A Posh Day Out

A fantastic club only slightly tarnished in my eyes by the opinion of Durham on my drive home from work during the week, I really like Peterborough and would be happy to see them have a good season, starting of course, on Saturday.  A very pissed Sunday at V festival watching Noel Gallagher and the Stone Roses with some of their supporters the other year, one of whom looks like George Boyd, had a major effect on my affiliation towards them.  Yatesy, Dan and Bodle are the sort of lower league fans which this amazing game is built on and I look forward to hopefully bumping into them this evening for a quick scoop.

Why?  I cried when the fixtures were released do we have Peterborough on a Tuesday, tonight is my fourth trip in the last 6 seasons to Posh and once more it is on a Tuesday.  A good mate of mine Alan Wilson once said, buy his fantastic book on Liverpool here Great Read, "Peterborough is a funny place but its most distinct feature is that it stinks of piss."  Very unfair comparison in my opinion mainly because of the excellent Charters.  A dry docked Dutch boat which has 10 cask ales on offer.  I have only ever managed 2 (honest Mum) when visiting midweek.  A great boozer with a Chinese upstairs - how good would that be to bookend a game one Saturday?  Well there is always next season or the FA Cup.

So why Posh?  Well since everyday is a school day I managed to extract this nugget of information from the Official Peterborough United website:

"Peterborough United are known throughout the world of football as 'The Posh' and the nickname was almost certainly inherited from earlier, unconnected professional clubs in their home city. 

Although the present club did not come into being until 1934, the 'Posh' name first came to the fore a decade earlier, almost certainly stemming from Pat Tirrel, player manager of Fletton United, a previous user of the present club's London Road ground, who announced in close season of 1921 that he was looking for 'Posh players for a Posh team' to compete in the Northamptonshire League (later the United Counties League). 

Fletton, previously known as the 'Brickies,' re-formed as Peterborough and Fletton United in 1923 and both nicknames were in use through the 1920s, although supporters complained that 'Posh' references were sometimes used by newspapers in a derisory manner. 

Peterborough and Fletton United folded in 1932, the present club was formed two years later and a Midland League debut against Gainsborough Trinity on 1st September 1934 was greeted with cries of 'Up The Posh' from the crowd."

So there.

Right, Blades.

What can we expect tonight, very hard to say as away games are always more tricky than home ones regardless of having SAS in attack.  Without drowning myself in football puns I would expect a hard fought narrow victory for the away side.

Why?  Well I would hope that there is a little momentum after the weekend going into tonights game.  Adkins will probably name the same side with the only question mark around Baxter, however, Adkins seems to back him to play in a two and personally I feel he can offers us lots at this level, he just needs to do it more often.

Billy Sharp was unlucky not to score on Saturday and I would expect that luck to change this evening and open his third Blades account.  If the scoreline was to be any more I would be very surpised but would love to see Sammon also open his account.

On Saturday we rode our luck somewhat allowing Chesterfield to have lots of the ball.  Although we restricted shots that amount of possession was not comfortable to watch and would be a very foolish approach against a talented Peterborough side.

So I am going for a narrow 1-0 victory for the Blades.  We tend to always play well at Peterborough in my experience and lets hope that continues tonight.

UTB