Looking Back

Sunday isn't a day I associate with non league football. Premiership fans have to take whatever time the Tv channels decide, but for non league fans football means 3.00 Saturday. Well, not if you're in the FA Cup and are told that your game will be televised on Thursday evening. Not surprisingly the manager and coaching staff knowing that players require recovery time,negotiated a Sunday afternoon kick off.

We set off early to avoid the happy band of shoppers who by now with 33 days to Xmas will be flocking to Lakeside and Bluewater. Our aim was to set up the Silent Auction well before the 12.30pm start. The journey took less time than expected and we were ready to go, by the time the auction ended at 2.30pm, it was calculated that we'd made around £3000.

The game itself seemed to be all over inside 30 minutes, the Dons stormed into a 3-0 lead, which arguably should have been more. However Thursday night caught up with the players and in the closing minutes they were hanging on for a 3-2 victory, which took the Dons back to the top of the league. Just the confidence boost that's needed ahead of next Saturday's cup game v Stevenage.

After the game, we stayed the night in Tooting. Strange going back to the house and road where I grew up. Although I've visited many times over the years, staying there still seemed unreal,. I went out to get my paper and groceries this morning and saw a wave of people heading to the Underground,a scene that I've not witnessed for many years.

Whilst on the theme of Looking Back, 20 years ago today, Thatcher resigned. Sadly her ideas have lived on. I described her to students recently as the archtypical"marmite" politician. Its either love or hate, and I comfortably fit into the second group. Will show film on her tomorrow, become aware in last week that my students were not even alive when she came crashing down in November 1990.