2pm 23 September 2017
North Lancashire & District League, Division One
Grange 4 Millhead 3 (att 23)
This was real grassroots amateur football at its best, and most entertaining. Two sides whose effort and commitment made up for any lack of skill, plenty of goals, and lovely views from a pitch close to the shore of Morecambe Bay.
To be fair to the players there were some well taken goals, and the quality of the surface at the Memorial Playing Fields, in Grange-over-Sands, would have tested the most skillful of professionals.
Three times Grange went ahead, and each time Millhead hit back to level. The visitors lost their keeper to injury with about half-an-hour left, although the stand-in who took over could do nothing about the home side's decisive fourth goal.
For a league that's mostly based around Lancaster and Morecambe, Grange AFC are a little out on a limb. It's a nice town though, and the football pitch is a good place to enjoy views across the bay.
There's no facilities for spectators, not that you'd expect any at this level. The changing rooms are in a pavilion a fair walk from the pitch, although the playing area feels enclosed, with houses backing on to a grass bank than runs along one side.
One nice, and unusual, touch was a a sign near the park entrance advertising the fixture. A good way of encouraging locals to watch, and to promote the club's sponsors. Whether the mistaken description of the day's visitors as Millhead Reserves (it was actually their first team) was an error, or some sort of mind games designed to put them off, I'm not sure.
North Lancashire & District League, Division One
Grange 4 Millhead 3 (att 23)
This was real grassroots amateur football at its best, and most entertaining. Two sides whose effort and commitment made up for any lack of skill, plenty of goals, and lovely views from a pitch close to the shore of Morecambe Bay.
To be fair to the players there were some well taken goals, and the quality of the surface at the Memorial Playing Fields, in Grange-over-Sands, would have tested the most skillful of professionals.
Three times Grange went ahead, and each time Millhead hit back to level. The visitors lost their keeper to injury with about half-an-hour left, although the stand-in who took over could do nothing about the home side's decisive fourth goal.
For a league that's mostly based around Lancaster and Morecambe, Grange AFC are a little out on a limb. It's a nice town though, and the football pitch is a good place to enjoy views across the bay.
There's no facilities for spectators, not that you'd expect any at this level. The changing rooms are in a pavilion a fair walk from the pitch, although the playing area feels enclosed, with houses backing on to a grass bank than runs along one side.
One nice, and unusual, touch was a a sign near the park entrance advertising the fixture. A good way of encouraging locals to watch, and to promote the club's sponsors. Whether the mistaken description of the day's visitors as Millhead Reserves (it was actually their first team) was an error, or some sort of mind games designed to put them off, I'm not sure.
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