Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Two in a row for Caley

These are tough days for the fans of my beloved Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club. The season in Scotland has started dismally for Caley Thistle (which we call them so we don't have to say that whole long thing very often), with 6 losses in the first 6 games, which left us, before this weekend, one point below Gretna, the newest top-level pro side in Scotland. But things are looking up. We won our first league match of the season on Saturday, defeating Hearts, which is sort of like two wins for me, since I despise Hearts so much. More on that some other time, but sufficed to say, they are all that is wrong in the world. Anyway, today, more good news from the Caley front, as we beat none other than Gretna in the league cup, 3-0. Finally, something to convince the 6,000 or so that can fit into Inverness' Caledonian Stadium to actually come out in the rain and watch some football. Even if we do still sit in last place in the league, we are through to the quarterfinals of the league cup, which at least five of the eleven other SPL teams are not. We have a bad history in cup competitions of blowing it at exactly this point, but it feels good to be two matches away from a cup final.

And for all the football fans that have to yell and scream in their apartments because they can't live close to the teams they love, here's me yelling and screaming in mine:

5 comments:

Todd Wheeler said...

Go Caley!

How do they line up against Falkirk?

Anonymous said...

Normally, I'd say they line up quite well. But we've been completely riding our new player/manager Craig Brewster lately, and have been pretty useless when he hasn't played. Sure enough, with the shoulder bug he picked up against Gretna, he's not playing, so that's that. I'm hoping for a draw, maybe 1-1.

Todd Wheeler said...

Player/Manager! That's awesome. Or is it aces? Or is that too Brit? ;-)

Anonymous said...

No, what's truly awesome is that the man is 41. He's currently the second -leading scorer in the SPL and he's 41 and still built like an Olympian. We were very lucky to get him from Aberdeen - the man ain't real.

Anonymous said...

I've never been so happy to be wrong. Caley Thistle 4-2 Falkirk. Two from Dennis Wyness. SWEET. Three in a row and a trip to struggling Killie on the platter. Happy days, finally, in Inverness.