Leeds Leeds Leeds - Boxing Day !

So the biggest game outside the premiership was our next away day, falling on boxing day!

After a good Christmas everyone was looking forward to beating the yorkshire puddings (again!).

Dave's dad had offered to drive, in a van! I was told there was to be a playstation in the back and it meant I could get on the beer so I wasn't going to complain!

My dad, and JoeB joined Dave & his dad in the van. Tom Drove the Megane up as well with the rest altho there was a distinct lack of convoy!

I wan't disapointed on the playstation front either. Despite the teeny screenWe managedto have a good laugh on Joe's Red Card Football. I managed to give everyone a royal whipping despite having never played it before. A stop off at the service gave me a chance to get a pic of the van
The back:

And My dads views on being "made" to drink fosters!

We made good time & arrived at Leeds for about 2, parked up in an industrial estate 5 mins from the ground for £3! My dad headed off to some rough pub, I thought I'd give it a miss and go and see who I could find in the ground!

Walking towards Elland Road:Billy Bremner Statue:In the Que for the turnstile (Which was massive!!!) we met up with Chris, Katy & StezKaty and Me:Big Stand!
We'd been allocated just under 3000 tickets which sold out well in advance. We'd got the "Cheese wedge" and half of the south stand.
The match was good, spoilt by awfull stewarding only bettered by Huddersfield this season and Our idiotic fans asking us to sit down but not wanted to swap tickets. Morons.

After Matt Oakley put us infront, with a sweet shot from the edge of the box, we looked comfy untill the last 15 minutes when we started to sit back and play hooooof ball, you could tell an equaliser was on the way, and sure enough it was, 91st minute. 1-1 at FT. Ah well, most of would have taken a point pre-match, and we're still top of t'league!

I think many of us would love to have beaten the scummers though!!

The way home was less intresting and focused around watching family guy and trying to undo bottles of stella without a bottle opener. Dave finally gets into his after about 30 mins trying when his dad stops for petrol!

Next up is Yeovil on a Monday nite. Vundevall!

Carlisle - 400 Mile Drive

The day started early like all good away days. 9 O'clock meet at SPOONS (opening time!) to get the juices flowing. Pre-match Jagerbombs were in order for those in my car. Brinner gets started:Spoony tucks in:Ramps reaction:After a trip to the bookies to waste a couple of quid on a few ridiculous accy's we met up with Tom in Coalville. A short trip to Tesco ensued to stock up on petrol and beer. A rule of travelling in my car is that no mainstream lager is to be consumed.





Brinner enjoys sushi (Wtf??) and a Leffe:Corona is probably mainstream, but I allowed it. Spoony bought a crate. He weren't letting go of that!





Leffe was the order of the day. Everyone had one. (And loved it)


Woof:Spoony gets to grips with some real beer:Ramp, looking more retarded then ever, likes his Leffe:A long car journey need some good tunes, which wasn't a problem.


House of Pain and ring of fire seemed to go down well in the back!
Tom's car was slightly more civilised:

Brinner purchased a Kwak...not quite the same without the glass:A nice car wreck was the only problem we had traffic wise getting up there. This was the furthest north I'd ever been so I got a bit strangly excited and started taking pictures of random snowy hills whilst trying to drive along the motorway! (Not advisable)We managed to get kinda lost in Carlisle and ended up going round in a Circle. It didn't help that no-one had bothered to look on a map to see where the ground was!!

We got there with a good hour to go and parked up for free at the Premier Inn 5 minutes from the ground.

The ground was different to anything I'd been to before. Once inside you could see why it was different, the stand opposite was a strange one with mixture of terracing and random seats.A nice terrace down at the home end too.We'd been allocated the section down the side, another strange stand. Newer than the other stands, it spanned longer than the pitch and loooked like a building you'd find on a 90's Industrial estate.This meant the away terrace was empty!Brunton ParkTeams come out:We met up with everyone inside the ground and thankfully it was unreserved seating so everyone could stand together!

Tom looking rather camp:Wee Dave, C-man, Ched & Joe: Spoony, Brinner, Ramp with Lisa & Carl behind:Spoony gets a bit excited:Maybes: Micky, one of his calmer moments:

Lisa - Going for the Hooligan look:Katy:Fez:C-Man:Bert & Tom with a bit of Bochum:We got behind the foxes:
After going behind to a Bridges goal, we came out in the 2nd half and dominated, and our support was paid off with two goals to take the match 2-1. Superb. The 400 miles had been well worth it, three points keeping us top of t'league.

After a few celebratory drinks at the pub and another petrol/beer stop at Tesco we headed out of Carlisle...I was expecting everyone to drop off in the back but the journey back was just as evenfull!
Unfortunatly no-one bothered to take any pictures (I was driving!). The best parts were probably cutting up the Birmingham city team coach and Brinner waving his shirt out the window at Kevin Phillips & Liam Ridgewell !

Tom's car got back well before us as they didnt stop for a post-match beer or have to stop every 10 minutes for a piss!

Tom still showed us what he thought of Stoke though: (the sign says stoke if you can't see!!)

Next up is Leeds away on boxing day which should be a fine away day.