The first day of the season is always exciting, everything is fresh and we all start level on points, we dare to dream. I know we had the midweek cup game but that doesn't really count, this is when it all starts.
I set the recorder to "series record" Football Focus, Match Of The Day and Match Of The Day 2, can you believe that I forgot all about The Football League Show! I registered us both for the TWTD prediction league and made a deal with Sharon that we would go to The Crown in Woodbridge in the evening as long as we didn't lose!
I took the programme from Kevin Beattie's testimonial that my dad gave me to the match for him to sign as I knew he was doing an outside broadcast of Radio Suffolk's "Life's A Pitch" with Mark Murphy on Alderman park (it was Alderman Road Rec when I was a kid!)
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| ...........Delivered |
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| Signed........... |
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| The right weather for a Samba band |
It was a really hot day around about 30 degrees in the afternoon not what you call football weather, a test of fitness for the players in that heat for sure. Before kick-off we had a lap of honour by the counties Olympians and Torch Bearer's including Debbie from The Bell! A crowd of just over 19,000 turned up and created a really good atmosphere, the best that I can remember for a while at Portman Road.
Blackburn took the lead midway through the first half when loanee Colin Kazim-Richards headed in from close range much against the run of play. It took until the 83rd minute for Town to find an equaliser, just when we thought it was going to be one of those afternoons. Jason Lowe intercepted Jason Scotland's pass to Michael Chopra (who would have surely scored) only to turn it into his own net. We played some neat passing football throughout the afternoon and created a host of chances, Rovers keeper Paul Robinson denied us several times and for their part Blackburn seemed content to sit on there lead. A draw with one of the favourites for promotion was a decent result to start the season on.
Thanks to Lowe we were able to have a nice meal in The Crown to round the day off. Get in there!!
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| Suffolk's Olympians |
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| The start of a dream or the beginning of a nightmare? |
Playlist
Beautiful Day by U2 - Obvious reason, footballs back!
And The Beat Goes On by The Whispers - The legend that is Kevin Beattie
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