AFC Liverpool from Yesteryear

This post looks back to a league trip to Colne in 2014, which was the weekend after a special Liverpool Senior Cup fixture against Everton. Along with the rest of the AFC congregation, I was on a high following our midweek victory over Everton in the Liverpool Senior Cup.   I hadn't had much time over the previous few days to read the Everton matchday programme.   I had planned to use the hour long train journey between Preston and Colne to catch up on that reading.   Unfortunately, I had not reckoned on Blackburn v Leeds in the Championship.   That meant there were fans of both teams on the train for the first 25 minutes of that journey, especially the Lancashire side. This was the second occasion in which I had personally done the trip to Colne, and I was shall we say overconfident of finding my way to the ground from my recollection of my previous visit.   Subsequently, I got lost a bit, and the internet on my phone was not helping to get me back o...

This post looks back a couple of seasons to a September midweek match at home to Winsford United, and one occasion in which things did go right during Chris Stammers’ short reign. We took the lead through Kevin Edgar on 7 minutes, whilst I was stuck in the turnstyle.   I got into the stand, and settled down to see the Redmen score another two quick goals. The first was a header by Allen "Weso" Weston inside the six yard box, with the Keeper possibly stranded.   The second was an absolute beauty from Michael Boyle the Skipper.   He came inside from the left, and shot into the corner from the outside of the area. We did not exactly settle on the lead.   But, two key chances came Winsford's way, which were not taken.   The first was from a cross which found a man unmarked.   The shot went straight at Dominic Garner.   The second just before the interval saw a shot on the turn go just wide, when the fella really should have scored.   That m...

As Steve Fraser said a few times, you just had to feel for Holker. Coming down the M6 in bad weather that is. Different groups of players came in different cars. Steve was telling me that one trio of Holker players were the only group in the bar around 7.15pm. This trio were Manchester based. Dry weather over the previous 24 hours helped ensure the League Cup tie was on this time, after 7 previous attempts were postponed. In the build up to the match, there was some speculation the kick off would be put back due to an accident on a Cumbrian A Road. The game did though kick off more or less on time. After going one up within 9 minutes, a silly back pass let Holker back in to equalise. A Joe Whittington strike on 29 minutes saw us retain the advantage at half time. The powerful Kev "The Beast" Edgar was an opponent Holker's defence were not relishing playing against. A strong start to the second half saw a goal from Danny Boden and put us in a 3-1 lead. Boden in fa...