Saturday, 30 November 2024

ALCESTER TOWN 3-0 RO-STARS HEREFORD: 21 IMAGES FROM THE GAME + CAPTIONS...

 

NOW THAT'S A FAB KIT...

THE TOSS FOR WICKETTS & MICOLA, WHICH SOUNDS LIKE THE NAME OF A COOL COFFEE SHOP...

ANDREI MIHALCHEA, FRONT RIGHT, TOOK A THROW-IN WITH A HANDSPRING BUT SADLY DIDN'T REPEAT IT WHILE I WAS FILMING.
NEXT TIME, YES? 

DISCUSSIONS IN THREE LANGUAGES, ENGLISH, ROMANIAN & PROFANE...

CROOK CROOKS A FINGER...

REF: "IS HE SWEARING AT ME IN ROMANIAN, OR WHAT?"

DUGMORE: WHAT WILL HE DO IF HE EVER STOPS PLAYING?

SIPANU: NOT MUCH SUPPORT IN THE RO-STARS ATTACK...

MARKING WICKETTS & DAVIS.
(BOTH SCORED...)

BOURN HAS SCORED AN EARLY GOAL...

DAN MIHALCEA, LEFT, SHOWED CLEVER CONTROL AT TIMES...

ROBERTS (2) WAS STRONG AT THE BACK FOR THE ROMANS...

MICULA WAS CAUTIONED FOR A FOUL ON THE INFLUENTIAL DYSON (GROUNDED, 8...)

ANOTHER GOAL FOR THE ROMANS...

THE SECOND PERIOD BEGINS...

GLODENIS, RIGHT, WAS SUCH A GREAT MOTIVATOR FOR RO-STARS...

THE REF HAS A WORD.
LIKELY IN ENGLISH...

YELLOW CARD FOR ANDREI...

DYSON WAITS TO TAKE A FREE-KICK...

DUGMORE ON THE MOVE...

MICULA CHALLENGES DYSON...

ALCESTER TOWN 3-0 RO-STARS HEREFORD: THE LINK TO 12 MINUTES OF VIDEO ACTION WITH FULL COMMENTARY...

 PLEASE CLICK ON THIS MESSAGE TO GO TO THE 12 MINUTES OF VIDEO ACTION WITH FULL COMMENTARY...



THE HOME BENCH PREPARES...

THE BUILDING IN THE BACKGROUND IS A CARE HOME, 'CHERRY TREES', WHICH USED TO BE A PUB/RESTAURANT, WHERE MY FAMILY SOMETIMES ATE SUNDAY LUNCHES...

THE NET WHICH BAGGED ALL THREE ALCESTER GOALS...

RO-STARS DEFENDED THIS GOAL SUPERBLY AFTER THE INTERVAL...

THE FACILITIES END...

THE BODGING & THE PYDOG RECKONED THIS WAS A RUBBISH PICTURE...




Tuesday, 26 November 2024

STAITHES UNDER PRESSURE... (My new poem about an old image of Staithes, North Yorkshire...)

 Staithes Under Pressure…



Anaemic Staithes, its natural colour drained,

Has been rendered ashen, insipid, grim and grey

Like a huddled village in a horror movie, filmed in greyscale,

Whilst chimneys ooze wispy smoke from lusty coal fires.


The threatened dwellings, defensive and strained

Await the North Seas next assault, an imminent wild affray 

Rising like a furious predator, thrashing its vicious tail,

As white venom spits over the harbour walls like flickering ocean spires… 


And the broiling sea broth, fed by the valleys steep beck

Turns and tumbles and twists its wicked, wilful neck… 


Pete Ray

26th November 2024…