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The Clutch

06 Monday Apr 2015

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Barton Town Old Boys, Chris Berezai, Cleethorpes, Cleethorpes Town, GroundhopUK, northern counties east league

Friday 3rd April 2015 ko 11.30

Northern Counties East League Premier Division

BARTON TOWN OLD BOYS 0

CLEETHORPES TOWN 3 (Robertson 36 90 Grant 87)

Att 517

Entry £5

Programme £1.50

I woke up with a start in Wakeford, and I really must learn to put some clothes on before opening the curtains to check the weather. It was hammering it down with rain, and my torpor was only slightly eased during breakfast with the news that it wasn’t raining in Barton-upon-Humber. That ground had seen significant rainfall during the week and the last thing we wanted was a postponement. I was worried enough about Barton’s prospects anyway.

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Breweriana

07 Sunday Apr 2013

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Barton Town Old Boys, Bass, Breweries, Chris Berezai, Coors, John Smiths, Northern Counties East Groundhop, northern counties east league, Sam Smiths, Sports, Tadcaster Albion

Saturday 30th March 2013 ko 19.30

Northern Counties East Premier Division

TADCASTER ALBION 5 (Taylor 39 65 Rice 78 Winn 84og Youldon 88) Jeff missed penalty 2, Ward sent off (violent conduct) 61

BARTON TOWN OLD BOYS 1 (Dexter 20)

Att 288

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Programme £1

The North Yorkshire town of Tadcaster was founded by the Romans, who named it Calcaria from the Latin word for lime, reflecting the importance of the area’s limestone geology as a natural resource for quarrying, an industry which continues today and has contributed to many notable buildings including York Minster. The limestone affects the chemistry of the water, which has given rise to the brewing industry here, as the water is similar to that at Burton-on-Trent, another centre of the brewing trade.

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Brassed Off

09 Monday Apr 2012

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Barton Town Old Boys, Brighouse, brighouse and rastrick brass band, Danny Naidole, groundhop, northern counties east league, Richard Metcalf, Tom Matthews

Friday 6th April 2012 ko 7.45pm

Northern Counties East League Premier Division

BRIGHOUSE TOWN 5 (Matthews 27 28 Naidole 50 55 60)

BARTON TOWN OLD BOYS 1 (Metcalf 63) Lee sent off 71 (2nd booking)

Att 288

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Our last game saw a visit to the Dual Seal Stadium, or of you’d prefer St Giles Road, in the Calderdale town of Brighouse. I didn’t realise at the time we were only 4 miles east of Halifax!

Brighouse is best known for the Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band, founded in 1881. The band won the National Brass Band Contest in 1946 and in 1968 they won the first Brass Band World Championship. In 1977 they recorded “The Floral Dance” which reached Number 2 in the UK Top 40 and stayed there for 6 weeks, inspiring  Terry Wogan to release his own version some time later. There’s a small monument to them in the middle of a roundabout near the bus station. High praise indeed!

If dear reader, you’re looking for asthetically appealing stadia, then I’m afraid Brighouse isn’t for you. There’s 3 Portacabins which serve as clubhouse toilets and a hospitality area. There’s a terrace along one side which has a cover along half of it. It’s an odd arrangement as the roof seems to be attached to the fence separating the ground from the bus yard next door. The impression is that someones got a load of materials from a builders yard and cobbled together what they could. At one end the support is via suspension wires!!

The clubhouse was packed as merchandise was purchased, lineups obtained, and food (notably more expensive here) consumed. Being last game of the day, with little or competition, people were seen here that I hadn’t seen at some of the other games.

Brighouse had a point to prove having lost to Barton 5-0 earlier in the season, and what a point they made! From the moment that Danny Naidole went down in the box for a fortuitous penalty and Tom Matthews rolled in the penalty, there was no doubt as to the destination of the points. Matthews took precisely a minute to notch again, beating Town keeper Liam Taylor to a through ball.  With the goal wide open. Matthews met him, one-on-one, came off the better of a  50-50 challenge, picked himself up, and rolled the ball in from 18 yards out.

The second half was the Danny Naidole show, and Barton had no answers to his dash and touch. Five minutes, four chances and three goals put the game way beyond Barton, who in the middle of Naidole’s purple patch had Tom Lee booked for a particularly stupid bit of mouthing off at the referee. That was to prove costly to him if not to his club, the points were gone, in the 71st minute as his foul on Danny Hull was easily worth a card, and off he went.

By that time Barton had their consolation, substitute Richard Medcalf pulling one back, getting the final touch to Ryan Cooper’s goal-bound effort. All hoppers like a goal-feast and this certainly fitted the bill! As the final whistle went I noticed referee Tom Nield have to remind Naidole to take the match ball!

Drop-offs completed I went for a very quiet pint with Chris, Lee and Derek, so tired but happy on a good day’s hopping, and looking forward to what Saturday’s 4 games would bring.





 

 

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