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The English from England, the British from Britain

Andy — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:53:43 +0000

When will the Americans ever learn that equating ‘British’ with England is going to piss off a lot of Welsh, Scots and Irish.

England vs USA

Andy — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:45:33 +0000

Jack: “You probably have plans but more than welcome to watch the match at ours later – we have 47″ tv, stadium seating and drinks girls x”

En Route to the Mighty Super Rams

Andy — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:44:24 +0000

Derby County v Plymouth Argyle

You’ve never seen Old Trafford

Andy — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:26:42 +0000

Derby v Man U. FA Cup 5th Round

Charlton vs Derby

Andy — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:46:53 +0000

With the Derby faithful.

And possibly the best pre-match tanoy sound track I’ve heard yet.

before kick off

derby equalize with a penalty, only for charlton to go 2-1 up moments later

final score 2-2, derby score a very lucky equalizer in the dying seconds of the game. Entirely undeserved but that’s just Charlton’s luck when you’re struggling at the bottom of the division.

Derby County Pitch Invasion

Andy — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:07:00 +0000

Pitch invasion at full time after Derby County lost 4 – 0 to Reading in the last day of the season of their record breaking year in the Premiership.

If you look closely you can actually see that the premeditated effort of a ‘Pitch Invasion Conga’ working its way past the majority of the stewards (and the two police dogs, “you’ve only got two dogs, TWO DOGS!”) a few minutes before the end of time. As you can see, most of the fans had stopped watching the football a long time beforehand.

The conga breaks rank past the stewards and the floodgates open.

By this point the stewards knew there was no going back. They formed a line between the tunnel and the corner to block off the away fans. Fans start to casually walk onto the pitch from the corner and the rest of the stadium.

Needless to say the players didn’t come on and do a ‘lap of honour’. Many of this lot were here for some time to come after the end of the match, as could be heard in the background of the post-match analysis on BBC Radio Derby.

NB The loyal steward still holding his position in the foreground despite the fact that there were probably more fans behind him than in front of him.

To Wembley

Andy — Tue, 15 May 2007 22:38:00 +0000

This photo says it all.

BBC Match Report here.