More Pictures from Ely City V Harwich and Parkeston (1)
Notes on photos from top to bottom: The dugouts Nadiya and Sean join in Action from the game The main stand, as viewed from behined the dugouts The terraced section
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The first weekend in Ely gave me the opportunity to visit a number of games. I could have gone to Soham V top of the table Leamington or Cambridge City v Bashley. These games yielded 5 goals each with Leamington winning 3-2 and Cambridge City beating promotion hopefulls Bashley 5-0. However, I witnessed a 1-1 draw between Ely City and Harwich and Parkeston and I can't say that I regretted the decision. First of all Ely is a pretty friendly club and its fans include pensioners, young kids and vocal support from teenagers. Although the walk from my house was a bit of a nightmare as most of it was along the A10 and close to the ground are also a tennis court, a golf course and several rugby pitches, which makes the narrow road to it a bit of a traumatic journey and not something to relish when the weather is worse and they have a midweek game on. That said the programmes cost 50p, they have Greene King IPA in the clubhouse and there are some nice views of the cathedral, and it has a s...
A Tale of 2 Cities
Well I finally have the Internet here in Ely and the last 2 weekends have seen me take in Ely City v Harwich & Parkeston in the Eastern Counties League Premier Division and Cambridge City v Worthing in the second qualifying round of the FA Cup. Both games involved a team in black and white stripes play a team in all red, in both games the home team could easily have felt hard done by and both games involved teams from Cambridgeshire take on teams from the seaside. However, there were also a lot of differences between these 2 games, which I am about to expand on