Some Good Friday football, but after 2 gigs until late last night, its a sluggish start to the day. Meeting friends that are Leyton Orient fans, and friends that are Cheltenham Town fans here, so I have a tough choice of which end to go into. Its actually not a tough choice, because the away end will clearly be full of more vocal and hardcore people, having travelled from their farms for the game.
£16 for a 4th Division football match is not especially amusing, nor is having to queue at a very small ticket office, instead of just being able to pay cash on the turnstile. Being Good Friday, it seems like a bumper crowd, especially in the away end. I later find out that the "bumper" crowd is in fact under 3,500. So, not very bumper at all then.
Cheltenham race into an early lead in this one, and despite their best efforts to let Orient back into the game, they do eventually manage to hold onto a 3-2 win. So, the away end was the place to be after all, a surprisingly happy place at that.
After the game, some friends blagged me into the "Players Lounge", where I encountered the phenomenon of the "footballer's wife"!! Lower league footballers here, but nonetheless, their birds were classic Footballers Wives material - lots of orange makeup, chavvy designer clothes, and positively beaming with pride that they have snared a professional footballer. I guess they get prettier in general as the footballers get better - so a full 4th division footballer's wives experience for me!!
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