What with the weather still a bit dodgy we decided to do a nice local game as appose to driving down to London to watch the Imps take on Barnet.Most of leagues lower down the league system had called there games off So it gave me a chance to see if Gainsbrough Trinity of the Blue square north premier league had improved since the last time i saw them.
Gainsbrough is only about a 20 minute drive away so i had a swift pint in the old sun in Retford before we set off and got to ground at about 2.00pm.The blues club is one of the smartest club houses around with a tap room,a best room and a large dancing room which is were everybody piles into at half time.Pre game entertainment was served up in the form of Stoke City v Liverpool.I don't watch much premiership football but i do like catching some of whatever game gets the 12.45 pm Saturday slot.it was looking like Liverpool would just about hold on for a draw until Stoke bundled in a late (but deserved) equaliser.Liverpool are in the doll drums at the moment,And in a very similar position to the one Inter found themselves in the early 2000,s.Then they appointed a bright young fresh manager in Roberto Mancini and the title was brought back to the right side of Milan for the 1st time in 20 years Liverpool could well take note of what happened at Inter,Rafa is just taking them backwards and it is only now that Liverpool fans have stopped blaming there American owners and started wondering where has all the money Rafa spent gone?
Mancini is now at Manchester City...Boat missed for Liverpool maybe?
Gainsborough had gone to great lenghts to clear the snow from the pitch so the game could go ahead.Fans had been down at the club for the past three nights removing snow from the pitch so that there hero's could take to the hallow turf.(The pitch is probably the best in Lincolnsire) And as you can see from the pictures above they did a great job.Even if i lived next door to Sincil Bank theres no way i would clear snow from the pitch for the club. Sod it and play it when its warmer would be my words should the call come.
The appointment of Brian Little has,nt had the Impact that everybody connected with the club was hoping for.The club are still in a relegation battle and crowds are dwindling.A few years ago Trinity always managed to get 500 or so through the gate now 300 is the norm.The chairman wants to build a new 4000 seater stadium and take the club forward to the Blue square premier league but at the moment the Unibond league is looking far more likely.
As seems to be the script with all Gainsborough games they started well created plenty of chances than crumbled.Stafford were also in the bottom third of the league
and only 3 points above the home side so it really was a game the blues needed to win and it looked like they would do until ex Imp Nathan Peat made a hash of a clearance to help give Rangers the lead.Like the Eastwood game we saw earlier in the season that Goal took the wind out of Gainsborough's sails although they did still create a few chances more often than not from Luke Beckett.
The Second half produced another flat performance from Trinity as Stafford stretched there lead to three Gainsborough huffed and puffed but all they had to show for there efforts was an injury time penalty from Beckett.
I don't like to say this about a great club like Trinity but having seen them 3 times this season and 4 times last year it looks like the club is sleep walking to Relegation.Some of the players seem to care very little for club and are happy to pick up there wages and go home. Its going to be a long fight till the end of the season and i hope they can stay up as there long term plans look very exciting.If only the players had but as much effort in as the fans did to clear the snow so that the game could go ahead.
Lincoln got a last minute winner to move 6 points clear of the last relegation spot!!!
2009/10 isn't exactly turning out to be a vintage one for Lincolnshire football. All three of the football league sides Scunthorpe in the Championship and Lincoln City and Grimsby in league two are all in relegation battles. As are Gainsborough in the Blue square north and Lincoln United in the Unibond south.In the NECL Lincoln moorland Railway are stuck in the bottom 5 or 6 places as well.
On the plus side Louth Town are looking good in the central midlands league, Oh and that team for a small place called Boston are doing OK in whatever league they are in at the moment.
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