Amstel is Off

Oldham Athletic 1 v Sheffield United 1

League One

Saturday 25 March 2017

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How do you deal with it? You put a glass over the Amstel tap. What are you dealing with? Not sure. The symptoms seemed to be a) a stag party, b) an all female 30th birthday group, c) a mob of W. Yorks. lads on the lash & d) some sun.

The Station Buffet Bar, Stalybridge is one of those pubs that is on “a route”. In this case, a train route. You buy your appropriate Romper. You get on a train. You get off. You have a bevy. Occasionally, on Look North & Calendar we get reports. Trains mobbed. British Transport Police overrun. Northern Rail (etc) Hectors at their wits end. I'd ”heard rumours”. That to discourage, some pubs wouldn't serve the dreaded LAGER.

So, presumably that what was going on. Declare the Amstel off. There was also Glass Apartheid at the bar. Us older, solitary drinkers, seated in the rooms. Glass.

Funny hat. Balloon tied to your arm. Half a dozen of you. Plastic all the way.

I had Beer Nouveau, Horse Wynd on cask at 5.1%.

Then, the other extreme. Bridge Beers, Stalybridge. Straight ahead Micropub. Gravity cask behind the bar. I had Four Kings, Porter at 5.2%.

I'll bow to superior judgement. But, there seemed to be a lot of bollock talking about the state of the pitch. To the extent it apparently influenced our starting XI. To the extent he left Coutts out. (Shakes head). The lack of wing back alternatives exposed again. Lafferty on international duty. Stick round peg Matt Done out there. Just like we promised we wouldn't.

Anyway. We've got the points behind us. We've earned the right. It was all a bit of a reality check.

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