Central Midlands League

Premier Division North

Saturday 11th February 2023

Kick Off 14.00 Actual 14.02

Dearne & District 3 Dinnington Town 0, attendance 115

13’ 1-0

58’ 2-0

82’ 3-0

@ Kingsmark Way

Goldthorpe

S63 9GW

£3 Admission

Programme available online only.

With Dearne & District rumoured to be leaving this ground at the end of the season, it was high on my list of ‘need to visit soon’ grounds. On paper it looked like a reasonable choice of game too, as 3rd hosted 4th in the league table, although it never really lived up to expectations.

Dearne had an early effort disallowed for offside, before breaking the deadlock after thirteen minutes, firing into the bottom corner from 20 yards. Little of note happened in the remainder of the half, until Dinnington had a man sin binned minutes before the break. The second goal arrived just before the hour mark, when a cross from the right was missed by a defender and finished with a stooping header from 6 yards. A minute later, the Dinnington No.9, having only returned from his sin bin a few minutes earlier, was then sent off. This was immediately followed by another Dinnington player being sin binned for a comment said to the Referee, so the visitors were now down to nine players briefly. It was a surprise that it took Dearne until eight minutes from time to add a third goal, after a long ball that should have been gathered easily by the ‘keeper, somehow wasn’t and it left an easy finish for a striker following in.

The win sees Dearne leapfrog Thorne Colliery into second place in the table, although the title looks well beyond them, as despite having two games in hand on the unbeaten leaders Retford United, they still trail them by 17 points.