July - Mission: Lard-loss

[Sweder]

The Arrs will visit tomorrow evening (Tuesday 1st) - let me know if you can make it Andy and I'll come along. Might even manage a few pre-match pints and some supper, plus we have an empty spare bedroom so would be delighted to put you up in Chez Sweder. Maybe even a bleary-eyed visit to Blackcap early on Wednesday???

For the full skinny visit http://www.lewesfc.com/

The Dripping pan is an exceptional football ground. I played there on two occasions, once excitingly under floodlights. The daytime match was for Kingston Kestrels (Seniors 2nd XI) when, for the one and only time in my patchy football career, I was given an attacking midfield role. Chastised at half time for repeatedly scorching past the centre forward into the opponents box I nonetheless came as close as I ever have to scoring (at least, scoring for my team - I have two own goals to my 'credit') when I curled in a delicious shot from just outside the D that beat the 'keeper all ends up only to rebound off the crossbar.

Late in the second half I was brutally hacked down whilst running into the area. Not only did we not get a penalty the resulting knee injury proved fatal to my Kestrels career.
Happy days