How do you celebrate thirty years of marriage to the perfect woman? How about a two day city break in London? Sounds like a plan. Oh and Ipswich just happen to be playing Fulham away!
We travelled First Class from Ipswich to London Liverpool Street on the 11.09am train and then got on the Underground to Embankment.
After checking in to The Strand Palace Hotel we took a short stroll to Covent Garden and after buying a couple of Christmas presents we got the Tube to Putney Bridge station, where we met up in The Rocket, with Darren, Henry, Mikey & his dad Ray (who kept us well entertained with his museum stories!) We had a couple of pints in there before getting a taxi to another pub nearer to Fulhams ground. I can’t remember what it was called, but they were having a barbecue in December, along with Mold Wine.
It was only a short walk from there to Craven Cottage, the weather was horrible, although perfect for a midweek, floodlit, game of football, in December. The fine misty rain which had started as we left Covent Garden was now set in for the night.
It's a good job we were in our seats in time for the kick-off, as Freddie Sears scored the fastest goal of the Championship season, (so far), after just sixteen seconds. There were loads of fans still filtering into the stand who missed it and what a cracker it was. Sears got the ball and raced through the heart of the Fulham defence before unleashing a great shot that flew past their keeper, Andy Lonergan!
The home team levelled things up after fourteen when Ross McCormack smashed a free-kick into the back of the net from just outside the box.
Ipswich were the only team throughout the match who looked liked they could go on and take all three points and so it proved. Brett Pitman scored the decisive goal, turning in 'Man of the Match' Sears's cross at the near post, in front of the travelling 'Blue Army' supporters, just short of the hour mark.
It was an enjoyable walk through Bishops Park back to Putney Bridge tube station in the drizzling rain, which was not planning to stop anytime soon!
We had mojitos when we got back to the Strand Palace, they probably cost more than the football tickets, but hey ho we had much to celebrate.
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