• Woke up with a cold

• Took twice as long as it should do to get to Brighton due to train problems

• Got wet standing on not much more than a cardboard box looking across the athletics track

• We were sh*t and lost to an own goal and had two sent off

• Not a great day out.

I was quite looking forward to a trip to Brighton, but the seafront was pretty miserable in the rain and even though we found a decent pub and met up with Oystein and Mette, it wasn’t long before we had to head off to the 2nd worse ground in Britain, according to a survey a couple of weeks ago.

Actually I demand a recount, it was portacabin city and infinitely worse than Gillingham (apparently the worst ground). Indeed it rivals the place in the Ukraine for the worst ground I’ve ever seen Leeds play at.

Blackwell stuck with a drawing team, so we got to see Ricketts lumber around again. The first half managed to surpass the Preston game for most miserable half of the season, I honestly can’t remember us having a decent attempt on goal and a couple of shots from Darren Currie apart nothing really happened, except we all got wet.

Second half we swapped Deane for Ricketts but it didn’t really make an awful lot of difference. I think we’d all assumed it would end 0-0, as we couldn’t really see either team scoring, then a fairly innocuous free-kick was knocked in and via a couple of deflections ended up in the back of the net. An own-goal we concluded as we couldn’t see any Brighton players actually celebrating through the drizzle.

We tried to push forward and did have some chances, headers wide from Deane and Carlisle, closest we came was a shot past the post from Ormerod and Walton wasted our best chance when he blasted over the bar from inside the box. Despite the chances we didn’t really look much of a team, we had little idea apart from just lump it forward to Deane. Brighton rarely threatened either, so it was up to the ref who’d been dreadful up to that point to liven it up. Firstly Kilgallon got a second yellow (the first was particularly soft) with a couple of minutes to go and then as Brighton tried to play out the 4 minutes injury time in the corner, Butler got frustrated, picked up 2 yellows in quick succession and was sent off. Not exactly a captains example.

Think we probably did enough to deserve a draw – but that doesn’t mean we weren’t crap – just as crap as Brighton were.

Cold now worse