Why do I bother?

• 7 hour round trip to deepest Essex
• Absolutely freezing weather
• Numb hands after filming the game
• Only Magners or Stella to drink
• Only dog burgers and plastic sausages to eat
• Shit ground, no fans
• Terrible performance
• Thurrock 1-0 Bath City

I also had a rather bizarre encounter with a set of Thurrock fans...

Firstly, some old fan approached me and started moaning about how it took him an hour to get out of Bath when he came to Twerton Park last year. It was almost as if he was looking for an apology from me!

On the way out of the ground, another Thurrock fan came over. He muttered something in an inaudible Essex accent, I just nodded and said “yes”. Mark, a fellow City fan was able to communicate with the being. Turns out the conversation went as follows

Essex man: “You have a long journey home.”
Mark: “Yeah, I’m not looking forward to it”
Essex man: “Well we had to do it when we came to see you!”

I would like to take this opportunity to apologise on behalf of God for making the county of Essex so far away from Somerset, and causing great inconvenience e to the great supporters of Thurrock FC. If I had my way though, I would move Essex even further east... into the sea.