Lowland League

Saturday 18th March 2023

Kick Off 17.00 On Time!

Tranent Juniors 1 Bo’ness United 1, attendance 607

48’ 0-1

89’ 1-1

@ Foresters Park

Lindores Drive

Tranent

EH33 1JB

£8 Admission

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

Next match was again heading west along the A1, where a journey time of twelve minutes saw the arrival at Foresters Park, home of Tranent Juniors, who despite having left junior football for the senior ranks in 2018, still retain ‘Juniors’ as part of their name. There was no need to rush though, as the gates weren’t even open yet, which seemed very short sighted with hoards of hungry hoppers to feed before kick off!

This evenings match was 4th versus 10th in the league table, Tranent dropping vital points, as they now drop to fifth, trailing leaders Spartans by five points, both having played the same number of games. There was not much to set the pulses racing in a very dull first half, where a free kick from the visitors, which hit the top of the crossbar just before halftime, was about the only thing of note. Thankfully, the visitors broke the deadlock within minutes of the restart and the game opened up. They almost doubled their lead shortly afterwards, but the ‘goal’ was disallowed for offside. Tranent will be happy to have got a point in the end, equalising a minute from time, when a corner wasn’t cleared and a ricochet from an attempted tackle saw the ball diverted back over the goal line. A minute later they almost nicked it, but a volleyed effort was tipped over the bar and then, with the last chance of the match, saw the visitors ‘keeper claw a header away from on the line.

Thankfully, I had already been to Musselburgh (where the ‘hop was heading for game 4 of the day) and had probably had enough by this time anyway. Three in a day is plenty! I was also pleased that I had already been to the planned Sunday morning ‘hop game at Penicuik as well. Instead, I drove a couple of hours south to my overnight hotel in Carlisle. I was then breaking up my journey home from here by taking in a rugby league match on my way home.