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WREXHAM 0-0 BURY

11^TH MARCH 2006

            On the 10^th March 1983, the second of the Walshaw Whites trio was born; he was named Glenn Robert Evans. Twenty-three years later Mark and Stu decided to take the birthday boy for a pint or ten.  Stu suffering with a foot injury picked up in training was not to feature in the fans match with Crewe. Mark however was selected but withdrew at the last minute as he has an ongoing knee problem caused when he was knocked down, played up in training.

            Luckily for a hung-over Mark and Stu, we were playing Wrexham at the Racecourse and therefore didn’t have to get up early. Glenn however was on the early and had to get up at 06:00. With Glenn and Stu having already been to the Racecourse it meant Mark could claw one ground back, making it his 38^th ground. We agreed to take Fiona aka Supershakers1 with us (she is a tag along white) and she arrived at Marks house at 11:15 and kindly woke Mark up with “get up you lazy sod”. 11:30 Mark decided to get out  his pit and eat his lovely breakfast, while Fiona changed his bedding, made his bed and tidied his room.  Diane (Marks mum) kindly made us all some sandwiches and supplied Mark with enough food and munchies to last us to the middle of next week.

            We left Walshaw at 12:30 with a stop off at Tesco so Stu could get some money. Mark politely hinted he needed petrol but Stu didn’t take notice. Going off Malcolm’s directions, which we received while in a drunken state, we set off for Wales. The journey was straight forward and after singing along to Robbie Williams Greatest Hits we arrived at Wrexham. We arrived there at 13:50 and met up with Bez. We decided to have a quick drink before going in and went to the pub next to the ground. It was the world’s busiest pub as you couldn’t swing a dead flee, nevermind a cat.  Stu, Mark and Fiona decided against the drink and decided to go into the ground and put up the flags.

            The game was a boring affair and same old, same old, defended well and just couldn’t score.  After the game, pleased with a point and but gutted we didn’t get the three points, we took down the flags and piled back into Stu’s car. On the way back Stu, asked Glenn if there was a service station on the motorway we were on because he was really low on petrol……Tesco springs to mind but hey. We managed to fill up and on the way back had a chat about the game and rocked along to Meatloaf.  We decided to go to a Chinese in Radcliffe which I wouldn’t recommend and dropped Fiona off at some Indian take-away near her house, picked up Grandpa Evans and dropped him off at the local. We had tea at the Evans household. Stu shot off to play poker but Mark and Glenn decided to stay behind and finish a good day off in style. By a trip down memory lane by watching 100 best children’s t.v programmes ever. Overall a good day. See you see in Grimsby.