Floodlit Pitch

  Warm Welcome. Now that the end of the season is here, for the majority of the leagues, I thought I’d mention my first competitive game of the season. There’s very few Northern League grounds I’ve ticked off, in fact Mike Amos, former Northern League Chairman, once told me my extremely low number of Northern League grounds visited was “piss poor” for someone who calls himself a “groundhopper”. He was right, there isn’t many I’ve been to so in order to add to the total I decided to go up to Tow Law Town for their opening game of the season. The Northern League were one of the first competitions to get underway this season, starting on Friday 28 th July, it was the following day when I visited the wonderful Ironworks Ground. When telling my north-east based work colleagues I intended going to Tow Law they mentioned I’d need my “big coat”, “Tow Law has its own climate” they said. It seems to be what it’s most famous so, big coat in the boot, hat and gloves in the camera bag I set off