17 April 2012
Lincolnshire League
CGB Humbertherm 1 Skegness United 2 (att 24)
Skegness can no longer win the league title, but they still have second place to battle for, and took control of this game in the first half. As well as scoring twice, they had a goal ruled out for handball and a penalty saved.
If the home side had seemed a bit too laid back in the first half, the same wasn't true in the second. Humbertherm battled well, and the visitors eased off, allowing the home to get a goal back with about 20 minutes remaining.
Humberthem rarely threatened to level though, and Skegness finished the stronger without adding a third goal. As the game wore on, the contest became ever more niggly and bad tempered.
I'd expected Humbertherm's home to be sports ground somewhere in Grimsby, but in fact they play on a playing field in the small village of Fulstow. A surprisingly rural location for what I assume is, or was originally, a works team.
The ground is very basic, just changing rooms and a couple of pitches. Tonight's game was played on the pitch furthest from the changing rooms, which was roped off along the near touchline and behind the left hand goal, with the other sides enclosed by hedges.
After a weekend in the Pyrenees, it was a bit of a change to spend an evening in the flat landscape of Lincolnshire.
Lincolnshire League
CGB Humbertherm 1 Skegness United 2 (att 24)
Skegness can no longer win the league title, but they still have second place to battle for, and took control of this game in the first half. As well as scoring twice, they had a goal ruled out for handball and a penalty saved.
If the home side had seemed a bit too laid back in the first half, the same wasn't true in the second. Humbertherm battled well, and the visitors eased off, allowing the home to get a goal back with about 20 minutes remaining.
Humberthem rarely threatened to level though, and Skegness finished the stronger without adding a third goal. As the game wore on, the contest became ever more niggly and bad tempered.
I'd expected Humbertherm's home to be sports ground somewhere in Grimsby, but in fact they play on a playing field in the small village of Fulstow. A surprisingly rural location for what I assume is, or was originally, a works team.
The ground is very basic, just changing rooms and a couple of pitches. Tonight's game was played on the pitch furthest from the changing rooms, which was roped off along the near touchline and behind the left hand goal, with the other sides enclosed by hedges.
After a weekend in the Pyrenees, it was a bit of a change to spend an evening in the flat landscape of Lincolnshire.
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