Tuesday 22 February 2011

Peterborough United 1 v. Colchester United 1 - Npower Football League Division 1


Today I afforded myself a bit of luxury and travelled down the ECML in comfort on an off peak fare inter city train to see the Posh host Colchester United in a Npower League 1 fixture (Division 3), via several very agreeable pints of extremely tasty beer in the Cherry Tree public house with my old sidekick Kempy.
Portside Out Starboard Home ... I finally arrived back to base camp, delayed by Network Rail engineering work of course
Details and blow by blow account (of the match) to follow presently.

The Cherry Tree, Peterborough's bestest public house

The London Road Massive ITA. Dapper or what!?

Thursday 17 February 2011

Kirkby Town 1 v. Arnold Town 2 - Notts Senior Cup

Played at Forest Town Welfare due to Kirkby Town having no floodlights at the Summit Centre yetNottinghamshire Senior Cup 3rd Round - At Forest Town Welfare
Kirkby Town (1) 1 (Sam Holmes 16)
Arnold Town (2) 2 (Mark Smith 26, Tony Law 37)
Admission £3, Programme £1, Attendance 59
'The Clod' by night

Rogues Gallery
"I don't believe it!" Victor Meldrew was in attendance
'FredKirkbyTown' and a waxwork replica of a CMFL official

'Big Andy' (his name is Andy and he's big) takes his turn 
posing with the Rob Hornby mannequin.

Wednesday 16 February 2011

Maltby Main 4 v. Dinnington Town 1 - NCEL Premier Division

To think I almost went home to watch Arsenal v. Barcelona on TV
and missed out on the joys of foggy old Muglet Lane tonight

16th February 2011
NCEL Premier Division, at Muglet Lane

Maltby Main (2) 4
(Rob Branagan 10, Paul Lavender 36,
Scott Whittington 72, Oliver Warren 85)
Dinnington Town (1) 1
(Mat Arnault 27)

Admission £5, Programme £1.50, Attendance 71

Finding myself arriving in South Yorkshire via the A1, from a harrowing trip up north, at around 7.20pm, I was stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Should I:
1) Head home to an house full of noisy, happy people who seem to have taken root there of late (I will be evicting them all presently before they acquire squatters rights).
Or, 2) Head for those beacons of light illuminating the Welfare Ground on Muglet Lane, where nobody will mind if I rant and swear and vandalise anything that takes my fancy within a ten yard radius of my space, because everybody else there will be behaving exactly the same and treating such activity as mandatory requirements of entrance anyway?
Hmm, the latter sounded more cathartic and therapeutic ... and I can always go home to the happy camp once I've let some steam off and forgotten about my woes for a while.
MATCH DETAILS TO FOLLOW, Yadda, yaada, yadda

Tuesday 15 February 2011

Hucknall Town 1 v. Worksop Town 2 - Evo-Stik Premier Division

Wet horrible night, sticky pitch, Hucknall Town 1 v. Worksop Town 2, details of this game and rest of the backlog when I get everything cut and pasted across ... in time


Aye! I forgot my bloody camera too

Saturday 12 February 2011

Worksop Town 1 v. FC Halifax Town 1 - Evo-Stik Premier & Mansfield Town 3 v.Newport County 3 - Blue Square Premier

Worksop Town kicking off at 3pm and Mansfield Town at 7.15pm ... on a Saturday!
I'll have some of that :-)

Sketchy details to follow in a bit
Erm, the Worksop v Halifax programme had
a picture of Colwyn Bay's ground on the cover.
You've got to be in it to ... err, be in it.
Nowhere even close again.

Wednesday 9 February 2011

Maltby Main 0 v. Handsworth 2 - NCEL League Cup 3rd Round

NCEL League Cup 3rd Round at Muglet Lane

Maltby Main (0) 0
Handsworth (0) 2 (Micky Godber 75, Sam Smith 90)

Admission £5, Programme £1.50, Attendance 68

More to follow, but not much more, watch this space
The Railway Enders from Handsworth like their flag
But the Elders of Maltby aren't so keen
Ah, Maltby, where the floodlights play havoc with your photos

Tuesday 8 February 2011

Alfreton Town 1 v. Mansfield Town 2 - F.A. Trophy 3rd Round Replay

Bits and pieces about the game, half baked observations and untethered vitriol to follow in due course
Before



During
After