http://www.thefa.com/news/2016/nov/02/history-of-the-fa-cup
It is FA Cup weekend with the Preliminary Round taking place over the weekend. There has already been an Extra Preliminary Rd. Local side Penistone Church FC was beaten by Skelmersdale FC during the week in a replay with PCFC having earned a 1-1 draw away from home. They didn't make much of home advantage and were thumped 2-5 ending their campaign. Skem have made no further progress losing to City of Liverpool FC today 2-1.
Another local club to me, Stocksbridge Park Steels FC (Jamie Vardy's old club) lost to Irlam from over the Pennines 2-3. Stars of TV in the last round, Broadbridge Heath FC, one of those "small clubs" in West Sussex, that must have had serious investment, beat Hasting United 6-1, away.
Bear in mind that Bobby Smith (yes the Spurs and England CF from the 1960s), once played for Hastings United in the FA Cup against Horsham Town FC (I was a young schoolboy at this time and went to the game) in the 1966-7 season. I watch this "hero" lollop around the Queen Street pitch, not helping much in a defeat. In the next round Horsham met Swindon Town at home with Don Rogers (remember him?) and eventually caved in. But a brave effort in front of a record crowd, they lost 0-3.
A curiosity in this year's next round could have been a tie between Loughborough Dynamo FC v Loughborough University FC. Dynamo drew 2-2 with Shearwood Colliery, so still have a hand on the cup, but the students lost 1-4 to Maltby Main FC, another colliery team (by name).
Which brings me on to Pontefract Collieries FC, the Colls, a club founded only in 1958, (NOW Level 8, Northern Premier League Div 1 North-west).
They entertained Hebburn Town FC from the north-east, Tyne and Wear, (NOW Level 9 in the Northern League which was founded in 1882-the second oldest league).
The Pontefract ground is in the shadow of some cooling towers, a busy "coal delivering" railway line with huge numbers of trucks per train, the Town Castle and the Liquorice Bush pub-see below-next to the Luxury Gentleman's Grooming shop. Pontefract Cakes......we didn't find a shop selling them.
Hebburn are known as the "Reyrolles" from the original company team based on an electrical engineering firm.
I went to the game with Steve Beckwith, a local dedicated junior football coach, who just needed to watch some adult football at the National League standard to give him ideas.
Despite the difference in rank, the game ended 1-1 and with 11 v 11 on the pitch, remarkable....a forgiving ref!)
And that was an FA Cup tie....replay in the midweek! I am not going.
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