The Pizza Cup: Home Park, Plymouth vs Crystal Palace U21s

 This is will be my first experience of this cup. Sunderland managed to break their Wembley hoo-do by winning this, all be it at the second attempt against Tranmere but still a win is a win.

The atmosphere last time at Home Park was electric against the Tractor Boys but somehow I can't see it getting to that level tonight against Crystal palace babies. Especially as it's a cold night in October. 

Although we are both in the ground tonight, Im on my todd as XT is in the warmth and luxury of the press box( more later)in an official capacity, reporting on the game. Whereas, I am in the cheap seats in the Lyndhurst stand.

This is also a bit of asad occaision as it will be the first match to be played at Plymouth since Gordon Sparks passed away at the weekend.  Gordon was a legend in local broadcasting for the BBC and had covered Plymouth Argyle for over 30 years

Midway through the first half and it's fair to say it's been a tad dull

The first half was very uninspiring and things didnt start to pick up until the Azaz, Randell , Ennis & Mumba came on. The tempo pick up noticeably.  The last few mins things started to get exciting, a penalty shout was waved away, Ennis, finally hit the target and then missed an easier shot moments later. 

This was the 4th time Ive watched Plymouth and this was the worst Ive seen them play. The saving grace was it was only the Pappa Johns Trophy.

The crowd was pretty decent, 1918 was the offical figure, lots of families were there, which was good to see. The tickets (for an old bod like me) were £13 wasn't bad, although a few seasons back I did pay £10 to watch Swansea play Atalanta in a pre-season friendly.