The Brakes go marching in as prodigal son returns

Despite the driving rain there was a buzz around Harbury Lane as news spread of the return of prodigal son Paul Nicholls. The Scott Parker of Leamington had been unable to break into the Stratford Town team and decided to return to his roots at a lower level. Coventry Marconi were unbeaten so far this season and had only conceded ten goals, but they were 4-0 down by the half hour. Then they got a goal back just before half time after there had been a mass brawl which resulted in only one player being booked. It almost all went off in the vice-presidents' hut at half time when one person confessed that he had joined 57 other saddos at Racing Club Warwick last week. Marconi got more into the match in the second half, assisted by a linesman constantly flagging against Brakes for offside leading to chants of 'He's got a spring loaded arm', interspersed by 'The Brakes Go Marching In' and 'Jason Cadden's barmy army'. As Brakes went 5-1 ahead, there was a chant of 'Are you [Coventry] City in disguise?' You get more variety in the chants at Harbury Lane than at The Valley and a late appearance for Dazza replacing the formidable bulk of Darren Tank led to the chant of 'He's fat, he's round, he scores at every ground: Darren Timms, Darren Timms.' The Marconi keeper was injured and verbal started between Marconi players and the crowd, one spectator being told he was a *****. The still far from recovered keeper could not keep out a late strike that made it 6-1 for the Brakes.