VfL Bückeburg 2 v RSV Göttingen 05 3

                                                                                   Bad, bad weekend for my teams. Leyton Orient lost at home, after taking the lead through George Porter, his first goal for the club, against Oldham Pathetic.

Georgie Porter with his 1st Orient goal

It is now only us and S*unthorpe who have not won in League One this season. Rumours are circulating that Steve Tilson or Aidy Boothroyd are being lined up as a replacement for Russell Slade. Even the name of Mark Robins has been banded about. 

Flag proudly displayed at The Emirates last season. Is time up?

              Romford had a tricky FA Cup tie, away to Southend Manor of the Essex Senior League. And prompty whimpered out 2-4. Cup run over for another year.

Captain, Paul Clayton, scorer of one of Boro's goal

One ray of light was the marvellous Romford Raiders, who went to Bristol and pulled off yet another victory, this time 7-2. Matt Turner with 2+1, turning in a MOM performance.

Super Matty Turner

 So to this afternoons game and I was feeling confident. We won 4-2 away to Eintracht Braunschweig II last week, obviously I wasn't there as was celebrating my first wedding anniversary on the Baltic coast. 

We were above Göttingen in the league, so a point at least was in the bag. Oh, how wrong could I be?

From start to finish, the Bückeburg team were abysmal. I wrote a couple of blogs ago about not having the time to dwell on the ball too long, and the accurary of passing. Today showed that I am in the Pep Guardiola school of managerial thinking. There was no idea. No passion. Second balls were not won, or even contested for the most part. Marking, particulary at the back was non-existant. The only player to come out of the game with any credit was Tim Engler in goal, as there was nothing he could do, being woefully exposed on each occasion. 

We went into the break at 0-0, Göttingen being reduced to 10 men after an elbow in our area. But we showed we had the spine of a jellyfish, with an inept display against a Göttingen team that were in truth, nothing special.

VfL Bückeburg v Göttingen. In other words: Spineless

I am not going to comment on the second half. RSV stormed into a 0-3 lead, and we got two late goals, one a scrambled effort from "Bubi" Bremer, the other a penalty from skipper Nico Werner, but it was too little too late, and if I am honest, the two goals were not deserved.

The Göttingen support was terrific. Their merry band of souls, complete with flags, banners and a fantastic array of songs, drunk and sung their team to victory. Although I thought I had ended up at a Cure concert, they were all dressed in black.

Göttingen fans?

 If I am at the Göttingen game, I shall probably stand with the Cider Boyz (the link escapes me what Göttingen has to do with cider, unless they have some tenous link with Yeovil Town or The Wurzels). Anyone with a "Hate Fascism" flag is alright in my book. The right way to support a club, what did Bückeburg have in return? The usual bloke who looks like he got lost on the way to Led Zepellin concert, blowing some sort of horn, and the man with the flag, which can't even be hung up straight! 

Göttingen fans

Good songs. Heard Hey Jude, some techno pap, and even at one stage the East German anthem, I am assuming with different lyrics. Good couple of songs in English too, although they need to work on the pronunctiation of "Team", in "We all follow a yellow football team".

 After the final whistle I wanted to do a "Sitton" and steam into the dressing room ranting how "I wanna be out there", etc...

So disapointing!