Sorry for the lack of pictures,as its starting to get dark for the evening games now its getting hard to get decent pictures for the blog.If anybody wants to become the official mind of an Imp camera blog sponsor for the 2009-10 season then please get in touch.
Tonight's match was the one than most of non league football fans in north Nottinghamshire had been looking forward to for years Worksop Town v Retford United. The downside however being that firstly it was a night match and secondly due to reasons known only to Worksops ex chairman Worksop have to play there home match's at Iikseton towns New Manor ground (70 mile round trip from Worksop).The people there now deserve a medal for keeping the club going.
On the way there we had another great quote from Baz saying that " the ground can't be down here" (i said it was) needless to say it appeared on the left hand side soon afterwards. trust me boys with the force the west street sith is strong!!
I like the New Manor ground. there is covering on three sides of the stadium and one side is all seated. As normal with the Retford Imps the food bar was visited first.I got a cheese burger for £2 its was ok, the cheese was fresh,the burger well cooked but the bread was quite cheap. the tea was ok, but the milk was served in those crappy little plastic cartons.
I would say the crowd was about 50/50 which is what you would expect for a game which is in effect being played on a neutral venue.It was good to see some many people i knew from Retford ( and a few from Worksop) Work mates,drinking mates former darts team mates, it seemed half of retford was there. and thanks for the nice comments on the blog, its nice to know people read this tripe!
Retford were by far and away the better side in the first half they went 1-0 up just on 45 but in truth should have been out of sight by then.
the second half was as good as i have seen this season. Worksop got it back to 1-1 then went behind to a very unlucky own goal.Gary Townsend made it 2-2 with a goal that can only be described as "Adamesque" i didn't score than many goals when i was playing but when i did they tended to be belters,(Felice will back we up on this one)just like this shot from the edge of the box.The tigers then took the lead for the first time only for Retford to get a great counter attacking goal from goal machine Mick Gober to make it 3-3 this lead to Retford finishing the stronger of the two sides but it stayed 3-3.
There was a bit of banter between the two sets of fans with alot of peole knowing somebody from the other side but there is only 7 miles between the two towns.It was a bit disappointing to hear one fan try and start a chant about worksop being shit and having no ground, but you always get a prat or two,
All in all a great local derby played in the right way.It would have been better had it been played in Worksop so lets all hope the future is brighter for the tigers (and for the badgers who's ground needs a bit of work ASAP).I will more than likely be at the second derby match between the two sides as Lincoln are at crewe the same day.
until then....
Admission £8
Programme £1.50 not great to be honest not much to read but with whats going on at the club its hardly surprising that there isn't more in it 5/10
Badge £3
clubhouse 7/10
food- burger £2- 7/10
Tea 80p-5/10 the milk in plastic cartons is always crap
Ground 9/10 both clubs here tonight need to have a good look at this stadium to see where they need to be.
Game quality 9/10 best game i have seen yet this year.
We had a great little quiz on the way back trying to name all 53 countries in Africa,needless to say we failed, if you ever have a boring car journey try it some time!!
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