7.45pm 8 September 2026
Midland Football League, Division One
Anstey Town 1 FCV Grace Dieu 1 (att 47)
Anstey Town are among the teams newly-promoted into National League System this season, having come up from the Leicestershire Senior League.
They've had a tough start at the higher level, with some heavy defeats, so will probably be pleased to have won a hard-earned point against FCV Grace Dieu.
Both goals were scored in the first half. The visitors, the senior side of the FCV International Football Academy, opened the scoring early on.
At that stage it looked like being another difficult evening for Anstey Town, but they got back into the game and equalised shortly before half time. There were no more goals, although it was Grace Dieu who looked more likely to get one.
When I last saw Anstey Town at home, more than 20 years ago, they played at a long-gone ground in the village of Thurcaston. They now play marginally closer to Anstey at Beaumont Park in Beaumont Leys.
Regular readers with exceptional memories and an obsessive attention to detail might recall that I visited Beaumont Park, the De Montfort University sports ground, in 2023.
That was for a Leicester Atletico home game on the 3G pitch. Anstey Town use an adjacent grass pitch. It's railed off on three sides, with hard standing on two, and there's a pair of small stands, one with seats. Dugouts are on the far side, which borders a second floodlit grass pitch.
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