I was going to start a thread myself this morning if there wasn't one already. I thought that losing to Kent a few weeks ago was the end of the promotion challenge but glad I was wrong.
All I hope now is that with my cricket team promoted, my football team can make it a double.
A member since 1974...brought up in Brockley, only a bus ride from the Oval, therefore my local team. About time we got our act together. Disappointed to be missing the final at Lords on Saturday, as I'm going to Rochdale. Can't be in two places at once and football comes first. Anyway, I struggle to get excited about Pro40 cricket and Lords finals are not the same these days. The old Gillette Cup Finals were great occasions.
Len - Similar to Charlton having the biggest budget in the Championship and getting relegated to League One. Poor management and a poor squad of players following the Stewart/Thorpe generation.
I dont subscribe to football-style rivalry in County Cricket. Most cricket followers go along to watch the cricket first and support their team as the second priority. I can quite happily watch Kent v Middlesex and enjoy the cricket.
Grew up in Kennington and went to school overlooking The Oval.
Certainly Surrey territory but definitely not Charlton-land. Fortunately had a CAFC supporting next-door-neighbour who took me to games and that was that.
Interesting conundrum - Kent's ground in Beckenham is next door to the Nigel's training ground, who are of course from Surrey. So Kent now play in Nigel territory, even though it has a Kent postcode.. How many Nigels living in Beckenham will grow up supporting Kent as its their local ground?
Going back to previous one-day finals at Lords, the more vocal fans supporting Surrey were always Chelsea fans from Battersea, Wandsworth & Clapham. Nowadays Surrey have a link-up with Fulham, that is cheap tickets for Fulham season ticket holders.
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All I hope now is that with my cricket team promoted, my football team can make it a double.
Am going to the CB40 final in Saturday. Expecting it to be messy!
Exactly
i hate surrey more than i hate millwall
A grudging "well done" to the Brown Hatters.
Mind you with the largest budget in the County Championship they have to ask themselves how they arrived in division 2 in the first place!
Nope! The Oval is the nearest ground to my parents' house in Catford.
Len - Similar to Charlton having the biggest budget in the Championship and getting relegated to League One. Poor management and a poor squad of players following the Stewart/Thorpe generation.
I dont subscribe to football-style rivalry in County Cricket. Most cricket followers go along to watch the cricket first and support their team as the second priority. I can quite happily watch Kent v Middlesex and enjoy the cricket.
Nearly threw it away ....
Always been a Middlesex supporter me ...
Not in the mid 1980s! (Don't believe Kent played in Beckenham then.)
Besides The Oval & Copers Cope are no comparison. And I could get a 185 bus from Stansted Rd all the way to The Oval.
I used to play football at Copers Cope for Lloyds Bank before Kent took it over.
Simple.
Certainly Surrey territory but definitely not Charlton-land. Fortunately had a CAFC supporting next-door-neighbour who took me to games and that was that.
Going back to previous one-day finals at Lords, the more vocal fans supporting Surrey were always Chelsea fans from Battersea, Wandsworth & Clapham. Nowadays Surrey have a link-up with Fulham, that is cheap tickets for Fulham season ticket holders.
Complicated innit?