I really hope Lowestoft continue to climb the pyramid; although I agree that the ground will need to upgrade and that the possibilities for this are limited at their current ground. My love affair with football started at Crown Meadow. The football gene runs in the female line in my family. My dad was a real trawlerman, so was often away at sea at weekends. I went with my mum, not regularly, but enough to catch the bug. Oh the days of changing ends at half time! Lowestoft has a great history. I lived in Bishop Auckland in Co Durham in the early 70's, another famous non-league club, and Lowestoft was always spoken about in glowing terms. Lowestoft families tend to be blue or yellow, with the yellows far outnumbering the blues. Norwich is the place everyone goes to for shopping etc. They read the EDP not the EADT. I didn't visit Ipswich until I was 16, and that was under sufferance on the back of a lambretta!
Truro City have gone into liquidation and have postponed their match with Dover on Saturday. That will mean they will be expelled from the league. Bloody sad. Their ex owner, who's spurious Company petitioned for bankruptcy, still owns the ground and I'm sure in a short space of time we will see a supermarket on the site and he will have got what he wanted in the first place. So Cornwall won't have a football team above lower Ridgeons, but they will have another effin Tesco to go with all the others. San Marino has a population of 33,000 and they have a bloody international team!
And the irony of all this is that Edgar Davids has joined bottom of league 2 Barnet today, as player/coach! Salt in the wound, although completely coincidental.
Truro City have been given a stay of execution for seven days because a potential buyer has come forward. The Conference board has decided to give this bid a chance. I hope its a bit more than prolonging the agony but I wonder why this benefactor didn't come forward earlier.
