Cambridgeshire County League

Division Senior A

Wednesday 21st August 2019

Kick Off 18.15 Actual 18.33

Orwell 6 Fulbourn Institute Reserves 0, attendance 27

19’ 1-0

29’ 2-0

45’+ 1, 3-0

70’ 4-0

83’ 5-0

89’ 6-0

@ Eddington Sports Centre

Eddington Avenue

Cambridge

CB3 1AA

No Admission or Programme.

Orwell are playing here at the newly opened Eddington Sports Centre for this season, but plan to move back home to their village ground when improvements are completed.

On arrival, there was no evidence that this was even a football ground at all. The modern changing room building doesn’t even have a name on it, so unless you were aware that you were ‘in the right place’ you would have no clue that this was a ground at all. About 45 minutes before kick off both teams were arriving, but no one was getting changed. It turned out that there was no key for the changing rooms! A few of the home players roped off the pitch down each side and Fulbourn then started changing into their kit outside the building, so it looked like they were going to play, whether the changing rooms were open or not. The key arrived just before 6 o’clock and when the two sets of goals were wheeled into place, we were good to go, eventually getting started 18 minutes late.

It wasn’t a great game to watch as a neutral, as Orwell were far too good for a Fulbourn side that were on the end of their second successive six goal hammering. Orwell at least kept going until the end, even though the game was over as a contest by halftime. Their No.9 completed a hat trick, as well as missing a second half penalty, which he fired wide of the target. I can’t remember Fulbourn having a single shot on target.