Looking forward to this one. I like midweek games, me, it sort of breaks the week up in a mid week break sort of way, until Saturday when we are home again, which is nice.
Games between us and our South Yorkshire cousins are seldom memorable, of course this one, hopefully might be. My best memory of a Donny game was in the FA Cup, (could be wrong there) at Boothferry Park when wee Billy Bremner was their manager. Always felt a bit sorry for the little Scot because he reached the peak of his carear when he joined us and fully expected to move up to manager when the opportunity arose, it did, but it passed him by and he had to make do with Donny Rovers instead, a real shame and obviously a big disappointment for the boy, that and spending most of his carear at thingy united.
But his brave troops were up for it that day in their cup final against the Tigers at a not quite packed Boothferry Park. I bet not many of those rubbishing City for losing at Carrot Crunching Road yesterday were there to witness it?
Sadly, for them, Bremners boys took a real pasting that afternoon, playing City off the pitch for 89 mins, until, I believe it was the elusive Nick Deacy who broke away and broke their little South Yorkshire hearts with a late winner in our only attack. Sheer joy for the three or four hundred of us trying to look as though we were packed together in the Kempton. Be nice to see Grant McCanns cheery face again too on Tuesday. Hurry folks I'm hearing tickets are in great demand and as many as 800 have already been snapped up. Don't you just love the cup? UTT.
