Leeds home, 20th Dec

Won 3 - 1

17 000 attendance, and the away support was the real thing: seriously impressive singing, as you'd expect from a recently-premiership side. But this resulted in a strange mis-match with what their team was up to on the pitch. The team was a pretty average league one side. It just didn't seem right, support like that really deserves better.

Brighton away 12th December

(Friday evening) Won 4 - 2

V, J and I had a w/e down there. Terrible stadium - or rather terrible for the away fans, so far from the pitch because of the running track. As always, though, great atmosphere among us away fans - shared misery in the cold, turning to shared delight as we won. Truly magical goal from Puncheon at the end: totally bamboozled the defenders.

J clocked up more of her coast travel on Sat ahd Sunday. Our landlord for the B&B on Saturday night was a Millwall supporter, and was impressed that V&I had been to the away match there - and warned us to be careful when we play them at home. He was supposedly being kind - warning us of the unpleasantness of his fellow Millwall fans - but I guess it is still part of the Millwall identity "we're the hard men".

Sunday morning, ice cream at Beachy head in sub-zero temperatures... now thats being 'hard'!

Scunthorpe home 6th December

Lost 0 - 2

Can't recall much about this, but A reckons Scunthorpe played defensively they caught us on the break

Hereford home, 25th Nov

Won 3 - 0.

I was there, honestly, but at the moment I've no memory of the match. I'll come back and edit this, if any memories come back

Walsall Away 15th November

Won 3 - 0.

V and I went on the coach. I don't like coach travel, but its made much more acceptable now I've got an mp3 player. Not for music, I soon bore of music, but radio 4 podcasts are great, plus a selection of poetry.

Hartlepool away 15th November

Won 3 - 1.

We had a weekend away, taking the opportunity to meet up with A, who came from York. Surprisingly enjoyable w/e, in addition to the match. We had some pleasant walks on te beach.

On the Friday evening I was surprised by the friendly 'hellos' I got from a few people. 'I don't know anyone up here', I thought, 'yet they seem to be genuine'. It was only later I twigged that they must have been fellow Dons fans up for the w/e who might recognise me from other away matches! Doh, I can be slow sometimes...

I'm, writing this months after the match, so can't honestly remember a huge amount about the game.

Stcokport Away 3rd Feb

Won 1 - 0, but this was the second league match of the season we didn't go to.

Tuesday evening during term time. And, you can not get a train back from Stockport - or even Manchester - after the end of the match! That seems pretty poor to me, for a main route like that.