Away day at Southend

A Foggy and drizzly morning greeted me as I drove down to southend, fortunately the traffic wasn't as bad as I expected and my choice of using the A46/M45/M1 route, was a good one, going and coming back.
I found a great place to park, in the shadow of Roots Hall and headed for the Boars Head pub, a load of noses were already there (and this was at 11.50!) it is a gortty pub, but the bouncer and staff were friendly, once they got over the arrival of 25 noses so early in the day. It was attached to a Thai restaurant and a couple Thai women were in the kitchen, one was a bit stressed about something and had a go at a nose, who was minding his own business talking to his son, he told her to chill out! The pub was having a charity raffle and the prize was £500 worth of Tattoo work !! that tells you what type of place it was, anyone in there see the bloke who looked like a 70 year old version of Francis Rossi?
I then went to the Railway pub, much nicer although it was a home only pub, a few other noses had sneaked in under the razor wire, clive a 'big'bluenose from London and Frank from the Anchor in Digbeth, both long standing and long suffering bluenoses.
The pub had Southend shirts all over the wall from down the years, some good some awful, imagine some of our kits laid out all together..exactly.
I went to the ground past a chippy that was doing a roaring trade, mainly because the young ladies serving were all dressed as Santa, funny I don't remember Santa wearing low cut tops,short skirts and fishnets!

In the ground I was greeted by another girl in Santa gear, except she was belting out some opera and carols,she certainly had a fine pair of lungs, but the 'noses playfully booed her after three songs and cheered when she finished.
A portly copper was given the 'Laurel and Hardy' treatment as he walked in front of us and he showed that he had a sense of humour by conducting the Blue Choir.
The noses were in good form and no one was safe, from the Brummie wit, the female lino got some stick and especially Sodji(their center half).
For reasons best know to him,he had a tea cosy affair on his head, black with a white stripe down the middle. To be fair to him, he joind in playfully with the stick he was getting, while the scores were level, he got ratty later as the goals went in and again to be fair, he was Southend's only threat from corners and free kicks.
What can I say about the performance? we were in a comfort zone for most of the match and the 4-0 didn't flatter us, although Southend had a couple of chances, but woeful shooting by them was followed up by 'that's why your going down' from the blues following of 2000+.
Those noses near the touchline were having fun with the blues subs, something to do with 'giving something' to the Female lino, I believe, Muamba and Killkenny were having a good laugh anyway.
I met MIB Dave and Daveandthekids,he changed the 'he's got a tea towel on his head' chant to 'he's got a panty liner on his head', not what you expect from a pillar of society!

Southend must have more ballboys than the rest of the league put together, a point that did not escape the Brummie wags, as the chant of 'you've got more ballboys than fans' went up.The Sothend fans were so quiet, that we almost forgot that they were there.

The day got better as the text messages from vile park came in that the Aston Browns were losing 3-0 to Manchester Buccaneers. We scored again at the death and it sent the bluenoses home very happy.
I sped home and was in Warwick and in a pub gloating by 7.15.

KRO murph