A NEW SEASON BEGINS ON HERITAGE DAY

My Under 12 s lost 3-4 today in their first league game in Division 6 of the Huddersfield and District Junior League. Sad because if you score 3 you would like to think you would win! But Ossett Town U12s were impressive (this was their C team by the way) and fair enough we live to fight on next weekend at Greetlands...where ever that is?

Ossett, somewhere between Wakefield and Dewsbury, has two senior teams, Town and Albion and they both play in the Northern Premier League Division One North, definitely part of the pyramid.

Town was founded in 1936 by the Mayor, who as a local referee, wanted the highest standard of football possible for his town. Albion was formed after the war. Town played in various leagues until the restructuring and after starting in the Leeds League, one of the nicest they must have been in was the Heavy Woollen League, that they graced for a while.

In the Yorkshire League, as they made progress, they played professional clubs reserve teams so players such as Dennis Law, Tommy Taylor and Jackie Charlton would have played in the Ingfield in their time.

By selling their start player, Derrick Blackburn, to Swansea in 1957 for £1350, the club was able to buy the land and build their new ground at Ingfield, now called the 4G and Data Stadium.
in 1988 Manchester United came across the Pennines to play a pre-season friendly to open the new floodlights and in 2001-2, the club missed promotion to the Northern Premier because their ground improvements were completed 12 hours after the deadline-pedantic.

So, well done Ossett Town (and Albion), we had a charming game against your lads today and the save your keeper made in the final minutes to stop us equalising was magnificent.
"THAT WHICH IS USELESS IS MADE USEFUL THROUGH SKILL" the coat of arms has all the great things known to Ossett in history. The unicorn is the nickname of the Albion!