I could have gone to an FA Cup tie (4th Qualifying round) today but the distances were a little too far to justify; Alfreton Town, Harrogate, Stockport, York were my nearest venues. I gave in and went to watch AFC Penistone (Penistone Church FC Reserves) at their Memorial ground play our village club, Hepworth United First team, in a cup tie.
AFC play in the Pete Pattiserie's Sheffield and Hallamshire County League Premier. Hepworth are in the Second Division North, so two steps below. The home team won 2-1 in a very lively game where the minnows held their own for the middle part of the game. The start of the game, when AFC got going quickly, did not allow HUFC to settle and then the end of the cup tie proved too much for the Hepworth lads, who were gradually tiring.
After going 0-1 down, then scoring a screamer of a free kick Hepworth were well in the tie, but towards the end the home team's pace out did a tiring defence and a sending off didn't help.
It was mainly a good advert for the game, apart from "boaring" language from the home team's dug out, which obviously was used to help celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. To think we inherited all that stuff. Shame.
The FA Cup threw up some interesting ties with Eastleigh playing North Leigh (6-0), Harrogate Town v FC Halifax Town (0-2), both Lincoln City (0-0) and Lincoln United (0-3) representing the world of Imps, Sutton United surprising the well endowed Forest Green Rovers (2-1) and Taunton Town Tieing with the Town team from Hemel Hempsted (0-0). The prize fund for this round is £12,500 per winner.
Nothing else got in the way of the crowd's enjoyment, unlike at Charlton where....well this happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4HgDooTkGI
Both Charlton and Coventry fans were protesting about their club ownership! Charlton won 3-0.
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