***Away Day Review: Newport County v Rochdale @ Rodney Parade***

I had breakfast and coffee then left Rochdale Train Station at 8.17AM arrived at Manchester Victoria for 8.37AM then walked up to Manchester Piccadilly on the way then found out which platform my train would be on then popped into Sports Direct at 8.45AM to get some Pink Pants there were one problem they were too big then i got 9.30AM train Direct into Newport. I had lunch at 11.10AM. I arrived at 12.35PM, we were counting down the hours and had a laugh. Then got a Taxi went to find Spytty Park a.k.a Newport Stadium which is Newport County’s last stadium and the new home of Llanwern Association Football Club at 1PM.

Then i asked one of the local’s for Taxi number then got Taxi to The Queens Hotel at 1.16PM i arrived there around for 1.30PM. Then went to get a Guinness then took some shots of the Dale Fan’s celebrating outside of The Free House at 1.41PM

Then at 2.35PM everyone from The Queens Hotel got escorted to Rodney Parade over the Newport bridge, where there were an massive queue to get into the stadium itself

I got into Rodney Parade for 2.50PM after queuing up for 15 Minutes then took some Dale Fan pitures just before Kick Off

Then Players came out the makeshift tunnel for the Match at 2.56PM then the Match kicked off

Rochdale were very dominant right up until the 28th Minute when George Donnelly scored taking Rochdale Top of the League then in the 40th Minute Aaron O’Connor scored an easy goal the same one’s Rochdale have missed most of the season, then at Half Time it were 1-1 so i went into the suite for an Half Time drink of Guinness but had to down it as the players were coming back out again

The second Half got underway in 55th Minute Bastien Héry got subbed for Craig Lynch who made his debut for Rochdale, in the 64th Minute Matty Lund got an Yellow Card. Newport County subbed Christian Jolley for Aaron O’Connor. both Newport & Rochdale both missed shots in a matter of minutes, Then George Donnelly got subbed for Joe Bunney in the 71st Minute and also Matty Done replaced Michael Rose, In the 83rd Minute Matty Lund missed an Penalty then just 4 Minutes later Newport County went 2-1 p thanks to an goal from an header of Kevin Feely and we were cheering on Rochdale right up till Full Time

We stayed behind for the Mini-Lap of Honor before heading back to the Queen Hotel were i saw a welsh version of Keith Hill, Then after an Guinness we made our way back to the Train were we saw Southampton Fans who just got back from their match before getting 7.04PM Train direct to Manchester Piccadilly. The Journey actually felt longer than the Journey down i got home for 11.30PM