3pm 4 July 2026 Pre-season friendly Cranfield United 3 Stotfold 1 (att 73) Like the day's earlier match at Newport Pagnell, this was a return to a club I visited many years ago to see a pre-season game on an adjacent 3G pitch. I ticked off Cranfield United in January 1992. This game was at Cranfield Pavilion, a Bedfordshire FA facility that has its own entrance, car park and pitch-side building. That building, which I assume includes changing rooms, wasn't in use. But the pitch is close enough to United's main ground for the players to change there. The 3G pitch has a spectator area on one side and dugouts opposite. This friendly was slow to get going, which was no surprise on a very warm afternoon. Cranfield United are the lower ranked side, but that means little early in pre-season, and they scored the first half's only goal. Both teams made mass substitutions at half time, before Cranfield extended their lead in the second period. Stotfold got a goal back, but a t...
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