The Opponent: Peterborough United
Looking back to the 1st game of the season I seem to remember us giving a pretty decent account of ourselves at London Road and this season seems to have followed in the same sort of vein, playing some nice football but not always getting the results we deserve. We now find ourselves facing The Posh for the first of 3 fixtures in a short space of time, each with thee own potential rewards. Let’s start with the 3 points today please, our season is not over yet, even if the latest transfer talk hasn’t got the pulse rate N’gooing. A lot of teams around the top have had sustained periods of form, it has to be our turn soon and getting a positive result today could be the catalyst needed to get us up the table and firmly on our way to Wembley. Peterborough are decent, they started this season as one of the favourites for League 1 and have proved to be true to this although 3 league defeats on the bounce and a lucky draw in the FA Cup against Kidderminster says this lot are beatable. We can still beat anyone in this league on our day, we will miss 1 or 2 players, no doubt about it, we have the testicles for it, take note Mr Cooper and show us you have the testies to match.
Peterborough, a City not dissimilar to our town of Swindon, make the journey to SN1 this afternoon, (along with Posh Red one would imagine). With a population of just over 200’000, Peterborough is home to one of the largest concentrations of Italian immigrants in the UK. This is mainly as a result of labour recruitment in the 1950s by the London Brick Company in the southern Italian regions of Apulia and Campania. By 1960 approximately 3,000 Italian men were employed by London Brick, mostly at the Fletton works. Peterborough has its fair share of famous births including that of footballer David Bentley, Andy Bell of Erasure fame, world famous astronomer George Alcock and Henry Royce, Co Founder of Rolls Royce. It also has a few notable names that have called Peterborough their home for years, such as Ernie Wise, general tosser Adrian Durham, and Jimmy Savile, who spent years raising money to open a new children’s ward at the local hospital. Ta-daaa.
Where the opposition gather – Visiting fans take the piss out of the magic roundabout shocker.
http://www.theposhforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24379Last 6 – WDWLLL (5th on 39 points)
They have served us both – John Sheffield, Kevin Dearden, Nicky Ajose, Claude Gnapka, Mark Cooper, Don Heath, Steve Jenkins, Lloyd Opara, Fred Laycock, David Ball, Bobby Barnes, Kenny Alan, Graz, Trevor Benjamin, Sol Davis, Jim Barron
The Odds - Swindon 13/10 Draw 5/2 Peterborough 23/10 If you fancy playing it safe with a draw then a 1-1 at 7/1 with Ladbrokes could be worth a shout.
The Son Says – Hmmmm, they ain’t bad are they he says. 3-2 win.
The Prediction – We will throw everything at them today, and despite the obvious talent they have in the team we will win 3-1, goals from Pritchard, Storey and Ryan Mason. 8'055 with 404 from Posh.
And Finally – Interestingly, Peterborough is the largest town or city in the UK without any local radio of its own, although it is covered by four local radio stations and one regional station.
