Pitch last night

Players came out to applaud fans (you can just see them walking back to dressing room). The wet patch in front of us was where we were warming up, the ball was barely rolling then and Townsend was sliding for miles in his warm up efforts. Tommy was trying to bounce the ball for practise shots and it was just sticking. If they'd have kicked off the whole pitch would have been like that in minutes. Right call.

Not sure which route you took back to Clayton (Whitey) but Saltaire just down the valley from VP was a nightmare to drive through, it would have been as easy to drive through the river Aire! !

 

local rag

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co...._city_centre_as_storm_brings_torrential_rain/

 

View from the City fans

 

I'm old school and from a safety and spectacle point of view I think it should have been played. It's an outdoor sport and weather conditions change, that's part of the game isn't it. They say its unsafe but it never hurt me as a kid and if its the modern studs which is an issue then surely that's up to the players to wear adequate equipment.

Not so much a grumble at last night as at the general state of football and its ponceyness in general

 

We'd have been better in a boat, let's put it that way pal.

That is up there as one of the most sudden and torrential downpours I've experienced. The Coop in Clayton was flooded by all accounts. And whilst on the subject, did you know they've shut the Fiddlers?

There'll be no pubs left soon.

 

Yes, sad about the Fiddlers, I spent my misspent youth in there :-( And on the subject of sudden downpours, we had one in 1982 where the road outside the Fiddlers was flooded (under the old railway bridge) and it submerged cars. I rescued a kitten from the doorstep of the first house next to the pub, passed it to the landlord and he was pictured in the paper as a hero

1982, eh ...... bet you don't remember that. Ha ha

 

I was born that year, if that helps?

 

Folk used to come from miles around to that pub. It was unbelievably successful. Was built by the bloke in the house over the road, above the railway bridge. Chris Delaney, Irish demolition bloke. It took its name from him and his 2 brothers. I wouldn't have messed with 'em

 

Any idea what they're going to do with it?

 

No. I had a feeling Max who runs Paradise Farm (you walk past it) might be up for relocating as he was one of the regulars back in the day. Will be a pity if it stays boarded up.