Floodlit Pitch

  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...