10.30am 1 November 2025 Sheffield and District Fair Play League, Division Three Zion New Boyz 5 Doncaster Vulcan 3 (att 12) I visited Maltby Main, or Maltby Miners Welfare as they were then called, way back in 1990. It was a night game so I wouldn't have noticed the playing field adjacent to the ground, but now I've been back and seen a game on it. There are two parallel pitches, with an end-to-end slope down towards Maltby Main's ground. A youth team game was being played on the other pitch, while I focused my attention on the third, and lowest, tier of Sheffield's Saturday morning league. Visitors Doncaster Vulcan won the coin toss and elected to play down the slope, and with a strong wind behind them. They started well, forcing some good saves by the Zion keeper and then going ahead through a well-worked goal. But they failed to make the most of having the conditions in their favour and Zion New Boyz - an 'outreach project' of Zion Evangelical Church who ha...
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