Venue: Framwellgate School, Newton Drive, Framwellgate Moor, Durham DH1 5BQ.
Kickoff: 18:30 Weds 14 Aug 2013
Weather: dry apart from 2 min shower just before half time, overcast, windy, sundown
LOCATION REPORT
FOR SPECTATORS
SatNav: DH1 5BQ (Note: If you come in via the front entrance, go right round the back)
Staff: none (venue), just team members/match officials
Parking: ample school carpark, 250+ spaces on site
Public transport: #64 bus, Durham-Arnison Centre, directly out-front
Refreshments: zero. Framwellgate Moor shops are nearby. (Grab some chips on the way in. Or fetch a pot of coffee and some nibbles, like some well-prepared spectators did!)
Toilets: in school building/changing block, locked, emergency only.
Weather protection:
Rain: zero, open playing fields. (I got a bit wet tonight. Cluster of trees nearby in emergency)
Wind: zero, especially tonight as the wind blew in from South West
Sun: minimal, a few trees if sun low in sky
Cold: zero (Note: it'll be freezing in winter!)
FOR PLAYERS
Pitch: grass, a few nasty divots and in need of a mow (it was in middle of school hols), but good enough condition to play football on the ground
Floodlights: none (and it was getting a tad gloomy at the end)
Changing: usual high-school changing facilities
MATCH REPORT
Approx crowd inc casual passers-by: 44 at highest (then it chucked down for 2 mins max and a fair few left or hid).
22 stayed throughout°....inc 2 kids (and 1 well-behaved dog came by fleetingly...it's a school grounds!).
[°Though I confess I wasn't one of them, as I had to leave during second half to catch a lift home!]
Full-time score [h/t] (colours):
4 [1] Coxhoe United (yellow/black halves, black)
1 [0] Durham Stonebridge (yellow,green)
Bookings (whilst I was there): 0
Sent Off (whilst I was there): 0
(But there was a Red and Yellow after I left, so I can't comment on them!)
Official Match Report:
http://www.durhamAllianceLeague.org.uk/core/teamsReport.aspx?fixtureID=2451
NORVENMUNKI's COMMENTS:
Good craic amongst teams and their entourage.
An occasional spot of tasty banter between some 'assertive' players/bench and one of the linesmen. But no one came to blows.
True park-knockabout experience
The short shower dispersed all but the (fool)hardy. I made for the under-tree benches, but it was actually already ceasing before I even got that far so I didn't bother and just got wet!
GBA rating: Unlikely (unless I was supporting one of the teams. Preferably in nice weather, and with some grub.)
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