The season starts for real

Wednesday 2 September 2020, Park View 1 Hashtag United 2 - FA Cup, Extra Preliminary Round, New River Sports Stadium

Pre-season over, one that fans seem more interested in this year- because of the lack of live sport for last 6 months. But now the real fun starts- competitive football and nothing beats the FA Cup.

So it was drizzling, it was in an athletics stadium, no bar, no hot food but it was still enjoyable,

As athletics stadiums go, the New River stadium does have a decent stand, and even ten rows of terracing the other side of the pitch, but what made this enjoyable was it was a good game of football.

Hashtag United may have a bad name, a club from nowhere, on their third ground (this was like coming home, as their first ground was also on white Hart Lane)  and involved in 'You tube' but forget that, what I found was a good team, a large away following that included many girls, families and good mix - so I think they will prosper. their opponents only started at step 6 last year but they have also come a long way in football terms if still rooted in the community they started in. A team based round the Ghanaian ex pat community, but now they take players from anywhere in Tottenham and they also want to play good football.

It was  Park View who took the lead but Hashtag hit back from the spot. Park View also lost two players to injury in the first half. The first half was quite even, but in the second half, Hashtag dominated and it was only the efforts of the Park View keeper who manged to keep the goal tally for the visitors to 2 goals.

So the season has started officially, competitive football - but it still feels strange - but the way the crowd stayed to the end - was obvious that people were just happy to be ack watching live sport.