Chemfica 4 v Red Row Welfare 0 - 04/11/17 - ground #458 - Cochrane Park Sports Ground

arrived at benfield to watch Duram City U18s 1.30 k.o , only to see an empty playing area (next door to Sam Smiths Park). the bloke on the car park gate didn't have a clue about the U18s team. I later found out than benfield had cancelled the game at 9am due to water logged pitch, with nowt on twitter etc tho. gutted, I walked up the road to tick the chemfica part off of Cochrane park. I did a wander round, takin a few pics the went & sat up at the pavilion (instead of my usual walking up & down the touchline hoping for a decent action pic!) . turned out to be an easy home win. I nipped out abit early to make sure I caught the early X10 back down the A19 & avoid the mags v Bournemouth crowd.
so its another alliance ground ticked off, but I'd rather of did the U18s game & got down to 2 grounds to complete that league.

season 2017/18 = 17 new grounds , 105 goals

transport -
4074 + 08 heworth - monument
4037 +03 monument - walkergate
1 Cochrane park - grainger st
X10 Eldon square - Stockton

Willington Quay Saints 5 v Red Row Welfare 3 - 08/04/17 - ground #439 - The Rising Sun Sports Ground

I had a few options to get here from WBC, but they included walking to various bus stops , then a walk after bus. as it was a lovely day, I decided to walk it, which was about the same as the bus options! yet another end to end game, full of incidents & an avalanche of goals ! :)
with no metro stations within easy walking distance, I opted for the 310, 5 mins walk from ground,  back into town, which wasn't too bad.

season 2016/17 -  27 new grounds, 113 goals

transport -
310 mullen road - haymarket
X9 Eldon square - billingham
52 billingham - stockton

Red Row Welfare 4 v Cramlington Town A 2 - 01/10/16 - ground #423 - Red Row Welfare

yet another explorer ticket & venture up north on the X10 for this Northumberland fa senior bowl match. this was the furthest north I'd been for a match on the bus, Newbiggin will be the next! Red led 2-0 at HT, in a game when they could've had 6 or 7, town actually pulled 1 back to make it 2-1. the final score had more of a fair reflection.  I'm now down to 26 grounds in the nfa, it's gonna be a long hard slog to complete it!!

season 2016/17 - 11 new grounds , 54 goals

transport -
X10 Stockton - heworth
4063+10 heworth - regent centre
X18 regent centre - red row
X20 red row - regent centre
4047+08 regent centre - heworth
X9 heworth - billingham
36 billingham - stockton