Saturday 23rd April 2011 - Football league 2 (but only just)
This was physically painful to watch. All I could think as the minutes ticked away was " I don't
have to do this again". This was the end of the season for me. It could very well be the end of my
regular attendance at Whaddon Road and this pointless blog.
Saturday 9th April - Football League 2
Apparently prescriptions for anti-depressants are at an all time high. Walking through the blossom
filled parks of Cheltenham on the way to Whaddon Road you wouldn't credit that the town's football
team was responsible for this surge in consumption. That is until you got to the sparsely populated
ground.
Saturday 2nd April - Football League 2
The funeral rights await a season which started with childish high hopes and comes unstuck with the
humiliations of late middle age. You wish you could slink away and let it die. The trouble is I
know where I'll be next Saturday at 3pm.
Crewe Alexandra: R Taylor; M Tootle, A M Westwood, D Artell, D Blanchett; D Shelley (B Moore 81), A
R Westwood, L Bell; S Miller (J Connerton 77), C Donaldson, J Grant.
Football League 2 - Sunday 27th March
The clocks have gone forward, the end of the season is in sight, everyone seemed to have had a nice
lunch and despite the chill we were all set for a quiet game of Sunday football. A goalless draw
would have been very acceptable. Nothing too taxing or likely to raise the blood pressure and put
us off our teas.
Saturday 19th March - Football League 2
I sent my Bury friend an apologetic text. Cheltenham have been useless at home since Christmas and
then they go up to Gigg Lane and put a spanner in the Shakers' promotion chances. Wouldn't it be
better to unleash some of the away form at Whaddon Road?
Football League 2 - Saturday 12th March 2011
Luckily I wasn't there, I was walking on the Dorset downs. Wonderful countryside. Unluckily for my
informant he was standing on our spot at Whaddon Road. He texted the bad news as it laboriously
unfolded. The reception was poor which meant the texts came late and in an odd order.
League 2 - Saturday 5th March 2011
If Cheltenham had gone in after 90 minutes only two goals to the worse they could have held their
heads high. Chesterfield didn't come to Whaddon Road and bully the home team, they didn't need to.
They just out played them. Oddly enough it was a pleasure to watch.
Football League 2 : Tuesday 1st March 2011
This match started at a pace. Stockport had probably been watching the videos on the bus and
were wired up to get the points. Luckily they were not physically imposing enough to effectively
bully us. Then again Cheltenham had seen the same videos and were ashamed of themselves.
I wasn't there. Not because I was too upset by last week's debacle and was boycotting Whaddon Road
but due to other commitments. I would have been there otherwise. I would also have been furious
that they gave away a late goal. They need to kill off a game, even if they're only sitting on a
one goal lead.
Football league 2 Saturday 12th February 2011
This was more traumatic than botched dentistry. An afternoon like this could dent the confidence
and finances of this football club for the rest of the season. Cheltenham cannot win at home and
every game at Whaddon Road feels more and more like root cannel work.
League 2 - Tuesday 25th January 2011This match was posponed from last year and its a pity it
wasn't posponed again. Lincoln had watched the Wycombe and Accrington matches on the coach. The
secret seems to be that if you keep attacking Cheltenham and score early then you can watch them
resort to route one and fail.
Football League 2: Saturday 14th January 2011
No complaints about this defeat by a hard working gang of northern brickies. They ran at Cheltenham
all afternoon. You couldn't say they were a side bursting with individual talent but they were as
solid as a proverbial brick construction. No one hung around and ball watched.
League 2 - Saurday 1st January 2011
Cheltenham started like a team who had won 4-0 in their previous game and were confident another
was well within their capabilities. It certainly seemed the case for most of the first half. Early
chances came to Pack and Melligan. The Robins out passed Wycombe and looked a classier act.
League 2 : Tuesday 28th December 2010
There are moments in a game of football when you start to feel a bit uneasy. At about 15 minutes
when Bradford had managed to absorb Cheltenham's opening attacks they showed a glimmer of counter
attacking competence. We saw this against Southend. Bright start followed by loss of focus and
punishment.
League 2 - Tuesday 14th December 2010
Cheltenham began this game as if they thought the one nil lead from the abandoned game had carried
over. Southend came on the back of an away thrashing and were up for it from the beginning. Only I
doubt they thought it would be this easy. Attacking down the wings and lobbing in speculative
crosses - two up within 8 minutes.
