Loo rolls left: Same as yesterday

It is quarter to three on Saturday the 28th of March 2020. I should have been finishing of my beer and vegan pie. Getting ready to take my seat at Forest Green Rovers vs Cheltenham. No Wimbledon was planned for today. We were supposed to be away to Lincoln, but I wasn’t planning on going.

My future brother-in-law, Mick, lives in Stroud and supports Forest Green. He has been wanting us to come down for the weekend to go to a game for months. We had everything arranged for the last Saturday in October. Wimbledon was supposed to play Bury. However, the game was called off due to a waterlogged pitch. This weekend was the re-arranged date. Forest Green are English football’s only vegan club. All the food and drink sold at the ground is vegan. It is apparently very good. It is better than the food at most football grounds. Let’s face it, that is a fairly low bar to get over. I was looking forward to my vegan pie and spending the weekend with Mick and Tina.

Instead I am enduring my third Saturday without football. By the end of the season I am usually ready for a break from football. This is especially true after the tensions of the last two seasons. Having football taken away from me with nine games left to play feels different, unfair even. What will happen to the rest of the season is anyone’s guess. The seasons of all the leagues below National League level are finished. Tiers 7 and below have been declared null and void. This hasn’t pleased everyone, but I’m not sure what else to do. I think a decision needs to be made soon. The same should happen with all leagues from the Premiership on down. It won’t be long before this happens. In such a case, we will have to endure Liverpool supporters complaining. They will continue from now until the heat death of the universe, about how they were robbed of their first title in thirty years.

Another worry is how many clubs will survive this shutdown. Running a football club is a bit of a hand to mouth existence. This weeks gate receipts being needed to meet this weeks outgoings. This is especially true of lower league clubs. Some clubs, such as Southend and Macclesfield, were in a precarious financial position even before this happened. When (if) football gets started again we might see some very different leagues.

I think that is football dealt with, for now. But it does feel strange not to be checking my phone for updates to the scores.

We have put teddy bears in the windows. This way, when kids are out for their daily exercise, they can be “Going on a Bear Hunt”.

No trips to the allotment today, although we did buy some seeds while we were doing our food shopping. I went for a walk to get my exercise instead.

Dinner was a take-away curry to try and help the local curry house to stay in business.