Sunday 8 March 2020

Chorley away, is there a joiner in the ground?



Chorley away, is there a joiner in the ground?

From a fan’s perspective our day out on the train to Chorley, was one of those unique experiences, which will live long in the memory but hopefully we’ll never repeat. Going past Bolton Wanderers’ ground was fairly sobering as it wasn’t too long since we were playing there. Whilst I may commend Chorley for giving the world the Chorley Cake and the quality of the pies in the ground was tremendous, some of the other facilities inside Victory Park could best be described as inadequate. 
















Amazing grass bank action incorporating broken fence


The toilets looked like a breeding ground for a tropical virus.The general consensus was that a decent joiner could have a field day doing up the ground and most agreed that if they’d had better knowledge of the layout of the place, they might have been tempted to clamber over the grass banking on one side of the pitch and get in for free. 















Top allotments action.

On the bright side there’s not many grounds in the Premier League where you can have a look at someone’s allotments as you walk to the match, however those are the peculiarities of non-league football.

Out of the relegation zone for the first time since November is a good place to be after everything the club has ben through, if there’s one thing John Pemberton knows how to do it’s bringing home the bacon in a relegation six pointer.

The Blues have faced a series of mini cup finals against relegation rivals, since the former Leeds United centre back took over; Chorley, Ebbsfleet, Wrexham, Eastleigh were all beaten and a draw against Fylde, have turned the club’s fortunes around. The next home game against Maidenhead is another one of these do or die fixtures and Chesterfield must be getting used to them, whereas our opponents clearly aren’t.















Ooh nearly

Dover away next week and I’d be more than happy with a point from that one. Dagenham and Redbridge play AFC Fylde in midweek, Maidenhead play Stockport on Saturday and Wrexham are away at Barrow, so there’s certainly a big hope that points will be dropped by our rivals and it is a cliché but Chesterfield’s season is now in our own hands whereas at Christmas it looked like it wasn’t.



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