Tis the night before

It’s like the night before Christmas. I have had a very quiet 3 day weekend and have been kicking my heels waiting for tomorrow night’s game against ‘unbeaten’ Huddersfield.

Without a real local derby, ‘big games’ are few and far between in this division, but tomorrow night is the biggest we have played since Swindon in the play-offs and despite the interference of the cameras, I’m hoping to be listening to an electric atmosphere. The club are expecting over 17,000 at the game, which casts further embarrassment on Crystal Palace’s abysmal crowd yesterday.

Sky has been, as is their want, bigging up the game, and especially our opponents but personally I’m happy the media are falling over themselves in their platitudes although they must have been shocked to see the Terriers drop to 3rd yesterday as everyone else in the top 8 won and Sheffield Wednesday went 2nd. It was strange us not playing yesterday wasn’t it? After a number of years mostly out of Sky Sport’s eye line I have gotten used once again to Saturday afternoon matches.

So one more sleep, and just the question of who will replace Johnnie Jackson on the left of midfield. Come on you reds!