One foot ahead of the other

2012-01-07T15:14:00.000-08:00

I leave Croydon with Athletic requiring a last minute reprieve from the cosmic governor of circumstance or a foolhardy and in-no-way-involved-with-cricket consortium to stay afloat, Croydon FC starting the year on a high note in the Combined Counties League under the management of John Fowler, eviscerating Mole Valley SCR and at least slightly damaging the bowels of Dorking, Whyteleafe in last place in the Ryman League Division One South (if you don't count Athletic; second-last if you do), and Tooting and Mitcham United... somewhere a bit higher.

I'm heading back to a world in which a football team named 'SCR' would probably be eviscerated by all of the aforementioned sides. They'd also know what 'eviscerate' means. It is Oxford, where I am about to spend a term studying restoration literature and Arthurian romances.

I won't be abandoning my local club just yet - 'local club' meaning Crystal Palace. The most local would have been Croydon Athletic, and technically still is, but after them come Croydon. Crystal Palace aren't much further away. The local Catholic church has a team which plays in the park directly behind my house, but they don't participate in the top 20 levels of organised football nationwide, so they don't count. I'm taking in Crystal Palace against Cardiff City, in the first leg of one of this season's Carling Cup semi-finals, on Tuesday, then I'll be at Oxford United (or maybe City) for the game against Crewe Alexandra (or someone else) on the 14th.

I did intend to begin this blog with a match report from Whyteleafe, but I woke up at 4 this afternoon.

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One foot ahead of the other