Good & Bad
Last Saturday I was at AFC Telford and as mentioned in an earlier post, a quirk of the fixture’s meant that the game against Burscough was going to settle the title and who would go up to the Conference North.
It was my first visit to Telfords ground and what an experience it was 5710 people were there to watch the game (150 were from Burscough!) and watched Burscough run out 2-1 winners and win the league by 1 goal!
It was an incredible atmosphere and I had the main stand behind me for the whole game. With the magnitude of the game and this being my biggest crowd I was expecting to be quite nervous. However we got the ground really early (12.45) and so had plenty of time to settle in to the day and what it meant to both clubs. We walked the pitch for a good 30 minutes as well and then with the warm up we had time to settle and get right mentally. After you’ve made that first decision everything settles in to place.
It was rather amusing at the start of the 2nd half when we came out with both teams and had to wait nearly 2 minutes for the half time entertainment to finish. There’s the 2 teams and us waiting for about 20 school children to finish singing and dancing.
. To be honest things like this added to quite a family atmosphere.
Unfortunately though there was some bad. After Burscough’s 2nd goal Two “fans” from the Telford end ran on and tried to attack the Burscough players. I wont say anything more on that as it doesn’t deserve to be discussed
What was nice was that considering Telford lost the game and the title they were very open towards us after the game and didn’t blame us. The game was played in a superb spirit and there was a lot of respect between the two teams. With minutes to go and Telford looking for a 2nd goal they would help up Burscough player after a foul, it was a nice change and a great way to end a season.
I just with it was August and the season was starting again!
There is some footage on Youtube of the teams coming out but its not the best.
There is also some video here on the Shropshire star site but it wont work for me!
