What a day!

For me it didn’t start very well as the traffic into Southampton was just awful. Every road had some roadworks going on on it, every turn into a new road saw another blockage, another event that hindered the planned time of arrival.

But arrive I did and I think there was only a handful of other Stokies there when I arrived but no sooner was I there than many more started to arrive, ice cream and beer being the order of the day!

On entering the stadium the very friendly staff checked ticket and then to the bar for a beer. I then realized I was on tablets and the beer was not doing me any good, so I gave it away after about 4 mouthfuls.

Then I took my seat and the gam began and I have to say it was good to so Stoke City dominating a game in the way they did pretty much all the way through the game and to prove that point Stoke went ahead with a goal scored by Baker just after the 50th minute, so good, the celebrations were so good. The dominance continued that is until the sending off of Mubama (I still don’t know why? Diving everyone thought?)

No sooner than he was off Stoke however Stoke were 0-2 ahead, goal from Thomas what a belter.

After that I thought Southampton had a lot of the game, but they couldn’t put their extra man to make an advantage and after whet seemed to be an hours extra time, the ref blew his whistle and we won, such a wonderful feeling.