Flea Flicker

Sheffield United 2 v Ipswich Town 0
The Championship
Saturday 27 April 2019

Yorkshire 213 all out (42.2 Overs)
Nottinghamshire 214 for 6 (34.3 Overs)
Nottinghamshire win by 4 wickets
Royal London One Day Cup
Sunday 28 April 2019
Played at Trent Bridge

SUFC 2018/19 Game 87
2018/19 Football Season Brewery Visits - 103

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Games have been coming thick n fast. Blades will have been bombarded with words, pictures, videos following that - looked a bit unlikely a few weeks ago, who the hell would have thought we'd get it done with a game to go - automatic promotion. So, I'm obvs going to struggle to add anything. I was actually sat at Trent Bridge watching Yorkshire getting a tonking when the fiasco at Leeds came through on the wires. That gave me some isolated down time to contemplate.

What does promotion mean to me? Do I even want us to be promoted? Essentially, I approach it simply. Supporting a football club means you want to play games & win things. But, there ain't enough to go around. We can't all support the team which wins the FIFA World Club Championship. As fans, in the moment, we're looking to be successful at our level. Sure, we can look backward & slag off the pub league. Sure, we can look forward to the promised land (FFS). But, that's in the past. That's for the future. All we've really got is validation in the moment.

Are there medals? I don't fucking know. But, success in The Championship, the Medals, is the Title, the second Automatic place, the play off winners, and the play offs. And, survival, if that shit is going down for you. You're validating. We've secured Automatic Promotion. We're validated.

Are you familiar with Bob Zuppke? Head football coach at the University of Illinois from 1913 until 1941. We'd call it American Football. Zuppke is credited with coaching the first ever Flea Flicker play in American Football. The Flea Flicker is an unorthodox set piece. A trick play if you like. It's designed to fool the defenders into thinking something is happening, that isn't. On Saturday, Alan Knill channelled his Inner Zuppke for our second goal. With Jack O'Connell's help. The Mad Bastards.

What's one of the things you need at a corner? Big lads, arriving late, not picked up. That'll help. I know. Let's pretend the big lad needs a glass of water. The poor poppet. He has to run over to his Mum & ask for one. "Is that better, big lad, don't have too much or you'll need a wee wee". Oooohhhh look, we're ready to take a corner, I'll run over there. I'm running. Still running. I might just got on the end of thaaaaaat one.

Two. Nil. Flea. Flicker. Mad. Bastards.

There's some joke in there isn't there? Something something - they thought of using Stearman, but they were worried he would just keep running down the tunnel straight into the bar - something, something. Needs work.

I mean come on, there is not much point in me trying to Blog beers from my promotion celebration drink on London Road. Garbled wouldn't cover it. What I can report is that The Albion no longer has a keg wall and there was virtually no one in Triple Point Brewing on Shoreham Street itself.  I'm going to say that was a bit disappointing on Promotion Night. 

Naturally, I'm going to award an Outstanding Beer Of The Day that one was;

Almasty Brewing, NZ IPA on cask at a whopping 6%.

We're all on the same side here, so I know you will forgive me. My contemporaneous beer tasting notes on the night just say - Oh Yes. Says it all really.

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