Longest season, almost over

Saturday 19 June 2021, Belton 3 Yarmouth United 6 - New Road, Sports and leisure centre, Offside Trust, Invitational Cup, semi-final

The venue, just outside the village, large car park next to changing room/pavilion. 3 pitches with the one used by Belton the furthest away. Wooden rails on dug out side with advert boards, two substantial dugouts and a wooden tea hut (shut today)

Yarmouth ran out easy winners, they are a new team but seem to be made up of quite experienced players and looked like a few may have played at a higher level in the past. The home side had a number of youngsters in their team. Belton Reserve team were playing away in the other semi.


Football wise, not a great game but 9 goals, and plenty of funny moments made for an enjoyable afternoon. Yarmouth got two early goals then Belton got one back from the spot, Yarmouth added a third before the break.

Second half, saw Yarmouth run amuck, scoring 3 more goals before Belton got two very late consolations.

Funniest bit was when a Yarmouth player went to ground in the penalty box, Belton players shouted to closest defender 'no foul' so he never- but he also failed to tackle or get the ball, so the Yarmouth player just got up and scored!

Watch two sports at the same time

Saturday 29 July 2017, Bungay Town 5 Belton 3 - PSF, Maltings Pavilion

Not a great game and the ref did well to control the second half where a couple of Belton players started to lose their heads. with their number 6 lucky to stay on the pitch.

The first half had seen Bungay take an easy lead but Belton had missed a couple of sitters, in the end Bungay had the better footballers and deserved the win.

Wanted to visit Bungay for a while as new they had a great old stand and the club had become quite famous for some unique match promotions (free punnet of mushrooms for all fans who went tone game!) plus their humorous twitter feed, someone close to the club may not have been so happy as they have decided this year that the twitter feed will concentrate just on football - not sure that is a good decision.

Loved the ground, cracking stand, railed pitch and dugouts plus a quality bar/pavilion.  What did surprise me is that they are going to build a new pavilion and clubhouse, to me the clubhouse they already have is far better than most at far higher levels in non-league football.

Other bonus today is you could watch both Bungay Town FC and Bungay CC play at the same time from the club bar!