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Barcelona, Crook Town, Dennis Pinkney, FA Amateur Cup, Keith Douglas, Kyle Davis, Millfield, Non League Day, North Shields, Northern League, Richard Hodgson, Robert Nolan, Tom Cowie, Warren Byrne
Saturday 13th October 2012 ko 15.00
Northern League Division Two
CROOK TOWN 3 (Hodgson 10 Davis 55 Byrne 76)
NORTH SHIELDS 1 (Nolan 65)
Att c160
Entry £4
Programme 50p
Badge £3
So many choices, on “Non-League Day,” including a Mancunian triple, but I’d heard good things about Millfield, so gambled on it being worth three games elsewhere. Carry on dear reader and you’ll see why Lee and I got it absolutely right.
On the face of it, Crook is a rather unprepossessing market town, in agricultural County Durham. In fact, its the town’s football team that is the principle source of fame for Crook. For older readers the club’s exploits in the FA Amateur Cup may be how you know Crook but if you’re from Catalonia the reason for knowing them is that they had a part in the establishment of Association Football as principle sport ahead of bullfighting in the region, and in particular the rise of the collossus that is Continue reading