Darlington Travellers Rest 5 v Sunderland Hall Farm 4 - A.E.T (FT 3-3) - 26/09/15 - ground #392 - Darlington School of Maths & Science

A short train journey to darlo then a 10-15 minute bus ride to Branksome, took me to this Durham Minor Cup game, and what a game !!
Darlo took the lead with a quality indivual goal. Then in the 2nd half, Hall Farm stormed into a 3-1 lead which included a belter of a free kick! Darlo didn't give up, and with the help of some dodgy keepin, got in back to 3-3. Extra time produded 3 more goals, Darlo scored 2 goals in the 2nd half, 5-3, then Hall Farm pulled 1 back in last minute. A great game full of goals & Drama :)

only 10 Crook & District grounds remain now. Next saturday, I'm off at Heighington to tick another 1 off :)

season 2015/16 - 13 new grounds, 57 goals :)

transport -
142096 thornaby - darlo
2 darlo - branksome
2 branksome - darlo
142091 darlo - thornaby

Sunderland Hall Farm 5 v Sunderland Farringdon Detached 1 - 15/08/15 - ground #386 - Leyburn Grove Sports Complex

after all the ifs & buts this summer over the planned 'Wearside development league', the end result is the Durham Alliance Combination League. What was left of the Durham Alliance league & those teams from the Wearside Combination league that still wanted to play on a saturday, add a couple of new teams & that was that.
It means that I've been handed 5 new grounds to do - Sunderland Hall Farm, Sunderland Farringdon DFC, Seaham New Westlea & Killingworth YPC. so today,  thats 1 down 3 to go :)

a nice cheap day out, as I only needed a 2 Buzzfare zones ticket from stockton to houghton, only to be used on GNE buses.
1st stop off was Hetton Lyons CC , one of the better NEPL grounds. They bowled out newcastle for 67 within the 1st session! which was nice :)
after that finished early, it was onto leyburn grove, where I saw a bonus cricket game - Houghton CW CC v Burnhopefield, was taking place. So I watched about 1st 20 mins of that before the footy started. everytime there was a break in the footy, my attention turned to the cricket!  (pic below)

after the footy. my final pit-stop was South Hetton CC for their 2nd XI game v Brandon 2nd XI.
overall, a fantastic day out of footy & cricket :)

transport -
X7 stockton - peterlee
X35 peterlee - hetton
X1 hetton - houghton
X35 houghton - south hetton
X35 south hetton - peterlee
X9 peterlee - stockton