Season Diary 31

Entry #31: Tuesday 16th December 2008


the name of the pub i watched the game in was Smiths, its not far from the bus station which was good because it was freezing and didnt want to walk to far (also my time keeping sucks, i was still on the bus when the game kicked off so the closer to the station the better for me or i would have missed a fair bit of the 1st half no doubt) plus it would be good for getting back home as today was the second day of my new job after all. Incidentally the buses between Ayr and Prestwick after tenish arent as frequent as i thought and i had to go into another pub and wait half an hour on the bus coming, did get to speak to an old uni friend who had recently had a child with his girlfriend and was looking forward to their first Christmas, also that pub had upside down christmas trees which was kinda cool. got home at 11ish which wasnt ideal but ok, in retrospect if i had been up at Motherwell (is it up?) i would probably have got back at a similar time. Maybe, actually now as i type that i doubt its validity, i will leave it all in now and show the internal machinations of my mind rather than take some time to find out if that would actually be the case.

Back the the football and my rather strange decision to watch Killie on the TV in an Ayr pub. the football was excellent, a two nil win away from home, Alan Russell grabbed his first for us and it was a belter, a really well taken goal and we got a clean sheet both big plusses. Motherwell are pure mince though. Thats six points we have taken off them this season, earlier it was a late Bryson goal which nicked it for us but last night it was just a good performance. Getting texts from thjose that were there and those who saw the first ten minutes that i didnt say that Pasca struggled at makeshift centre half but but in the 80 minutes i saw i thought he looked fine. Invincibile was taken off which is a blow but Flannigan came in and kept the shape. basically it was a great performance from us, considering the line up and the fact the postponed game last week meant that Fernandez's suspension rolled over a further week.

As i have mentioned i watched it in this pub called Smiths in Ayr, wheni got in Jon and his brother Gordon were watching it at the door with Gordons mate and his girlfriend, no sound so we we got punted through the the bar where the game was shown with the sound up. So the five of us were holed up in the furthest corner from the door out and also the toilet, after a few pints i needed a wee pee and i have to admit that i was a little aprehensive about going incase i got any hassle. What a shitebag eh? who in there right mind would hassle a tall speccy geek who just happens to support Killie. but alas i did have a tiny bit of worry in my mind. In fact as far as hassle goes all that there was was some nugget shouting "fuck the Killie" every once in a while i suppose aimed at us as well as the tv. Thank god we won because i wouldnt like to see how many people in the quite busy bar would have cheered a Motherwell goal. I suppose i better add that we all were cheering wildly when our goals went in but managed to contain myself from chanting Ayr Ayr fuck yer Ayr due to my current predicament.

Toward the end of the game we had some steaming local join us up in our wee corner, he must have been a Killie fan so the five became six for a while. I suppose i should also add that all five of us noticed at exactly the same time when he was shown in close up that Mark McGhee seemed to be wearing eyeliner but no website i have seen today seems to highlight it, i dont have apicture to show you but if five of us thought it at the same time then surely it must be true, surely? anyway, a good win and now a home game on Saturday versus St Mirren so a wee back to back win sequence would be swell.

Oh, and Smiths sells a delicious pint of lager.