Maine Rd v. Brigg Town cup replay
Maine Road 1-2 Brigg Town
FA Cup Preliminary Round (replay) attendance 90
Maine Road play at a very small ground near here, ten minutes door to door in the car. Might as well make use of a warmish, damp Tuesday night to clock up another game and get to my target of 50 this year. A last minute goal by Brigg Town on Saturday had forced a replay so they had to travel up from Lincolnshire to the suburbs of South Manchester.
The game was played at break neck speed. Basically you get the ball, run for goal and look for the killer pass that would put someone through. The teams look very young so maybe they have a lot of energy to burn. Maine Road scored first after about 15 minutes and it looked promising . Brigg however got stuck in, and got the equaliser in a goal mouth mess of bodies. If you don't clear your lines you get punished especially at this level.
Second half was mostly a conversation with three football travellers. We started talking about the forthcoming England games, and got into the finances of football and the quality of grounds. I didn't know about 3 sided and 5 sided football grounds until tonight. One supported Worksop Town who have lost their ground thanks to a supposed financial saviour, another was a Bradford Park Avenue fan who lived in Sale, and a student lad who follows FC United. You wonder why we're here watching a team associated with the blue half of Manchester.
Meanwhile Brigg scored again with a good strike on goal, and whilst Maine Road battled on, the game slowly slipped away. We all slipped away to our homes.
Game 34; Admission £6, programme £1 (normally a lot of adverts but this time a good history section with every season's stats covered).
FA Cup Preliminary Round (replay) attendance 90
Maine Road play at a very small ground near here, ten minutes door to door in the car. Might as well make use of a warmish, damp Tuesday night to clock up another game and get to my target of 50 this year. A last minute goal by Brigg Town on Saturday had forced a replay so they had to travel up from Lincolnshire to the suburbs of South Manchester.
The game was played at break neck speed. Basically you get the ball, run for goal and look for the killer pass that would put someone through. The teams look very young so maybe they have a lot of energy to burn. Maine Road scored first after about 15 minutes and it looked promising . Brigg however got stuck in, and got the equaliser in a goal mouth mess of bodies. If you don't clear your lines you get punished especially at this level.
Second half was mostly a conversation with three football travellers. We started talking about the forthcoming England games, and got into the finances of football and the quality of grounds. I didn't know about 3 sided and 5 sided football grounds until tonight. One supported Worksop Town who have lost their ground thanks to a supposed financial saviour, another was a Bradford Park Avenue fan who lived in Sale, and a student lad who follows FC United. You wonder why we're here watching a team associated with the blue half of Manchester.
Meanwhile Brigg scored again with a good strike on goal, and whilst Maine Road battled on, the game slowly slipped away. We all slipped away to our homes.
Game 34; Admission £6, programme £1 (normally a lot of adverts but this time a good history section with every season's stats covered).
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