United Counties League

Division 1

Sunday 28th July 2019

Kick Off 17.15 Actual 17.16

Whittlesey Athletic 1 Huntingdon Town 2, attendance 340

70’ 0-1

72’ 1-1

84’ 1-2

@ Feldale Field

Drybread Road

Whittlesey

PE7 1XL

£4 Admission

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

Whittlesey are newly promoted into the United Counties League, despite only finishing in fifth place of the Peterborough & District League last season. They were promoted into the league before, back in 2016, but dropped out after playing only a handful of matches, so I thought it might be a good idea to visit as early as possible into the season, just in case the same thing happens again and it would also see the league completed nice and early, as this was the only ground that I hadn’t visited in the United Counties League line up this season.

The ground is pretty basic for Step 6 and very much a work in progress. The ground is 3 sided, with no access on the dugouts side of the pitch and has a small bit of cover that has been built using scaffolding poles. The bases are in place for the floodlights, which are expected to be up and working by the end of September. Despite it being a horrible day weather wise, the club coped well with what is likely to be the biggest crowd they will get this season, due to it being a groundhop match and it was nice to see that the admission prices hadn’t been hugely inflated like most other matches on the ‘hop and it makes the price charged yesterday at Orton Rangers seem even more of a rip off. How can it possibly have been £1 more expensive to watch a match four levels lower than today ?

As for the match, it wasn’t great. Huntingdon finally broke the deadlock with twenty minutes left, but their lead only lasted two minutes. The winning goal, six minutes from time, was worthy of winning any match, as a 25 yard shot gave the ‘keeper no chance.