A Grey Day - The Battle of Northern Suburbia

Well decided to head out to Percy Doyle Reserve on a cold windy Perth winter's afternoon to watch ECU Joondalup travel to play Sorrento FC. To be honest I wasn't expecting anything out of this match as I haven't watched ECU Joondalup play in perhaps 5 or so years due to the fact that (no offense lads) they bring a rather dour and lifeless style of football in the premier league.

You can tell Sorrento are wanting to get prepared for the National Premier League for next season with considerable work to the club-rooms. Although you wonder is it all worth it when you could simply purchase the old Perth Oval eastern temporary scaffolding seating and make them permanent with a roof rather than place some seats under a shed and you cant see any of the game. The Joondalup Council need to allow sides within their municipality to allow these grounds to start to become serious grounds.

despite the patch work of seating the food is of similar nature too. Plenty on offer but wildly ranging in price. The burgers are 7 dollars with extras for things like egg etc. They did have a special with an additional 2 dollars and fifty cents to have pineapple. Pineapple isn't a favourite of mine however I believed the extra went to charity i think; more like to pay of the extra services at the game like the ice-cream van and mix 94.5 trying to continuously talk Aussie rules during a blessed football match. 94.5 here is a helpful tip, firstly the area of Sorrento is West Coast country and secondly they are not interested in anything AFL while their team is playing in a local derby.

The hot-dogs were very well priced at 3 dollars even with onion. I think that should be the standard price for hot-dogs in the league. Sausage was a tad dry but with tomato and mustard sauce made up for that slight shortfall. Bread was excellent and fresh.

Beers are reasonably priced it seemed as i bought a few Carlton Dry bottles for 6 dollars fifty. clearly ciders and spirits and RTD spirits (cans) would be close to a tenner. Soft drink was at the 2.50 mark which i think is a tad steep, 1.50 ~ 2 for cans should be the mark for cans I feel.

Sorrento never fails to deliver with the assortment of hot chips on offer. There were regular chips, chips with gravy, chips with curry sauce and a chip butty. You couldn't go wrong with any of those really so I did try chips with gravy as well, it has been a while since I had Indian ha-ha. The chips were not soggy and the curry sauce was very tasty.

The game was as colourful as the winter's sky. Gentle, placid and lifeless. Although did spark to life for a moment with a brilliant shot on goal for Sorrento to hit the lead with 10 minutes to go with ECU Joondalup scoring from a deflection just on the edge of the box to level the scores 1 minute before full time. Game ending 1-1 with Sorrento once again delivering some decent food and drink to the casual and dedicated football supporter alike.