Wet Auckland

With no football matches visited at all in December, due in part to family commitments but also to horrendously wet weather, it was good today to overcome both by taking my prospective son-in-law with me to one of the few Northern League matches to survive yet more bad weather and go ahead - at West Auckland Town, where the teams put on a good game despite the pudding of a pitch, especially the visitors, Shildon FC, who won scoring four good goals without reply.