Suffering withdrawal symptoms with no football for the past fortnight having been on holiday in Paphos. Did check the Cypriot fixtures but Paphos were away both weekends we were there and I did not fancy traveling to Limasol, which is 116k away, to watch them. However today will be a first for me as it will be the first time I have attended a game at St Mirren's Simple Digital Arena. I attended there old ground at Love Street on several occasions but despite the new ground opening in 2009 this will be my first visit. I caught the 12.01 train to Glasgow Central at Haymarket and then from Central boarded the 13.36 to Greenock which arrived at Paisley St. James at 13.53 despite on of the toilets being out of action after some-one threw up all over the toilet area. The ground is a few minutes walk from the station and I arrived just around 14.00. I purchased programme in the club shop than had a chat with David. the Hearts historian, before going into the ground. With me having

International weekend so no Hearts game today. I have recently downloaded the Groundhopper app which records matches I have been to and grounds involved. To date I have been to 72 grounds across four countries so decided to try and get a new ground today. I had been to Airdrie’s Old Broomfield ground on a number of occasions but have never been to their new Excelsior Stadium. The Excelsior Stadium, known as the Penny Cars Stadium for sponsorship reasons, was opened in 1998 as the home of Airdrieonians FC. However this club fell into bankruptcy and a new club known as Airdrie FC took over the stadium after buying out Clydebank FC who were experiencing severe financial problems. Clydebank were moved to Airdrie and renamed Airdrie FC and took Clydebank's place in the Scottish leagues, Airdrie FC being unable to replace Airdrieonians as they had been replaced by Gretna in the league setup. In 2013 the Scottish Football Association granted Airdrie FC permission to revert to their pr

Another Saturday and off to Tynecastle for Hearts home match with Hamilton in the SPL. After lunch I texted Craig to se if he was parking at our place but he as running late and said he would park nearer the ground. Harmoni was not going to the game today as she was out with friends so Harper brought along one of his friends from Edinburgh South training to use her ticket. I had decided to give Harper the sticker album that Hearts had issued with this weeks programme, two stickers were included today and others will be issued with the programme over the season, so I said I would see them at halftime. Left home with ten minutes to go in Southampton v Manchester Utd on BT Sport and walked down to Tynecastle. Arrived around 14.30 and took my seat in the Main Stand. It has been an eventful week at Tynecastle with the signing yesterday on loan from Manchester City of attacking midfielder Ryotaro Meshino. Meshino from Japan is twenty-one years old and signed for City from JLeague Ga