Bad Hitch, Brilliant Day

[Greenwich Blade]

My Google Maps Timeline actually makes a difficult day look quite smooth. Well, it WASN'T smooth, and it WAS difficult, but overall today was brilliant and actually rather enjoyable.

Brief synopsis:

*Miss bus, walk to M25 j14...

*90 minute wait spooked by low flying aircraft as well as bloke at window of nearby Travelodge with telescope

*Lift to M25/M1 intersection

*Lift to Toddington Services

*Avoid stag party; netball team avoid me

*Lift to Trowell Services; slowest traffic known to man

*Lift to Woodall Services as match starts; United go goal up

*Half-hour wait followed by lift all way to Bramall Lane as second-half begins

*Find only open turnstile with United 2-0 ahead; there are isolated boos coming from the Kop (winning 2-0 remember)

*Sleepy steward has peace shattered by being asked if he wishes to search my rucksack; he declines


*23 minutes left on clock as I head to seat

*Crewe score as I sit down

*Within 15 minutes Crewe have it back to 2-2; more boos plus semi-mass exodus

*Finger of blame pointed firmly in direction of Greenwich Blade; Adkins off hook

*United go 3-2 up before doing their very best to let Crewe score again

*Final whistle; nobody hears it but linesmen hare across pitch towards ref so we must have won

*Rutland Beer Garden; Chaingate reminisces

 

[Greenwich Blade]

Not just that, I had an impressive last 23 minutes for United when I came on for Hammond.

 

[Tyler Durden]

I have to admire your resiliance. This season, even my bus ride from Southey Green feels like a personal sacrifice most weeks.

 

[JohnDenver]

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Not just that, I had an impressive last 23 minutes for United when I came on for Hammond.

Intelligent movement and covered more yards than Coutts. Good work.

 

[Esablade]

I have to admire your resiliance. This season, even my bus ride from Southey Green feels like a personal sacrifice most weeks.

Southy Green?

So it was you knicked the Wednesday kit ...or was it me!!!?!??

 

[northsomersetblade]

Dedication over and above the call of duty....it must have been all worth it when the cream that Crewe have to offer were duly served notice by the mighty Blades.

 

[Tyler Durden]

Southy Green?

So it was you knicked the Wednesday kit ...or was it me!!!?!??

Can't have been me, that would involve having to lay my hands on it

But yeah, based deep in enemy territory, like a sleeper cell.

 

[ShockingBadBuy]

My Google Maps Timeline actually makes a difficult day look quite smooth. Well, it WASN'T smooth, and it WAS difficult, but overall today was brilliant and actually rather enjoyable.

Brief synopsis:

*Miss bus, walk to M25 j14...

*90 minute wait spooked by low flying aircraft as well as bloke at window of nearby Travelodge with telescope

*Lift to M25/M1 intersection

*Lift to Toddington Services

*Avoid stag party; netball team avoid me

*Lift to Trowell Services; slowest traffic known to man

*Lift to Woodall Services as match starts; United go goal up

*Half-hour wait followed by lift all way to Bramall Lane as second-half begins

*Find only open turnstile with United 2-0 ahead; there are isolated boos coming from the Kop (winning 2-0 remember)

*Sleepy steward has peace shattered by being asked if he wishes to search my rucksack; he declines


*23 minutes left on clock as I head to seat

*Crewe score as I sit down

*Within 15 minutes Crewe have it back to 2-2; more boos plus semi-mass exodus

*Finger of blame pointed firmly in direction of Greenwich Blade; Adkins off hook

*United go 3-2 up before doing their very best to let Crewe score again

*Final whistle; nobody hears it but linesmen hare across pitch towards ref so we must have won

*Rutland Beer Garden; Chaingate reminisces

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Isolated boos greeted your arrival ?! Peasants

 

[Greenwich Blade]

Isolated boos greeted your arrival ?! Peasants

No, the isolated boos were heard by me from outside as I approached the turnstile on Shoreham Street.

 

[ShockingBadBuy]

Ah. Your dedication shames us all. I wondered if you might be at hawkeaster ...

 

[Dkc]

Were there any boos from the kop as you walked to your seat?

 

[Greenwich Blade]

Were there any boos from the kop as you walked to your seat?

No; no cheers either. It turned pretty ugly when Crewe's second went in though as everyone blamed me.

 

[Canterbury Blade]

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Did you have to pay? I remember in the mid 80s when I had no cash at all I used to go down for the last 20 minutes and go in for nothing to get my fix, but I'm not sure if that still occurs?

If you've hitched up and then paid full price to go in for the last 23 minutes then even more credit to you.

As an aside, as someone who used to hitch a bit, has the advent of Imodium (one of the greatest inventions known in Christendom and up there with the wheel, penicillin and Thornbridge Jaipur in my book) assisted the modern hitchhiker?

 

[Large Mendonca]

*Finger of blame pointed firmly in direction of Greenwich Blade; Adkins off hook

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Was that at the game, or in the shoutbox ?

 

[Greenwich Blade]

Did you have to pay? I remember in the mid 80s when I had no cash at all I used to go down for the last 20 minutes and go in for nothing to get my fix, but I'm not sure if that still occurs?

If you've hitched up and then paid full price to go in for the last 23 minutes then even more credit to you.

As an aside, as someone who used to hitch a bit, has the advent of Imodium (one of the greatest inventions known in Christendom and up there with the wheel, penicillin and Thornbridge Jaipur in my book) assisted the modern hitchhiker?

I have a season ticket anyway so I just beeped my card and in I went.

As for Imodium, absolutely right; I usually have an emergency capsule or two about my person. The equivalent of pouring quick-setting cement into your stomach, it guarantees no movement down there for 48 hours.

 

[Greenwich Blade]

Was that at the game, or in the shoutbox ?

Both. When I dared to look at the Shoutbox it was replicating exactly what was being said around me.

 

[dingledog]

I take my hat off to you in total respect for your endeavour and resilience.

 

[Dnblade]

Great effort GB,although it sounds like you nearly jinxed us by arriving on 23 minutes to go,and throw away a 2 goal lead...I think I would have given up at Toddington once the Netball team gave you the swerve,and gone home.

 

[Superblades]

When you finally got to the ground and they levelled I bet you was thinking something along the lines of "just my luck today."

Fair play to you, I would have knocked it on the head after missing the bus.

 

[Bartleby]

Did you have to pay? I remember in the mid 80s when I had no cash at all I used to go down for the last 20 minutes and go in for nothing to get my fix, but I'm not sure if that still occurs?

used to do that in the 70s sometimes at concerts in the City Hall, wander in and see the last 20 minutes for nowt (pubs shut at half 10 in those days)

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

Excellent effort GB

 

[Kenilworth]

As for Imodium, absolutely right; I usually have an emergency capsule or two about my person. The equivalent of pouring quick-setting cement into your stomach, it guarantees no movement down there for 48 hours.

SO THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENED TO HAMMOND!

 

[stringjunior]

Imodium ...... Thornbridge Jaipur

One very much negates the benefit of the other

 

[Canterbury Blade]

One very much negates the benefit of the other

Ying and yang I agree.

Just imagine the profits Wards would have made if Imodium had existed back then? It took me years of practice to 'manage' my love for Sheffield Best bitter, an apprenticeship that would have been eased by life changing drugs, such as Imodium.

Mind you, unlike many of today's footballers I earnt my Wards spurs through experience, hard graft and no easy solutions. The wonder drug solution wouldn't have made me half the man I am today, a lesson about getting things too easy that some of our footballing starlets could well learn...