Match Of The Day

On Friday I am taking Zoe to see her first proffessional football match: Leicester versus Crystal Palace. It will be my 12th match.

SOUTHAMPTON 2 (Hall, Le Tissier) ASTON VILLA 1 (Houghton)
Season: 1994/1995 (Premiership)
Venue: The Dell
***** Le Tiss scoring a 30 yd free kick in the last minute in front of the goal we were sitting behind - cant get much better than that.

CRYSTAL PALACE 0 ARSENAL 3 (Kiwomya 2, Merson)
Season: 1994/1995 (Premiership)
Venue: Selhurst Park
*** First time to see Palace and they were easily beaten. Ian Wright was injured too.

ENGLAND WOMEN 0 NIGERIA WOMEN 3 (Nwadike, Nkwocha 2)
Season: Summer 2004 (Friendly)
Venue: The Madejski Stadium
* Strongest memory was being critisised by a little girl for having an out of date England shirt on.

LEICESTER CITY 0 SUNDERLAND 1 (Caldwell)
Season: 2004/2005 (Championship)
Venue: The Walkers Stadium
** A Fat Kevin Pressman let in a sloppy goal. Both sides were pretty poor.

CRAWLEY TOWN 1 (Burton) STEVENAGE BOROUGH 2 (Elding, Goodliffe)
Season: 2004/2005 (Conference)
Venue: Broadfield Stadium
*** Crawley pulled a goal back and then had a perfectly good goal disallowed. gnrr.

COVENTRY CITY 2 (McSheffrey, Adebola)
NORWICH CITY 2 (Davenport, Flemming)
Season: 2005/2006 (Championship)
Venue: The Ricoh Arena
**** 2 goals in 10 minutes for the home side but had to defend for 80 minutes.

COVENTRY CITY 1 (Jorgensen) MILLWALL 0
Season: 2005/2006 (Championship)
Venue: The Ricoh Arena
** First sending off, first referee substitution.

ASTON VILLA 0 MANCHESTER UNITED 2 (Van Nistelrooy, Rooney)
Season: 2005/2006 (Premiership)
Venue: Villa Park
** Too easy for Man Utd. Saw Rooney score though.

ASTON VILLA 0 ARSENAL 0
Season: 2005/2006 (Premiership)
Venue: Villa Park
*** Pretty close match and end to end but no goals.

ASTON VILLA 0 FULHAM 0
Season: 2005/2006 (Premiership)
Venue: Villa Park
** Both teams were pretty poor.

COVENTRY CITY 0 PRESTON NORTH END 1 (Whaley)
Season: 2005/2006 (Championship)
Venue: The Ricoh Arena
** Preston were just too good on the day.