The Road leads to... (From Your Local Guardian)

The Road leads to...

3:16pm Thursday 14th January 2010 in

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On Saturday afternoon, without a football match to watch, I went to my local cinema to catch the recently released film, The Road.

This adaptation of a book by American novelist Cormac McCarthy tells the story of a father and son trudging through a post-apocalyptic world in which the majority of human life has been wiped out, all animals have perished, vegetation has turned to dust and gangs of cannibals stalk the empty plains.

I am not sure why, but my mind kept on wandering back to Gillingham on Boxing Day.

I won’t go over old ground about how unpleasant – not to mention expensive – a trip to Priestfield is (er, I think you just did – Ed) but, just to keep you in the loop, I should say that Gills chairman Paul Scally is yet to respond to my missive in which I asked him why he thinks its acceptable to charge away fans £25 to sit in an open, temporary stand to watch a League One match.

I can only assume Mr Scally is busy going through the piles of fan mail he receives every day from enthusiastic Gillingham supporters.

Yet, rest assured that I won’t give up at the first hurdle – Mr Scally will be getting a letter from me every week until he replies. Until football starts again, it is not like I have got much else do to keep myself occupied.

Will tomorrow be the day when we finally get to watch Brentford take to a football field again?

I do not have a clue, to be honest, and, as assessing meteorological patterns is high on a list of qualifications I do not have, I am not about to start making any foolhardy predictions about whether our home match against Carlisle United will go ahead.

All we can do is hope that the Challenge Anneka-like effort from our groundstaff and volunteers in attempting to shift the snow from the Griffin Park pitch pays off and, if you are that way inclined, a spot of praying probably would not go amiss either.