Moor Lane

Travelling down to my dad’s on a Saturday gave me an opportunity to make a ground hop visit to Moor Lane, home of Salford City FC, whose drive up the non-league pyramid is fuelled by the part ownership of the ex-Manchester United “class of 92”, and who are in the same league as my local team Darlington; easy to get to and park at, extremely good value at a concessionary rate of £2 (£3.50 including a good programme) the ground is spacious, scruffy but authentically non-league, and although the well grassed pitch was a bit bobbly today, the home team coped well enough to record a two nil over Sutton Coldfield, whose best player on the day was the guy behind the goal with a trumpet who had a fine repertoire including the theme from Escape to Victory and Pigbag.