One thing I was looking forward to when I got back from D of E was a nice, long week off for half term with some kickass stuff planned. To start it off, I hauled it up to Leicester to watch the Cobblers play the Foxes in a friend on friend fan faceoff.
We left Northampton at some unnatural hour for a Saturday morning to go watch my sister’s boyfriend’s fan’s football team (That’s a lot of apostrophes) play the Leicester fan’s football team. We waited, we drank hot chocolate, we waited some more, but the team never turned up. We won by default. That’s always good.
So after killing some time in a city which can only be described as Northampton on smack (and not the good smack, neither. Trampy, dirty smack) and ate at a takeaway baked potato outlet. There should be a Spud You Like in Northampton, because they’re awesome.
Anyway. We got into the stadium and waited for the game to start, eventually. A helicopter landed in the Walkers Stadium to deliver the match ball because it was part of the whole Remembrance thing. Then the game actually started.
For the first ten minutes, it looked like we were going to get murdered. But then things started to pick up. A few chances here and there at both ends made for an exciting first half, with the Cobblers, I thought, taking the slight majority in terms of possession.
Then the second half started, where it got interesting. Leicester were starting to realise it wasn’t going to be as easy a walk in the park as they’d hoped, given most our good players are out on injury. When Bayo got injured, it really spelt the end of our chances. Constantine should’ve got the winner late on in injury time, but sort of fumbled. It’s bad, but forgivable seeing as Leicester missed chance after chance of “Even I would’ve scored that” moments, and a goal disallowed for offside (which was blatant, but you’ve got to give it to them…).
All in all, 0 – 0 was a fair result. Even Andy agreed, but said they should’ve won in the second half. They had the chances, but didn’t take them. 55% of the possession was Leicester’s in the end, but we had more shots on target. Even Stevens here, I’d say.
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