Six goal thriller on my doorstep
Maine Road 3-3 Runcorn Linnets
FA Vase 1st Round Proper; attendance 120
Linnets in FA Vase from biffadigital on Vimeo.
Before the Manchester United kick-off at 1730h I planned to get across Chorlton to see a visit by the fans owned club Runcorn Linnets to Brantingham Road. Plenty of those Runcorn fans turned up too. Maine Road chose to swop ends so as to take advantage of the southerly wind blowing across the open ground. It paid off. In spite of the early Runcorn pressure, Road went 2 up by half time.
During the break the feeble loudspeaker announced "the winning ticket is number 127 and you can collect a bottle of whiskey at the tea hut." Wow, that's me so I joined the queue for pies and hot drinks to collect my prize. The Linnets fans, a friendly bunch, despaired at their performance and wrote their side off. Anyway collected a bottle of 'The Famous Grouse' brand, which meant watching the second half with 70cl of Scotch precariously stuffed in my jacket pocket.
Second half with the wind in their favour and the ref getting a lot of stick from the Linnets fans for some questionable decisions they got back level after about ten minutes play. Stood next to a Linnets fan taking notes who compared his notes with a local reporter. The difficulty in covering football at this level is the absence of loudspeaker announcements and a big clock. Who scored, what minute, who came on as sub takes some working out.
A dodgy third goal from Maine Road, the lad appeared to knock the ball out of the keepers hand looked like the winner. But you never know how much injury time is being added on - no announcements. But a late equaliser from possibly a lad called Tom Baker of the Linnets saved the day. He gets his own song from the Linnets fans and is nicknamed Dr. Who. It's a reference to a 1970's Tv series as if you didn't know.
In the FA Vase extra time is played if the scores are level. Couldn't stay as I had an appointment with Blackburn v. United. But no more goals were scored.
Game 42; entrance £5, raffle ticket £1, cup of tea 50p, bus fare home £1.40. Took home a bottle of whisky so a good day out then.
FA Vase 1st Round Proper; attendance 120
Linnets in FA Vase from biffadigital on Vimeo.
Before the Manchester United kick-off at 1730h I planned to get across Chorlton to see a visit by the fans owned club Runcorn Linnets to Brantingham Road. Plenty of those Runcorn fans turned up too. Maine Road chose to swop ends so as to take advantage of the southerly wind blowing across the open ground. It paid off. In spite of the early Runcorn pressure, Road went 2 up by half time.
During the break the feeble loudspeaker announced "the winning ticket is number 127 and you can collect a bottle of whiskey at the tea hut." Wow, that's me so I joined the queue for pies and hot drinks to collect my prize. The Linnets fans, a friendly bunch, despaired at their performance and wrote their side off. Anyway collected a bottle of 'The Famous Grouse' brand, which meant watching the second half with 70cl of Scotch precariously stuffed in my jacket pocket.
Second half with the wind in their favour and the ref getting a lot of stick from the Linnets fans for some questionable decisions they got back level after about ten minutes play. Stood next to a Linnets fan taking notes who compared his notes with a local reporter. The difficulty in covering football at this level is the absence of loudspeaker announcements and a big clock. Who scored, what minute, who came on as sub takes some working out.
A dodgy third goal from Maine Road, the lad appeared to knock the ball out of the keepers hand looked like the winner. But you never know how much injury time is being added on - no announcements. But a late equaliser from possibly a lad called Tom Baker of the Linnets saved the day. He gets his own song from the Linnets fans and is nicknamed Dr. Who. It's a reference to a 1970's Tv series as if you didn't know.
In the FA Vase extra time is played if the scores are level. Couldn't stay as I had an appointment with Blackburn v. United. But no more goals were scored.
Game 42; entrance £5, raffle ticket £1, cup of tea 50p, bus fare home £1.40. Took home a bottle of whisky so a good day out then.
Labels: fa-vase, Non-League
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