Game in Hyde Drink in Brighouse

Hyde United 2 v Colwyn Bay 2

Northern Premier League, First Division North

Thursday 29 December 2016

Twitter @ball_sup

Good game. Four good goals as the game came alive in the second half. Fourth choice mind. I'm enabling some self harm for a friend visiting from overseas. Hopping of the ground variety.

Cold Night.

First choice. Buxton. Called off at 1416.
Second choice. Brighouse Town.
Third choice. Farsley Celtic. Called off at 1633.

We'd left Sheffield. Headed North for whichever of Brighouse or Farsley was on. Brighouse had an inspection & “as it stands” pronounced the game on at 1559. We rocked up at the Brighouse ground. Were ushered into a car parking space. We cheerily asked the fella “is the game on?”.

Yes. And, he pointed us to the gate & teabar. We about faced to the Pub. That'll be the Pub where I had a very poor phone signal & no Twitter. That'll be the Pub where I couldn't log on to their WiFi. That'll be The Old Pond Inn on Spout House Lane.

That Pub is famous. It's the one where through a much garbled set of phone exchanges with Mrs Ball Sup sat in Mission Control Sheffield. I found out the Brighouse game had, in fact, been fucking called off at 1825. The Mad West Yorkshire Bastards.

Let the record show. Tetleys Bitter on cask at 3.7%.

Synthetic 3G or whatnot pitch at Hyde United. Tested & rated to minus 8 degrees I'm told. It's. The. Future.

Promoted to first choice from fourth. A boisterous crowd. I now know a number of songs about Stalybridge Celtic. I now know a number of unreconstructed terms for Gay people.

423/870