August 2009 Archives

It still seems hard to believe that Chester are playing football in the Blue Square Premier these days - with more than 5,000 watching the Blues at Oxford and 6,563 at Luton. It was just a shame that only 85 City fans felt drawn to Kenilworth Road on Saturday.

Those 85 loyal supporters did their best to make themselves heard though - aided admirably by the drummers.

If there was a league for football drummers, I'm sure Chester would win the championship each season!

It's going to be a long, hard season and the southern-based Exiles had better make the most of it, as it's already looking like we face a season of northern-based matches in 2010-2011.

Still, after this summer's off-the-field activities, I suppose we should be grateful that we still have a team to cheer - even if they look unlikely to move off the foot of the table.

It was hard to blame the eleven players on the Oxford pitch last night for their inglorious 4-0 defeat. By the second half, you could clearly tell they were lacking match fitness and there was no answer to each of Oxford's four goals.