And aren’t the fans happy? It’s not every day – or every match – that they manage to win a game and as I’ve said, it’s the first time that I’ve seen it, so good luck to them all. The final score was 2-0 and they could easily have had two or three more than that.
It took me hours to go to sleep last night after my evening out with Alison and , more probably, the coffee that I had had ans some silly time of the evening, but when I did go to sleep I was away. Miles away until the alarm clock went off without any interruption at all.
And I’d been on my travels too, although I’ve absolutely no idea where I’d been. All idea that I might have had disappeared completely as soon as I awoke.
After breakfast I had a little doze for an hour or so. I wasn’t asleep but just relaxing quietly, and then I attacked my website again. We had an interruption though because with it being Saturday, I headed off on foot to the Delhaize in the town for the shopping. I’m running out of sandwich stuff. The grapes were good value too, and the 650 grams that I bought didn’t last very long at all.
After I’d eaten my butty, I spent the afternoon in my room doing three things. Firstly, I was talking on the laptop to Liz and another friend of mine for quite a while.Secondly, I must admit that I did close my eyes for an hour or so and this time it was … errr … rather more than just relaxing quietly.
As for the third thing though, I’ve finished off what I started yetserday. Now, one page of my 2012 journey between Baie Comeau and Gofbout has now been expanded to four pages by the inclusion of whatever it was that I was up to when I was around there the other week. And now we have this page, this page, this page and this page.
I don’t know where my motivation has come from these last couple of days.
All of that took me quite nicely up to leaving time – I hit the road for the Stadion Den Dreef. Surprisingly, most of the fritkots on the way are closed on a Saturday night although I did eventually track one down. And with a bag of chips I carried on down to the ground.
The “crowd”, said he using the term rather loosely, was rather disappointing. There can’t have been 3,000 people in the ground, although the popular end behind the goals was packed and they certainly made enough noise.
And there was something going on in the way of sponsorship there too. Everyone was handed a flag (although I declined) and the sponsors had people throwing bags of sweets into the ground. I didn’t know about this until I was hit in the face by a flying bag of sweets.
2-0, I said the score was, and I also said that it could have been more. The Cercle Brugge goalkeeper made two magnificent reflex saves and OH Leuven had a stone-wall penalty appeal turned down. In fact, there were a couple of bizarre refereeing decisions tonight.
But one refereeing decision was excellent. Although I would have awarded a foul against OH Leuven earlier in the move, a OH Leuven player was badly tackled but the referee waved for the advantage as the ball broke to another OH Leuven forward who raced off down the field and scored a magnificent solo goal, right on the stroke of half-time.
That was the second goal – the first one was another breakaway down the field with a one-on-one with the Cercle Brugge goalkeeper.
Unfortunately, most of the action was down at the other end to where I was standing – especially after OH Leuven had a defender sent off after 70 minutes, after which Cercle Brugge came more into the game.
After the game, I had a slow walk home in the cold, because winter really is drawing in now. And now, I’m rather too wound up to sleep.
It’s going to be one of “those” nights again tonight.
