East of Scotland League

Conference C

Saturday 30th March 2019

Kick Off 20.00. On Time !

Linlithgow Rose 3 Jeanfield Swifts 2, attendance 530

7’ 0-1

16’ 1-1

39’ 2-1

46’ 2-2

64’ 3-2 (pen)

@ Prestonfield

Braehead Road

Linlithgow

EH49 6HF

£6 Admission

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

So, onto the fourth match of a long day and another ground that I had already visited. I came here back on 29th May 2004 when I saw Linlithgow lose 1-2 to Tayport in a Scottish Junior F.A. East Region Super League match. The match that day had a far bigger crowd than tonight, whether you believe the 618 figure claimed by Groundhop UK on their twitter, or the 530 crowd announced by the club over the tannoy.

At least I remembered this ground, well, the impressive main stand anyway, unlike my revisit at Camelon this morning. The match was second versus third in the league table and was far and away the best match of the five games so far on this weekends ‘hop, with a really good contest between two evenly matched teams. It was a shame it didn’t finish as a draw, because Jeanfield did enough to have got something out of the game.

Today has been something of an endurance test, especially with two of the matches being revisits, and it is a shame that cramming in a fourth match means the games blur into each other a bit and it would be much better if just three matches were scheduled instead. It would be nice to have a little more time to relax between matches.