Northern Counties East Football League
Division One
Tuesday 28 December 2021
Absolutely ridic at Sandygate this afts. The crowd was announced as One Thousand One Hundred And Twenty Eight. 1,128.
Elsewhere in the Northern Counties East, there were 11 more at North Ferriby (1,139). And elsewhere in Step 6, there were 1,171 F Troopers at Falmouth Town. One of the Carrier Bag Firm had a Dr Martens lace malfunction on the way up to Sandygate. Which meant we were about ten minutes late for the rendezvous. We should have known we were in for a bumper crowd. Because, when we walked into the 1860 Bar, it was absolutely heaving. Five deep. Of course, one of the many things the club have got right is bar staff. So, we still had the beers on sharpish.
And, I'm not going to be critical, but every time we went back for Re Ups or Pee Ups, the 1860 was still mobbed. Come on. You know who you are. Some of you never left the bar. I won't judge.
Today, all we could find were tins of Crosspool Ale Makers Society, On The Loose, New World IPA at 5.1%.
That'll do nicely to celebrate the Hallam W. Which put Hallam Top Of The League. (North Ferriby got beat two nil at home). Which, in turn sent the On The Loose tins celebration deep into the evening.
Another fired up Hallam performance. I clearly saw a Hallam fist go into a Brigg chin right in front of the dugouts & the lino in the first minute. Lucky to get yellow I felt. Iren Wilson made it 1-0 on 15. Both sides had chances after that. But, it stayed one nil as they broke for HT. Some football watchers then joined the beer drinkers in the 1860 Bar to see how the other half live.
Brigg Town, who let me say had contributed both to the record crowd & to the beer intake, equalised with a penalty just as Half Two got under way. But only four mins later, Iren got his second to put The Countrymen ahead. That set everything up for a manic last ten. Hallam went 3-1 on 82. But Town clawed one back almost immediately. Frantic at the end. But a great three two win.
Some punters left the bar. Some entered. It was that sort of afternoon.
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