Business as Gornal

I love the way international football managers differ from league managers. When international football managers win - and win well - they walk with a swagger that suggests "of course I knew we would win easily". For league managers, it's just three days to a League Cup game at Bury or similar. But, of course, more important things are afoot this weekend - it's FA Cup week again. If you let your eye skim down the fixtures you will note that both Ayelsbury and Aylesbury Vale are at home - and both kick off at 3pm, but the police don't expect congestion. As you continue to skim down, you will find it hard to get past the Curzon Ashton and Leigh Genesis (they were never the same after Peter Gabriel left) tie, but you will not fail to stop at Gornal Athletic at home to the boringly named Southam United.

Gornal Athletic look our sort of team. Their website doesn't beat about the bush either. Rather than bore us with detail it tells us "Over the years the Club has won a number of honours at senior level". There's no foreign mercenaries here and top striker, Jeff Hill, looks a handful and a snappy dresser you might think judging by his cap. Of course, by now you will not be able to stop yourself seeing if there are any anagrams of Gornal Athletic. And, the rewards are great as angelic troth, loathing claret, lethargic talon and, beat this, longhair cattle and a cheating troll (is there any other kind?). I'll leave the more vulgar ones to those with time on their hands. But, let's all get behind the boys - we like a club where Alan Hancox is the youth coach and Lelsey Hancox is the match secretary. As the Yanks say "Go Gornal".

 

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