Kiddy

So it looks like tonights match at Kidderminster is going ahead. It's amazing how £13,000 of Setanta grubby money can focus the minds of groundsmen across the country to ready their pitches in times of meterological turbulance.

I'm hoping it snows during the game so that they have to get out the good old orange ball. You get many chances to see them nowadays; in fact I can't remember the last time I saw one employed during a game involving United. The only occasion that springs to mind is a match against Port Vale in the non-glory days of the mid-nineties. It was really really cold, Gary Rowett scored a late winner in last game before joining Everton, and Randell Butt, in his own inimitable style, wrote something like "the sparse crowd meant the crash barriers at the Newmarket Road End showed through like a bare ribcage". Come to think of it, it's amazing that I can remember such totally useless information from more than ten years ago yet can't remember things like buy milk when we need it, ho hum.

Anyway, it looks like the Brabinator has an almost full squad to choose from ahead of our game with Harriers, including Jai Reason, who has signed on a months loan from Ipswich to become midfielder #56124768 in our squad. In the past our leader has often gone for a rogue selection when given too many choices, so lets hope he makes the correct decision tonight.