Tags
Bell Field, Bridge Road, Football, Frampton on Severn, Frampton United, Gloucestershire County League, groundhopping, Thornbury Town
Monday 28th March 2016 ko 15.00
Gloucestershire County League
FRAMPTON UNITED 0
THORNBURY TOWN 0
Att 59
Entry & Programme £2
Tea 70p
In football, as in life, sometimes you just need to slow down. After 7 games in two-and-a-bit days in the South West Peninsula League, I’d had great plans of a madcap double. But I awoke looked out of the window and decided to take it easy…
And Frampton proved to be perfect for that. One of those chocolate-box places that an American tourist would probably call “Quaint,” with the village green and the pub in the background. There’s a goal at each end, a rail and a tea bar, and quite honestly what more do you need?
The Gloucestershire County League is the perfect Step 7 league for its area. The football is good, the ground gradings stringent enough to allow a club to progress, without making the supposed quality of the facilities more important than the teams’ performances.
You could be forgiven for thinking the goal-free game was dull. It wasn’t, it was more a case of the two sides being rather too well-matched. The game held the attention as the nearby River Severn meandered its way down to Bristol.
Robyn and I sipped our teas, leaned on the rail, and relaxed…. Bliss.