KG7
Well-Known Member
I hold no grudge against any writers from the Telegraph, but WHAT is going on in this article?!? Did anyone find this interesting? Or self indulgent nonsense?
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/sport-opinion/coventry-city-win-little-bit-8868399
If it’s not bad enough the Football League fixture fixers throw up a tortuous trip to Fleetwood on a cold and damp Tuesday night in March.
You know damn well that when you set off mid afternoon that your estimated journey time of two hours and 39 minutes will be more like three and a half by the time you’ve negotiated Knutsford and crawled alongside the Thelwall Viaduct in one of those phantom bottlenecks that defies the laws of physics.
Throw in a set of ‘temporary’ roadworks due to be complete by Autumn 2018 with a mere five miles to go and pre-match patience is wearing a bit thin.
But with wet soya latte positively card cup half full, the stationary set-back to the schedule is softened by a stunning sunset and the prospect of back-to-back three points in the offing.
And, for once (well, twice actually after Saturday’s win at Chesterfield) the Sky Blues duly delivered to send the 359 die-hard travelling fans back down the agonising asphalt artery that connects the North West with the Midlands with three points in the boot and smile all the way to Sandbach Services.
VIEW GALLERY We were practically ‘Driving home for Christmas,’ as the patchy fog was passed off as sea mist and we were thankful for small mercies when as we noticed the northbound carriageway was reduced to a single lane with two-mile tailbacks.
Time for a celebratory ham and cheese roll we’d saved just in case we’d needed cheering up on the long trek home.
Our thoughts turned to a ‘to do’ list of five things we learned from a near perfect performance, only to be rudely punctuated by a dreaded matrix sign announcing that the M6 was closed between junctions 12 and 10A.
In normal circumstances that sort of bombshell – which I have to say is becoming an all too frequent feature on the late night return legs on the freeways of the UK – would be met with a few choice expletives.
[h=4]Story Link: Chris Stokes stakes a claim for longer spell at Coventry City[/h] But this was a good night on which Mogga’s men had jumped a couple of places up the table and a slight deviation on the route home wasn’t going to dampen our spirits.
We might have been ‘top to toe in tailbacks, with red lights on the run...’ but a quick flick through the road atlas to assess the alternatives provided the good news that dead-end junction joined the A5.
Feeling particularly pleased about the fact, the recalibrated sat nav revealed it would add a minute to our journey time and we tucked into our second travel treat, a Melton ‘Mowbray’ mini pork pie (I could work for the commercial team at Coventry City – if they can sell Sky Blue screen wash I’m damn sure the Mogga branded savoury snacks would fly off the shelves).
Coventry fans after their victory over Fleetwood Town I digress. Back on the road, that warm feeling of relief lasted barely a mile from the turn-off to our alternative route when we were faced with yet another sign, reading ‘A5 closed ahead’.
Cue Victor Meldrew moment and a 20-minute diversion around the back-streets of Cannock. Throw in blanket pea soup fog and it had become patently clear that this ain’t no upwardly mobile freeway, this is the road to hell!
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Postscript: As I was writing the above column I broke off to call my colleague Alan Poole to check that he’d got home safely from his onward journey to Northamptonshire after dropping me off in the early hours.
Not only had he been forced to take the pretty route home after another M6 closure but, after having had barely four and a half hours’ kip, he had set off for work at 8am and been sat in a queue of traffic on the A14 for two and a half hours! As luck would have it, he stumbled across the last remaining mini Mogga pork pie which duly passed for breakfast.
My favourite bizarre line is this:
wet soya latte positively card cup half full - ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/sport-opinion/coventry-city-win-little-bit-8868399
If it’s not bad enough the Football League fixture fixers throw up a tortuous trip to Fleetwood on a cold and damp Tuesday night in March.
You know damn well that when you set off mid afternoon that your estimated journey time of two hours and 39 minutes will be more like three and a half by the time you’ve negotiated Knutsford and crawled alongside the Thelwall Viaduct in one of those phantom bottlenecks that defies the laws of physics.
Throw in a set of ‘temporary’ roadworks due to be complete by Autumn 2018 with a mere five miles to go and pre-match patience is wearing a bit thin.
But with wet soya latte positively card cup half full, the stationary set-back to the schedule is softened by a stunning sunset and the prospect of back-to-back three points in the offing.
And, for once (well, twice actually after Saturday’s win at Chesterfield) the Sky Blues duly delivered to send the 359 die-hard travelling fans back down the agonising asphalt artery that connects the North West with the Midlands with three points in the boot and smile all the way to Sandbach Services.
Time for a celebratory ham and cheese roll we’d saved just in case we’d needed cheering up on the long trek home.
Our thoughts turned to a ‘to do’ list of five things we learned from a near perfect performance, only to be rudely punctuated by a dreaded matrix sign announcing that the M6 was closed between junctions 12 and 10A.
In normal circumstances that sort of bombshell – which I have to say is becoming an all too frequent feature on the late night return legs on the freeways of the UK – would be met with a few choice expletives.
[h=4]Story Link: Chris Stokes stakes a claim for longer spell at Coventry City[/h] But this was a good night on which Mogga’s men had jumped a couple of places up the table and a slight deviation on the route home wasn’t going to dampen our spirits.
We might have been ‘top to toe in tailbacks, with red lights on the run...’ but a quick flick through the road atlas to assess the alternatives provided the good news that dead-end junction joined the A5.
Feeling particularly pleased about the fact, the recalibrated sat nav revealed it would add a minute to our journey time and we tucked into our second travel treat, a Melton ‘Mowbray’ mini pork pie (I could work for the commercial team at Coventry City – if they can sell Sky Blue screen wash I’m damn sure the Mogga branded savoury snacks would fly off the shelves).
Cue Victor Meldrew moment and a 20-minute diversion around the back-streets of Cannock. Throw in blanket pea soup fog and it had become patently clear that this ain’t no upwardly mobile freeway, this is the road to hell!
Video loading
Postscript: As I was writing the above column I broke off to call my colleague Alan Poole to check that he’d got home safely from his onward journey to Northamptonshire after dropping me off in the early hours.
Not only had he been forced to take the pretty route home after another M6 closure but, after having had barely four and a half hours’ kip, he had set off for work at 8am and been sat in a queue of traffic on the A14 for two and a half hours! As luck would have it, he stumbled across the last remaining mini Mogga pork pie which duly passed for breakfast.
My favourite bizarre line is this:
wet soya latte positively card cup half full - ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
