World Cup Season
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- Written by Richard Collins
It’s world cup season, in the wrong season. Never mind the three week period post-champions league final of warm up games, tournament tree posters being blu-tacked onto bedroom walls, fevered speculation, overpriced FIFA World Cup video games being sold and traded in, highlight reels and Spain managers being sacked, never mind all that. This year players (well, those who play in Europe) barely just finished their post-game showers before jetplaning for the middle east.
Time for the latest in our series of football away days, and on this occasion the new experience involved a short trip to South Wales and some League Two football at Rodney Parade. The game we chose was a clash with the, at the time, bottom of the table Rochdale AFC, whilst Newport County were hovering around the lower mid-table region. With a lot riding on the game, our own stakes were raised when the date of the fixture ended up clashing with another RMT strike across the train networks (solidarity brothers!), but thankfully we suffered little inconvenience when grabbing a coach instead.