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My daughters up from Plymouth so will be attending as is usually her want when she visits. She’s also got her Man U supporting partner in tow. Add to that we are also taking my nephew and his dad to the game, both florist fans there is the potential for some serious pi55 taking at my expense later as we have our annual family Xmas party at ours afterwards as well.

Based on this I’m fully expecting to get beat and for us to be bottom of the pile by 5pm.

Dreadful game, “all Notts aren’t we” ringing out from the Kop and Macc scoring a 95th minute winner for 1-0. Cue Sol Campbell giving it limbs in front of the Pavis and pyro dogs being deployed to contain the rioting 4,567 Notts fans still in their seats.

Merry Christmas one and all.
So this went well. So well in fact it I’ve spent the best part of 48 hours avoiding social media, this forum, local news and anything else that might pi55 me off even more than I have been over the last couple of days.

I did my best to warn my accompanied guests as we drove to the ground that Notts were actually really very bad. “I can’t believe that” one said. “You were in the play offs last year, how can you be that bad now?”

I had to really think hard about how I explain to them just how we ended up where we currently find ourselves and had to concede I could not give any kind of answer that provided a modicum of clarity on the issue.

During the game things didn’t get any easier, my florist supporting brother in law and nephew, who were somewhat confused by my lack of excitement regarding David Vaughan’s inclusion in the starting line up, took only a few minutes to see the light. “why is he playing left wing?” they uttered in complete disbelief.

My daughters partner, a Man U fan was doing his best to keep my spirits up and even insisted on wearing one of my Notts scarves as a sign of solidarity , although I think it was more a case of him trying to stay in my good books, needless to say it didn’t last long. “They like the long ball don’t they” he exclaimed followed by, “I can understand why you sit so high up in the stand, it saves you getting neck ache!”

The rhetoric continued throughout the game until eventually they were rendered quite literally speechless. The drive home was somewhat muted and although there was an element of ribbing aimed in my general direction there was a definite tone of pity in their voices having seen first hand the pile of absolute sheite us Notts fans have been subjecting ourselves to.

“You were definitely better second half”, “that should give you something to be optimistic about for the rest of the season”, “there’s no way you will go down, trust me”.

Unfortunately having spent the last 30 mins catching up with all the drama on this board I have to concur with the thoughts of most, there’s not a great deal to be optimist about, January will define the future of our club and I do fear our number may just be up.

That said I’ll be there tomorrow, as I know many of you will be, it’s what we do, in fact it’s a bit like being married, only worse as divorce really isn’t an option.

#coyp