RDS, slipping down the list.

When I was a kid I used to love the RDS. I can remember Rovers playing there in the early nineties and I for some reason I remember going to Chicago Pizza Pie Factory before a game there. The things you remember as a kid eh?

I was there for the classic Liam Coyle diving header, Pascal getting emptied in front of the stand and falling into it. Remember the urban legends about players having to get tetanus injections and the like. It always seemed strange to have the support in the Anglesea Road Stand, which was high up but yet right over the pitch. It was quite a contrast to the Brandywell, where the pitch seemed miles away when you were a kid.

Anyway, after last season's Cup final heartache I am less fond of the place and today didn't endear me any more to it. There is no doubt that the new stand on the far side has made it an impressive venue, but I would rather it was a kip and we had won the cup. I had three exams there today, in the same hall as I had my lunch before the Cup final. That was bad enough, but then the car wouldn't start after the exams were finished. Cue a call to the AA and not getting out of the RDS until well over two hours after the exams were finished. Not a good day all in all.