongst themselves. Some moved closer to the front clearly waiting for the final whistle. Not sure this how old this child is but mine was is 9, wasn’t in tears but said, ‘Can we go?’ When I asked why he said , ‘The atmosphere is not nice’. He’s been to many away days and plenty of hostile grounds but that was the first one I felt that I wanted to leave early because it was clear what was going to happen and you had to walk through it to get to the exit.

We left at 82 mins. There had been a little bit of back and forth between fans about standing up that was clearly fuelled by the frustration of the score line but it was clear that it was going to get nasty at the final whistle. Even my 9 year old son just looked at me and said, ‘Can we go?’

Felt for Dolan against County. Was clear in on goal and Desire could have passed it to him but went for it himself (which is fair enough from a striker’s point of view - Desire could have scored with pretty much his first touch). Then, for the rest of the half, he couldn’t get a pass to him and started trying to find the ball which pulled him out of position. I hope he gets a run at some point. Talented lad.