Start the season with the name in the hat!


Phew we have made it! After a summer of sport we are back with the nations favourite, the footy! We are ready for 2012/13 to thrill us, chill us and above all make us cheer! 

Paella and Bovril is back for another season and I hope that this season servings live up to last years! 

 "Paella and Bovril" first appeared, and still does, in the Raith Rovers matchday magazine.

To those new to this blog, I am a wee Raith fan, based in Barcelona, who likes to write about football.   Not your game analysis, players stats, but just a fan writing about being a fan! Hope you enjoy!

This weeks dinner plate sized offering is from the cup game Raith V Berwick Rangers. A 7 goal match that saw Raith's name making it into the hat for the next round with a 4-3 win! 

So here we go, I hope you enjoy the fresh, hot, new hot plate of "PAELLA AND BOVRIL"


PLEASE SUPPORT YOUR CLUB AND THE MATCHDAY MAGAZINE !!



Paella and Bovril

So here we are at the start of the season and what a close season we have seen. Well not just seen, but heard about every day, blasted over front and back pages and even made a wee appearance on the sports news on TV3 over here in Barcelona.  I thought I would be craving my Scottish football fix by now but I feel I have never been away!
It has been a whirlwind of a summer break, what teams would be playing where, what would be happening to whom and how much would be lost. Threats were being made to the game we love and if I were honest at the start of the summer I was beginning to wonder what game I would be coming back to in August.
Last season ended with the excitement of the prospect of a summer break with a few weeks of Euro finals to keep the football cravings at bay before that relaxing few days before the pre-season games started popping up in the diary. But those few weeks were anything but relaxing for Scottish Football.  
As an expat fan you can sometimes find yourself out of the loop, you of course get a few snippets on press website, a variety of opinions on fans forums and can hunt down all the gossip you want on the internet but you are still “on the outside”. Looking in, it appeared like Scottish football was being held to ransom, “unless you let me play with my ball my way you ain’t getting the scraps off our table”, no-one wanted to  play nice, none of the powers that be seemed to know what they wanted. Luckily, it seems, that the fans of the Scottish game knew what they wanted, and they wanted to be listened too!
Fan power has always been talked about, when getting behind your team and when it matters to your season, fans being the twelfth man, but have fans ever changed the face of the national game, can they change it?  Well when you see the images of the Hampden steps on your wee Catalan tele along with the breaking news that “La liga Escosesa”  has voted, you sit up and spill that sangria. Finally the game has got back a little of that integrity we had all been shouting, Facebook and tweeting about.
Scottish football is changing, for the better I think, but what is it going to become. For years people within the game have been crying for change and now they, we, everyone in the game has the chance to make those differences and invest in the future.
Can the fan power that got us this far get us any further? I know it can!  Already #selloutsaturday is getting us going. August 11th hopefully should see some pretty full stadiums and hopefully at 4:45 some happy new and old fans of the game.
I would like to wish all at Raith Rovers a great “temporada” and I hope to see you at Stark’s Park soon.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Formulaic fun

Image
The festive season is creeping up on us and there feels like no escape. We can only hope that the weather is kind to the Scottish football grounds. A few weeks ago the topic came up "what would you change about the scottish game". This wee serving of Paella and Bovril gives you an idea of what I thought. What do you think? This was first seen in the Programme of the Scottish Cup tie with Deveronvale on Saturday 1st December. Raith went thru to the next round with a 2-1 win Paella and Bovril It seems that every 5 minutes somebody somewhere wants to sweeten the Scottish game it by changing it’s structure. Mix this division with that league, add a dash of grass roots, stir them about and voila! -the perfect cocktail of football. Well that is what they keep promising to serve up to us. What would give Scottish football the perfect flavour? Regional divisions or fewer teams, maybe bigger leagues; but what about the actual 90 minutes? On a recen...
Read more

The wheels on the bus go round and maybe more £s

Image
To quote a great Mr Simpson "see you in spring toes"! It is the festive "fat-up" here in Barcelona. I am in the middle making my THIRD Christmas dinner in less than a week! In 2013 I think I will be staying out the kitchen for a few days and running a wee bit! This serving of Paella and Bovril comes from the Fife Derby against Cowdenbeath on the 29th December. After a being 2 goals down at half time Raith came back to get a point. Enjoy. PLEASE SUPPORT YOUR MATCHDAY PROGRAMME. Paella and Bovril When I was a wee teenager I would regularly be found on a football terrace. Being a pupil at Balwearie High, just behind the railway stand here at Stark’s Park, meant that I could use my “study” periods to come watch one of the reserves games that used to be regularly played.   Of course you do not expect a large crowd at these matches, I am sure that at some of these games I was the only supporter there. But it was a reserves match ...
Read more

day out at the football!

Image
The calm before the excitement Monday morning has never been my favourite period of the week. This Monday, I have to admit I feel a little tender.  I decided that cause Raith were having a big day at Stark's Park, I would have a "big" day in Barcelona. But I did not think that this was going to happen. Scottish football ain't a big crowd pleaser in Catalunya so trying to find a host for my day out was tougher than I thought. This serving from Paella and Bovril comes from the Scottish cup game against Celtic at Stark's Park. Raith played well and the 3-0 defeat does not reflect the performance.  PLEASE SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL TEAM Paella and Bovril Unthinkable to believe that Stark's Park has never played host to the miles of cables and the numerous cameras that come with live games. The ground's previous live TV outing was seen in Iceland when we played host to Akranes.   How exciting today the stadium will ...
Read more