Please Can We Skip A League?

Once one of my kids was stranded at Leeds without any money to get home. She had a credit card but the ticket office refused to deal with her purchase, saying “it took too long to process a credit card ticket."I called the office and asked why this was a problem; given that the said person was at work and therefore within his working day, surely what ever needed to be done had to be done?

I was reminded of this story when our visitors Kirkham arrived to play their first ever match at Park Road; apparently they had asked the league whether they could skip our league and start in the 1st division when applying to join!!

Presumably they were turned down on the grounds that in order to get into the 1st division you had to “work” to get there and until they had done their graft in the lower leagues they didn’t deserve to be in the top flight. Just as my ticket man wasn’t prepared to work, so Kirkham wanted to avoid any unnecessarily complicated tasks.

Well, welcome to our world, Kirkham. Good honest endeavour is the nature of the game at our level. Cheadle don't skive. I think if nothing else Cheadle have derailed our newest rivals' assumptions that progress from this league is anything but easy.

Saturday was a great game: a match that had everything. Good goals, good play, penalties...and off-the-pitch antics.

It was my first match back after the close-season holidays, and what a game to kick-start the season. Thanks to our team for putting in a good days' work at the office and I wish Kirkham well in the coming season. They will have many more tricky difficult games ahead.

Welcome to Division 2 of the NWCFL....