Midland League

Division 3

Tuesday 24th April 2018

Kick Off 18.45 Actual 18.50

Coventrians 6 Central Ajax 2,  attendance 10

8’ 1-0

12’ 1-1

18’ 2-1

22’ 3-1

25’ 4-1

45’ + 2, 5-1

65’ 5-2

89’ 6-2

@ Holbrooks Park

Holbrook Lane

Coventry

CV6 4BY

No Admission or Programme.

This was another ground on the ‘to do’ list, as Coventrians will be playing elsewhere next season. I arrived at 17.30 to see a couple of sets of goalposts being put up, then in the next twenty minutes or so we had corner flags, dugouts and a rope along one side of the pitch appear, making it feel a little bit better than ‘just a pitch in a large field’, although it wasn’t helped by being a couple of hundred yards from the changing room building. The only thing lacking was a bit of cover, which would have been very welcome on a night when it started raining at around 17.45 and continued well into the second half.

The match itself was 9th versus 6th in the league table, with Coventrians totally dominating the first half, then Central Ajax being the better side in the second, but never looking likely to turn things round. Unusually, for a non floodlit match in midweek, the Referee allowed everyone to go back to the changing rooms at halftime, which due to the distance involved meant a 13 minute interval. Coupled with the fact that we also kicked off late, meant the light was fading rapidly when the final whistle blew at 20.37.