Up North again

Another purpose built stadium that I've not been to before. They all begin to look the same after you've been to a few of them. But arrangements for getting to this one has taken a bit of planning.


The first thing is that I need to take a day's holiday. That can't be avoided. The next is to work out how I'm going to travel. Fortunately the old man has fixed a business meeting for somewhere in Sheffield earlier that day. He's happy to take me up there if I can get up at 6.00am. This means travelling up the M1 and getting to Sheffield late morning.


Fortunately for me I know a few people in Sheffield so have arranged to meet them over a few beers at lunch time. After that there'll be a bit of waiting around before driving over to Hull later in the afternoon. There's no prospect of extra time for this evening kick off - unlike Luton last week. So if we get away quickly we can get back about 1.30am.


Not surprisingly Tony's not taking people up there in the bus, so it'll be a low turnout. Kim's going up by coach and staying over with other Essex CASC members - in Bexleyheath! I expect there may be a few others catching a coach. Pity we don't command enough support to warrant a pick up from Essex any more. We tried it for a year, but it didn't work out.

So another new ground and bleary eyes in the morning. At this stage I'm planning to go to work on Wednesday, but we'll see.