That dead bit of the summer
Pen to paper
By David Sindall
June 12 2025
No football, no new signings, just waiting for the fixture list to come out. Welcome to the dead bit of the summer.
It’s two long weeks until the new fixture list appears. That’s when it becomes possible to plan the rest of your year. Holidays, birthday celebrations, induced labour and other life events. The worry of booking something now is that you do so and miss a mouthwatering fixture. Picking the wrong relatives to go to over Christmas could also mean a grumpy Boxing Day. Better to wait a couple of weeks.
There are games I’m looking forward to this season and some away matches I will think about. Shrewsbury, Chesterfield, Barrow and Barnet are all grounds I’ve not visited. I’ll probably think about Accrington, Cheltenham and Swindon too. It just depends when the games are and how the EFL sausage machine churns them out.
As for the home games I tend to look forward to the ones with a decent away following. I suspect only Oldham and Crewe are likely to bring significant numbers. There are some who will bring hardly any, particularly to Tuesday night games. Let’s hope that we play Colchester and Barnet on a Saturday.
None of this time of the year is about anticipating results. How can it be? We don’t yet know our full squad and can’t be certain if any of our contracted players will be snapped up by other teams. We will only really get to know what sort of season we are likely to have by the time the clocks go back. Most seem to think mid-table obscurity will be enough after the horrors of last season. Being a football romantic I’ll only settle for promotion, ideally as Champions winning every game.
Yet there are two full weeks before the fixtures are out, 7 weeks before the season starts, just over 49 sleeps. That cruel mistress football, we wait and things happen, but without it there’s not much is there?
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Then I ate his Liver.......... with some baked beans and a can of coke.
And the lip readers will be detailing what an angry manager said to the ‘’clueless’’ ref.
Quote:lot cooler up here hkr ,rain onway ,oh and white rabbits🙈hong kong rover
Baking hot down here in the smoke..34 degrees today n tomorrow..freezing cold showers all the way just to stay cool..,how hot is it back up on the Wirral.?
Quote:Loyden1Quote:lot cooler up here hkr ,rain onway ,oh and white rabbits🙈hong kong rover
Baking hot down here in the smoke..34 degrees today n tomorrow..freezing cold showers all the way just to stay cool..,how hot is it back up on the Wirral.?
cheers loyden, bloody sweltering down here, there is no escape from it unless you have air-con, which i haven't,, but it seems we are going to get some respite tmrw thank god!
You could have hooked up with Finn Rover and gone to FC Haka games in 18 degree season openers
Then I ate his Liver.......... with some baked beans and a can of coke.