Bacup Borough v Hyde United @ The Brian Boys Stadium 8/7/2017
A new ground for me always been the intention of going to it and now ticked off the list. Turn off the Burnley Road follow the sign to the ground and you go up a hill that the likes of Chris Froome would think twice about taking on.
The ground itself is a bit of a hotch potch of buildings, there is the Martin Peters Bar (The place to be seen) with it's beer garden of sorts were you sit down have a beer and watch the game although in deepest January this may prove a stern test of will.
The views from the ground are fantastic, although again when a winetr's gale is blowing is probably not the best ground to watch football on. As with seemingly most grounds in East Lancashire it has a slope.
Visitors Hyde have had a shocking last few years about four seasons ago they were in the Conference and managed to go 30 plus games before they actually won a match.
They have slid through the leagues and are now in the Evo Stick North however a better season last season saw them finish 10th.
As for the game Hyde should have won comfortably but in the end scraped home 1-0 with a scruffy goal about 15 minutes from time.
United dominated the first half they had the simple tactic of get the ball behind the two central home defenders and letbtheir smaller nippy forwards do the damage.
It would have worked by for the Borough keeper who had a decent game. Amingst this one way flow Borough did fashion one excellent move, with the Number 11 showing a canny bit of skill before curving a super cross with the outside of his foot which the home sides centre forward headed straight into the arms of the Hyde keeper.
Half time and substitutes galore, it was noticeable that United's change side were by far the better side, they had the ball in the net, disallowed for offside, other simple chances were spurned until the winner, a ball aimed up front was headed back to his keeper by a Borough player well it would have done if he had got a better contact but the pass was intercepted and the ball was rooled past the keeper into the net.
More substitutes as the game started to die, little chance of Borough snatching a draw as the game ended.
Bacup Borough 0 Hyde United 1 Att 55 ish
A new ground for me always been the intention of going to it and now ticked off the list. Turn off the Burnley Road follow the sign to the ground and you go up a hill that the likes of Chris Froome would think twice about taking on.
The ground itself is a bit of a hotch potch of buildings, there is the Martin Peters Bar (The place to be seen) with it's beer garden of sorts were you sit down have a beer and watch the game although in deepest January this may prove a stern test of will.
The views from the ground are fantastic, although again when a winetr's gale is blowing is probably not the best ground to watch football on. As with seemingly most grounds in East Lancashire it has a slope.
Visitors Hyde have had a shocking last few years about four seasons ago they were in the Conference and managed to go 30 plus games before they actually won a match.
They have slid through the leagues and are now in the Evo Stick North however a better season last season saw them finish 10th.
As for the game Hyde should have won comfortably but in the end scraped home 1-0 with a scruffy goal about 15 minutes from time.
United dominated the first half they had the simple tactic of get the ball behind the two central home defenders and letbtheir smaller nippy forwards do the damage.
It would have worked by for the Borough keeper who had a decent game. Amingst this one way flow Borough did fashion one excellent move, with the Number 11 showing a canny bit of skill before curving a super cross with the outside of his foot which the home sides centre forward headed straight into the arms of the Hyde keeper.
Half time and substitutes galore, it was noticeable that United's change side were by far the better side, they had the ball in the net, disallowed for offside, other simple chances were spurned until the winner, a ball aimed up front was headed back to his keeper by a Borough player well it would have done if he had got a better contact but the pass was intercepted and the ball was rooled past the keeper into the net.
More substitutes as the game started to die, little chance of Borough snatching a draw as the game ended.
Bacup Borough 0 Hyde United 1 Att 55 ish
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