Showing posts with label Askern Villa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Askern Villa. Show all posts

Tuesday, 27 August 2013

22 April 2013 - Askern Villa v Albion Sports

The relegation of Askern Welfare was all but confirmed as Albion Sports ran out comfortable 4-0 winners. This was our second visit to Manor Way, we were there to see the other NCEL Division One promotion contender, Athersley Recreation. That day Askern Villa defeated the visitors 3-1 which was their last ever victory in the NCEL, those days though had long since gone and the club was almost at the end of a miserable 27 match losing streak. The return fixture saw Albion Sports run out 9-1 winners and after less than thirty minutes, that score looked not only achievable but possibly bettered. 

Competition : Northern Counties East League : Division One
Result : Askern Villa 0 Albion Sports 4
Attendance : 35

"Eye On You"

The Main Stand

"Tea Bar & The Ladies"

"Three Watch Albion Go Four Up"

"Away Dugout"
An unusual car registration number plate!

"Let's Do The Twist"
Albion Sports players half-time dance routine.

Goalpost Architecture
Askern Villa FC

"One Of The 35"

"The Sun Goes Down On Askern Villa And Their Stay In The NCEL"

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Askern Villa
Club Website Link In The Central Midlands League Panel At The Side

Albion Sports
Club Website Link In The NCEL Panel At The Side

All Photography : ©fotografica137

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Friday, 24 May 2013

26 February 2013 - Worsbrough Bridge Athletic v Askern Villa

Our final match for February saw us visit Worsbrough Bridge Athletic on a cold Tuesday evening. Fresh from their 3-2 victory over Selby Town (see previous three features), The Briggers faced an out-of-sorts Askern Villa, who were currently in a losing streak of matches. Unbeknown to everyone, this was Askern Villa's ninth consecutive defeat, a run which carried on until the end of the season, a sequence of twenty two consecutive defeats.

Competition : Northern Counties East League : Division One
Result : Worsbrough Bridge Athletic 6 Askern Villa 0
Attendance : 51

Above, a National Union of Mineworkers flag, Barrow Branch hangs proudly in the Worsbrough Bridge Athletic cafebar area. The colliery here closed in 1985 due to geological issues.

"The Main Stand"

"Match Day Routine for the Match Day Secretary"

We have a portrait of Charlie Wyatt in the third feature from our 
Selby Town v Worsbrough Bridge Athletic feature (previous).

"Officials Hospitality"

"Home and Away"

"The Green Room"

"Brass Band" 

"Practise Night For The Brass Band"

"Beyond This Point.... "


John Cooper - Worsbrough Bridge Athletic
"BallBoy / Bartender / Chairman"

Possibly one of the oldest we've seen during our first season covering clubs, people, matches 
for No Clash Of Colours.

"Goal Post Architecture"
under the floodlights at Park Road.

Portraits

Josh Lane
Grandson
Why the fishing net?
Running by the Park Road pitch is the River Dove.
For any stray clearance, wayward goalkick or off target goal attempt...

John Lane
Grandad

After match hospitality for both clubs and officials.

John & Josh
Grandad & Grandson
Worsbrough Bridge Athletic

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All Photography : ©fotografica137

Website Links To Both Clubs In The NCEL Panel At The Side

Click On Any Photograph To Open A Slideshow

Friday, 21 December 2012

15 December 2012 - Shirebrook Town v Askern Villa

Competition : NCEL Division One
Result : Shirebrook Town 5 Askern Villa 0
Attendance : 112

Shirebrook Town, looking for a seconfd half of the season promotion push back to the NCEL Premier League, Askern Villa, who have recently gone through wholesale changes, will be happy to survive this season.  

Askern Villa are one of three Doncaster located, NCEL Division clubs, Rossington Main share status in the First Division, whilst Armthorpe Welfare currently reside in the NCEL Premier Division. 

Today was Askern Villa's first match back after they had previously postponed games due to being unable to field a team and were also granted permission by the NCEL League itself.
Read The Link ...

Shirebrook Town, had a great "community feel" to the club, talking with supporters pre-match, they were 100% behind the club, so much so that they're deciding on whether to take a supporter's bus to away games. Nothing unusual in that if you're following a club from the higher levels of non-league football and the Football League, but when a club has attendances from 59 to 112 (highest NCEL Div1 crowd of the season at Langwith Road today) , the supporters have to be applauded.

"Loyal 'Brook Supporters"

Memorial Plaque For A Former Shirebrook Town Player.

A Die-Hard Puts Up The STFC Flag ...

Floodlight Architecture on Langwith Road

Notice Board Inside The Club...
Amongst the bubble-gum machines, "Crack Down On Drugs", Shirebrook Town FC matchday and clubshop A4s, there's one for Shirebrook Whippet Racing Club.


No.7

Teamsheet...

On the Hospitality Cabin window for all to see. When shouting at the opposition players, it's always good to add that personal touch, not just a number!

The Sid Pepper Stand

The Blue Seats, I was told are from ... ?
(answer at the bottom of the feature)

The Sid Pepper Stand

Bathed in the last remnants of a late autumnal sun.

Press Area (From The Front)

Press Area (From The Stand)

Half Time at Langwith Road

"Follow The Yellow Brick Steps"
Colourful Architecture : The Sid Pepper Stand

Langwith Road - Shirebrook Town
Under The Floodlights

The Following are Goals! ::: 3, 4 and 5

Tom Rowbotham rises highest to head home the STFC third.

Jason Bradley bamboozles the Askern Villa keeper with a classy near post flick to add his second and Shirebrook Town's fourth.

Jason Bradley scores his third, Shirebrook Town's fifth after a poor clearance from Joe Simpson, Askern Villa goalkeeper (seen here on his knees).

Shirebrook Town players walk off to a great ovation, the supporters waited behind after the full time whistle to applaud their team off the pitch after the 5-0 victory.

Jason Bradley
Shirebrook Town
Hat Trick Hero with Match Ball & MOTM Champagne

Gary Meredith
Chairman of Shirebrook Town FC

Another "Legend" of Non League Football.

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Match Report

All Photography : ©fotografica137
Website Links To Both Clubs In The NCEL Panel At The Side
Click On Any Photograph To Open A Slideshow

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The answer to The Blue Seats question from Photograph 09..
Leicester City - Filbert Street

Friday, 2 November 2012

27 October 2012 - Askern Villa v Athersley Rec

Competition : Northern Counties East League : Division One
Result : Askern Villa 3 Athersley Rec 1
Attendance : 94

Official's Tea Room

Prior to the match, I was told that the club had been burgled yet again. Hence the panels on the inside of the window frames.  Struggling as a club financially, Askern Villa are one of those clubs that won't let the "minor inconvenience" of another break-in stop them from playing top of the table Athersley Rec.

"Tea Bar"


"Villa Away .... "

"Match Officials - Pre Match Pitch Conference"

"Main Stand Seats : In No Particular Order"

"Athersley Rec Supporters in The Main Stand"

"Spot The Ball"

"Half Time, Villa .. 1-0 Up"

"Half Time, Rec 0-1 down"

"Danger Live" ... 
An Athersley Rec follower colour co-ordinates with a floodlight warning sign.

"Pylons"

"Nets Down ...."

"Almost Everybody's Gone ...."


A reminder that Askern was once a thriving mining community"

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All Photography : ©fotografica137

Website links to both clubs in the NCEL clubs panel at the side.