East Cornwall Premier League

Tuesday 8th September 2020

Kick Off 18.30 Actual 18.29

St. Newlyn East 0 Foxhole Stars 0, attendance 61

@ St. Newlyn East Playing Field

Cargoll Road

St. Newlyn East

TR8 5LB

No Admission or Programme.

St. Newlyn East were sitting in second place in the Duchy League Premier Division when Covid-19 brought football to a halt in March, but were promoted into the East Cornwall Premier League for this season. They had started life in their new league with a 3-2 win away at St. Dominick on Saturday, with tonight being their first home game. Foxhole Stars were fourth when last season ‘ended’, but opened up the season with a 0-4 loss at home to Newquay Reserves on Saturday. Due to a combination of Covid-19 restrictions and refurbishment works going on, neither the changing rooms, stand or dugouts were in use tonight and the teams got changed at the side of the pitch. Track & Trace details were taken at the entrance.

With the match kicking off a minute early, then having just six minutes for halftime, all looked to be going well as far as getting the game in before darkness descended. Remarkably, with 36 minutes having been played in the second half, the Referee blew his whistle for full time, saying that it was too dark to complete the match. We only had nine minutes left to play, which would have been no problem, and if he thought it was indeed going to be the case, then why hadn’t he just decided to play 2 x 40 minute halves and be done with it. Apparently the teams had been informed at halftime that it would be a shorter second half.

Anyway, as for the game, it wasn’t too bad considering that there were no goals. St. Newlyn East had the better of the early exchanges, but Foxhole got stronger as the game went on and should really have won it on balance of play overall. Both teams seemed happy with a point each and there were very few complaints about the missing nine minutes at the end of the game.