so a precious day off work for a televised live on sky sports 1 trip to somerset to see yeovil v leicester!!
I wouldn't normally take a day off in the week but this being a trip down memory lane and a new ground i felt obliged to do so
Having lived in Worcester between 95 and 06 and also near glastonbury between 89 and 95 i was passing two former residenses on the trip
This pic is from the supporters club coach and as u can see it was a sunny but cold day!! The picture at the top of the screen is my attempt to get the malvern hills from the coach as we passed by worcester!!
Also on the pictures r the bristol service station we stopped at (welcome break) and pics of the match!! Sorry bout the blurriness of some photos my hands were frozen solid despite gloves
I arrived at the ground at 645 an hour before kick off and promptly decided on something to eat when my phone rang, it was my gorgeous fiance just what i needed to warm me up on a cold night in tractor land!!!
Inside the ground the atmosphere was good and standing up was definately an experience, chants of "does ur scarecrow know ur here??" and "come on leicester we dont want to come here again!!" kept us entertained throughout
The game kicked off and city immediately dominated fryatt forcing a good save and oakley firing over when he should have done better. Also davies had a mazy run well saved. This was bout it as far as the first half went a forgettable affair which surely had many sky viewers wishing they had setanta or were down the pub!!
Second half started and it was yeovil who dominated the first 10 minutes with rodgers being a constant threat. That finished however when city took the lead, some neat work from davies and a fine 1-2 with howard saw howard firing a deflected shot into the net.
Yeovil tried to respond quickly but couldn't threaten martin in the leicester goal. On 85 minutes Rodgers went into the box for yeovil and looked to have been tripped and a few nervous seconds followed but the referee waved away the penalty claims
2 Minutes later Joe Mattock picked up the ball on the left wing after an assist from on loan manchester united substitute tom cleverly, and turned inside and curled a lovely curling strike into the bottom corner of the net
2-0 to lcfc and a great trip to go 7 points clear of MK Dons at the summit of league 1
Up the city!!
Ash 20/1/09
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