Tags
Bilborough Pelican, Boots Athletic, central midlands, Gaz Willows, Hop, Notts Senior League, Rob Hornby, Ruddington, Ruddington Village, Senior League Senior Division RUDDINGTON
Saturday 12th April 2014 ko 12.50
Notts Senior League Senior Division
RUDDINGTON VILLAGE 0
BOOTS ATHLETIC 1 (Bonnick 58)
Att 319
Entry £3
Programme £1
Team Sheet 20p
Badge £3
The trip from Wollaton took the cavalcade over Nottingham’s Clifton flyover, where for Rob Hornby his groundhop organising started, the famous 5-games-in-a-day Central Midlands hop where in 2004 Bilborough Pelican, Dunkirk and Greenwood Meadows were the meat in a Graham St Prims and Sandiacre Town sandwich!
From there it is was a very short drive to Elms Park in the pretty village of Ruddington, and my first impression of the place was that an awful lot of cars were doing U-turns! The reason was that in with the prepaid ticket was a set of instructions on how to get to the ground, but the club had decided to make that entrance for players and officials only! Cue a quick volte-face and an entirely sensible trip to car park on the 2nd XI pitch which allowed a surprisingly quick exit afterwards.
