[themaclad]

Tuesday night football on a Tuesday in Lancaster on a cool clear night, no having to travel countless thousands of miles across the land to watch league football, you cannot beat a bit on non league to get you back to basics.
Both Lancaster and Burscough are chasing the play offs, Burscough are presently in the play off places but rapidly improving Lancaster are closing in on them at a rapid rate. Since the change of manager City have reverted to what non league football is all about plenty of frenetic honest football.
The first half was played at a rapid pace, with sadly little goal mouth action to keep the 196 who turned up interested, lots ot midfield play with little or no end product. Can only remember two efforts at goal, the first from Burscough's No 7(Monaghan?) brought a brilliant finger tip save from keeper Hale turning the ball on to the bar and safety and a near goal keeping howler from Hare who raced out to collect the ball missed it completely and left Akrigg to head the ball into the side netting.
Second half was more entertaining as the home side started to dominate but again goal chances were none existent. However finally 15 minutes from the end the deadlock was finally broken, Akrigg crossed the left of the area and Cairney glanced his header over the stranded Hare into the far corner of the net, cue delirium behind the goal as the home faithful celebrated. Within a minute City could have added two more, Hare saved one effort and the other was headed off the line from a corner by that rarity a defender who was covering the post at a corner.
Burscough pressed for an equaliser but it never looked like arriving and City eased to victory.

Lancaster City 1 Burscough 0 Att 196

Next venture may be 26/1/2016 but will definitely be 30/1/2016 at a venue to be decided