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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2012 13:24:12 GMT
Neighbours who entered into a disastrous groound-sharing arrangement in the recent past. Can you identify them? TEAM A Left home to share with Team B, only to come crawling back again when B were evicted from their own ground. On returning they found they were no longer welcome and were themselves given notice to quit. They are still using the ground but without security of tenure had to take a relegation down the pyramid.    It's another place where football and cricket live next door to each other:  TEAM B Their landlord eventually relented and allowed them to come home to play in front of their bricked-up and condemned stand:  It's a bloomin' shame, though. This isn't a bad stand at all for such a lowly club. Try not to cheat by reading the insufficiently obscured advertising boards now, please:  The photo above has been darkened to avoid giving the game away too easily, but maybe someone will recognise this view:  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2012 14:16:09 GMT
Pit village?
It's not Mansfield Town and AFC Mansfield is it?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2012 20:24:35 GMT
OK, I suppose Team B was just too easy. Here's another glimpse:  The two clubs are not from the same town or village, though. In fact they are not even in the same county. Does that help? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2012 21:20:43 GMT
The two clubs are not from the same town or village, though. In fact they are not even in the same county. Does that help? I originally read Widebeeste's poser on my phone and couldn't properly access his pictures. It was a shot-in-the-dark cheap jibe about Mansfield Town, I'm afraid. Is this tale centred anywhere near Sutton-in-Ashfield, South Normanton or anywhere like that? |
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Post by chambta on Sept 25, 2012 22:26:52 GMT
It looks like Sutton FC's (old) ground and (spit) Mansfield's Field Mill.
Sutton Town's ground is agacent to Mansfield Hosiery Mills CC.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2012 6:55:55 GMT
Chambta, to a fellow Spireite about to develop a secret love for Torquay United (don't worry, I shan't tell anyone on Bob's Board) welcome.
For the two of us, Team A are definitely over the hill.
Barton, from your current home you'd need to catch a train to Chesterfield and then the number 63 bus. I know it goes against your instincts but Go South, young man.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2012 9:59:41 GMT
I'm getting confused because the 63 would take me to Clay Cross.
Now that's a mystery because Clay Cross Town have suddenly appeared from nowhere.
But it appears that Clay Cross are the former Parkhouse FC playing at the recently-sponsor endowed The Devil Made Me Do It Tattoo Studio ground.
They're not to be confused with Parkhouse Colliery who played Jump Home Guard in the FA Cup after the war.
Instead I'm wondering if I would be better taking the Mansfield bus as far as Glapwell.
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Post by chambta on Sept 26, 2012 11:14:23 GMT
Chambta, to a fellow Spireite about to develop a secret love for Torquay United (don't worry, I shan't tell anyone on Bob's Board) welcome. For the two of us, Team A are definitely over the hill. Barton, from your current home you'd need to catch a train to Chesterfield and then the number 63 bus. I know it goes against your instincts but Go South, young man. I've had the good sense to register under a different name as have you! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2012 16:08:01 GMT
Obviously I am living in the past in thinking the number 63 goes to Glapwell, but Barton is correct. This is the grand entrance to Hall Corner. A more rural ground would be hard to find even in the rest of the Central Midlands League:  And this is Mansfield's Bishop Street stand in full colour. To be fair, from the inside the other three sides of the ground are fine. It's just this side which lets the place down. And in contrast to the bucolic surroundings of Glapwell FC, Field Mill stands squarely among Comet, McDonald's and all the rest of the dreary stores which are to be found in out of town shopping parks. The difference is that in Mansfield the shopping estate is not out of town at all but pretty much comprises the town centre.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2012 21:13:15 GMT
Clay Cross Town have suddenly appeared from nowhere. But it appears that Clay Cross are the former Parkhouse FC playing at the recently-sponsor endowed The Devil Made Me Do It Tattoo Studio ground. And here it is....      |
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