6pm 28 March 2018 Sheffield County Senior League, Division Two New Bohemians 1 Boynton Sports 1 (att 25) The clocks have gone forward and so it's time to begin the annual spring scramble to beat rush hour traffic and make a series of midweek early kick offs. Getting from Manchester to Sheffield by 6pm is a challenge after work, and despite setting off with what should have been plenty of time I still arrived at the side of the Forge Valley School pitch just a few minutes before the game got underway. It was worth the effort though, as the sides second and third in the table played out an entertaining and at times feisty draw. Boynton were the better side from the off and deserved their early lead. They lost their way about 10 minutes before half time when they had a player red-carded following an incident in which Boynton thought they'd scored but the referee decided the ball hadn't crossed the line. While the goalmouth scramble, and the arguments that followe...
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