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BORO v NUNEATON BOROUGH - FROM THE AWAY END
Phil Moore aka CNN
When the teams enter the field on Tuesday night, Nuneaton Borough will be led out by captain Neil Moore. Like all top sportsmen should, Neil has a sponsorship deal, but this one is a little bit different.
Phil is sponsored by CNN. No, not the repetitive American cable television news channel, but CNN, the messageboard user name of Mr and Mrs Phil Moore, who are no relation to the Borough captain incidentally.
Phil and his good lady were married on 5th May 2005, or 05.05.05 for the numerologists amongst you, and chose to sponsor Neil because he is the Nuneaton Borough number 5.
Over to Phil to give us the lowdown on his Nuneaton Borough history and an explanation of why it is certain that Middlesbrough will go through to the fourth round on penalties.
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I started watching the Boro during the 1974-75 season
and remained in this happy state until around 1980
when I left the area and indeed the planet (football).
On my return to reality in 1998 I caught the end of
the season when we were promoted back into the
Conference. The start of the 1998-99 season saw my
future wife introduced to the game and we have been
going there ever since.
We are season ticket holders and get to most home
games, standing on the Cock & Bear terraces, although
we usually only make a handful of away games each
year owing to that ever present and anoying problem,
life.
Largely anonymous (although we do like to join
in the singing) my only, rather tenuous claim to fame
is that my cousin 'Pugsy' was once hit in the face by
a ball which Bob Turpie launched over the bar during
the warm up... I think that was in 1975.
Interestingly, my wife, before we were married, was
living in Kent and she dreamt that I was in an
earthquake. She phoned me the following evening to
tell me all about it. I was waiting with my 'hot'
news - that there had been a major earthquake in
Warwick the night before which had really shook the
house.
Last year, throughout Xmas she was getting
increasing premonitions of 'planetary doom' and
dreaming of a disaster on a tropical shore. We woke
on Boxing Day and she announced the feeling of doom
had completely gone, but that something was very
wrong. We turned on the radio to find news of the
Asian tsunami...
After the first Histon game she dreamt that we would
go out of the cup this year on penalties - but NOT to
Histon. Another team in red would put us out - and
frankly, if this happens on Tuesday night I am
definitely getting her hypnotised to get the following
week's lottery numbers out of her!
We are really excited at the prospect of visiting the
Riverside - previously, the 'best' stadium we have seen
the Boro at was the Britannia at Stoke, where we took
2500 - and it will be great to see our team enjoying
the experieince of playing there.
Hopefully those travelling up with us, the 'normal'
Nuneaton Borough fans, will help us to make it a
really great and atmospheric night. I think as of
last night there were around 200 of the 4900 tickets
left. There are twenty-six 'official' coaches and at least eleven
'unofficial' ones booked - we normally take one or two
away (between 100 and 400 travel depending on venue,
although we take 1000+ for the local derby with
neighbours Hinckley).
To be honest I feared a 4 or 5 - 0 drubbing awaited last
Saturday and my benchmark for success was to 'do OK',
the 'dream' was to get a draw and a big pay day for
the club and that this happened left everyone
completely stunned...
Hopefully we'll see another 'classic' on Tuesday and may the best team on
the night win...
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