Spain

1st Division Regional

Castillo-León Group B

Saturday 8th February 2020

Kick Off 16.00 Actual 16.01

Betis C.F. Valladolid 0 Club Deportivo Onzonilla 0, attendance 54

@ Nemesio Gomez Ruperez “Peque”

Calle Canterac 73

47012 Valladolid

No Admission or Programme.

Even though we were in Portugal, and I had managed to find us three new ground visits today, which would have culminated at Sporting Clube Braga with a 18.00 kick off, we decided to head back east into Spain. There were two reasons for this. Firstly, this trip was booked with the intention of being a “Spanish weekend”. Secondly, my mate is trying to complete visits to all the La Liga grounds, and there were originally going to be two more off his list done this weekend, so that is what became the priority.

The only problem with this though, would be finding a match that was doable with the 18.30 evening match at Real Valladolid C.F. We came up trumps, when on Thursday, the day the kick off times are released (ridiculously late) there was a 16.00 kick off at Betis C.F. who play in the fifth level of Spanish football. Our drive in the morning was only 262 miles, which took just over three and a half hours. The good thing was, we would enter the city near to the ground of Real Valladolid C.F. so we could call in and get a feel for the area, then do a dummy run of sorts to the ground of Betis C.F. to make sure it was actually viable. It was, taking just twelve minutes to cover the journey to the east of the city, which was a fraction under three miles.

The match was 11th versus 8th in the league table. It became obvious quite early on that we would be lucky to see a goal today, and so it turned out. Betis C.F. did have a goal disallowed, but neither side looked like scoring in truth. They were just too evenly matched.