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Ford Escorts Pinxton Into Round 3.

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  Derbyshire Senior Cup 2nd Round. A rainy night in Pinxton On a rain soaked night at the Roofsol Welfare Arena Pinxton hosted Dronfield Town in the Derbyshire Senior Cup 2 nd Round. The home side fell at this hurdle last season to Staveley MW and though they had home advantage, they had recently lost 3-0 at Dronfield in the UCL Division 1. It wouldn’t be easy. Biblical When I say rain soaked, it was of biblical proportions throughout the first half only easing to heavy rain for the 2 nd period. Talk amongst most folk was when the game would be called off, would it be prior to kick off or what minute of the game. None of us expected it to finish. That it did was a testament to the efforts of the people who look after the pitch and that the game was so entertaining and without any serious injury was thanks to the performance of the players and match officials.   Ref Jack Simpson, his decision to play the game was vindicated. Despite losing at Dronfield in the League g...
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Pinxton's Progress.

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The Derbyshire Senior Cup starts at The Roofsol Welfare Arena. Three ties start off this season’s Derbyshire Senior Cup and my choice was the very welcoming Pinxton for their tie against Holbrook Sports. I’d seen Sports in last season’s 1st round when they won at Borrowash Vics before losing heavily to Clay Cross Town in round 2.  This was going to be equally as tough with Pinxton being in the step 6 United Counties Division 1 and Holbrook being one step lower in the Central Midlands Alliance Premier South. Coincidentally, both sides play at grounds which were historically belonging to their local Miners Welfare and have paraphernalia for those historic links on their badges.  The Roofsol Welfare Arena.  Firstly a bit of background to the home club. Pinxton were formed in 1994 and starting off in the local Mansfield Bitter League before they decided to test themselves at a higher level and move to the Midland Regional Alliance (MRA). The MRA wasn’t a pathway into the pyra...
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Out of Season

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  Coping without football (almost). Pilsley Community, Chesterfield Sunday League Alma Cup Winners. Thankfully, the gap between one season ending and the next starting is shrinking to the point of being almost invisible. If you follow just one club the gap is more identifiable from the last game of the season to your first pre-season friendly, but for those of us who go to other games, such as local cup finals, other teams play-off games etc, then avoiding reality is a little easier. Following my final game of last season, the Chesterfield Sunday League's Alma Cup Final and all the photos have been edited and the records updated it’s then time to reconnect with normal life.  It can be scary.  The conundrum is how do we integrate back into society, even for those few weeks when going to a ground is taken away.  This Summer I had a big shock when I realised my wife had her own life that she was living. I can tell you, I was quite surprised when on my first free Sat...
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