One of the nice things about running a blog site is that you get to correspond with lots of great people. Some of them want to exchange links with their own site while others are merely responding to articles you've written. It's what makes SPAOTP such an enjoyable site to maintain from our point of view, and we thank you all for your part in that.
During the last few days, we've had two such correspondences which we thought we'd share with you. First of all, I received a message from Carrie Dunn on Friday about her new blogsite called Kickster. What makes this an interesting site is that Carrie, along with some of her pals from The Times and The Guardian will be writing about women's football, an area which is highly overlooked in blog terms.
You can therefore expect Kickster to feature some proper, decent journalistic writing (something we can't claim to boast ourselves) and it's a resource which should be highly valuable in the days to come as the Women's World Cup 2007 got underway about half an hour ago in China.
We therefore urge you to check out www.kickster.tv and show your support for women's football. I'm sure they'll do a grand job of reporting everything you need to know so we wish them all the best with their venture.
Secondly, we heard just last night from a chap with the Blogger ID of 'Sniffer 72'. He told us about a very interesting personal quest he's currently embarking on. Starting with the Extra Preliminary Round of the FA Cup which took place recently, Sniffer72 aims to follow one team's path through to the Final at Wembley, visiting as many matches along the way as money and available tickets will allow.
When a team gets beaten, he'll go and see the victors when they play in the next round and so on. Sniffer72 began his 'Road to Wembley' by watching the match between Chertsey and Wick on August 18th which ended in a 2-2 draw. The replay was won three days later by Chertsey, 3-0, so off he went to see the Preliminary Round game between Chertsey and Sittingbourne on September 1st. Sittingbourne won 1-0 so this Saturday you'll find him watching their away game at Dartford.
Cool, huh? We certainly hope Sniffer72 gets all the way to Wembley via some fine matches and venues, and if you want to see how he's getting on, visit his Road to Wembley blogsite.
Meantime, we thought we'd adopt a far more pedestrian approach to the same idea by following a Road To Wembley of our own. Somewhat belatedly, we're starting off with this Saturday's First Round Qualifying and having chosen a team completely at random, we can officially announce we'll be following Burnham Ramblers as they travel to Chelmsford City.
Hurrah!
Who knows - maybe our Road To Wembley will cross paths with Sniffer72's?!? I suppose inevitably it will at some point. Should have thought that one through before typing it out, really…
More details at the weekend about Burnham Ramblers, but for the time being our thanks go to Sniffer72 and Carrie for their respective emails, and don't forget - if there's something you want to tell us about, please feel free to do so. The address is info [at] spaotp [dot] com.
Monday, September 10, 2007
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Road to Wembley is a cool idea. I'd love to steal it.
Of course, it would get a tad expensive, flying to the UK from the US every few weeks.
Oh come on Adam... I don't think you're entering into the spirit of this... ;-)
Chris,
Thanks for the plug, much appreciated. I'll of course now be looking out for the Burnham Ramblers result!
And a note to Adam - that would be real dedication if you did it from the US. It would put my long treks up North into persepective!
Andy
Now there is a challenge, Adam!
Come on, don't be shy... ;-)
Methinks you are all just trying to get me to blow my savings on Emirates Airline tickets (damn shirt advertising at work) so you can all hit back at those troublesome colonials :)
As a compromise, I will make an earnest effort to watch the games on TV. Though that's nearly impossible, since not even the FA Cup final was being shown anywhere last year, but it WAS being shown in Canada.
sigh, did I just get myself into a trip to Canada?
Lol... I've heard of away matches, but that's ridiculous...
Adam,
the FA Cup games are on Setanta until the semis then they are on FSC. The final is PPV and has been for years. So you have to find a pub showing it or shell out the 25.99 to watch it at home.
There you go Adam, 25.99 is cheaper than actually going to the games themselves!
I expect a full report on my desk in the morning after every FA Cup round.
Agreed?
wow, I spent like 3 days trying to find that information, I must be internet illiterate!
Thanks! There's plenty of pubs in Philadelphia that have Setanta subscriptions, and I just got FSC. I'm sure I can find something for the final, but I might have to head up to New York for that one.
Appreciated, and hope I didn't embarrass myself too much for missing that!
smart -
I don't think I can do a report, but quite possibly an email (or comment) saying something along the lines of "Round 3 was t3h r0xz0r"
Just to let you know this site is now linked from my football effort - http://hobotread.blogspot.com
Return link would of course be handsome but certainly not essential.
Adam,
I only know that from years of trying to track down games. The rights change from year to year and each competition is done separately (FA,Carling,EPL,UCL,etc.) And FSC and Setanta never update their sites to show more than a month ahead. If a pub has setanta then chances are it will show the PPV cup finals.
We're doing similar, and are faced with a trip to Deal tomorrow evening following Dulwich Hamlet FC, hopefully we can encounter some of you fine folk along the way through the competition!!
Check out our blog here:
http://facuprun.brooner.co.uk
Look forward to that, Brooner! I see you'll be off to Chalfont St Peter next? Know much about them?
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