Following the quietest week of the season we’re back in full swing from 3pm tomorrow.
Now when the good lord created Walsall Football Club he also had to create the lower divisions. To have created a successful WFC would have been far too easy. He also decided to create shitholes such as Wigan, Chesterfield, Scarborough, Brentford and Peterborough.
It was decided that the followers of such club’s should spend the entire Autumn, Winter and Spring visiting such crappy places and, more often than not, losing there into the bargain.
But then God had a top idea - he decided to make Blackpool equally crap. So now, if you were one of the big boys who cared little for the likes of the aforementioned teams you didn’t get the annual piss up in Lancashire. Whereas if you're like us at least you get the one weekend per season that makes up for the other thirty nine.
Unless of course you support Blackpool and then it’s all a bit naff every weekend.
Fortunately, Walsall seem to have got a Spring date in Lancashire pretty sewn up now as the fixture computer tends to be pretty kind to us and rarely sends us up there in january or February. It’s the least we deserve however, not least because if we hadn’t have done the tangerines for promotion on two occasions in the 1990’s Blackpool could have been lost to the lowers divisions.
WFC charitably denying the rich to please the piss poor.
In a Friday night game Colchester do us a big favour and beat Preston by the odd goal. Now that's a long ride home when you’ve blown three points. Hopefully we’ll have a shorter trip back from there next week