Wednesday, 2 September 2009

Spireites

Chesterfield is a lovely little town in the north of Derbyshire. One of it's most famous landmarks is the "Crooked Spire" of St Mary's Church in the centre of the town. There are legends associated with this impressive structure, but the most made-up and apocryphal of them all, is that it will straighten again as soon as the local football team score 6 goals away from home.
The Dulux Dog Tin Pot Cup is a competition which allows rubbish football teams to play at Wembley. As such, Chesterfield and Burton competed last night in the first round of this, unlike the spire, pointless event.
Hardly any of the Burton fans bothered to turn-up to the non-event, though clearly there is little to do in Chesterfield apart from looking at the sky, so quite a few of those made the journey, clad in their 1980's hairstyles and N.C.B donkey jackets.
Unfortunately Burton Albion also failed to turn-up. A gutless and shambolic display of disorganised, pedestrian defending helped The Spireites to tear us apart for 90 minutes. A second -half goal from "Ooh Arr" John McGrath might have given some impetous to push on, but even that didn't inspire the pathetic bunch of losers who are not fit to wear a yellow shirt unless it is the yellow shirt of cowardice.
In the end, we were thrashed 5 - 1. I'm sure another one went over the line, but the unfit assistant referee had about as much luck keeping up with Chesterfield's forward line as our back four.
It's his fault that the spire stays crooked. And Burton can "concentrate on the league". Rubbish.

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