(Please note this is not a match report but a alternative look at the day)
Once again a twitter meet up was arranged for the Bolton wanderers v Nottingham forest ...myself @mrmonkfish65 @iredjim.(jim scott.). @darren_lees (darren lees) all Blackpool reds jumped on the 1044 train to Manchester on sat 11th january 2014.. on arrival at Manchester deansgate at 11:51..yes deansgate , We decided to meet in Manchester due to Bolton's lack of drinking establishments now they are based at Horwich which is just outside the main town, Anyroads on arrival in the station another group of reds had alighted a north bound train with the same pub .The Deansgate as their destination .. .I didn't recognise 4 of them but one certain lad i did ..Luke..(@palmer_nffc) now Luke is a very like able lad but hes very famous for being loud and swearing, fact is he'd make chubby brown blush, couldn't believe he'd drunk nearly a crate of fosters already, in fact i berated him for leaving 3 cans on the train. So up to the pub we wander as another red @jimcollingham appears ..well it was great to see Jim has he'd missed most of the season due to a injury so it was his first away game in ages, Jim by the way is the only coat hanger specialist Ive ever met.
The Deansgate pub was actually rather nice with its polished wood floors and coal fire a real friendly old fashioned English ale house , a round of drinks was served and the talk of the Garibaldi reds chances today were discussed and bets which we had placed ,my bet was forest to win 3-1 and henry lansbury first goalscorer...mmm.
@elliott_stanley and his Manchester utd supporting father and brother in law Jim and pete also met up and we had a right good meet.( seems to me there are to many jims in this story).... As we boarded the north bound Blackpool train which was rather full of commuters and trickies we found some travelling reds who rather obligingly offered a few swags of Koppenberg and a reminisce of our European days and the cost of following clubs away these days.
Off the train we get over the railway we walk on route to the quite impressive Reebok stadium , never been here although i did see the reds play at burnden park , Luke pipes up with "Bolton's a shit hole .... i wanna go home" as we was with reds and whites prob wasn't the right choice of song ,but Luke's not shy . big lump of a Bolton fan took um bridge and in a very sad voice tries to protect his kinfolk and lands by shouting back "ill have you know this is a premiership ground ,with a premiership team" .. quite felt for the lad really as he doesn't see the black hole of debt and deprivation the rest of football sees for the famous Trotters sliding towards.... Into the ground we go , ticket scanned ..pie and a pint and a little sing song under the concourse..."Everywhere we gooooo Everywhere we go...its the forest boys making all the noise (you know the rest) .
Our seats were to the left if looking at the pitch from the red end but near the goals, to say there was only 2500 reds it looked more to me , anyway there wernt many empty seats in our tier but Bolton's lot had a poor turn out.
The game itself ..... Not sure why but every time i read match reports the next day i must have been somewhere else as its never the same as i recollect. I felt first half although neither team had much to offer, forest for me were always the more likely to score and when JL headed what i thought was a goal, but their keeper saved it, Bolton huffed and puffed but couldnt muster much i thought their best player was danns At half time we ventured down to the kiosk and i was asked what drink i would like my answer was ..another peppered steak pie, i was hank marvin .btw as pies go this was a 8 out of ten job, then a quick hello to Dean hall (@dnohall) another north west red who had come down without a ticket but managed to get a spare outside the ground, ...., the Second half had only just kicked off when our young star patto latched on to a through ball and delightfully flicked it past the keeper ..0-1 great goal , shame Elliott, Jim C and Jim S & Darren all missed the goal due to alcohol addiction (chuckels to himself).. forest didn't press on really for a second and the inevitable equaliser soon came around 75mins , This seemed to make the Bolton fans realise they were at a game and actually made a small amount of noise . Apparently the reds wasted time and dived about according to Dougie freedman, not in my opinion i thought we did a proper job and nearly got a deserved winner from big Darius H which came off the post.. something to note was a magical piece of skill by Jamie Paterson in the oppositions box he beat a few players with a lovely dribble unfortunately the end result wasn't a goal but from what i saw that lad is going to be a star its a shame hes going to be a Scotland star instead of a 3 lions star!!. At the final whistle Ive never ever seen a ground empty so quick The forest team led by our tallisman Billy Davies came right over to the travelling army and thanked us, something im glad to say is well appreciated.
Overall i suppose a draw was a fair result but football has never been fair has it?, if forest could get a striker that actually scores then the sky is the limit but look were we were a couple of yrs ago ..yes in Boltons position,.....so hey ho...lets enjoy the ride.
we made our way to the station and i was nearly decapitated by a car whos driver seemed to think driving out of a car park at 20mph is acceptable in large crowds, dont think he was impressed by someone slapping his rear window and stopped, jumped out and shouted "foook off home you forest bastards"....so we did just as the constabulary over reacted to nothing and ran down to see if they could brighten up their trouble free day by arresting someone. Our goodbyes were said to the Southern heading reds and we went over to the north bound Blackpool train platform. The south bound platform was full of reds and i heard a very familer noise ......"Everywhere we Goooooo..#NFFC #twitterreds
special thanks to Elliott for getting the tickets for this game cheers pal.
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