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Author: Michael James
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Week 220 – June 1st – Greenwich and O2 – Part 3
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Week 220 – June 1st – Greenwich and O2 – Part 2
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Week 220 – June 1st – Greenwich and O2 – Part 1
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Week 220 – June 1st – Claire Covid19 vaccine jab
Claire had booked the spring Covid19 vaccine jab via the NHS website and I took her around to the chemist for it.
After about 5 minutes, she came back and said she was refused the jab, because they didn’t class diabetic type 1 as an illness for this jab.
I don’t get, you can book it, but they won’t give it to her. She’s only trying to protect herself. I hope nothing happens to her.
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Week 220 – May 28th – IF
Claire was off today, so we had a breakfast up at Ruxley which was very enjoyable and then drove to Bluewater to see the film IF.
I have to say it was a very enjoyable film (which I wasn’t expecting it to be) and shows the talent of John Krasinski, because as well as staring in this film he was the director too.
Some very clever scenes and acting. Fully recommended.
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Week 220 – May 27th – South East Stars v Western Storm Part 2
Former Kent and England player James Tredwell umpiring. 
England international Tash Farrant steaming in. Whilst we were watching, we were also keeping an eye on the sky, as the clouds were getting darker.
We started to move towards our car and just as we reached the car, the rain fell down. We waited a few minutes and saw see the dark clouds still in the distance and decided to leave.
Claire’s curse struck again at Beckenham and there was no more play, with Western Storm 38 for 3 from 6 overs.
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Week 220 – May 27th – South East Stars v Western Storm Part 1
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Week 219 – May 26th – Leeds United v Southampton
The curse struck again!! Why do we fail at the last hurdle?
Southampton 1 – Leeds United 0 – HT 1-0
A. Armstrong, (24′)
Assist
W. Smallbone (24′)
Saints’ 11-year spell in the top flight came to an end after a wretched campaign last time out but, despite finishing one place and three points behind Leeds in fourth, it is they who join Leicester and Ipswich in going up.
Adam Armstrong scored the decisive goal with a clinical finish after being put clear by Will Smallbone.
Leeds substitute Dan James clattered a bouncing ball against the crossbar late on as they pushed for an equaliser but Russell Martin’s men saw out almost 12 minutes of time added on.
Defeat for Leeds consigned them to another season in the Championship and meant they have now lost their past three finals at Wembley without scoring and been unsuccessful in all six of their play-off campaigns. What is it with finals and Leeds? We won all 4 matches against the two sides who went up, but had a bad record against Southampton. The defeat against QPR in the run in was a major blow.
Saints’ promotion means that all three play-off finals this year were won by the team who had finished lower in the league table, with the team who had finished higher failing to score in all three.
German Farke said after the play-off win over his former side Norwich he would not have returned to England to take over any other Championship club than Leeds, having twice won the division with the Canaries.
He, like the thousands of Leeds fans at Wembley, will be left with recriminations from a day where his side didn’t get going until it was basically too late.
The Whites became the first second-tier side to accumulate 90 points and not go up automatically since Sunderland in 1997-98, with the Black Cats also beaten in that season’s play-off final.
Questions will now linger over the futures of Championship player of the season Summerville, teenage star Archie Gray and French forward Georginio Rutter.
With the backing of the 49ers Enterprises investment group, they should be well positioned to challenge again in 2024-25 but the nature of this defeat will sting.
This is my concern, we need to keep hold of the players mentioned above, and otherwise we will struggle to get back. We need a forward who can score 20 goals a season and a couple of other players to push for the automatic promotion spots.
Marching On Together.
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Week 219 – May 26th – cricinfo comment
This afternoon with the weather being so dreadful, we were indoors and I manged to get a comment on the cricinfo commentary of England v Pakistan women’s international.
I managed to get another comment on to the cricinfo commentary during the England v Pakistan women 2nd ODI.
