Jockeys and ghosts
On Saturday I stepped down from the heady heights of the Eastern Counties Premier Division to visit Newmarket Town in the first division. To be honest I'd planned a day out in Newmarket away from the football, but if you're not into horse racing there isn't a great deal of tourist activity. So at 2:30 I decided to visit the local team and I wasn't disappointed.
First from a map at the bus station I was able to decipher that the ground wasn't far from the railway station, but they don't call me tom tom Holloway for any reason, so after taking a scenic route via some Suffolk countryside a couple of housing estates and a view that looked out onto the July Racecourse. The result being I arrived at the ground 5 minutes late.
The locals seemed friendly and the ground wasn't too bad, although the entrance and the programme weren't of the highest quality.
Anyway, Newmarket who are top of the division and nicknamed the Jockeys due to the town being the horseracing capital took on bottom placed Fakenham Town (nicknamed the Ghosts after the folk ballard The Fakenham Ghost).
Not surprisingly Newmarket went one up from a Jamie Thurlbourn goal a couple of minutes after I entered the ground and then doubled their league from the penalty spot a couple of minutes later. Fakenham didn't look too bad a team, but the clumsy challenge that led to the penalty was fairly typical of their defence and has probably been their undoing in several games this season. However they didn't lie down and die and fought back to pull a goal back after about 30 minutes and this came after they had had a goal disallowed for a foul on the Newmarket keeper. So at half time the score was 2-1.
The second half started lively enough, but Thurlbourn scored another after 10 minutes and the Ghosts were left chasing, er, ghosts. The game finished 3-1 and the result put Newmarket 6 points clear at the top of the table, so it seems that a swift return to the Premier is imminent
First from a map at the bus station I was able to decipher that the ground wasn't far from the railway station, but they don't call me tom tom Holloway for any reason, so after taking a scenic route via some Suffolk countryside a couple of housing estates and a view that looked out onto the July Racecourse. The result being I arrived at the ground 5 minutes late.
The locals seemed friendly and the ground wasn't too bad, although the entrance and the programme weren't of the highest quality.
Anyway, Newmarket who are top of the division and nicknamed the Jockeys due to the town being the horseracing capital took on bottom placed Fakenham Town (nicknamed the Ghosts after the folk ballard The Fakenham Ghost).
Not surprisingly Newmarket went one up from a Jamie Thurlbourn goal a couple of minutes after I entered the ground and then doubled their league from the penalty spot a couple of minutes later. Fakenham didn't look too bad a team, but the clumsy challenge that led to the penalty was fairly typical of their defence and has probably been their undoing in several games this season. However they didn't lie down and die and fought back to pull a goal back after about 30 minutes and this came after they had had a goal disallowed for a foul on the Newmarket keeper. So at half time the score was 2-1.
The second half started lively enough, but Thurlbourn scored another after 10 minutes and the Ghosts were left chasing, er, ghosts. The game finished 3-1 and the result put Newmarket 6 points clear at the top of the table, so it seems that a swift return to the Premier is imminent
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