2.30pm 19 April 2014
Welsh Alliance, Division Two
Kinmel Bay Sports 3 Meliden 1 (att 43)
A day where I'd been undecided where to go, other than not wanting to travel too far, began at a Manchester Saturday Morning League venue.
Unfortunately there was no sign of activity where Cassidys were due to play Church Inn, so instead I diverted the couple of miles or so to Turn Moss in Stretford, where on one of the many pitches I watched Torpedo Chorlton lose 2-5 at home to Manchester Medics.
Despite the many available pitches, it was played on the same pitch where I'd seen a game in 2006, so not a new ground and hence no separate blog entry.
So my only "tick" for the day was at Kinmel Bay Sports, near Rhyl in north Wales. Not my first visit here either, but unlike last season's attempt today's game was on, and the home side needed points in their quest for promotion.
They got them comfortably, after a not particularly memorable 90 minutes against a Meliden side who offered very little. It took a while for Kinmel Bay to get in front, but they did so before half time.
In the second half a mix up between goalkeeper and defender presented the home side with a soft second goal, and they'd scored a well-taken third before Meliden pulled one back.
Kinmel Bay play on a pitch at the back of the Y Morfa Leisure Centre, and for this level of football it's extremely basic. In effect the only areas easily accessible to spectators amount to about two-thirds of the near touchline, separated by the boundary fence of a small floodlit games area.
The opposite side, where the dugouts are, is fenced off, but is too overgrown with weeds and vegetation to make standing there a viable option. Both ends are open, but with no pitchside barriers, and little room, they're not really for spectators.
It was just about adequate for the day's crowd (that I counted at 43, more realistic than the Welsh Alliance website's fanciful claim that 100 were present), but it'll be interesting to see how it copes when it stages a hop match in front of several hundred in August.
Welsh Alliance, Division Two
Kinmel Bay Sports 3 Meliden 1 (att 43)
A day where I'd been undecided where to go, other than not wanting to travel too far, began at a Manchester Saturday Morning League venue.
Unfortunately there was no sign of activity where Cassidys were due to play Church Inn, so instead I diverted the couple of miles or so to Turn Moss in Stretford, where on one of the many pitches I watched Torpedo Chorlton lose 2-5 at home to Manchester Medics.
Despite the many available pitches, it was played on the same pitch where I'd seen a game in 2006, so not a new ground and hence no separate blog entry.
So my only "tick" for the day was at Kinmel Bay Sports, near Rhyl in north Wales. Not my first visit here either, but unlike last season's attempt today's game was on, and the home side needed points in their quest for promotion.
They got them comfortably, after a not particularly memorable 90 minutes against a Meliden side who offered very little. It took a while for Kinmel Bay to get in front, but they did so before half time.
In the second half a mix up between goalkeeper and defender presented the home side with a soft second goal, and they'd scored a well-taken third before Meliden pulled one back.
Kinmel Bay play on a pitch at the back of the Y Morfa Leisure Centre, and for this level of football it's extremely basic. In effect the only areas easily accessible to spectators amount to about two-thirds of the near touchline, separated by the boundary fence of a small floodlit games area.
The opposite side, where the dugouts are, is fenced off, but is too overgrown with weeds and vegetation to make standing there a viable option. Both ends are open, but with no pitchside barriers, and little room, they're not really for spectators.
It was just about adequate for the day's crowd (that I counted at 43, more realistic than the Welsh Alliance website's fanciful claim that 100 were present), but it'll be interesting to see how it copes when it stages a hop match in front of several hundred in August.
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