GCFC v Cinderford Town

GCFC Striker PAT COX gives defender a Wedgie.

A competitive match, but a penalty and two more goals means the long winless run continues. 1-3 to Cinderford. Some good performances but just more lousy refereeing decisions. COYG

GCFC v Didcot Town

27/11/2013 City v Didcot Town FC. City ran out 2-1 losers after a spirited and physical match.
Jamie Thoroughgood scores.

GCFC v Didcot Town, City really need to record a win, after 9 straight defeats, but on the night were unable. They really missed Calvin Thomas and a couple of others didn’t have their best games.

Cinderford at home is the next game, come on the City!!!!

Shortwood United

I drove one of the Minibuses to the Shortwood United v Guildford City FC match yesterday. They have a lovely little set up there, a nice compact little stadium and nice facilities, however the journey to get there is really interesting, I am glad that I was driving a “little” 17 Seat Minibus, anything bigger would have been a problem, I wish that I had set up a dash camera to record it.

If you haven’t been there you really probably can’t imagine. But I can help, you know the end of the Italian Job, where the coach is barrelling through the Alps, well keep that in mind, reduce the width of the road to a car & a half wide. Great Fun, but when it came to leaving it was even more fun, pitch black, icey and headlights that have next to no spread so turning in blind into a blind corner, time after time.

Thanks to Methold Vehicle Hire, another Away trip negotiated without a problem (unlike some previous trips last season, with another Minibus supplier)

Football F*cks me Off

Ok, let’s get this straight, I am a Gooner, always have been always will, “We are top of the league, We are TOP OF THE LEAGUE!”. But as a functionary of the Guildford City Football Club (I take photos & drive one of the team buses) I am thoroughly pissed off with the standard of refereeing in this league (The Calor Division 1 South & West). Today the GCFC were cheated by some shocking refereeing decisions, including one goal that was so far off-side that even from the other end of the pitch I questioned it.

It seems that a lot of the “western” teams know all of the referees by name as well as Assistants and not only the 4th Officials but also seemed to have gone to their daughters weddings, and today the GCFC manager was refused permission to talk to the ref & his officials after the game.

GCFC having some brilliant players that seem to be persistently targeted by referees because of the “former” GCFC disciplinary record which really annoys me, if you know me, you’ll also know that I am annoyed by lots of other things, lying, cheating, corruption & being shit at your job are just a few, and over the last couple of months I have seen them all from “match officials” It’s wrong, it has to stop..

I am not going to call the referees and assistants corrupt, YET. BUT F*ck me what do GCFC have to do to get decisions to go their way. I’ve got a grand or two in the bank, maybe that will help.

Well played to all of the GCFC players today, you certainly wouldn’t believe that Shortwood had knocked out Aldershot and met Port Vale in the FA Cup. In particular Pat COX, Calvin Thomas, Omari Hibbert. Josh Clayman, Dom Ogun, Dean Thomas (I was surprised, well played!) Darren Stapleton (no more bookings please) and others deserve special mentions, Didcott on Wednesday, more of the same spirit please,…..

GCFC today

23/11/2013 Shortwood United v Guildford City. City ran out 4-0 losers after a spirited and physical match. City’s PAT COX battles

Sometimes, Football just pisses you off. City fought and battled in a physical game against the team that beat Aldershot Town and then lost to Port Vale in the FA Cup. The result didn’t reflect the standard of the game, whilst 3 points was probably unrealistic, 40 minutes into the game they had more than “held their own”.

A second yellow for Darren Stapleton, kind of sealed the deal in the second half, but you have to say that if you are looking for positives out of a 4-0 drubbing, the main thing is that we made them work very hard, and at times they really didn’t look like a team that should give us a problem at home. Next up Didcott at home, 3 points please lads.

Shortwood United V GCFC

Should be fun, A two hour trip to Gloucestershire tomorrow to play the team that knocked out Aldershot Town and eventually lost to 4-0 to Port Vale in a good FA Cup run. After several team changes since the beginning of the season, it looks like City have a good solid core of players, assuming no fitness/injuries or disciplinary problems, they should start to climb the league table.

Guildford Christmas Lights

21/11/2013 Turning on of the Guildford Christmas Lights.
Bonny Langford turns on the lights, with Guildford Mayor Councillor Diana Lockyer-Nibbs, Kit Heskith Harvey (the Ugly Sister) & Jamie Brooks (Buttons).

So tonight I was covering the Guildford Christmas light switch on, with the lovely Bonnie Langford, from a balcony that has a restriction of 5 people at any one time, along with another photographer and several others, we did get ordered from the balcony after a little while… “Elf & Safety” and all that, although I did over to record video if the balcony did collapse (ever the professional) but that was declined, so into the warm I retreated for a little while..