Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2012 22:07:11 GMT
I went to the FA Cup game between Worksop Town and Frickley Athletic on Friday evening. This was a close, occasionally tetchy encounter which Frickley eventually won 2-0. I wonder what such a fixture would have been like in 1984/85?
It’s a pretty convoluted story as to why the game was played on Friday. Something, I believe, about the ground being needed for both another match and a wedding on Saturday afternoon. The basis of the story is that – after being instrumental in the building of the ground twenty-odd years ago – Worksop Town now find themselves tenants of Worksop Parramore, a club which play several levels below them. And, to add to the complication, Parramore are a one-time Sheffield works team who have only moved to Worksop in recent years.
And it’s really just the latest twist in the story of Worksop Town and Sandy Lane which has seen the club play out-of-town whilst awaiting its' construction, eventually move in, leave again and then return.
The ground was built in the early 1990s to replace Worksop Town’s former ground in the centre of town at Central Avenue. This was adjacent to Worksop Cricket Ground which, over the years, often hosted Nottinghamshire CCC. Football was played at Central Avenue for the best part of a hundred years and, indeed, Worksop Town claim origins as far back as 1861 making them – as you’ve no doubt worked out - one of the oldest clubs in the world (there’s a lot of those in these parts). The record football crowd at Central Avenue was 8,171 for the 1925 FA Cup visit of the mighty Chesterfield.
Here’s a few pictures of a sunny Friday evening at Sandy Lane, Worksop which were taken when the light was at its best:
It’s a pretty convoluted story as to why the game was played on Friday. Something, I believe, about the ground being needed for both another match and a wedding on Saturday afternoon. The basis of the story is that – after being instrumental in the building of the ground twenty-odd years ago – Worksop Town now find themselves tenants of Worksop Parramore, a club which play several levels below them. And, to add to the complication, Parramore are a one-time Sheffield works team who have only moved to Worksop in recent years.
And it’s really just the latest twist in the story of Worksop Town and Sandy Lane which has seen the club play out-of-town whilst awaiting its' construction, eventually move in, leave again and then return.
The ground was built in the early 1990s to replace Worksop Town’s former ground in the centre of town at Central Avenue. This was adjacent to Worksop Cricket Ground which, over the years, often hosted Nottinghamshire CCC. Football was played at Central Avenue for the best part of a hundred years and, indeed, Worksop Town claim origins as far back as 1861 making them – as you’ve no doubt worked out - one of the oldest clubs in the world (there’s a lot of those in these parts). The record football crowd at Central Avenue was 8,171 for the 1925 FA Cup visit of the mighty Chesterfield.
Here’s a few pictures of a sunny Friday evening at Sandy Lane, Worksop which were taken when the light was at its best:
