Retford have stuttered a little over the last few months but are still well placed to make the playoffs. They have made great progress in cup competitions though and will take on Boston United in the unibond league cup final at Lincoln United's Ashby Avenue ground on the 21st of April. The Badgers also booked their place in the Nottinghamshire senior cup final on Tuesday night by beating Dunkirk 4-0 at home. The final is played at Notts county's meadow lane and will be against either Forest Town or Eastwood Town, who meet on April the 13th.
To say Durham city have had a rough ride this year is an understatement. A major sponsor pulled out on the eve of the season and all the players had to be released. In their place the club signed up a lot of 18/19 year olds from the local university. The result is that all but two games have been lost and some by huge margins (10-0 by Boston United for example) Great credit must go the the club for carrying on when many clubs would just have folded. Their goal difference going into this game was -124. A final kick in the teeth was when the league took the 6 points off them that they'd won due to fielding an ineligible player.
New covering behind the goal
Off the field Retford have passed the required ground grading to gain promotion. It was touch and go but they now have the green light which is great news for the club and the town. Many drinks were raised to the man who had a big hand in getting a hell of a lot of the work done in the weatherspoons pub before the match (Chelsea Bastard ;-) ) although as he said he had nothing to do with the covering behind the goal. I was too late down to the pub to have a breakfast with the guys but i had a very nice one in the works canteen and was still in the pub for 12.30pm drinking high quality Czech Kozel larger at £2.35 per bottle (not 80p) if you haven't tried this then you haven't lived!! More pubs need to stock this!
We got up to the ground and i followed a Worksop Town fan in who was doing his third Retford United match on the trot. After picking up the Programme the first stop as ever was the bar and a pint of lager. I can't remember what it was but it cost £2.60. We left the bar just as the teams were kicking off.
The weather was abit crap so after a quick stroll round to get some pics i parked my fat arse in the new seated section of the stand to watch the match.
Its a grim job- Durham City's match reporters look on
Nice ditch
The first half was quite one sided with Retford hardly breaking sweat and storming into a 4 goal lead. The pick of the goals being Paul Ellenender's long range effort that found the bottom corner a minute or so before half time. The bar was again visited and due to being late out of it i missed Durham City's goal!
Due to the crap weather i stood behind the new covering behind the goal for the second half which was as one sided as the first. Durham never gave up though and battled on till the end. The crowd exchanged good natured banter with the Durham keeper as the match went on. Retford added two further goals but it could have been more. After the match we went back to the bar, left at about 6.45 then it was back into town for more beer, surprise surprise! I watched the first half of Tranmere v Norwich, then went for a kebab and zonked out at home.
A good time was had by all and as you can see from the picture below it was smiles all round!
Yep theres always some twat with a camera about!!
Admission £8
Programme £2
Man of the match Chelsea Rob
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