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Dulwich Hamlet 1, Concord Rangers 1

To Champion Hill! …on Saturday afternoon for an FA Trophy match between the pink ‘n’ blue boys and the Essex tarts. Which side is your money on?

Now there’s a question, Comrades.

Also posing a similar question as I waited in the sizable queue (ACE, I think…) was the anarcho graffiti that has started to appear along the Sainsbury’s side of the ground.

Um, ACE, I think… etc.

Under the Paving Stones, the Pitch - as a half-arsed pink ‘n’ blue banner in the making may declare down at Dulwich at some stage this season.

The queue to get in to Dulwich Hamlets FC this afternoon pic.twitter.com/U0NWKEJeKG

— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) November 16, 2013

But for Saturday there was the serious business of being Up For The Cup. Concord flew in from the Canvey wilds sitting 16th a in a division above Dulwich. The Hamlet are currently second in the league below.

If this tosh wasn’t bashed out under the twaddle of a Crap Match Report then I could construct some half-arsed comment about pondering who the actual favourite is here.

With the Champion Hill floodlights already lighting up Traspontonia before the kick-off, this match had the feel of a PROPER football game - passion, comedy party hats and a Scotland / Brazil bastardisation of a flag - an ACE addition to the battlement armoury of the partisan Pink ‘n’ Blue.

Concord were a STRONG side. Not dirty, but physically organised at the back, making it difficult for Dulwich to get the passing game flowing across the Champion Hill golden fields.

A moss-gatherer of a free kick gave Concord the lead in the first half. The Situationist within however listened to the wise words of the VERY fashionably late arriving @vornstyle:

“I didn’t see the goal and so it doesn’t count.”

#DHFC If I'm not at at the game today it's cos I've been arrested for trying to solve the housing crisis. Think of me, pink & blue comrades.

— Roberto Vog the 76th (@vornstyle) November 16, 2013

I then pondered the many misnomers that I have thankfully not had to suffer seeing, but have somehow led to some all round unpleasantness elsewhere.

They just don’t exist, Comrades.

This was a BIG crowd for Dulwich, swelled *ahem* after half-time when the gates were open. 700 plus, I’d wager. Plus don’t forget the growing Pink ‘n’ Blue Brompton corner at the home end of the ground.

Current count: two.

Chapeau!

A rallying call of:

“YOUR CLUB NEEDS YOU!!!!”

…did the job in firing up the beer bellies of The Rabble.

A fine effort Madam, the new Delia of Dulwich.

“This is just like Palace”

…enthused another Comrade.

What could he mean?

And then the late, late arrival of Uncle Wolfie inspired Dulwich to ‘win’ a penalty and equal the score.

“I had to avoid getting arrested just to see that goal”

…was the political pundit talk from Wolfie. Right behind you, Comrade.

Which is what happened to The Rabble for the remainder of the second half. This was a fantastic effort from the home support, singing, laughing and generally celebrating all that is good about the Transpontine Pink ‘n’ Blue (which happens to be EVERYTHING.)

No one really wanted a midweek replay out in Essex.

NO ONE.

But at 1-1 come full time, it will be Dulwich making the Concord trip on Tuesday evening.

MILE HIGH CLUB just thinking about it, Comrades.

Pink ‘n’ Blue BONER.