Maidenhead Highlights

Quoted from Swansea_Mariner

I was standing close to you I saw the shirt and was thinking that's really smart and it must be an old one as the first ones I can remember were CIBA ones.

It is, I think it's from the first year we were sponsored by them.

It's hilarious you noticed it! When I put it on my wife said it's very old and a bit tatty and I should buy a new one. I ranted about vintage, retro and showing my years of support and she humoured me. We'd been in the ground for about 5 mins when a guy offered me 40 quid for it!! He collects them and reckons it's quite rare.

Quoted from Kris2

At least she got that far. Mine hasn't even understood the concept of why they are kicking the ball end to end and nobody is holding a baseball bat.

Were you at Maidenhead? We always notice other Anglo Asian couples and there was a lady there that she thought was Japanese with her western husband/partner.

Quoted from BobbyCummingsTackle

Were you at Maidenhead? We always notice other Anglo Asian couples and there was a lady there that she thought was Japanese with her western husband/partner.

That’ll be my mate Ed and his Japanese wife . They live near Reading somewhere. I was supposed to be meeting him at Maidenhead but had to work .

Quoted from BobbyCummingsTackle

Were you at Maidenhead? We always notice other Anglo Asian couples and there was a lady there that she thought was Japanese with her western husband/partner.

Nah I wasn't at that game. Don't make many away games on a Saturday due to work unless I'm somehow in the area and then the missus wouldn't be with me anyway. You're right though somehow we noticed more mixed-race couples in Japan and overseas when we got together. I think it's become way more common in the last 20 years but yeah could be you just pay more attention when you see other people in a similar relationship.

Lovely finish by Sousa, I can see him getting double figures this season.

Terrible goal to concede. Free header on the edge of the 6 yard box? With three center halves in the box? Not good enough.

Still, we got more points that Wrexham this weekend. If we can win tonight it will be 4 points from two away games which is good going.

Quoted from Kris2

Nah I wasn't at that game. Don't make many away games on a Saturday due to work unless I'm somehow in the area and then the missus wouldn't be with me anyway. You're right though somehow we noticed more mixed-race couples in Japan and overseas when we got together. I think it's become way more common in the last 20 years but yeah could be you just pay more attention when you see other people in a similar relationship.

It also seems quite important to my wife, she often comments 'she/he is Japanese'. When we lived in Tokyo I didn't feel the need to point out westerners/Brits. It is becoming more common, we see lots of mixed couples when we go to the Asian supermarkets and she has a Japanese friend who she met when she moved here who is married to a British guy.

Still a show stopper when we're in Waltham though

Quoted from BobbyCummingsTackle

This was my wife's first ever game watching Town (she's Japanese and we've not been married very long) - try explaining why 95% of the fans were in black and white shirts, one team was in black and white and another was in light blue but we are supporting the team in light blue. Whilst I was wearing my dark blue Ribeiro away shirt (Buckley era).

The poor b*gger was a bit confused at the start.

Congratulations for being able to fit in it. I have got the same shirt in the loft somewhere but would look like the only gay in the village if I tried to put it on now

Quoted from RonMariner

Lovely finish by Sousa, I can see him getting double figures this season.

Really? He's been playing well and has created a good few goals with his play but hasn't really looked like scoring too many from what I've seen. He's way out on the wing more often than not or is at least the one putting the crosses in. I'd be pleased if he scored a handful and got a dozen assists as well. That would be a great season for an out and out wide player.

Good finish by Sousa to side foot it in, I bet he couldn't believe his luck when that fell to him. Good cross by Clifton but we would be berating the defending if it was a goal conceded.

Players are at this level for a reason and often it's because they are prone to lapses in concentration, as we've seen with a few of the goals we've conceded.

Almost every goal conceded is preventable but there is no denying that we've made a good start.

Quoted from Swansea_Mariner

Course we are but it was also a really high quality header that resulted in the goal.

I wouldn't say it was a high quality header, completely unmarked, Waterfall marking thin air, all he had to do was put his head on it and it was a goal. Garbage defending for me.