AFC Liverpool from Yesteryear

We had already met Padiham twice earlier this season at their place, winning a five goal thriller in the FA Cup, and scrambling a 2-2 draw in the league game courtesy of a Dan Cockerline late free kick, in a match from our perspective that was defined by a terrible performance by a debutant keeper who had since moved on. Both sides started play on 24 points in the lower reaches of the North West Counties League Premier Division. We were ahead on goal difference, but perhaps crucially had a couple of games in hand on the East Lancastrians. Nonetheless, it sure was a six pointer. It was first blood to the men in Red, following a break into the box by Jesse Dowling. He found Kyle Schorah, who in turn played in number 9 Ollie Sanderson who put us 1-0 up. Every time we went forward it looked promising. The visitors by contrast had just one or two promising situations. Just before the half hour mark, Jesse was again involved. His cross found Callum Schorah who knocked it into the net to doub...

I think it was around the 70th minute with the score at 0-0 that Chris Dace said something like "Andy I don't think this match will make it into a future programme". It was certainly not a match at that point which would live long in the memory. The match had offered very little. We had shown very little going forward, whilst the visitors had actually put the ball in the back of our net only to be denied by the flag. That was in an otherwise disappointing first half, which also produced a save I think from our keeper Jackie McGovern. Not long after Chris suggested this was not a match I would be writing about, Kenny started to instigate a bit of banter with Litherland Keeper Jack Reynolds on slipping him a bit of dosh to let a goal in. In the 87th minute Tom Douglas took possession of the ball in the Litherland half, and Alan Harrison promptly started the "attack attack" chant. Tommy ran a few yards and let fly with a speculative shot, which went through Reynold...