Yellows are coming!

Yesterday I took a day off, doing the laundry, cleaning the house and being a tourist. And where else should a football-loving tourist go on a mostly sunny Saturday afternoon in England than to watch a football match?

In 5 miles radius around my house in Cambridge, there are two clubs playing in the "Blue Square Football Conference", England's 5th league - Histon F.C. and Cambridge United. Histon played away yesterday and so I went to see Cambridge United, currently ranking third in their league, against Stafford Rangers, who are far the last and already had no more chance of preventing their relegation. Obviously, everyone expected the U's, playing in black and yellow (although the more intellectual people of Cambridge tend to call it black and amber) to win.

The match started with Cambridge soon scoring their first goal after 7 minutes and from the technical abilities it looked like there would be many more goals to come. However, with more luck than skill, Stafford scored the 1-1 three minutes later and still people around me were convinced that this wouldn't stay tied the whole match. However, the match slowed down a bit with Cambridge players obviously enjoying to outwit their opponents one after the other. Unfortunately though, they forgot to shoot on Stafford's goal and so we saw halftime at 1-1.

In the second half, Stafford started to realize they still had their chances because of Cambridge's unability to score another goal. They started to attack Cambridge earlier and had some good chances before they finally got 1-2 ahead around the 65th minute. Afterwards, Stafford obviously was only out to defend and thanks to their amazing goalkeeper they held out the last 25 minutes against Cambridge's ongoing, aggressive but more and more desparate attacks.

Finally, this was kind of a deja-vu for me. The guys in black and yellow were obviously the better team, all odds spoke against the other side and in the end the highly inferior team left the pitch winning. Seems like I know this from my home team, too.