Diary of a Soccer Saturday Reporter

Barnsley v Doncaster in the Championship or Morecambe v Crewe in League Two?

That was the choice I had for covering a game for Soccer Saturday this weekend. Perhaps surprisingly, I choose the latter, simply because the wonderfully named Globe Arena is somewhere I’d never been to before.

It therefore increased the number of current English league grounds I’d watched a match at to 88 – Crawley, AFC Wimbledon, Aldershot and Brighton’s new stadium being the only four I’ve not had the pleasure of visiting. So would I go back there again?

Well, it’s not a bad little ground and it was a decent game as Crewe snatched a late 2-1 victory with a goal five minutes into stoppage time – not that I had the chance to tell the Sky viewers mind you, since I didn’t do a single update! But that happens from time to time, so it didn’t bother me too much, until I got home… when I found out one of my colleagues had done a number of updates from Oakwell and then earned himself a few extra quid by interviewing the two managers!

Typical!