With the tours main objective complete we set out this morning to visit again the final 4 clubs we hadn't been inside in the past 12-13 days. We had to drop our hire car back first but by 11am we were at Southend United.
Mark Davies met us at reception and presented us with a signed ball whilst walking us through into the stadium. We've seen many a game at Roots Hall but its a totally different place when its empty. Quite ery even. Mark told us how current plans for the new stadium were going and seemed very positive. Lets hope things start moving soon on that front.
Leyton Orient was our 2nd port of call and after being allowed inside to walk around, we located Chris who i'd been speaking with previously. Chris arranged for the signed shirt to be sent to us and was really interested to hear how we'd gotten on. We talked about going back up there for the Gillingham game and he said to contact him first if we wanted to and he'd have something put in the programme along with providing our tickets for us. A lovely guy and it was a pleasure to meet him. From there we headed back through London to Millwall.
Our 3rd visit to The Den proved much more successful. We met our contact at reception who also had a signed pennant waiting for us. She then took us pitchside so we could collect some photos inside our 91st ground.
Gillingham became the final stop. We phoned ahead and told them everything we'd done and who we were raising money for etc. We're also puting together an article for the Kent Messenger newspaper. We were both glad to be finishing our 92 here, although Brighton was the official last ground on Thursday. As we arrived, the lady in reception phoned through to a guy in the press office. He came out, ushered us in, hardly said a word, and then ushered us back out again... And that ws it. All 92 grounds visited and seen inside. But the biggest disappointment was saved until the very end. Gillingham just didn't want to know.
You dont choose who you support but you can't half fall out of love with them....
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