Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye
Cheerio, here I go on my way
Your correspondent will be London-bound in the morning. Not to see our Ian and Zach but to visit the national football stadium at Wembley. There, my team - Hull City will be playing another Yorkshire club - Middlesbrough - in The Championship play-off final. The prize will be a place in The English Premier League.
I just hope that our lads put up a good fight. If we lose - so be it. May the best team win.
Hull City have been in two previous play-off finals - 2008 and 2016. We won them both - first against Bristol City and then Sheffield Wednesday. I attended both matches and blogged about them here and here.
My best mate, Tony, will be with me all the way along with another Tigers supporter - Karl from Rotherham. Tragically, he is fighting the demon they call Cancer so this big match is extra special for him. It is good that Tony and I will be with him because he is on heavy duty medication as you can imagine. Let us hope that City win it for him.
Normally I never dress in club colours but tomorrow I will be getting out the same team shirt that I wore in 2008 and 2016 as I join the black and amber army. "COME ON YOU 'ULL!"
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In other Yorkshire Pudding news, your faithful correspondent walked out of the house this warm day in late May and walked and walked in a four mile loop that took in Ecclesall Woods, Dobcroft Road, Millhouses Park, London Road and Ecclesall Road. It was all about exercise but you never know what you might see along the way:
Oh, my. Beautiful pictures, as usual. I am rooting for Karl.
ReplyDeleteGood luck to your team tomorrow! Have fun and enjoy the game and the crowd!
ReplyDeleteYou saw some beautiful things while exercising and I hope your team does win. LOVE the Swan boats.
ReplyDeleteThe lass in the mural looks like she is up to no good.
ReplyDeleteThe walk looks nice.
Will you become a football lager lout while you are away?
Safe Travels and Good Sportsmanship.
ReplyDeleteYour posts about soccer remind me of the TV show Ted Lasso. I am not sure if this series is accurate or not, but the team did play at Wembley.
ReplyDeleteWell, your walk took you through all kinds of sights!
ReplyDeleteA very nice walk! Good luck to your team!
ReplyDeleteYou must be a happy bunny
ReplyDeleteI hope your team wins.
ReplyDeleteWish Me Luck was the great Gracie Fields song.d
ReplyDeleteReminds me of JB Priestley who wrote one of her film scripts.
Concrete high-rise flats we've all come to loathe.
Postwar brutalism. Spores of damp hanging in the rooms, children with asthma.
Lifts smelling of urine. Women afraid. Neds hanging round, outside. Hell holes.
All true. No wonder they were demolished. In Glasgow & elsewhere.
Yet I find myself studying those survivors of Le Corbusier's vision, like the one
in your photo. I like the clean sharp cut of those corner windows.
Imagine if they had been built to a higher standard.
In London some council flats were upgraded to luxury, sold to the rich.
WHITEVALE 2011. YouTube. Owen McGuigan.
Whitevale and Bluevale were concrete flats in east Glasgow, demolished.
I have watched this little film a number of times, haunted by post-war ghosts.
The light gleaming off those swans makes for an even greater picture than if it were just the swans on the lake.
ReplyDeleteAre those swan boats in the process of being transported up to the USS Enterprise?
ReplyDeleteI heard on the news that they did quite well.
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