The assault on the remaining Munros continues


The quest to visit every Scottish league football  ground is now completed. 

Ok, back in 1994, I visited Pittodrie to see Duncan Shearer and Eion Jess despatch Raith Rovers 4-1 thus completing the 38. I also bought Seefeel's delightful Quique album that day. 

But in the intervening years, Berwick, The Shire, Cowdenbeath, Albion Rovers, Gretna, Clydebank, Meadowbank Thistle and Brechin City have all exited and these days we have Inverness, Ross County, Elgin, Cove, Kelty, Bonnyrigg, Annan, Livingston and my final call on this lap Peterheid. 

Largely driven by my lads love of the beautiful game, its been great to traipse about Scotland with the teenagers and explore this wonderful and varied nation of ours. In all its forms.

With Tom just needing Ayr and Alex also needing Ayr, Partick and Kilmarnock,  and with Tom in his final year of school, its probably fitting that we complete the quest before them lads go off on adventures without me. To be honest, its great we still hang out as we do, but ... them days is numbered.

Bus to town ,train to Dunblane where the Braco Branch co founder Ian picked us up. A9, A90 and the A923 plus 3 hours time difference and we're in bright and breezy Peterheid. 

The ref was awful,  we were lucky to be only the one goal down after 15 mins, but somehow we nicked an equaliser and got a foothold in the game.  Without ever looking under any pressure, we still changed ends 2-1 down. 

Callum Crane struck early in the second half with a raking angled shot across the keeper and we had chances to take the lead. Inevitably we couldn't force a third and Peterheid-as befitting of a team sitting close to top spot- exerted pressure which eventually resulted in their winner and in truth they looked more like adding the 6th goal of the game than we did.

A decent watch, 1 win in 11, but looked better than we have in a while.  Ryan Shanley's addition to the team may prompt an upturn in the foreseeable future.

Drive home, train to Edinburgh, pizza at Her's, home to book Coventry v QPR and WBA v Blackburn in the February half term. Gotta start ticking off the 92, I suppose.

Oh and there's the other half of the Lowland League, and the majority of the Highland Lesgue....there's mileage in this ground hopping yet 

***the start of lap 2 is here. Blip marketing folks - here's why folk need to Blip, so you can log this kinda stuff and look back fondly (as much as you can at a 4-0 home defeat) and reminisce ***