Getting used to Village Green football

Saturday 19 December 2020, Scole United 2 Mundford 1 - Anglian Combination, Premier Division, Ransome Avenue

With Boris producing new tiers as quick as Liverpool scoring goals against Palace, it seems any football we watch for a while will be local, so today instead of Step 5 or 6, we found ourselves watching Step 7 football close to the Suffolk/Norfolk border.

Scole started the better team and dominated the first half and went in two up at the break. Mundford did not play badly but were too quick to blame the ref or others when it did not go right.

Second half started and it seemed Mundford were going to let their football do the talking and they soon got a goal back. Scole then took back control and Mundford went back to arguing. In the end a deserved win for the home team. 

9 months away, and the football is still poor.

 Saturday 12 December 2020, Ipswich Town 0 Portsmouth 2 - League One, Portman Road

But it was still good to be back!

We start again

 Saturday 5 December 2020, North Greenford United 2 Walsham-Le-Willows 1 - FA Vase 2nd Round, Berkeley Fields

Arrived to find a very narrow entrance to the car park, so decided to park in the road, seems a car can get through but the club have no one on gate all time so second gate is padlocked shut- narrow gates would be mentioned again!

Basic ground, but a good crowd in attendance with a few from Suffolk. Very evn first 7 minutes then a Walsham player went to ground, seemed he may have broke his collar bone and was in a bad way - they decided not to put him on a stretcher and instead wait for an ambulance.

After about 25 minutes the ambulance arrived, but could not get through the gates to the ground as they were too narrow for the ambulance!!

Player left for hospital and the first half re-started with 40 minutes injury time!

Walsham were caught cold and Northwood put the pressure on and took the lead, this did walk the visitors up and they got back on terms after missing a few other chances to get level.

Second half was even with both teams playing good football - it was the home team who scored with not long left on the clock, but long enough for the home keeper to have to make a great save from a direct free kick.

North Greenford go into the 3rd Round, but neither team really deserved to lose.