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Not hitting the points or the mini UKOPS as much as I would have liked. Havent got to 200 pts. Should still get 500, just need one full session on the triple points. The HUFA draw prep took a bit of time out of playing time so now that's done I should be ok.
Last night had flipitis lost with AK to under pairs flopping sets when I hit A or K just to rub it in.
Tbf selective memory in play as the very first AK v underpair I hit and held to take a bounty. Without that I wouldn't have got to the point of losing the other 2. One would have been nice as I had a reasonable stack and was all-in 3 way v AQs and 88 only to lose out on 2 bounties and a top 5 stack after hitting a K.
I was told today I am "almost unique", for anyone trying to be unique that must be quite a rubdown.
@SR23 If you are into Cretan things and reading you could try freedom and death nikos Kazantzakis. It is not a light read by any stretch but I enjoyed it.
Challenge roll is now £4.60 tokens and £8.65 cash
Went to watch Maidstone (my home town) v Southport (short drive from Preston) last Saturday with my younger son.
We were 2-0 down at half time and 3-0 down soon after the restart, came back to 3-2 so plenty of goals at least.
My son wanted to sit in the stand - no chance said I, you need to experience football the proper way, old school, stood on a concrete step behind the goals.
The overall crowd was a few under 1000. There must have been 100ish Maidstone supporters which I thought was quite something. It is quite a drive if you come from Maidstone not Preston.
The Stones even had a singing section and drummer to add to the atmosphere.
Part way through the first half there was an incident. A player was receiving treatment so son and I walked round to the refreshment portakabin for a hot drink. While waiting there was a pitch invasion. It was actually a young lad running on the pitch.
When we were walking back to our spot the father was walking the boy towards us and presumably to the exit. The boy was clearly distressed and from his voice and body language it was pretty obvious he had some kind of special needs.
As we took our spot on the terracing a guy started shouting at the parent, telling him it was a disgrace and that the club could get in trouble for that, calling him a terrible parent etc. The man starts to defend himself, didn't see the gap in barrier and when the guy doesn't back down starts trying to explain his sons condition. Guy doesnt listen and just carries on having a go at the parent.
To paint a picture of this guy, earlier in the half he was complaining about the food. He had a pie with gravy and a slice of buttered bread. Tbf I would have complained as the gravy looked a bit wallow. His complaint was that he didn't want gravy, but because they wouldnt charge less for not having it he had it anyway and also made them butter the bread "as advertised". He seemed to delight in telling his group of friends about this.
Back to the confrontation, other fans get involved telling the guy to shut up, parent doesn't back down, a steward gets involved and eventually the man continues his walk. I just felt sorry for the poor lad in this, who was crying throughout and shouting I want to go home. Queue singing section "Southport's a ***hole he wants to go home" which might have been funny in different circumstances.
Just before half time we concede a 2nd goal from a disputed corner. Our guy of course knew for sure it hadn't gone out, even though viewing it from totally the wrong angle. The linesman was perfectly placed to see whether the curve of the ball had indeed taken it over the goal line.
So we are 2-0 down and it is all the officals fault. Personally I blamed our inability to keep the ball in midfield or mark from set pieces but what do I know.
When we go 3-0 down attention turns to the manager, selection and recruitment policy. As if I didnt dislike the guy enough already he complains that the manager seems to have "a fetish for little black guys". "Perhaps he wants to make a remake of Charlie and the Chocolate factory".
I was totally gobsmacked. I can rememebr racist chants being a thing when I first started watching football, glad that is all but erradicated now and this definitely wasn't the kind of nostalgic experience I was after.
What is worse though is that I did not say anything to the guy. Been beating myself up about that since.
I vow here and now not to let anything that disgusting go unchallenged.