The Blues Fans Podcast and Live Show
Nothing I am about to write will fully do justice to Tuesday night. I know this isn’t the ideal opening line of a blog, but it is the truth. Tuesday night was one of those forever moments that you don’t get very often in life and even less so in when following a sport.
As I sit here at 4pm on Thursday, nearly 48 hours since I entered Wembley knowing the Tilton Talk Team need me to write something, I’m truthfully at a loss.
Whatever we chose to discuss on the show we did it with the usual mix of unique blues fans humour, passion and devotion to the cause. It has been the perfect tonic for blues fans who have watched and listened over the past 11 seasons….(the brainchild of Chris ‘Mrs’ Browne).
For those who have taken an interest in these blogs you will know that in my pre-tournament blog I stated the following:
“We know what we are getting with Southgate, he is a defensive minded coach with a ‘let’s not lose the game’ mentality. He see’s England’s strengths as a counter attacking team as opposed to a team who can play on the front foot. As a Nation we hope that he takes the shackles off and that he lets this young team just go out and express themselves, playing football as if they were that young lad playing on the playground.
Accessiblues have announced their nomination for Charity of the year at the MBCC ( Britain’s Multicultural Business & Community Champion) awards. We have reviewed the past 12 months work by Accessiblues and they have been busy.
How do I even begin to dissect the game on Friday? To be honest I am still in shock with how bad England played! We’re we that bad? We’re Scotland good? Is it a combination of both? 3 days on and I’m still as angry and dis-illusioned today as I was after the final whistle on Friday night.
So we all know the last 18 months have been a challenge for all and throughout Tilton Talk Show gave you a Monday night show to look forward to.
Over 50 guests joined us for all parts of the world. The lockdown brought Neil Kilkenny from Thailand to Steven Caldwell and Big Kevin Francis from Canada. We have has stories galore from coaches stopping at Bookies from Liam Daish to Barry Fry asking all players to join him peeing on the corner flags. We have heard of players leaving presents in other players hotel rooms and of-course how can we forget the pre match rituals, some of which were very wacky :-). Lets also not forget that Nick recruited Lee Bowyer during our Carling Cup Special 🙂
Attending a football match never felt so good but like most of us who follow our team around the country week in week out it is something that we now take for granted. Prior to the pandemic it had got to a stage where I would think ‘Do I really want to go to Derby away again?’ not sure why I’ve singled out Derby which is a great away day every time we go but you understand the sentiment. There was nothing new in what we were doing and the grounds we were attending, my main focus for many years now has been the cup draws and the hope we drew a team whose ground I haven’t yet been, with the sole aim of joining the 92 club following 1 team!
As we enter the 2021/22 season we wanted to continue with our fundraising, infact we already have.
During the season we are going to be supporting multiple groups with fundraising and have set ourselves a target to raise £2500 across the season.
This is a significant memory for me involving my father, as it was to be his last game watching the Blues away from St. Andrews
Since I’d been six years old we had been to many away games and home games, along with my Uncle, Dads brother.
It’s finally here and as much as I would like to play it down, I’m as excited for this tournament as I was for my very first tournament in 2004. Like in 2004 we have a squad that many believe gives us a chance of success but like every time the National team are due to play you are either a glass half empty kind of person or glass half full!