St. Piran League
Division 2 West
Saturday 26th August 2023
Kick Off 15.00 Actual 15.03
Chacewater 1 Stithians 4, attendance 36
28’ 0-1
41’ 0-2
47’ 1-2
66’ 1-3
69’ 1-4
@ Chacewater Recreation Ground
Falmouth Road
Chacewater
TR4 8LP
No Admission or Programme.
After an overnight stop in Devon, it was an hour and a half drive into Cornwall, to the village of Chacewater, around five miles to the west of the county town of Truro.
Chacewater came into this having lost their opening two games by an aggregate score of 1-10, whilst Stithians were playing their first game of the season. The visitors opened the scoring when a break down the right was finished with a side foot finish and just before halftime they doubled their lead with a free kick that went over the wall into the top corner. Chacewater pulled it back to 1-2 within two minutes of the restart, but were unable to add to their tally. Midway through the half Stithians made it 1-3, when a punt into the box totally deceived the ‘keeper, sailing over his head into the far corner and they wrapped it up three minutes later, when a free kick from out on the left was cleverly diverted into the far corner with a flicked header by a striker with his back to goal. One rather odd thing came to light pre match, where it became apparent the away ‘keeper wasn’t allowed to wear his green shirt, as it would clash with the home green and black stripes. So instead he wore a burgundy one….which was exactly the same colour as his own team. Even more strangely, the away team subs had to wear hi-visibility bibs!
Chacewater Recreation Ground is in the centre of the village. There is no vehicle access, but free parking is available less than a hundred yards away, where there are also toilets. The small changing room pavilion at the ground also provides a bit of cover as well as being home to the tea bar. Viewing is on three sides of the pitch only, raised around most of it as it is partly dug into the side of a hill.
An odd feature within the ground….a carved tree stump.
