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Gills victory parade: Medway celebrates promotion

By Alan W Collins on Monday 25th May 2009 08:02 / 4 comments

Medway will today celebrate the mighty Gills’ long-awaited change in fortunes.

Medway Council were remaining tight-lipped about celebration plans prior to Saturday’s dramatic win over Shrewsbury, but confirmed afterwards that they would laying on a victory parade and an open-top bus.

Politicians, including Gillingham and Rainham MP Paul Clark and his Conservative opponent Cllr Rehman Chishti, joined the 35,000-strong Gills following to watch the last-minute triumph to take the club back to League One.

Today’s celebrations, outlined on the Medway Messenger website, start at Rochester Castle at noon – where the team will asemble on a specially-constructed stage with the Leader of Medway Council, Cllr Rodney Chambers, and the Mayor of Medway, Cllr David Royle, in front of a banner with the words ‘Medway salutes Gillingham FC – Champions’.

Then the parade will kick off at 12:30, taking them along Rochester Bridge west bound, Strood High Street, Rochester Bridge east bound, Corporation Street, Lower High Street, Medway Street, Globe Lane, Dock Road, Wood Street, Brompton Road, Arden Street, Jeffrey Street and Balmoral Road.

The team is expected to arrive at Priestfield Stadium at about 13:30.

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4 Comments

footie person says:

Monday 25th May 2009 at 10:10

it was shrewsbury, not scunthorpe. Get it right. Anyone would think this was about politics not football
Alan W Collins says:

Monday 25th May 2009 at 10:27

My apologies to all Gills fans.

I’d like to remind all readers that this website is indeed about politics, and not football. If you want a substantial mix off important news and sport, then the Medway Messenger is the website to go to.

The mistake here was made not because I’m not a Gills fan, because I am, but because the post was written during a (very) brief break in my revision. I could not remember the name of the other team because, to be honest, my mind was on other things at the time – neither politics nor football but, as it happens, the rules of consideration in the process of creating contracts.

The post was intended to be a draft until I had time to double-check the name. However, when I went into auto-pilot after completing the draft and just hit the ‘Publish’ button instead, I decided to wait until my next break before checking and correcting the post – i.e. now.

I hope that this can illustrate clearly why I generally avoid blogging whilst I am in the middle of exam revision – as the quality of, and the research undertaken for, the posts is always less than I usually achieve under normal circumstances.

Once again my apologies to Gills fans and all readers of my site for the embarrassing inaccuracy.
Tristan Osborne says:

Monday 25th May 2009 at 19:23

Perhaps you can mention that to one of your keener colleagues

http://stroodconservatives.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=961292%3ATopic%3A8924

"Its the Conservatives wot won it" – The Gills supporters will be pleased.
Alan W Collins says:

Monday 25th May 2009 at 20:12

Tristan – I don’t know about anyone else, but we don’t police each others’ comments.

There is such a beautiful thing as freedom of speech, and if someone wishes to use that right to make what is quite obviously a less-than-serious comment, then that is up to him.