Post by hatter_in_macc on Aug 3, 2014 8:37:22 GMT
This has already appeared in the Match Thread from yesterday. Posting it on here, though, so as to keep the CHAMP Library complete...!
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Hatter in Macc writes:
Richard Landon didn’t exactly endear himself to the County faithful on his first appearance in SK3 nearly twenty years ago. Mind you, he was a Plymouth Argyle player that afternoon, and scored two of the Pilgrims’ four goals to help condemn us to a 2-4 reverse!
His unstinting and dedicated service at EP for much of the time since then has more than made up for that, of course. And his rapport with the fans is genuinely top notch. This was no better illustrated for me, and a few other long-distance travelling waifs and strays, than on a dank and depressing Tuesday night in November 2009, when, on the back of five consecutive League One defeats, we made the seemingly never-ending schlep down to Colchester’s new Weston Homes Community Stadium. The supporters’ coach on which I was booked somehow got lost en route, and then, once at Colchester, temporarily stuck in the old Roman town’s narrow streets - so, suffice to say, I was not a happy traveller by the time we eventually stuttered along to our hosts’ out-of-town, built-of-Meccano ground.
But cometh the hour, cometh the Kit Man. For what had until then been a pretty rotten day was made a lot more heart-warming by ‘Lando’, who, hovering by the away-turnstiles, took it upon himself to save several of us some cash by handing out complimentary match tickets. Not only that, but he was at great pains to express his sincere appreciation for our having travelled so far to watch the struggling team in midweek.
Don’t you just love a happy ending? Well, truth be told, there wasn’t one on the pitch. County conceded two inside the first fifteen minutes, and never had a sniff of the points thereafter. I subsequently arrived home at stupid o’clock the next morning, to find wild Macclesfield rabbits in the darkness furiously eating all of the winter veg that my garden was trying to grow.
All part and parcel of being a County fan, though (apart from the rabbits). And, thanks to the generosity of ‘Lando’, at least the suffering had not come at much of a price!
Here’s to you, Richard Landon. Enjoy the game - and your special day.
Animo et Fide.
www.countyheaven.freeforums.net
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Hatter in Macc writes:
Richard Landon didn’t exactly endear himself to the County faithful on his first appearance in SK3 nearly twenty years ago. Mind you, he was a Plymouth Argyle player that afternoon, and scored two of the Pilgrims’ four goals to help condemn us to a 2-4 reverse!
His unstinting and dedicated service at EP for much of the time since then has more than made up for that, of course. And his rapport with the fans is genuinely top notch. This was no better illustrated for me, and a few other long-distance travelling waifs and strays, than on a dank and depressing Tuesday night in November 2009, when, on the back of five consecutive League One defeats, we made the seemingly never-ending schlep down to Colchester’s new Weston Homes Community Stadium. The supporters’ coach on which I was booked somehow got lost en route, and then, once at Colchester, temporarily stuck in the old Roman town’s narrow streets - so, suffice to say, I was not a happy traveller by the time we eventually stuttered along to our hosts’ out-of-town, built-of-Meccano ground.
But cometh the hour, cometh the Kit Man. For what had until then been a pretty rotten day was made a lot more heart-warming by ‘Lando’, who, hovering by the away-turnstiles, took it upon himself to save several of us some cash by handing out complimentary match tickets. Not only that, but he was at great pains to express his sincere appreciation for our having travelled so far to watch the struggling team in midweek.
Don’t you just love a happy ending? Well, truth be told, there wasn’t one on the pitch. County conceded two inside the first fifteen minutes, and never had a sniff of the points thereafter. I subsequently arrived home at stupid o’clock the next morning, to find wild Macclesfield rabbits in the darkness furiously eating all of the winter veg that my garden was trying to grow.
All part and parcel of being a County fan, though (apart from the rabbits). And, thanks to the generosity of ‘Lando’, at least the suffering had not come at much of a price!
Here’s to you, Richard Landon. Enjoy the game - and your special day.
Animo et Fide.
www.countyheaven.freeforums.net
