I manage to persuade my wife, who hates football, to come with me to a couple of away games. The 2 she enjoys are Whitstable and Hastings, shopping and being by the sea. Now yesterday was not a problem as the forecast was for a warm sunny day. Now I might just have trouble in getting her to come to Hastings in February!
We arrived in Whitstable at 10.30 had a coffee, did some shopping, some walking and a meal at the Old Neptune outside overlooking the sea. How nice was that. We walked this down by strolling to Tankerton then wandered into the ground at 2.30. Eventually taking our seats and the game was about to kick off. Where were all our so called supporters? Yes we recognised some but so few of them, maybe they knew someting we didn't! Our day was about to go down hill, one down inside 2 minutes. Then it got worse with a sending off before half time. The second half we pressed and looked far the better team but were poor in front of goal. Obviously with 10 men we began to get tired and they scored again a couple of minutes before the end. We left at 0-2 with the match ref. indicating 4 minutes additional play. As we walked to our car we heard a roar and guessed they had scored again.
I thought they really tried hard and maybe with eleven men we might have got a result. We had a good day out in spite of the disappointment of the game. But where were all our supporters??