Football

Blackburn United v Preston Athletic

East of Scotland League

Conference C

Saturday 30th March 2019

Kick Off 17.15 Actual 17.16

Blackburn United 4 Preston Athletic 1, attendance 328

3’ 1-0 (pen)

6’ 2-0

65’ 3-0

78’ 3-1

83’ 4-1

@ New Murrayfield Park

Ash Grove

Blackburn

EH47 7LL

£6 Admission

Programme available, but I won’t buy one on any event organised by Groundhop UK.

Back on 11th October 2003 I attended the noon kick off between Blackburn United and Clydebank in a Scottish Junior F.A. Cup 1st Round match, which finished 1-1 (doubled with Pumpherston Juniors 4 Fraserburgh United 2, in the same competition, at 3 o’clock). The ground used that day runs parallel to New Murrayfield Park and is behind the trees that run behind the stand on the halfway line, which is the same stand from the old ground, having been dismantled and rebuilt next door.

Above : All that remains of the old ground. The new ground is behind the trees on the left hand side of the photograph.

If Dunipace won the award for being the biggest rip off club of the weekend, then Blackburn would easily take the prize for being the best value for money and they showed you can still make a good profit without fleecing your customers, even if it is the only time you are ever going to see them. The chicken curry with rice, at just £2 per portion, was well received by all those that managed to get some before it unsurprisingly sold out.

The match got off to a lightning start, with Blackburn 2-0 up in the first six minutes and Preston never really recovered, in what was a bit of a shock result.

There was a discrepancy with the crowd figure. Groundhop UK were claiming it was 372, but the club announced over the tannoy that it was actually only 328.