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What do you buy a headless drawf?

Last updated : 12 February 2009 By Dad of Dave the Shrimper
TRANMERE ROVERS 1-1 SOUTHEND UNITED


Friday 25th March 1994 Division 1


Mates are important, especially for those "can't get to yourself" away games. Our man in Suffolk came to the rescue again. He drove from Suffolk picked us both up in Leicester, but then we got caught in traffic jams on the way up to Merseyside, and we were struggling to get there. It didn't help being a 7.15 Kick off, we got there fifteen minutes after kick off, grabbed a burger, and found we were already 0-1 down. We battled away, and managed to get a late equaliser, 1-1 final result.


We then took the luxury of waiting ten minutes to let the traffic die down a bit before making our way home. Birkenhead to Suffolk via Leicester. I can only reiterate the comments I made about my friend before, what a trip for him driving all that way with only a two hour break for the match


TRANMERE ROVERS 1-0 SOUTHEND UNITED


Saturday 26th April 2008 League One


A 7.30 start and Shrimpers on Line were ferrying 87 shrimpers to Tranmere on two coaches Coach Tilson and Coach Brush. We made our way to an arranged Service station stop where both SOL coaches met up with the three Trust coaches.

As has become a tradition many fans had gone in Fancy Dress Costumes. It same strange that just arriving at the Service station people found it necessary to get dressed up just to parade themselves, so a selection of nuns (male and female), Teletubbies, Supermen etc paraded around to the amusement of other customers. The day was to be an end of season celebration and the coach organisers got us in the mood with free drinks, food and sweets on the journey, they really looked after us.


We didn't arrive at the ground until gone two but I had time to nip into the away pub and have a drink with the seven Dwarfs (and my son). The dwarfs were headless (and legless by the sound of it - ed!), well you can't drink with a huge head on can you? We had a big turnout of 760 fans and the atmosphere was excellent, unfortunately the game wasn't.


All we needed to keep the dream of automatic promotion alive was for us to win and Carlisle lose or draw. We heard at half time that Carlisle were losing at Millwall, if we could just up a gear and win the dream would be alive for the last game of the season. Of course at this point you wake up and realise it is a dream, despite Carlisle losing three nil, we gave away a soft goal and lost our 13 match unbeaten run.


We now knew we would finish either 5th or 6th, but few believed automatic promotion was a possibility anyway, so the mood on the way home was still jovial, we had the play offs to look forward to. The party spirit continued all the way back till we arrived back at Southend after 10 o'clock.