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With a tight schedule we have been hard pushed to get to any game at the moment, so when we saw that the Dumbarton vs Stenhousemuir game had been rescheduled for a Tuesday night we went out our ways to make sure we got to it.
With a full squad of the Bovril team, and the addition of Alistair’s younger cousin Cameron, a die hard Sons fans, we ventured down to the Strathclyde Homes Stadium under Dumbarton Rock. For a mid table 3rd Division match we were not expecting anything pretty, or even for a big turnout, but the Dumbarton fans came out in their numbers with a crowd of around 500.
On the way to the stadium, Jamie in his usual fashion was firing down the motorway and had initiated the flux capacitor and when we were half way back to 1984, we were shocked to see him commenting on the speed of another driver on the other side of the carriage way doing about 90mph. The sound was made worse by the fact he was leaning out his open window asking if we could hear the high pitched sound of his brake pads rubbing against the wheel!
We arrived at the stadium with a few minutes to spare and were warmly greeted by what looked like a resident flea market just inside the turnstile. We quickly made for a seat in the new stadium to enjoy the match from, which turned out to be amongst the hardcore Sons supporters. The game itself wasn’t the worst game we had ever seen with Dumbarton knocking the ball around, but failing to do anything in the final third. This was probably due to the fact their striker looked like he had no idea where the goal was or even how to a kick a ball. The highlight was the supporters heckling the players constantly for the 90 minutes, which on a cold Tuesday night was brilliant! Stenhousemuir took the lead before the break in what was a rare venture up the pitch, and was partly thanks to some poor goalkeeping. This lead to chants of “There’s no soap in Steny!” which was quite amusing.
In the second half Dumbarton pressed for the equaliser and got it when Scott McCulloch headed past his own keeper, with a finish any striker would be proud of!
So the game ended 1-1, and Cameron being a bit disappointed that his team didn’t pick up the full 3 points based on their first half performance.
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Quality of Seat: 3/5 Quality of Banter: 5/5 Quality of Ground: 3/5 Quality of Pie: 3/5 (Cameron seemed to enjoy it) Overall: 3/5 |
