His Royal Dryness, The Duke of Cork

20 games to go!! Listened to last 6 minutes of the game in the car. Turned onto the ringroad, we were winning. 60 yards later, we'd thrown a couple of points away. Half way down City Road and we'd done the business. Quality team. Monty is our Mascot! Bristols 2 - Blades 3 Footnote: I've just read BBC's report . If you've not seen the goals, let me Henderson had put the Blades two-up with an 18-yard shot [TRUE] before latching on to a Jamie Ward ball and slotting in [at 100mph into the top corner of the goal]. Louis Carey powered home a header from a Paul Hartley cross and City levelled when Alvaro Saborio scored from 12 yards five minutes into stoppage time [I don't bother with their goals] But a minute later Henderson completed his hat-trick when he produced a cool finish after a Stephen Quinn pass [this was actually a shot from Reid which hit their defender and spurted wide to Henderson, Quinn was running in at the back post. I can see how easy it is to mix ...

Finally! We had to play bottom of the league, and looked like we were second-bottom, but at least we got three points. As the players come back from injury, we're starting to look stronger. Evans finally had a decent game and Ward was looking lively. Centre midfield was empty as always, but apparently Monty is on his way back soon. Williamson didn't seem to do much, and Harper didn't even bother to do his last ten minutes wave to the kop. Camara looked promising and Blackwell admitted after the game that he's looking forward to having a selection dilemma. A pretty dull game, really, which reflected the wet weather and greasy pitch. I sat in the Westfield Corner (Cherry Street/ Bramall Lane) and the view was superb. After the recent good performances without getting anything, it was nice to have a hard-working performance be rewarded with 3 points. Good penalty save from Bunn, although it was a pretty poor penalty from the player who was dubbed "The White...

Blades were much better tonight. First half we dominated, had a couple of good chances and should have gone in ahead. Second half Newcastle came back into it, but Blades held firm. Then they spawned a flukey goal after Nolan had crippled Walker. Deflected off Morgan (he misses Dingle game for being booked) and bobbled past Bennet. I think defence played much better tonight, until Walker went off. France is terrible. He and Taylor are way out of their league. I daren't look at table to see if Barnsley can go above us or not it they beat us. These are frustrating times. In a few weeks, we'll have Ward, Creswell, Monty, Naysmith, Geary all fit and fighting for places. I think we are missing all of them. Blades 0 - Flucastle 1 PS Terrible referee. Wasted more time for Newcastle than their own players managed. Grrrr...