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Went to both semi finals today. Glasgow City too strong for a physical Partick Thistle team in the end and ran out 3-1 winners. Very good crowd for the second match with a healthy support for both teams.

I think you may have been standing next to me in that first photo...

Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic V Fraserburgh today. First visit to Dundas Park. Deserved 3-1 win for the Rose. 1571 (175 down from Fraserburgh)

Also at Ainslie park! Been to Edinburgh city so much this season, I'm not even sure it's random anymore...

That first picture is an absolute beauty

Another one for Motherwell V Hibernian today.

Edinburgh City V Stenhousemuir. Finished 1-1 in a very good and entertaining match. Two cracking goals. Jack Brydon with a 20+ yard screamer into the top corner to give City the lead. The Warriors equalised after a excellent move with Thomas Orr flicking a cute shot past the goalie. Game remained end to end. Thought Stenhousemuir had the better chances and were unlucky not to collect 3 points. Pity only 182 turned up to see it!

Trip to the Borders today to see Gala Fairydean Rovers at home to Celtic B. 2-1 win for Celtic. Crowd around 300, I guess?! Gala Rugby playing Melrose in a double header over the fence at the same time. Caught most of the 2nd XV game before the football. Melrose won that 40-7.

Edinburgh City V Stirling Albion tonight. 1-0 City in a tight and fairly feisty game. Excellent crowd of 498, swelled by a good turnout of Albion fans.

Back in 1922. St Alban's city striker Wilfred 'Billy' Minter scored all SEVEN at Dulwich Hamlet only for the rest of his team to make a complete mess of his efforts by contriving to let in EIGHT at the other end! https://www.stalbanscityfc.com/minter-scores-seven-in-a-most-glorious-defeat/

1.FSV Mainz 05. Family connection, my Uncle met and married a Woman from Mainz. They live there with my cousins. They have season tickets and I've seen them on a few occasions.

The 8 programmes from the 8 games I attended in January. I didn't manage to get one when at the Tranmere V FGR game. But Rovers sent me one out which arrived this morning.

I'd been once before I went earlier this season (seen the Chelsea women V Everton Women game, no problem with a bag then!), back in 1991-92 I to see Woking play, when it was still Kingstonians ground and the stadium was Red rather than blue. It has changed a fair bit since then. It was still a fairly new ground back in the early 90s.

Thanks, on train and it appears to be on time. Will need to run from Central to QS to get earlier train home as I'm absolutely knackered now! I hope your mate got delayed today and decided to head to pub instead! Seeing that Sunderland got murdered at Bolton!

Cheers, already on it as I booked online via LNER APP. Very easy to do. My trip down is already in. I do hope the trip back has no delays though.

Prenton Park for Tranmere Rovers V Forest Green Rovers today. A bit of a treck to get here today. I'd planned on arriving into Liverpool at 10.30 for have a look around before heading to the game, but with my train at 6.15 from Edinburgh cancelled then delays along the way I didn't arrive into Birkenhead until 2.30. I expected a good exciting tie today between the top two in League two. But in truth, Forest Green were absolutely brilliant and ripped Tranmere Rovers to shreds! 4-0 to FGR in front of a crowd of 10942, £18 ticket which was good value. Unfortunately the programmes were all sold out by the time I arrived. Scottish interest in the game in both teams. Ross Doohan, Calum MacDonald, Kane Hemmings and Josh McPake for Tranmere. FGR had. Jack Aitchson, Nick Cadden and Regan Henry. Now to get myself home tonight ...

It's a great old ground which I always love visiting. It hasn't changed in 50+ years bar the odd bit of painting. The club are trying to get the ground redeveloped but are finding it hard to get certain parts of planning permission through (belt a road that runs close behind the main stand) The need to modernise is long overdue and will continually hold the club back from any ambition it has.

Tonight's not so random, random game. Aldershot V Southend United. Frustrating draw for the Shots. Took an early lead then sat back and let Southend have the majority of the ball, who done nothing with it until the 86th minute to equalise. 2141 (about 500 Southend fans) crowd. £20 ticket and £3 programme. Its been 5 years since I've seen a live Aldershot win .

. You'd think that would be the commonsense thing to do?! Probably one of these guys that Kevin Bridges is referring to.. https://youtu.be/INhoBQFTKU4

Not heading to the Chelsea U23 game tonight now. Got to the stadium, bought my ticket and headed to the turnstiles. Only to be told by the steward that I couldn't bring my bag in, just incase I wanted to blow the stadium up! I have nowhere to put it so got a refund and now heading to the pub instead

Arsenal V Burnley. Absolutely dreadful match. One paced arsenal too slow in thought and movement to breakdown a Burnley team more than happy to sit in and play out for a 0-0 draw. £30.50 ticket and £3.50 programme. Bought a whole host of printed Fanzines too!

Woking V Wealdstone. 2-0 Woking. Red card for a Wealdstone player who tried to decapitate a Woking player with a Kung Fu kick! Despite being an Aldershot supporter. Back in the day I used to also watch Woking, long before they were rivals. This was my first visit back to Kingfield in over 28 years, so felt a wee bit nostalgic. A thoroughly enjoyable game in front of 2677 fans. Ticket £18 gets you to either sit or stand and programme was £3. And No I didn't bump into the Wealdstone raider

Watford V Norwich Tonight. 3-0 win for Norwich. I'm not exactly sure how Watford managed to lose by three goals, as Norwich are absolutely awful! They couldn't string more than two passes together in the first half. Red Card for Watford and 15 minutes extra time because of partial floodlight failure. Ticket £32, programme £3.50

Watford V Norwich 21st Woking V Wealdstone 22nd Arsenal V Burnley 23rd Chelsea U23 V Manchester city U23 24th Aldershot V Southend (not particularly random, as I'm a Shots supporter!) 25th Tranmere rovers V Forest Green Rovers 29th

Start of a busy two weeks off work for me today. First of seven random games in England. Newcastle United V Watford. 1-1 draw. First half was absolutely awful! Second was better.