6.30pm 1 April 2026 Manchester League, Division Two Little Lever Sports Club 0 Heywood St James 4 (att 90) This was pitch-hopping more than groundhopping. I was last at Little Lever Sports club 25 years ago, but they've recently converted their second grass pitch to an artificial surface. As far as I can tell the first team usually still plays on the remaining grass pitch, where I saw them in 2001, unless the weather dictates otherwise. However, the club helpfully confirmed that this early evening kick off would instead be on the adjacent 4G. The whole ground is much improved since my 2001 visit. A new building behind the goal of the main pitch provides changing rooms, a snack bar, toilets and even some cover for spectators. On a wet night the cover would have been useful, but it was too far from the caged artificial pitch to be of much help. The floodlights were useful though, and were on from the start on a gloomy evening. The pitch has a spectator area in the centre of on...
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