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« on: October 31, 2016, 05:31:27 PM »
I was in London at the weekend for the NFL at Wembley on Sunday, so on Saturday afternoon decided to go to the National League Premier Division match at Borehamwood. It was virtually a derby match as Woking (40 miles or so away) were the visitors. Well what a shock it turned out to be.
The quality of the football wasn’t anywhere near as good as I thought it might be, the atmosphere in the ground was as flat as the proverbial pancake and the crowd…well what crowd. Borehamwood, in the top half of the table and in the 1st Round of the FA Cup, and they couldn’t attract 300 fans to watch them. The attendance was announced as 405 ……and 120 of those were Woking fans.
As the players were ready to kick-off, and the music was turned off, I thought I’d gone deaf for a second or two. No noise from anywhere. No ‘C’mon’ shouts of encouragement. Absolutely nothing…complete silence. My friend and I looked at each other and thought ‘Are they having a minute’s silence?’ and then almost broke out in laughter it was that comical.
The standard of the football was dreadful at times as Woking went 1-0 up. Should have had more really but some of the shooting was abysmal. They had Matt Tubbs in the team (one of Mr Evans’ stars whilst at Crawley) and only he seemed to have any idea. Borehamwood came out 0-1 down for the start of the second half and did have a decent 10-12 minute spell and scored two nice goals before switching off again to go back in to their coma. With time running out you’d have expected Woking to push for an equaliser but, despite plenty of possession, only once looked like scoring. A clever free kick ended with them hitting the post…but the afternoon was summed up nicely when Garry Hill (remember him?) substituted Tubbs. Two of the Woking players shook their heads and you could hear one say to the other ‘What the f*ck’s going on?’ So a 2-1 win for the home team, and if you wanted to buy a ticket for next Sunday’s FA Cup match v Notts County….well you buy one from 'behind the bar in the social club after the match'. Needless to say we didn’t bother, and headed to the Wetherspoons on Borehamwood’s high street for a much needed pint.
Very interesting to see what perhaps lies in store if we ever get promoted, but I was glad I went 'coz my conclusion to the afternoon was that perhaps we don’t have it so bad after all!! And, as a ‘bonus’, we got to see the set of Eastenders, which is only a couple of hundred yards or so from Borehamwood’s ground.
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