Football Adventures - July/August 2018

Here are some of the football adventures I have enjoyed recently.

Preseason friendly at Liberty Way.

Coventry City v Derby County.

I got to see Frank Lampard, new manager of Derby County and Reading's manager Paul Clement was standing behind me in the stand.

It was a very sunny evening as you can see from the pictures.  The final score was 0-1 to Derby, but Coventry played well especially in the second half.
Attendance: 2044.

Cyrille Regis Memorial Trophy game against West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns.

Here's my ticket.

I'm very excited to be at the Hawthorns and to be at this special event.

Here come the players.

Coventry City lost 5-2

But the friendly was a great commemorative occasion in tribute to the life of the Sky Blues and West Brom legend.

 WBA Goals: Barnes (6’, 8’), Robson-Kanu (31’, 40’),  Livermore (52’)

  

 CCFC Goals: Allassani (44’) Thompson (78’)

Attendance: 7,590

My programme.

Ticking off some more of my 92 Stadium tour.

 iPro Stadium - Pride Park Stadium  - Derby County's home ground.

33,597 capacity.

Pirelli Stadium - Burton Albion's home ground.

Capacity 6,912 (2,034 seated).

First Coventry City home match of the 2018/19 season.

Coventry City v Scunthorpe United - 4th August 2018.

Meeting some of the players in the family zone before the match. 
Chris Camwell,  Jak Hickman, Dexter Walters, Kyle Finn & Josh Eccles.

Goal Keeper Lee Burge.

Measuring how big Lee Burge's hand is :-).

In my seat ready for the match to begin.

Here come the teams.

Excited for the start of a brand new season.

The final score was Coventry City 1 - 2 Scunthorpe United.
52' Andreu
Attendance: 12,964

Wycombe Wanderers FC - Adams Park.

Capacity 10,137.

You can get a great view of the stadium from this car park.

This used to be the home ground of Wasps also until they moved to the Ricoh Arena in 2014.

British Speedway GP And Wales Trip - 21st - 22nd July 2018

On the first day of the School Summer Holidays we travelled down to Cardiff in Wales to watch the British Speedway GP.

A special lunch of my favourite food in Shake Shack Cardiff.

Then off to the Speedway Fan zone to have some fun.

The Monster Energy Speedway of Nations 2nd place silver trophy and medal won by  Great Britain, Russia won the event this year.

@speedwaygp.

One of the speedway bikes.

A monster Energy truck.

Outside Cardiff Castle.

Time to start heading into the Principality Stadium.

Over 40,000 fans will be here tonight.

Here's my seat and view.

The pre event has finished and it's nearly time for the racing.

The riders are all introduced.

Now it's time to go racing.

The first heat.

The roof is closed and the atmosphere is great!

There has been some great races.

The winner has been decided.

Polish rider Bartosz Zmarzlik winning in first place, second place to GB star Tai Woffinden and third place to Polands Maciej Janowski.

Tai Woffinden leads the World Championship standings by 20 points.

Time for some fireworks.

What a great event.

 We spent the night at The Hampton Inn, Newport.

Here's our room.

Breakfast time.

Look how close we stayed to the Budweiser beer brewery.

Time to tick off some more of my stadiums.

Cardiff City FC.

Quite a plain entrance door for the players.

I can just about see the pitch through here.

Arriving in Swansea.

The home of Swansea City AFC.

Also Ospreys Rugby team.

A walk around the harbor.

What a view.

The tide is definitely out.

I wrote Coventry City.

This deeper sand is harder to walk in.

The first Denny's American Diner in the UK.

It's just like being in the USA.

The menu is the same too.

Tastes the same too.

I cannot wait for them to open all over the UK.

With my Denny's balloon.

Back home to England.