7pm 14 May 2026
Derbyshire Summer League
Mickleover Athletic 13 Darley Abbey 2 (att 20)
Despite its long history it had looked, until just a few weeks ago, as if the Derbyshire Summer League might fold due to a lack of teams. Ultimately though seven have signed up for 2026.
One of those is Mickleover Athletic, who have two sides in the Central Midlands Alliance League. I'm not sure how many first teamers took part in this opening fixture, but they were far too strong for Darley Abbey.
It took the home side three minutes to open the scoring, and they were soon adding more goals. They netted ten before half time. Darley's two goals were also in the first half, a penalty to make it 4-1, and a second that made it 5-2.
As often happens when a team is well ahead by half time, they lost momentum after the break. Although there would have been more goals had it not been for the Darley Abbey keeper. The referee gave the visitors a helping hand by blowing for full time a few minutes early.
Mickleover Athletic are due to play their summer league home games at Mickleover FC's ground, where they also play regular season first team matches. For some reason that wasn't available tonight, so this match was moved to the nearby Kingsbridge Recreational Ground.
The pitch is home to AFC Mackworth, who play in the same Sunday league - although not the same division - as Darley Abbey.
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