The beautiful game

Wemberley was a disappointment. It was an exciting clash between 2 of the giants of non league football. But unfortunately, after going in at half time 2-0 and having dominated the first half, Kidderminster decided 45 minutes of football was all they were good for and were turned over 3-2. The winning goal was scored in the 88th minute. And Kiddy had a chance to equalise in stoppage time they should have taken. It was quite literally a game of 2 halves...

I took it harder than I thought I would. Football support is a mystery to me. Why I care what a bunch of tasteless, overpaid idiots who care more about money than whatever club they happen to be playing for is beyond me. (I am talking about the premiership now. The non league players I have considerably more respect for. They are only tasteless idiots.) And some of the teams full of human detritus I irrationally like and some I irrationally dislike. If the teams I like do well, I am happy and if the teams I don't like do well I am sad. And then after 'your' team wins something you get to boast about their achievements just because you happened to choose them as the team you support... Why do I care?

Wembley was less impressive than I was expecting it to be. The outside is uninspiring. The arch looks good from a distance but up close does not impress as I imagine it was intended to. And the rest of the outside is souless. The new Emirates stadium looks far better. Inside it does get better and it looks like you would get a good view from any seat in the house. There were only 53,000 people in there on Saturday and the atmosphere was good. When it is full it will be something worth experiencing.