09/08/14 - MK Dons 4 - 2 Gillingham

So after a summer of World Cup disappointment watching England, and only cricket and Commonwealth games to fill the void it was finally time to get back on the road as the start of the 2014/15 season kicked off. FOOTBALL IS BACK!! And after tinkering with the website and adapting the format of the club a little we were back on the road for the new season.

First game was a trip to Milton Keynes to watch League One's MK Dons battle it out against Gillingham. I was happy to meet up with a newly registered Full 92 recruit in Shaun who is crazily attempting to do all 92 clubs in two seasons. He'd already been to Blackburn on Friday night and was visiting Wolves on Sunday, but Saturday was all about joining us on the road for the first time. It's great meeting other passionate fans and we still want to get more of you Full 92'ers coming to join us at the matches. It's all about creating a social group atmosphere so get yourselves involved!

No doubt Shaun will join us again many times on his road to infamy, and it was a glorious day for us to visit the purpose built 22,000 seater stadium built on a retail park in Milton Keynes. It's a modern stadium inside and out and I imagine will be rocking in the future if MK Dons ever manage to get to the dizzy heights of the Championship or Premier League. So how was the first day of the new season?

03/05/14 - Wolves 3 - 0 Carlisle

After a couple of months off due to various different things (getting engaged, booking weddings and holidays etc) I decided to get back on the road and what better game to do it! I've made no secret of it that I'm a Wolves fan and have been to Molineux many times before but never as part of my trek to do the Full 92!

So I invited all of my registered people to come along and join me if they fancied a great day out. Wolves had already won the Sky Bet League One championship so would be presented with the trophy at the end of the game. It would indeed be a carnival atmosphere. Unfortunately there had to be a loser and it just so happened that today it would more than likely be the visitors Carlisle United who would also be relegated with anything less than a win.
Shame really, but I couldn't let that put a dampener on the celebrations now could I?

01/02/14 - Fulham 0 - 3 Southampton

So the first trip of 2014 and my first Premier League game this season began down in London at Craven Cottage for Fulham vs. Southampton. I was looking forward to this one as I got to see the English youth of the visitors. There are some great players coming through for the Saints at the minute and with the World Cup coming up it would be good to see some of that talent.

Due to various people not being able to make it (again) it ended up being two of us. I decided to travel down in the car alone and was going to meet one of my fellow Full 92'ers there. Mark had been with us to Dagenham so he knew the score. I'd sorted his train from Clacton out and met him at Putney station. We parked about a mile from the ground and then walked to the match together.

I do like a trip to London and picked a nice day for it as the sun was out and despite it being cold it was a decent day. Craven Cottage is situated in a park right next to the River Thames and as we walked through we joined the rest of the football fans walking towards the ground. It was a good atmosphere with Home and Away fans all mixed in together and it didn't seem like there would be any trouble at all. Just the sort of atmosphere you want! So the big question is....as a Premier League ground, how does the Cottage measure up?

26/12/13 - Cheltenham 1 - 0 Exeter

Better late than never! Seems my posts are taking longer to write but we got there in the end. This latest instalment happened Boxing Day. As we all know this is a day which has become famous for football. Everyone looking to get back into the routine as they shake of the excesses of drinking and eating all day previously.

To be honest it was a bit of a last minute decision to go to a match as funds were not looking like they were going to allow it. However when I got the itchy feet feeling on Boxing Day I knew that I had to get to a match! Flicking through the local fixtures I decided that Cheltenham Town was the best place to go as it is nearest to where I live and I knew that while I took my partner's son to his first ever League game she could go off and do a spot of shopping!

In my everyday life I work for Abbey Business Equipment in Cheltenham and have done for the last 3 years so it seems mad that this was my first visit to the stadium we sponsor. Even more annoying that after I'd paid for us to get in I found out that I could have got complimentary tickets as an employee of the sponsors. Schoolboy error! But you live and learn I suppose.....