20th march 2012 dirty Leeds v Nottingham Forest at Elland rd ....i wasnt going to this game but id been off work for most of march with a torn miniscus in my right knee. Having put in the proper leave application to the wife i was given the nod and within 2.3 seconds ,arrangements had been made and i was going to the game ...after a few tweets to certain other #nffc followers i had a buddy all the way from preston to leeds, All i knew about @dnohall86 was his name was dean and he lived in blackpool supported forest but came from gods favourite county.....Nottinghamshire.
So i picked up my crutches and hobbled to the car , mrs monkfish drove me to blackpool pleasure beach train station and gave me my not to get too pissed orders as i was off sick and also on crutches , I agreed as any good husband does and went on my way to preston on 14:42 northern service ...by the way mrs monkfish hates being called mrs monkfish so if you meet her , youve been warned!!!!
The 15:54 york service pulled into preston with @dnoHall86 already on he was sat at the back of the train at a table with a four pack of strongbow .I dont know if you have ever met people off twitter or any other site for that matter but i find it quite amusing how people just arnt like they seem in the virtual world , Dean hall is about 22 black hair 5 ft 8ish fresh faced and very likeable he had one of those jackets teenagers in the fonz used to wear in usa .Anyway the journey to leeds was quite amusing with the usual tales of forest long past and not so long past.. dean got slowly merry on his cider.and we pulled into leeds station at 17:39 first thing to do was get a pint ..so into wetherspoons we went , Good mixture of city types and scarfers made the busy pub very. Friendly , mind if they had known we was reds would probably have been less welcoming. After couple of beers and googleing the maps for directions it was decided we would get a taxi to the ground as id never make it on crutches.How much ..ten quid to ground , robbing git , we were dropped off just near the statue of Billy bremner the leeds hero from way back when . Im sure he threw a punch as we walked by ....Dirty leeds ...
As we walked behind a few yorkies to the away end we heard lots of positives about how they would beat forest especially after the hammering they dished out to us at the city ground earlier in the season .We arrived at the away corner of elland road and met up with my daughter who is also a twitterer Aka @browners23 and a couple of friends whom i used to travel with to most home and away games before i went into hibernation .Once again i was pickpocketed as £34 was prized out of my wallet for a ticket to this clash of 2 ex heavyweights of the football world .., me lyndsey and dean made our way into the ground .by this time i had had lots of abuse due to my disablement...forest fans are so caring.
Into the john charles stand we go i hobble up to the bar level which is up 2 flights of stairs where lots of reds are eating expensive burgers and drinking rather weak lager..weak or not get em in .kick off is in ten mins now so i go to the gents which is back down two flights of stairs ..my arms were killing from the crutches digging into my arms . At the bottom of the stairs was a german lady who looked like she was a model for shameless...she sounded like she was half cocked ...she was it was Ebbys wife, after she had entertained us with her intelligent outbursts of gobbleygook i got chatting to one of the leeds stewards, This guy had a man utd tattoo on his neck and had supervised away fans since the eighties , he even recollected remembering them from years ago , cant see why anyone would remember mr n mrs Ebby ! Back up the stairs and into the ground we was half way up the stand ,good following from Nottingham yet again prob around 2k but thats just a guess .
The game kicked off and was quite even until pep was adjudged to have fouled mcCormack in the box ..penalty to dirty leeds , Snodgrass does the duty and its 1-0 , Here we go one of my rare ventures with forest was going tits up after less than 10 mins .leeds had not let many in after colin had taken charge 5 games ago ,so you can imagine our delight when adlene guedioura scored one of the best goals a forest player has ever scored, not since a certain Tommy Gaynor goal i once witnessed at huddersfield in a league cup game many years ago...1-1 we went mental my crutches were in the air , the rest of the first half was pretty much all forest if i remember and on the stroke of half time Gareth McCleary Scored a lovely worked goal right in front of the travelling trickies once again we celebrated crutches aloft 2-1 forest great comeback forest ...Half time came at a bad time for us i thought as we were playing really well now ,in fact leeds were booed off .Little did i know this was going to be as franki valli would say ....oh what a night...
Out came the reds , carrying on where we left off and it was mr Dexter Blackstock who headed in a lovely reid cross 1-3 we was in heaven and elland road was stunned.Then it turned on its head yet again Becchio scored one and the ground came alive again, next thing Brown scores a lovely volley right in front of a now gob smacked red army...we stand mouths open thinking its only a matter of time for a leeds winner .....STOP....something very strange happened. McCleary goes straight down other end and scores ,
So i picked up my crutches and hobbled to the car , mrs monkfish drove me to blackpool pleasure beach train station and gave me my not to get too pissed orders as i was off sick and also on crutches , I agreed as any good husband does and went on my way to preston on 14:42 northern service ...by the way mrs monkfish hates being called mrs monkfish so if you meet her , youve been warned!!!!
The 15:54 york service pulled into preston with @dnoHall86 already on he was sat at the back of the train at a table with a four pack of strongbow .I dont know if you have ever met people off twitter or any other site for that matter but i find it quite amusing how people just arnt like they seem in the virtual world , Dean hall is about 22 black hair 5 ft 8ish fresh faced and very likeable he had one of those jackets teenagers in the fonz used to wear in usa .Anyway the journey to leeds was quite amusing with the usual tales of forest long past and not so long past.. dean got slowly merry on his cider.and we pulled into leeds station at 17:39 first thing to do was get a pint ..so into wetherspoons we went , Good mixture of city types and scarfers made the busy pub very. Friendly , mind if they had known we was reds would probably have been less welcoming. After couple of beers and googleing the maps for directions it was decided we would get a taxi to the ground as id never make it on crutches.How much ..ten quid to ground , robbing git , we were dropped off just near the statue of Billy bremner the leeds hero from way back when . Im sure he threw a punch as we walked by ....Dirty leeds ...
As we walked behind a few yorkies to the away end we heard lots of positives about how they would beat forest especially after the hammering they dished out to us at the city ground earlier in the season .We arrived at the away corner of elland road and met up with my daughter who is also a twitterer Aka @browners23 and a couple of friends whom i used to travel with to most home and away games before i went into hibernation .Once again i was pickpocketed as £34 was prized out of my wallet for a ticket to this clash of 2 ex heavyweights of the football world .., me lyndsey and dean made our way into the ground .by this time i had had lots of abuse due to my disablement...forest fans are so caring.
Into the john charles stand we go i hobble up to the bar level which is up 2 flights of stairs where lots of reds are eating expensive burgers and drinking rather weak lager..weak or not get em in .kick off is in ten mins now so i go to the gents which is back down two flights of stairs ..my arms were killing from the crutches digging into my arms . At the bottom of the stairs was a german lady who looked like she was a model for shameless...she sounded like she was half cocked ...she was it was Ebbys wife, after she had entertained us with her intelligent outbursts of gobbleygook i got chatting to one of the leeds stewards, This guy had a man utd tattoo on his neck and had supervised away fans since the eighties , he even recollected remembering them from years ago , cant see why anyone would remember mr n mrs Ebby ! Back up the stairs and into the ground we was half way up the stand ,good following from Nottingham yet again prob around 2k but thats just a guess .
The game kicked off and was quite even until pep was adjudged to have fouled mcCormack in the box ..penalty to dirty leeds , Snodgrass does the duty and its 1-0 , Here we go one of my rare ventures with forest was going tits up after less than 10 mins .leeds had not let many in after colin had taken charge 5 games ago ,so you can imagine our delight when adlene guedioura scored one of the best goals a forest player has ever scored, not since a certain Tommy Gaynor goal i once witnessed at huddersfield in a league cup game many years ago...1-1 we went mental my crutches were in the air , the rest of the first half was pretty much all forest if i remember and on the stroke of half time Gareth McCleary Scored a lovely worked goal right in front of the travelling trickies once again we celebrated crutches aloft 2-1 forest great comeback forest ...Half time came at a bad time for us i thought as we were playing really well now ,in fact leeds were booed off .Little did i know this was going to be as franki valli would say ....oh what a night...
Out came the reds , carrying on where we left off and it was mr Dexter Blackstock who headed in a lovely reid cross 1-3 we was in heaven and elland road was stunned.Then it turned on its head yet again Becchio scored one and the ground came alive again, next thing Brown scores a lovely volley right in front of a now gob smacked red army...we stand mouths open thinking its only a matter of time for a leeds winner .....STOP....something very strange happened. McCleary goes straight down other end and scores ,
my crutches are now upright in the air, wish the BBC had shown the reds going mental must have looked funny a cripple going ape...
next min we are up 3-5 yet again young gareth scores . when McClearys fourth and forest sixth goes in we know we are witnessing a special game , everyone was taking pictures of the gigantic scoreboard with the 3-6 score for all to see ,
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