White Stripes

Peterborough 0-0 ITFC March 9th 2013

I don't know how many times I've driven past Peterborough on the A1 over the years or by their ground on the parkway. Back in the day I'd be up there for work at least once a week but Saturday was the first time that I'd been for football and it didn't disappoint. 

London Road surely has to be the worst ground in the championship and certainly in need of modernisation on at least three sides (the main stand is only about twenty years old!) There's still terracing behind both goals, Max and I stood in the Moy's End terrace rather than sit in the Main Stand. It certainly was a blast from the past, reminded me of how football use to be when I was his age.

The majority of the 2,611 traveling fans were also there and created a really good atmosphere under the low roof of the stand, helped pre-match by "Peter Burrow" the Posh mascot who stole a beach ball from them and ran up the other end of the ground with it before giving it to the home fans to play with. I think that he should have been arrested for incitement!

We want our ball back

This was a game that we didn't want to lose, we were the better side and really should have won it having created by far the best opportunities. Frank Nouble hit the post with a rasping shot in the first half as well as forcing Peterborough keeper Bobby Olejnik into a good save to deny him his first goal for Town. Olejnik also pulled off an acrobatic save from David McGoldrick's close range header after the break and then late on we were denied a penalty when Jack Payne handled in his own box. Posh created a couple of chances but nothing that really troubled visiting keeper Stephen Henderson. We have now kept four clean sheets in the last six games but the flip side of this is that we have only scored twice which is a little bit alarming.

The biggest talking point after the match was the amount of people complaining about having white paint on their clothes, I remember Max saying before kickoff that he thought the toilets behind the goal had just been painted. After the game posh supporters were ringing up the BBC Cambridgeshire phone in more concerned about their coats than the (hopefully) impending relegation. Peterborough released a statement denying any painting has taken place at London Road since the close season sighting the recent wet weather and damp conditions as the reason for the paint coming away onto peoples clothing and offering to pay for the dry cleaning! 

Do not lose

The playlist

Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes - although it was my first goalless draw of the season the game was really watchable, better than watching paint dry or in this case getting wet.