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Dagenham vs Macclesfield Town Match Day Report |
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 24 November 2007 |
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Blackman 90 | Football League 2
Moss Rose Saturday 24th November 2007 | Southam 7 pen | Pre-match:
As our innaugral football league season has progressed it has become evident that the pre-match preparation of the Upminster Daggers has at times fallen short of the required professional standard. As the clubs 34th trip to the northwest this season was upon us, it seemed only right to take advantage of a kind offer by the Bredbury Hall Country Club to use their outstanding state of the art facilities for our trip.
One of the conditions was that the UD's arrived on the Friday evening in order to do some promotional work for the Bredbury brand. 9 UD's met in the Crane Public House (due to the Yeoman having an injury) before setting off on a massive cross country haul. The van was suitably stocked and it wasnt long before we were tearing in the mid-country services for an empty out as it was getting a bit nawty on the bus having consumed all that liquid. Squad man number 10 dived aboard at Northants using almost military skills. Bredbury is a quaint suburb of Stockport and the picturesque manor house was reached on target around half 7. The players were under strict orders from the management not break anything (in the rooms) but no drinking ban was in place so after a quick scrub up it was back to the bar to join local celebs Lester Piggott and Steve Beaton amongst others. Let off the leash the squad, all adhering to the strict dress code, the UD's eventually found themselves a quiet table near the bar to watch the dancing girls. Intrigued by what these ladies had to offer, some UD's ventured into their lair. Tales emerged of horrible smells, average dancing and some very, very poor attempts at persuading members of the opposite sex that the bar round the corner is better for them. Mo Mowlem was on hand to ensure things didnt get out of hand although the bouncers attempts at copying the earlier gymnastical skills of one member of the squad resulted in a busted shoulder!!
By this time, the management had become aware that some of the squad were maybe worse for wear with a big game approaching and they were ordered back to the bar to regroup with beef sarnies and karoke. However, one nameless member was arrested by an off duty policewoman for his part in the earlier rubbish dancing.
Attendees:
Due to suspension issues (it would have broke) Winkle had to miss out. Deaders resumed driving duties like the good old days. Buffalo played in a supporting role but had a tendancy to drift off. The front 2 were supported by Dogva and Stew, with Beast, Grapes and Pedro holding the centre of the bus. In a slightly lop-sided tactic, Middle Peekie and Fossil held things together at the back.Sherry and Stella warmed the bench. The usual people with the usual excuses werent there, others who should be ashamed, dropped out on the day and shall forfeit all monies gained accordinging to contracts signed.
Crowd:-
Having got lost on the journey of less than 20 miles due to a "communications" error, the UD's were a little surprised by the crowd. I mean, it wasnt like had just been subjected to a trip the wrong way up the A6 into Manchester, the delights of Levenshulme and Longsight, an hour on a bus that stunk and missing the first goal, like, was it!! Still, they were massively subdued. It could have been the naff weather, the rubbish pies or the fact that as a home fan it was pretty dire but they were as quiet as i have heard since we nicked the equalizer at Oxford. Not that us Daggers lifted the roof off, probably because everyone knew that we would give something away.. and we did. Probably around 150 Daggers in a crowd of 1700.
Game:
Brilliant in the first 10 minutes i hear, pretty good for most of the next 80 (plus 5). Using the 4-3-3 again, really got at Macc but as we have found time and time again, if you don't punish teams when on top it comes back to bite you. Even after the streaky last minute equalizer we could have taken all 3 points, Mooreo crashing the ball onto the inside of a post.
Post match warm down:-
Having mown down a local, it was a speedy trip back to the manor house for a rub and warm-down. Surpringly, it didnt take 2 hours to get back and soon, having administered some shower in a can, it was back to the lounge to relax. The tranquility was shattered by a bus load of "ladies" from the principality and this seemed to fire up the UD's who had been told to enjoy themselves by the management after gaining a valuable point. All was going swimmingly until an unruly bouncer refused entry to one irate squad member for wearing manky brown shoes, sorry jeans. Luckliy, the richest man in Upminster had a spare set black slacks to save the day and it was onwards to the dancefloor. Fresh from Northwich's first win of the season, Dino Mamamaarria was on a predatory scouting mission, only this time accompanied by Gordon Ramsey. Again Mo Mowlem and Lester Piggot arrived, Lester bringing 2 of his favourite fillies and tying them to a post by the dancefloor. The DJ choose tonight to unleash so top gay anthems, lapped up by the "fooking qweer" members of the UD's. Sadly disaster struck late on for the young fillies, unable to escape a potentially dangerous dancefloor spillage, they were "rescued" by young Adolf and the "fooking gay one". They were treated to more beef sarnies, staple diet in these parts.
Post match de-briefing:
This starting from about 10 in the hotel bar on Sunday morning. There was not room for alcohol, just hearty full englishes and coffee. Some awful snooker later it was back on the bus to find somewhere to stuff some unwanted Colonels muck down our throats to top off the weekend.
M.O.M Dead "lose the sidesweep" ers.....
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