Those two little words

Its that time of the season when two little words can ruin your weekend…..pitch inspection! As the hardcore non league followers amongst us can't wait until our weekly fix of non league football, the last thing you want to hear is ‘there is going to be a pitch inspection’. 9 times out of 10 it results in a cancellation. Never before have we spent so much time listening to the weather forecasts. Forward planning some call it but we all know that a possible cancellation will result in being dragged around the shops Christmas Shopping. And what about those poor soles that spend hours trying to prepare the pitch prior to the dreaded inspection, hours wasted. I know we can’t account for the weather but why doesn’t it account for our weekends. There’s plenty of time for the bad weather from 5pm Saturday’s onwards. I think I had better tune into the weather forecast tonight.

This week I heard of two players who have turned out for four different clubs already this season and also a current player who has played for ten Ridgeons League clubs. What records eh, especially as they are all under 30. The latter certainly fits that old adage of more clubs than Tiger Woods!