Bank Holiday Monday and the
visit of one of the best supported non-league clubs, FC United of Manchester,
meant a decent crowd was expected at Darlington’s Blackwell Meadows, so I played
safe and travelled via bus and foot to join the other 2,146 spectators in enjoying
a good open game that yielded six goals; Darlo’s win keeps them in the top five
but the play-offs have been denied (subject to appeal) by a change in the
ground grading requirements for the National League, which is a shame but in
all truth the ground needs more seats and some terracing as in a crowd of even
this size many find their view restricted by the heads and shoulders of others,
team dug-out shelters the size of small bungalows, and floodlight pylons the
width of Redwoods bizarrely erected inside the pitch-side barriers.
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