This football season my plan is to use the FA Vase competition to
explore a few new grounds, and today the first qualifying round took me to Crook
Town (FA Amateur Cup winners fifty years ago but now trying to recover from a relegation
season that saw them concede 169 goals), whose home ground, now called the Sir
Tom Cowie Millfield, has an expansive feel - a big pitch surrounded by grassy
banks, with a terrace behind one goal, and a couple of rickety stands along one
touchline; one of these is fitted with wooden benches and while the other meant
for standing, the locals seem to have dragged out padded chairs from the bar to
provide more luxurious seating, conveniently close to “Only Food and Sauces” (the
ingeniously named refreshment hut), and from where they can view in comfort their
team’s valiant but fruitless efforts, as they lose 0-2 to near neighbours west
Auckland Town.
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