Peterborough & District League
Premier Division
Tuesday 26th August 2025
Kick Off 18.30 On Time!
Eye Rangers 0 Netherton United 2, attendance 63
13’ 0-1
67’ 0-2
@ Lindisfarne Recreation Ground
Lindisfarne Road
Eye
PE6 7XH
No Admission or Programme.
Tonight’s game was 12th versus 2nd in the league table, with Eye Rangers picking up one win and one draw from their opening four games, whilst Netherton United had a 100% winning record from their first four games and needed at least a draw here tonight to leapfrog Moulton Harrox at the top of the table, with this being their game in hand on the leaders. It was a decent game, considering the very dry and poor quality pitch. The visitors were ahead after thirteen minutes, when a cross from the left was finished with an easy tap in at the far post. Despite them dominating for long periods, they were unable to add to their early goal and it remained 0-1 at halftime. They went close to grabbing a second goal early in the second half, when a defender scuffed a clearance that bounced twice on the top of the crossbar, before going out for a corner, but did manage to double their lead midway through the half, when a cross from out wide was finished with a cushioned volley, that the ‘keeper got a hand to, but couldn’t keep out. As the game wore on, chances became more frequent, but they were unable to add to their tally.
Home to Eye Rangers is Lindisfarne Recreation Ground. As you enter off Lindisfarne Road there’s a car park to the right, with the changing rooms/toilets to the left. The pitch is ahead, running widthways. It’s railed on the near side and on about half the far side, where there’s also a pair of dugouts. Rather oddly, the rail is set back from the touchline about ten yards on each side.
My journey up to Cambridgeshire, just east of Peterborough, saw me taken via Dartford Crossing, where I lost around fifteen minutes in queuing traffic from near the M2, then via M11 and A1. Coming back was via A1 and M25 past Heathrow, which was about 45 minutes quicker and through the M25 problem areas before the closures began.
