Inspectormorose.

I watched the first 15 seconds... Knackered against a team of semi pros... Fuck... Right... Off

Given the play off dates you'd be struggling to extend the season unless the league move those. Gateshead still have 5 games to play by a week Saturday as it stands.

I honestly had no idea he was Cameroonian, I shall read player biogs more carefully in future.

Not long back and have a Red Stripe in my hand (other beers are available) so the days slightly improved. He was head and shoulders above anything on the pitch today, despite being about 5 foot 5, and rightly got MOM. Less said about us the better, someone sat behind us said it felt like a meaningless end of season game the way it was being played by us and it did we just never turned up. Anyone know why there was a Cameroon flag hung up in the Latics section, had the Yaoundé supporters club nipped over for the game?

We probably ended up in The Plough or Black Horse on Manchester St but Sir Alan would have had us buying our own no doubt.

I ended up selling stash tins off a blanket in the park that day when a mate handed me shopkeeper duties for 10 minutes then I didn't see him for about 3 hours. By which stage the worse for wear entrepreneur in me was knocking them out buy one get one free forgetting I was halving our profits but impressed at the business I was doing.

It also shows the advantages of a linesman not being up with play if you're attacking which he did on quite a few occasions, he was right in front of us.

It was shocking and the 4 hours each way didn't help the mood. Bizarrely, despite yesterday and based on not much, I still think we'll scrape 7th. The not much being Alty seem as determined to throw a play off place away as we do and Gateshead are facing a fixture pile up. They've 10 games to play in 6 weeks and will lose another Saturday game as they're in the semi of the Trophy. Their "run in" includes games against 5 of the top 11 3 of which are against the top 5. Straw, clutching.

Sat nav managed to take me on 8 motorways on the way home from Aldershot... M3, M25 ,M40, M42, M5, M6, M60 and M62... It's the most interesting thing that happened today as the football was shit.

On a fashion note do I need to buy some Stone Island for this game?

I was one of the regulars on Big Thread along with Derek Wilson, Jimi T, Maddog, Stipe Tripe, Leeslover, GillianFN and Stevie J and I think Ackey popped up now and again. Apologies if I missed any other regulars. The eventual unwritten rule was you posted about anything other than football. Got to something stupid like 6000+ pages. Stipe did curate it after it ended and had it in his e mails somewhere split into chunks. I tend to read rather than post nowadays.

Roy and Mike, there's an age dsisparity there wonder what their playlist is to away games.

Sutton back in at RB presumably where through no fault of his he's been not suited, no Reid anywhere not a cheerleader for him but at least have a striker on the bench.

That team says to me we're chucking stuff at it and hoping we find something that works better than it has been doing. Or rotating the squad as it's popularly known.

That was a link to the livestream on the Toughest Row You Tube channel but maybe you have to be a subscriber