Photograph taken outside Frickley Athletic's ground a couple of years ago.Old photographs help to break up the boring text on this blog ... don't they?
Saturday 14th November 2009. UniBond Premier League
At the New Manor Ground, Ilkeston
Worksop Town (0) 1 (Danny Bacon 68)
Bradford Park Avenue (2) 3 (Mattie James 16, Chris Hall 24, Steve Downes 70 pen)
Admission Season Ticket, Others £8 (Concessions £4),
Programme £2, Attendance 168
The M1 was closed northbound and southbound between Junctions 29 & 30 from early this morning (still shut when I arrived home too) which caused the kick off to be delayed and probably had an adverse effect on the attendance too.
"It's raining men. Hallelujah!" Some eye candy for our lady readers.Left click image for super sized version.
Steve Dickinson in the visitors goal saved early on from a Kris Bowler effort, but it was Avenue who opened the scoring at the other end when Mattie James whacked the ball home on 16 minutes. Some people seemed to think there was an infringement in the build up, but you have to play to the whistle (or lack of) and James took his chance well.
In the wind and drizzle, but playing the first half with the wind behind their backs, the Tigers were struggling to find any cohesion ... Bradford weren't though and a well worked move down the right flank saw Simon Baldry's cross find Chris Hall in the box who wasn't in the mood to miss from that range. 24 minutes gone, with the visitors two ahead, Worksop looked as if they'd had the stuffing knocked out of them.
The home side did force a few corners but they came to nothing.
In essence and in windswept Ilkeston, the first 45 minutes belonged to Bradford Park Avenue.
In the wind and drizzle, but playing the first half with the wind behind their backs, the Tigers were struggling to find any cohesion ... Bradford weren't though and a well worked move down the right flank saw Simon Baldry's cross find Chris Hall in the box who wasn't in the mood to miss from that range. 24 minutes gone, with the visitors two ahead, Worksop looked as if they'd had the stuffing knocked out of them.
The home side did force a few corners but they came to nothing.
In essence and in windswept Ilkeston, the first 45 minutes belonged to Bradford Park Avenue.
The Tigers resurgence was short lived however and straight from the restart BPA attacked and Simon Baldry was pushed over in the box by Adam Green. Steve Downes drilled the resultant spot kick home and effectively sealed all three points for the visitors.
Worksop's grim afternoon got worse when Danny Anson was dismissed for a second bookable offence on 73 minutes.
"God bless Mother Nature!"There was a a bit of a scuffle late in the game after a reckless lunge from Worksop's Ryan Hindley who's frustration had got the better of him, where I wouldn't have been too surprised to see both Hindley and Bradford's Jamie Price dismissed for their part in the affray, but they were both only booked.
Then the linesman called the referee over and pointed out Kris Bowler who also got shown a yellow card ... up in the posh seats directly above the incident my view of events was that Bowler was merely trying to keep certain argumentative players apart from each other ... unlucky Kris!
Left click team sheet picture to enlargeBradford PA actually wore green
Both teams just about got what their respective performances warranted today and at times the referee and his assistant on the stand side (in the second half) didn't always seem to be keeping up with play very well, although both sides were on the wrong end of a few curious decisions so they were consistent in that respect.
