After seemingly decades spent flipping discs / inserting cassettes / slotting CDs / tapping the i-pod, and tripping over foreign-sounding names on the teamsheet, tannoy announcer Pete Simcoe is finally stepping out of the shadows. As half-time mike holders come and go, Pete has always remained up in the stand, reading out the scores and reminding us all of our next opportunity to come and be disappointed at Rockingham Road.
More recently he has taken over the mantle of half-time microphone jockey. These days it is his responsibility to deflate my expectations by drawing out someone else's raffle ticket and 200 Club number!
My only worry is that all this new found responsibility is causing Pete some concentration problems. For example, giving us a half-time score from Non Park which suggests the Scum are winning, when they are actually a goal down is not really good form! Of course, he did manage to pull the situation around just in time and cheer us up. The tease.
But, no matter what he does between now and the end of the season, he will be forgiven, thanks to his announcement towards the end of the Barrow game when, during a break in play, he announced that a pair of glasses in their Specsavers case had been handed in. Given the referee had been a typical Conference stinker who whistled every time opposing players shared the same postal district, or whenever a tumbling player shouted "AAYA!" or even if he just felt he hadn't whistled enough in the preceding 30 seconds, this was too good a gift!
I think just about everybody in the crowd finished off the gag Pete had inadvertently set-up for us! Brilliant moment. Keep it up Pete!
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