This year’s tracking of the FA Vase competition, which began last
September in Jarrow and has seen me take in a game from each of the nine
rounds, culminated today at Wembley, necessitating an early 7.30 start for the 200
mile drive down to Banbury whence a train service runs direct to the stadium,
where I joined 5,430 other fans (constituting a crowd in non-league terms) in enjoying
a tense seventy minutes until Sholing scored, then a frantic last twenty
minutes as West Auckland Town strove hard but failed to beat an inspired
goalkeeper; at least the lack of an equaliser meant no extra time and enabled the
return trip to run to schedule and get me home half an hour before midnight.
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