First off, Daniel was Five on Wednesday - he was made a fuss of at school and gave out sweets to his friends before I picked him up. Then he came home to play with his presents and eat his football cake. He's got a big party tomorrow with all his friends and been invited to another in the afternoon!
Election Day on Thursday. It made me laugh with all these people turning up at the last minute to vote and then complaining when they clearly didn't know the rules - and the law! If it was so important the Polling Stations were open at 7am - don't tell me you all worked 15 hour days?!
Now we have a hung parliament and it doesn't sit well with me. Gordon Brown should be booted out on his arse yet after losing he doesn't have to leave! It's all corrupt and we'll probably get shafted by whoever takes over.
Cheltenham Stay Up By The Skin Of Their Teeth!
I took Daniel to Whaddon Road to see his first Cheltenham Town game and cheer them onto staying up in League Two. Bottom line was that they did it with a 1-1 draw and finished one place above the two relegated teams, Grimsby and Darlington. It was right up there with some of the most awful, tedious and un-skilful games I've ever seen.
However, there was huge entertainment during the game - it came from the away end.
Accrington Stanley brought 150-200 fans, the majority of which made a noise more befitting to 3000 fans - they would do the Premier League proud making that sort of constant noise. They sang loads of different songs including "I want to be Stan-a-ley" to the Sex Pistols "Anarchy" track! They even briefly sang "Sh*t support My Lord" which made me laugh!
Then during the first half (which even saw them lighting flares) something happened in the middle of their lot and one guy got injured and everything got very lively. The police waded in, one web-toed got arrested and so it continued for 5 minutes or so.
Then in the second half some lads had gone over to the left side of the Carlsberg Stand to collect a huge flag - when they attempted to take it back to where they were sat all hell broke loose as the stewards and Police wouldn't let them - more arrests and another injury.
A very surreal last 10 minutes followed as half of their supporters had disappeared. The A/S supporters entertainment far outweighed that of the tripe that was served up on the pitch! A few of them had banners with "SA" on them - couldn't quite work that one out - I don't think they'll forget their trip to Whaddon Road in a hurry.
Luckily Daniel saw none of it and was almost asleep for the last ten minutes (like most of home support) although he had enjoyed his day!
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