Jute

Was a free kick for Montrose near the end of the game. Montrose keeper had come up for it and dived just as I took picture.

Edinburgh City 1-0 Montrose in league 1. Original game was abandoned due to high winds and Montrose were probably hoping for high winds to return to get this abandoned as well as they played poorly tonight and never really troubled City who played well and deserved their win. City Ultras were not allowed into ground tonight due to noise complaints so instead moved to the waste ground closer to the houses who complained.

Last nights Hutchison Vale v Dunbar United programme.

Hutchinson Vale 2-3 Dunbar United. 3rd against 6th in the East Scotland Premier League. This was plan C tonight after games at Burntisland and Civil Service were called off. End to end game with both teams trying to play football despite the miserable weather. Not sure Dunbar’s second was not offside but was a really tight call. First time sitting in new stand at Ainslie Park and view was better than I expected with floodlight not blocking view as much as I thought it would.

Tonight’s East of Scotland Cup Final programme. Good value at £2.

Edinburgh City 0-1 University of Stirling East of Scotland Cup Final. Entertaining game played in front of decent crowd on a horrible night weather wise. Surprised there was only one goal in it as both keepers made a number good saves and both sides missed a couple of sitters each.

Programmes from last 7 days. First is programme from Musselburgh Athletic v Jeanfield Swifts, second is Scotland v Northern Ireland game on Tuesday with a great front cover and third is yesterdays Aberdeen v Ross County programme. I’m

Train booked for that alone.

Musselburgh Ath 1-0 Jeanfield Swifts. 2nd v 3rd in East of Scotland Premier league. First half was end to end with both teams creating decent chances. Musselburgh goal was a bit of a scrambled effort. Second half was not as good as game got a bit scrappy with a few fouls. Wind picking up probably didn’t help the standard of football. Win moves Musselburgh to 9 points behind leaders Broxburn with a game in hand.

Spartans 2-6 Dumbarton. 3rd v 4th in league 2. Thumping win for Dumbarton against a Spartans side who played well below their usual standards. Three great free kicks in the game two for Dumbarton and 1 for Spartans. Spartans must be sick of the sight of me as they have lost every one of their league games I have attended. Spartans have now added an electronic score board .

Same team as Saturday for Dons.

Bit in bold is pretty much what last two consultant lead reviews the company I work for have opened with.

Edinburgh Uni 0-2 Cowdenbeath. Far closer game than I was expecting. Both teams playing some nice football at times in a really entertaining game. Uni did not look like a team that have only won once all season. Coffee and Walnut cake was amazing.

5 of us were going to original game only one is now. Rest have got their tickets refunded.

Edinburgh City 0-2 Cove. Initial plan for today was to head to Dunbar but weather put pay to that so instead ended up being lazy and just heading to Meadowbank to watch Edinburgh City v Cove. Game of two halves with Cove dominating the first half scoring a good goal then missing a number of other chances to add to their lead. City keeper made a couple of good saves as well. Second half was dominated by City but they just could not score and on one of their few attacks in the second half Cove did.

FTFY

True but we cannot continue with Warnock. He is utterly clueless and sucked all the confidence from the squad.

Of Scottish grounds I have seen Aberdeen play in only one I have not see us win in is Darvel. Not seen us play at all at Bonnyrigg, Spartans, Dumbarton (new ground), Edinburgh City, Kelty Hearts, Cove (new ground) and Airdrie (new ground) of current league teams.

BBC have rights to show live NBA until end of the season. https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2024/bbc-sport-to-air-live-nba-games

Saturday’s Edinburgh City v Queen of the South programme. One of best programmes in the league in my opinion.

Edinburgh City 1-1 Queen of the South in league 1. Original choice being called off meant it was quick dash to Meadowbank to watch this. Was not a great game and draw was probably right result. City’s keeper getting the equaliser in injury time.

Leith Ath 3-1 Blackburn United East of Scotland 1st Division. Friday night under the lights at Meadowbank. Bit of an ill tempered game that saw both teams reduced to 10 men. Leith’s keeper was first to be sent off for aiming a headbutt at Blackburn forward just before half time with score at 1-1. Blackburn were probably better team prior to the red card but once they went down to 10 Leith started to play some nice football and deserved to take the lead. With the tackles that were going in and the yellow cards being shown it was inevitable that another player would be sent off and Blackburn were eventually reduced to 10 just before full time.