His Royal Dryness, The Duke of Cork

It's finally over, but typical Blades leave me hungry for more. For most of the game they only coasted and Swansea played the better football. Kenny was back to his old self with some fine saves. A marvellous move by the ever-impressive Little resulted in a cracking goal for Creswell. Before the game, in the Small County Pub (SCP) we enjoyed our beer in the sunshine and considered staying there. At half time we wished we had. At full time we were glad we hadn't. All eyes turn to Monday now.... Blades 2 - 0 Swansea (Blog submitted from the tram)

Have a look at this from the football league, test your geography skills and your football ground name skills. Football League Ground Geography Game Have fun!

My friend commented that the first half on Saturday had a feel of a testimonial. He was right. I'd commented in the first half that I felt like a neutral. Only the ever-impressvie Glenn Little gave us anything to be happy about. Early in the second half he broke through the middle and delivered a perfectly weighted ball for Cresswell to crash home right-footed. Here's how the BBC reported on it :- "The winner came when Glenn Little's right-wing cross found Cresswell, who put it in the top corner from 12 yards." Makes you wonder if they'd had enough and went at half time.... Anyway, one more game left to blog this season. One more game of any importance left this season. Need to find a chant for Glenn Little: he's the best player and doesn't get anything sung for his efforts and skill. Blades 1 - 0 Coventry? (I can barely remember)

Or rather :- Little: good. Comes off late substitute. A frustrating game, which I thought the Blades deserved to win. We saw the full range of skills from most players: from their poor skills all the way up to their average skills. I thought the ref was terrible and the ultimate insult was that a Blades player was sent off in a game which had very little derby nastiness. He didn't give us a couple of penalties and let all kinds of challenges slide in the centre of the park. Why Glen Little hasn't started more games is a complete mystery to me and probably to him. He looked a class above everyone else on the pitch. Only made two errors and probably had 80% of the Blades possession. I'm hoping with the bulk of my readership in the country, that maybe they might chip in with a blog of their own, although that may be a busman's holiday ;-) Blades 0 - 0 Dingles

Diverting from my usual themes, here's some snaps:- Gulls nesting on cliffs between Whitby and Robin Hood's Bay While we waited for a tiny boat to go through the bridge, I snapped a cormorant The drawing made us chuckle

My guest blogger, Son of a Cork's Dad, returns this week as I expertly avoided a howler, it seems. The Jinx returns As the Duke of Cork could not make this Scunthorpe fixture Bramall Lane welcomed the return of The Jinx. And so it was to be. The first half was really painful to watch and at one point paper bags blew across the pitch like tumbleweed in an eerie silence like a scene from a deserted town in an old cowboy western. United had most of what play there was but a poor back pass nearly saw them go one down but the keeper made a good save. At the end of the first half, as people were going for their Bovril [Ed: other beverages are available] in first half injury time, Scunthorpe caught United on the break and although plenty defenders got back a couple of passes and a nothing shot sent the keeper diving the wrong way and the ball was in the back of the net. If the first half was bad then the second did not improve any. Although United appeared to be pressing all the time (eve...

Saw this at Monsal Head.  Wouldn't fly near to me though. If you're interested in the route we did for our sponsored walk, then click this link