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, 8 August 2015

First Match, Last Legs

Home from Hungary and hungry for football after the close season I headed for Moore Lane Park to see one of the opening fixtures in the Northern League, in which Newton Aycliffe beat last year’s champions Marske United 2-1; the match was also chosen by Mike Amos, the long term Chairman of the league, who to mark his retirement and raise funds for charity has embarked on a ‘Last Legs Challenge’ to walk 12 miles or so to each of the 44 home grounds, and although I drove past him and his small entourage (looking pretty jiggered) about a mile from the ground, they still arrived before me as I still had to negotiate the tortuous new town road layout of Newton Aycliffe.

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