2.30pm 2 June 2018
SJFA East Region, Premier League
Fauldhouse United 0 Tayport 4 (att 130)
There may have been nothing at stake at Park View but Scottish Junior games tend to be competitive right up to the season's end and this was no exception.
The difference between the sides was the visitors' sharpness in front of goal, and they scored once in the first half and three times after the break for a comprehensive win. The game was closer than the score suggests though, and Tayport's last two goals were both late in the game.
League positions weren't going to change whatever the result, with Fauldhouse finishing runners-up and Tayport fourth. Both sides are promoted to the East Region's top flight next season, but it remains to be seen exactly what that league will look like given the exodus of the region's junior clubs to the senior game.
While the East of Scotland League will have tripled in size come 2018/19, what's left of the East Region juniors might be well be playing out one of the final seasons for that grade of non-League football.
I just hope that if the junior game is eventually subsumed into senior football - and it now looks to be a matter of when rather than if - then it doesn't get too sanitised. It'd be a terrible shame if a scourge of the English non-League pyramid, clipboard-wielding ground graders, were allowed to condemn some of the wonderfully-old junior grounds with their crumbling terracing.
Fauldhouse's ground is neat and tidy enough for senior football though. Its main feature is a large covered enclosure by the halfway line that was home, for this game at least, to a group of Buckfast-drinking home fans.
More unusual is the seated stand behind the goal at the car park end, converted from a lorry trailer and popular when it rained during the second half. The rest of the ground is open standing, with some grass banking. Much of the perimeter is lined with trees which also provided some welcome shelter from the rain.
SJFA East Region, Premier League
Fauldhouse United 0 Tayport 4 (att 130)
There may have been nothing at stake at Park View but Scottish Junior games tend to be competitive right up to the season's end and this was no exception.
The difference between the sides was the visitors' sharpness in front of goal, and they scored once in the first half and three times after the break for a comprehensive win. The game was closer than the score suggests though, and Tayport's last two goals were both late in the game.
League positions weren't going to change whatever the result, with Fauldhouse finishing runners-up and Tayport fourth. Both sides are promoted to the East Region's top flight next season, but it remains to be seen exactly what that league will look like given the exodus of the region's junior clubs to the senior game.
While the East of Scotland League will have tripled in size come 2018/19, what's left of the East Region juniors might be well be playing out one of the final seasons for that grade of non-League football.
I just hope that if the junior game is eventually subsumed into senior football - and it now looks to be a matter of when rather than if - then it doesn't get too sanitised. It'd be a terrible shame if a scourge of the English non-League pyramid, clipboard-wielding ground graders, were allowed to condemn some of the wonderfully-old junior grounds with their crumbling terracing.
Fauldhouse's ground is neat and tidy enough for senior football though. Its main feature is a large covered enclosure by the halfway line that was home, for this game at least, to a group of Buckfast-drinking home fans.
More unusual is the seated stand behind the goal at the car park end, converted from a lorry trailer and popular when it rained during the second half. The rest of the ground is open standing, with some grass banking. Much of the perimeter is lined with trees which also provided some welcome shelter from the rain.
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