6.30pm 22 August 2018
Cheshire League, League One
Vulcan 2 Winstanley Warriors 1 (att 30)
Groundhopping doesn't always go to plan. Last week I drove to Mesnes Park in Newton-le-Willows only to discover that Vulcan's opponents couldn't muster 11 players for their league fixture and so the game was off.
Thankfully it wasn't a lengthy journey, and I didn't have to wait long to try again. This time I had more success as Winstanley Warriors were warming up on the pitch when I arrived.
It was only late last season that I discovered Vulcan had relocated, slightly, since I last saw them at Mesnes Park in 2011. Their current pitch is in a different part of the park, a short uphill walk from where they played previously.
It's just a basic park pitch, but Vulcan make good use of brightly-coloured stakes, rope and temporary dugouts to turn it into an acceptable football ground.
By rights Vulcan shouldn't be playing at Mesnes Park at all now, but the club are still waiting for a long overdue move into their new ground. It's part of a redevelopment of the old Vulcan Foundry, where locomotives were built before it, along with its sports ground, were closed.
Two first half goals put Vulcan on track for a win against Winstanley. They should have made the game safe with a second half penalty, but it was saved and when the visitors scored a penalty of their own, with two minutes left, it set up a nervy finish for the hosts.
Winstanley never really looked like equalising though, even with an oddly-generous amount of stoppage time which meant it was quite dark when the final whistle was eventually blown.
Cheshire League, League One
Vulcan 2 Winstanley Warriors 1 (att 30)
Groundhopping doesn't always go to plan. Last week I drove to Mesnes Park in Newton-le-Willows only to discover that Vulcan's opponents couldn't muster 11 players for their league fixture and so the game was off.
Thankfully it wasn't a lengthy journey, and I didn't have to wait long to try again. This time I had more success as Winstanley Warriors were warming up on the pitch when I arrived.
It was only late last season that I discovered Vulcan had relocated, slightly, since I last saw them at Mesnes Park in 2011. Their current pitch is in a different part of the park, a short uphill walk from where they played previously.
It's just a basic park pitch, but Vulcan make good use of brightly-coloured stakes, rope and temporary dugouts to turn it into an acceptable football ground.
By rights Vulcan shouldn't be playing at Mesnes Park at all now, but the club are still waiting for a long overdue move into their new ground. It's part of a redevelopment of the old Vulcan Foundry, where locomotives were built before it, along with its sports ground, were closed.
Two first half goals put Vulcan on track for a win against Winstanley. They should have made the game safe with a second half penalty, but it was saved and when the visitors scored a penalty of their own, with two minutes left, it set up a nervy finish for the hosts.
Winstanley never really looked like equalising though, even with an oddly-generous amount of stoppage time which meant it was quite dark when the final whistle was eventually blown.
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