Rounding things off

Saturday 5th May

CML North Division

Easington United 4 Thorne Colliery 2

Saturday 12th May

CML North Division

Easington United 9 Glapwell 1

Eli celebrating with his mates

For the second season running we ended our league campaign on a high; a solid win over Thorne Colliery being followed by a rout of a Glapwell side that arrived at the Farm with only eight men.
Full details of the win over Thorne can be found here and that over Glapwell here.  You'll also find action pics.  The amount of time that has passed since the games has made composing a blog post on them somewhat academic.

The Thorne result was notable for confirming our tenth placed finish, with the following week's win ensuring we finished level on points with Kiveton Park - "joint ninth then", according to Nicho who doesn't "go in for all that goal-difference bullshit".

If I can think of anything really worthwhile to write about either game in the next few days, I'll post it.  But don't hold your breath.

PS: Photo courtesy of Burt...but you probably knew that already didn't you? 

Coming up

The end of the road?

Saturday 28th April

CML North Division 

Harworth Colliery Institute 1 Easington United 1

Just how prophetic the title of this post turns out to be in terms of "A Game In Four Quarters" itself remains to be seen.

For the time being, it refers solely to the end of our away campaign in this season's Central Midlands League North Division.  The final soiree of the season aboard The Pistol's Express took us to Harworth Colliery Institute's Scrooby Road, where a late header from The Stumo secured a richly deserved point.

Some of us (though shamefully, not all of those on the bus) marked the passing of our third series of CML Away Days with the by now traditional pint in The Country Park, overlooking the "muddy 'Umber".

But as I reflected on reaching the end of the line for this season's away fixtures, something was telling me that it may well now be time to call a halt to trying to maintain this Blog in the manner to which was first intended.  We'll see.

While I ponder my next move, a report of our Harworth draw can be read here (along with pics).  And you can do that to the accompaniment of a band who - if I'd got my shit together beforehand - I could have popped into see at Hull City Hall on return from Harworth...

Turned out nice again

Saturday 21st April
CML North Division
Easington United 1 Phoenix FC 0

A Jimmy D strike after quarter of an hour sealed our return to winning ways.  Details of other events in the game can be found here (complete with pics).  I wouldn't like to hazard a guess when I can say there'll be anything up here worth reading.  Blogging duties have very much taken a back seat in recent weeks.  This is attributable to many factors aside from the main one of me not being able to get my arse into gear.  Others include a recently-bought gem of a quartet of novels from the fantastic Caffeine Nights stable, along with a couple of other excellent Hull-based crime novels and Dominic Sandbrook's latest instalment of British post-War history, "Seasons In The Sun - The Battle for Britain 1974-79".  This has latterly been accompanied by a BBC2 television series.  What with all this, City's ultimately forlorn Championship play-off bid, Rovers' brief foray in this year's Challenge Cup and the start of the English domestic cricket season, well...

But I can always give you something to listen to.  And that history of the 1970s referred to above has a fine intro reference to a certain Wigan Casino...