ONE OF THOSE DAYS...

Well, they don`t come around very often but yesterday produced one of those rare occurrences when each of `my` football teams secured a win.  I`m down to just three teams at the moment - the others having fallen victim to Mr. Covid and his variant chums - but it`s a good day when all three teams do themselves proud and ensure their supporters are over the moon at least for another week, as you can see from the photo above.

Gillingham took on Ipswich Town under their new manager Paul Cook, who had been installed following the removal of Paul Lambert on Friday.  But it was the Gills who came out on top with a resounding 3-1 win at their Priestfield Stadium to reach as high as eleventh on League One - not too many points away from a play-off place with 15 games still to play.  Could it possibly be?......

Forest Green Rovers bounced back from their midweek defeat away at Stevenage and this time they made the long trip to Grimsby and secured a hard fought 2-1 win to keep them in the automatic promotion spots.   Our street`s talented hard working pacy flanker Scott Wagstaff played the whole game and manager Mark Cooper was full of praise for the performance of the whole team, especially as he said, "Grimsby - always a difficult place to go to.".  Keep going, lads - next season you could be making the trip to Portsmuff where the glories of Krap Nottarf await.....

And so to the Saints.  With enormous relief all round the city, Southampton finally won a Premier League game having gone nine league games without one.  A James Ward-Prowse penalty and a screamer from Che Adams - surely a contender for Goal of the Season - in a 2-0 win away at Sheffield United now surely mean that the Saints can stop looking over their shoulders at the lower end of the table and look forward to a satisfactory end to a difficult season.  Next up - Manchester City away on Wednesday evening.  Oh well.....

My reference to Portsmuff above reminded me that the Blue Few went to Northampton Town yesterday and were 4-0 down at half time.  It ended 4-1 but made a severe dent in their promotion hopes.   So quite apart from the hat trick of victories to report, the day ended with yet more smug satisfaction.  I wonder how long before another day like that....