York Road, Maidenhead
Friendly
What is it well-nigh 'the beautiful game' (in addition to I've seen games that accept challenged that term) that incites such rage in people? At the finish of the twenty-four hours, it'second simply a game. And this game in particular was a friendly.
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| York Road caters for those inward the area without the net. |
The appeals and frustration guided towards the referee at his failure to award Maidenhead a punishment inward the eighth infinitesimal in a game that meant absolutely nix left me shaking my head inwards disbelief. Why tin't people but chill out too be friendly? After all, it'sec in the advert.
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| York Road is onetime, in all probability. |
I've watched a lot of football game. I dearest the game. I'll celebrate a goal (I'1000 a Reading fan then those are few too far betwixt), just joining the mob frothing at the oral cavity, with desires to lynch the referee over every single conclusion in the other team'second favour (because we all know that they're never right)? Fuck that, it'sec but not that deep. Why tin can't people picket the game objectively?
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| In example you lot were always unsure of who plays hither, the Bell End spells it out for y'all. |
York Road has a lot of qualities going for it. It retains all of the charm of something assembled inwards a fourth dimension before television, cars, Queen Elizabeth II, roads and running H2O. As much every bit they effort to take it into the 20th century, it'second in all probability not long for this globe. But this is what football is all nigh. This was the place I started to fall inward dearest alongside going to games all over over again.
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| A await back at the cage too Canal End, where many a shot has ended clearing. |
Modern privy facilities? Nah, who needs those when you can but whizz into a hole inward the ground. Drinking inwards sentiment of the pitch? Perfect. Then they went in addition to spoiled it all past getting promoted. Maidenhead'second rising has been zero short of impressive. That they've contend to secure their home in non league'second summit tier for a third flavor, is even more impressive.
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| Another promising assail thwarted by having to take a throw inward. |
But dissimilar the outset season, where I rest convinced that they had an exterior shot of accidentally getting promoted had Dave Tarpey non been sold, the minute flavour was far more than of a slog. With a new form of players not living upwardly to their predecessors, as well as a manager who seems to accept a phobia of right wingers, the team has been a picayune disjointed in addition to worse, lacking quality in addition to goals.
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| A thought of the Maidenhead skyline. Like Wembley'second, it'sec dominated past cranes. |
All of that, plus the nagging feeling that enough fourth dimension has passed that I should pass Reading some other go, has meant that this game would act as Maidenhead's concluding endeavour of the summer to purchase my love.
I withal tin can't encounter where the goals are going to come from, in addition to the team looks every bit disjointed every bit e'er. But it could be worse, they could be Stevenage. Sure it was a friendly, but they didn't take to expect until lxxx something minutes had passed earlier even attempting a shot at finish.
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| Just before the ball curled direct into the height corner. |
Danny Whitehall, no stranger to fifth tier activity having spent time at Bugeaters FC inwards Nebraska (hang on, he came from the 5th tier of U.S.A. soccer?!?), settled the mark amongst an impressive costless boot, I fifty-fifty caught a photograph of it. But was it plenty to convince me I should come here 23 times adjacent yr? I approximate I accept a conclusion to make.
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| At to the lowest degree the heaven looked pretty. |
Still, I was safe inwards the cognition that alongside a minor crowd on mitt that I'd live able to make a quick dash out the town heart together with live on the M4 home in no time. Nope, of grade that was closed too.
Useless information almost York Road
Address: York Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 1SF
Capacity: 4,000
Pitch Type: Grass
Ticket Price: £10
Programme: £iii, 32 pages
