Saturday September 24th

Happy birthday brother! Just days after my mum had her birthday it is now my brother's.

So that is the pleasantries over. Today was a kind of special day for Plymouth Argyle after the ongoing farce or saga of going into administration and finding the club worse off than ever with promises of money and takeovers that never actually materialised and selling the majority of players and then in recent days sacking the manager due to poor results! The day started with the girls and I meeting their brother and heading over to Home Park to attend a meeting that included a Q&A session with the man we are all pinning our hopes on following the empty shambles of a bid by Bishop International. James Brent has now taken up the challenge (although he did before but the twat of an administrator chose to prefer the Bishop International bid). After the very impressive meeting and the members of the press taking quite a few photos of the children and I, we then had a picnic in the park. 

Then it was time to go to the match. We got there very early but it was not long before the thousands turned up to support Argyle. Yes I said thousands! As part of Fans Reunited there were representatives from almost every club in the country and some even further away. The majority of visitors supporting Argyle were from Brighton and Hove Albion who themselves had gone through a similar situation  a few years ago. 

So following the positive meeting in the morning and the extra support you would think that the team would want to put on a decent display. The fact is that they put on a much better display than even I expected. The whole 90 minutes' atmosphere was electric and the noise from everyone was virtually non-stop. Pretty impressive, especially given the fact that Mr Brent himself was sitting just behind us and at times even stood up to take an ovation and loud cheers! 

On the field the team ran out 2-0 winners against Macclesfield. I cannot remember sitting in the ground and not seeing fans leave 5-10 minutes before the end of the match irrespective of the scoreline however today NOBODY wanted to go home. Mr Brent even stood outside the ground after match and people were going up and asking him questions and the children all went up to him to shake his hand. 

Probably the best game we have attended for quite some time!