Do You Remember?

Do you remember those happy, carefree, winning days of old at Rockingham Road? Teams came to here with the intent to stifle the rampant home team and perhaps hang on valiantly to a point?


Do you remember the return on Anthony Elding at the start of November, and his ghosting in to head home after 4 minutes against Wrexham? I hope you do, seeing as this is the last goal we scored at home in the League from open play!


Since the we have endured a mind-numbing 536 minutes (plus injury time) of home league action without us rippling the net from anything but a couple of penalties. To put 536 minutes (plus injury time) into perspective, if you'd decided to have a bit of a Lord of the Rings marathon, and slipped The Fellowship of the Ring, into your DVD player just as Elding scored against the Taffs, you would now be watching the end credits of The Return of the King, whilst awaiting our next league goal at home from open play. Ouch! That'd hurt your arse.


In the same time that it took for a scared bunch of Hobbits to bring down the defences of the most evil Empire in the history of Middle Earth, we have been unable to lower the colours of the rather less impressive defences of such mighty teams a Kiddy, Hayes & Yeading, Salisbury, Barrow and Tamworth.


And with Diamonds and Cambridge coming up (against whom our home records aren't exactly stellar...) don't bet against a revisit to this article featuring the specially extended editions of the Lord of the Rings films!
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"Bugger me! I was clean-shaven when Elding nodded-in against Wrexham!"