Football season 24-25 review - Futbology badges

It's been a decent season for Futbology badges. My biggest achievement was hitting the 600 games mark in April.

Earlier in the season I passed a milestone for the number of games I've seen at Jenner Park - which, incidentally, is now the stadium I have seen most games at.

And in my last game of the season I hit the half century at Cardiff City Stadium.

Almost half those games haven't involved Cardiff City, which is quite amusing to me.

I got a couple of smaller milestones for other teams - including Caldicot where my friend Ben plays.

And Penybont, mainly for all the Barry games I've seen against them.

I also got a ten-game badge for Cardiff Corinthians - although I only arrived at this game at half time so really it should only be a nine and a half games badge!

I decided to go to the Welsh Cup final. It was a good game and I was able to pose with the actual cup before the game. Getting a badge was a bonus.

And a couple of international games at the end of the season came with badges too.

Not a bad season haul at all!

Recap of the Month - April 2023

It's getting hard to keep up with these as the months are flying past. We are already in May. (I missed the chance to mark Star Wars Day with a blog post this year -  my review of The Mandalorian season 3 will have to be on a random date instead!)

Random selfie of the month - with a Lego dinosaur

I've already blogged how April started with us having a week on holiday in Worcestershire, including a day out on the Severn Valley Railway on my birthday, and discovering battered chips! 

After that I was pitched straight back into work, although I have some big news on that front. In the middle of the month I had a second interview to take up a role with Diabetes UK. I was offered the post and am now working through my notice at my current employer. 

It will be interesting for me to go back into the world of diabetes, it's a communications role so I will be going back to that focus as well, and it's also back into the Third Sector. As I've said to a few people, after 13 years in the NHS I was beginning to think I was in it for life! 

The rest of April, inbetween holidays, work and job interviews, was spent mainly at football matches. I saw Barry Town win two cup finals. They won the wonderfully named Welsh Blood Service League Cup (Southern) on Easter Monday with a victory over Briton Ferry Llansawel, held at Ynys Park in Trefelin. 

Then at the very end of April they beat Colwyn Bay in the Welsh Blood Service League Cup National Final at Newtown. 

I went to the second final with Zac, who enjoyed seeing his first Barry Town goal and his first Barry Town missed penalty, as Barry romped to a 6-0 win. Most of the Colwyn Bay first team squad were off on a stag do in Portugal and the club had to send it's development team out to play the final. They did their best but it was literally men against boys. 

I saw all three trophy lifts for Barry as they were presented with the Cymru South trophy after their game against Afan Lido, a game which Barry won 8-3 with a selection of great goals scored by both sides. 

This makes April 2023 the most trophy-packed month of my life!