Sorry Paul, turns out that when I filled up that billy can I put in diesel. Takes bloody hours to light. Next time I'll do a proper job and then, with your guidance, we'll burn the world!

Ahem.

I thought we were excellent yesterday. We didn't show them any respect, we didn't sit back and let them play their game, they had to work for it. And they play some good stuff too - but we kept them down to single figures chance-wise and never once did they overwhelm us at the back, the midfield worked bloody hard to protect the back four. A lot of the game was played in our half, but to only concede 4 in those circumstances is an achievement, and to get 2 is more of an achievement. Soft goals a little annoying, especially the two headers where we had no one jumping, even more especially as we had plenty of men back for both to be able to cope, but first game of the season against the favourites for the league, I think we showed a lot of character in that second half - and best of all, I can only remember one Shefford player having a go at one other Shefford player and within seconds he'd apologised for it. We really stuck together, kept our heads up and showed that the team spirit we had last season wasn't just cos we kept winning.

From our side of the game, obviously chances to play our footy were few and far between, and were mostly limited to trying to hit the right long ball over for Dave or Neil to run on to. There was a big gap between the midfield and the front two but that was necessary and inevitable. If the midfield had pushed up too far we'd have been punished for it and if both Dave and Neil had tracked back together we'd never have scored and would have just invited them on. We'll have to look for other games to show how we play our footy.

I think we can take a lot of confidence from that into our next few games. Next Sunday is a cup game, so my current thinking is that I'm intending to play with the midfield a little to see how things go. If anyone has any mates who want to come along to training, now is a good time cos we had the bare seven subs on Sunday and I don't like being confined to my squad selection like that.