A gorgeous day again, clear blue sky, tons of solar energy and temperature of 46\u00b0C in the verandah. Obviously, a nice warm shower is called for, even if it does consist of a bucket of hot water out of the home-made immersion heater and a jug to pour it on.<\/p>\n
Now I’m nice and clean, with nice clean clothes and I’m even going to have new clean bedding tonight. Ohhh luxury!<\/p>\n
What I might even do tomorrow, if the weather keeps up, is to do another load of washing. And then maybe even a third sometime this week too. If I can clear all of the backlog I shall really be in my element.<\/p>\n
Apart from that, I’ve not done much today. I should have gone to Montfermy to see Pionsat’s 2nd XI play but after they let me down last week and I drove all that way and back for nothing, I wasn’t feeling like having another long wasted journey.<\/p>\n
Not only that, today’s football match in the Welsh Premier League between my team, Bangor City, and Connah’s Quay Nomads was being streamed live on the internet. So I wasn’t going to miss out on my weekend’s helping of footy.<\/p>\n
Mind you, I don’t know why I bothered. Today was the first time that I’ve seen 90 minutes of a Bangor City match this season, and it’s clear to see why they are struggling near the foot of the table. They were totally disinterested, lacking motivation, and playing as if they were out for a Sunday afternoon stroll. I don’t think that I’ve ever seen two such ineffective forwards in my life. They seemed to be totally out of the game and didn’t put the Connah’s Quay defence under any pressure at all.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, Connah’s Quay have recently signed veteran old warhorse Cortez Belle and they played him up front today. He was an absolute nightmare for the Bangor defence. He was up there all of the time, putting the defence under continual pressure, and that was what made the difference. <\/p>\n
But if Bangor City do survive this season, then next season is going to see some very thin pickings indeed if the team can’t find any better motivation than this. You don’t need to be particularly skilful to sow all kinds of seeds of panic in an opposition defence as long as you have the right kind of drive, determination and aggression, as Cortez Belle proved today. Bangor City needs to find that, and find it pretty quickly too. <\/p>\n
