Introduction


Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Saturday, 6 September 2014

Pitch Invasion

I’ve seen a lot of football at a lot of grounds and very often heard players, referees and just the general play described, indeed addressed, as (although usually in cruder terms) excrement, but today at Darlington RA’s FA Vase tie we had the real thing on the Brinkburn Road field of play; thirty minutes into the game the referee’s attention was drawn to some poop on the pitch prompting him to halt the game and call for a club official to get out there with a scoop, but as the embarrassed groundsman hurried off to his shed an enterprising fan came to the rescue with his empty (plastic) pint pot to do the honours, a pitch invasion that for once sped up rather than delayed play.

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