Darlington Arena

It was nearly three years ago that I was last in the Darlington Arena, at one of the many ‘last games’ before the football club’s demise and eviction, since when (after a decent interval) the stadium has been taken over by Mowden Park RUFC, and today they hosted a primary school tag rugby tournament in which my role was driving the minibus and cheering from the touchline as our school did brilliantly to finish runners-up; the stadium still looks good, if a little faded, particularly from the middle of the pitch, the main difference being that the turf and the posts have both grown to rugby, rather than football, length.