AFC Liverpool v AFC Darwen, 12th October 2019
The original Darwen FC had been AFC'S first ever league opponents back in 2008. The Reds ran out 5-0 winners that day. On another day this AFC Liverpool performance could so easily have broken our club record 9-0 victory over St Helens Town. The week previous AFC Darwen had been 5-0 down at St Helens Town in the First Division Cup, within the first 20 minutes. As that match ended in an 8-3 defeat, you could probably at least argue that the last 70 minutes was a 3-3 draw! When I emerged from the turnstile, my brother David suggested that Darwen had shown some ominous signs of making the game a real contest. Meanwhile, Peter from Earlestown (who had started to become a bit of a regular) was pointing out that Darwen's keeper was looking weak, in terms of not holding onto shots. In fact, some of his parrying when maybe he could have held onto it became a bit of a debate. Steve Fraser later suggested that some of the shots he had to deal with were too powerful. The Reds were...