Finally Final Day

Well, folks, it's finally FA Trophy final day.  We're not entirely sure how it's happened but apparently the Poppies WON'T be part of the showpiece event.

We're as shocked as you are.  Like you, we assumed that every 21 years we troop down to North London to wonder how we lose a Final we dominate.  Regular as clockwork.  

We've checked back and apparently we were knocked out of the Trophy back in January by our newest bogey team - Leamington.  No, we can't remember the game either despite it featuring front and centre on the club website for a FULL FOUR BLOODY MONTHS!

I guess the game has been scrubbed from our collective memories.  It must have been a dull, nondescript affair.  Not a game featuring failing Leamington floodlights (again), us shipping three goals and three players and ending not short of midnight.....No  don't recall any of that.

Well, whatever happened, two clubs have somehow managed to keep enough players fit and paid since January to reach today's final.  Our old, entitled friends from Hereford will be playing Hornchurch.  Or, as the media should be screaming - "Former Poppies 'keeper takes on former Poppies boss!"

That's right folks.  It's the big one.  The clash of former Poppies titans we've all been waiting for.  In the blue corner it's Skinny, bearded, MacGregor-strutting Paddy, Paul (Whiplash) White.  In the red corner it's baldy, CVA- blocking (Miserable) Mark Stimson.

But Patgod,  we hear you ask, with both teams boasting a Poppies connection, who should we be supporting in the final?  Well, we had some great days with Whitey between the sticks, but he has since joined up with the biggest cocks in non-league.  And Stimson?  He was our unfortunate manager during an impossible period, but he did try to prevent our survival by challenging the CVA.

Tricky.  Can you want both teams to lose?  Sure you can.  We're Kettering supporters after all.  We have enough bitterness to go around....

Go team Whitey!

Go team Stimson!