10.15am 23 February 2019
Manchester Saturday Morning League, Division Two
Fielden Park 2 Heston 7 (att 8)
Hough End Playing Fields are Manchester's equivalent of the capital's Hackney Marshes, with multiple pitches stretching into the distance. Given the amount of football played there I'm not sure why it's taken me so long to visit.
It perhaps says something about the state of amateur football in England at the moment that on a fine Saturday morning only two pitches were in use. None of the others were staging so much as a impromptu kickabout.
My game, in the second tier of Manchester's Saturday morning league, was on the pitch closest to the car park and to the graffiti-covered former changing rooms, now redundant following the recent addition of an adjacent sports centre.
The pitch wasn't great, perhaps a clue as to why so many teams use facilities elsewhere, but it was an entertaining game.
Visitors Heston were ahead early and played some decent football as they established a commanding 4-1 lead by half time. Fielden Park struggled to stay in the game, and any chance they had disappeared when a second half penalty went tamely wide. Late goals added gloss to Heston's win.
Manchester Saturday Morning League, Division Two
Fielden Park 2 Heston 7 (att 8)
Hough End Playing Fields are Manchester's equivalent of the capital's Hackney Marshes, with multiple pitches stretching into the distance. Given the amount of football played there I'm not sure why it's taken me so long to visit.
It perhaps says something about the state of amateur football in England at the moment that on a fine Saturday morning only two pitches were in use. None of the others were staging so much as a impromptu kickabout.
My game, in the second tier of Manchester's Saturday morning league, was on the pitch closest to the car park and to the graffiti-covered former changing rooms, now redundant following the recent addition of an adjacent sports centre.
The pitch wasn't great, perhaps a clue as to why so many teams use facilities elsewhere, but it was an entertaining game.
Visitors Heston were ahead early and played some decent football as they established a commanding 4-1 lead by half time. Fielden Park struggled to stay in the game, and any chance they had disappeared when a second half penalty went tamely wide. Late goals added gloss to Heston's win.
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