football rambles

Last night Ely took on Huntingdon in their first pre-season game ahead of the new season. The good news is that the Robins seem to have been able to keep the players who formed the successful team of last season and there were a couple of new players who if they sign on will give the club more options. Things didn't get off to a good start though and Huntingdon beat a poorly executed offside trap after only 5 minutes to take the lead. That didn't last too long though, as just a minute later a great pass from Nick Impey put Luke Parkinson clear on goal and the teams were back on level terms. One of the areas where Ely could perhaps have been better last season was in front of goal, as despite finishing second they had a goal scoring ratio that would have been more suitable for a mid-table club. Last night they had a forward on trial from Norwich United and Richard Gammon, who looked a lot more lively than when he was given a chance up front last season, starting in the forwa...

Tomorrow Ely City should be getting their pre-season started with a fixture against Huntingdon Town. I say should be as the torrential rain means that even now in mid-July there is a chance that the fixture will be off. Huntingdon Town were promoted to Step 5 at the end of last season when they moved up a division in the United Counties League from Division 1 to the Premier Division. This will be the highest league that the Croms have ever played in. Although there was a Huntingdon Town team at the end of the 19th Century, a team that won the Huntingdonshire Cup 11 times before World War I, the current club goes back only as far as 1980. Another club that was a merger between the original Huntingdon Town and Huntingdon Wanderers was formed in 1948 as Huntingdon United and Huntingdon United RGE who were formed in 2005 and play in the Cambridgeshire League claim the heritage of this club. The current Huntingdon Town club were formed in 1980 as Montagu. They originally played in th...