Post by chrish on Jan 27, 2011 22:43:20 GMT
Last night after missing out on two games earlier in the week due to car radiator trouble (a bloody great hole and an Uncle Buck amount of steam) and floodlight failure at Hampton and Richmond I finally managed to see a bit of football so I made the short journey down to East Moseley passing the splendid Hampton Court Palace to watch the Ryman League Division 1 South game between Met Police and Sittingbourne.
I paid 8 quid to get in and it's a nice little ground which deserves more than 100 spectators it gets every week. But as their kitman Chris MacPherson said "who wants to watch the Met Police play apart from their parents". His son is the assistant manager Gavin MacPherson who according to his dad was at Watford with Paul Buckle (probably before his time at Brentford) and was on trial at Plainmoor back in 1992. He signed for Carlisle instead, had a spell at Barnet and then got a bad injury, took the insurance money and became a copper.
Met Police are current top of the division but have an injury crisis at the moment and on Saturday they travel to Bognor Regis Town who are chasing them down in 2nd place.
The team they put out last night was a bit on the makeshift side. They opened up their doors to non coppers a few years ago (Athletic Bilbao take note) and now try to make up 75% of the team with players from the thin blue line. Last night they had 6 in the side with a sprinkling of two players from the Guyana international team including the national team captain Shawn Beveney who's managed to play for Cray Wanderers, Dulwich Hamlets, Ashford Town (Kent), Goldalming Town, Kingstonian, Lewes and a brief spell at Macclesfield where he never played. His fellow Guyana international Chris Bourne is off in March as he's signed a 2 year deal with DC United in the MLS. According to the kit man he'll be on 6 grand a week plus a flat!
I have to say that I quite enjoyed my evening in East Moseley. The 80p bovril was a boiling hot two spoonful no questions asked version.
Some photos.
Can you tell I quite like this angle?
Black and white perhaps. Gives it that 1983 Aberdeen V Real Madrid in Gothenburg feel!
From the best seats in the house
I paid 8 quid to get in and it's a nice little ground which deserves more than 100 spectators it gets every week. But as their kitman Chris MacPherson said "who wants to watch the Met Police play apart from their parents". His son is the assistant manager Gavin MacPherson who according to his dad was at Watford with Paul Buckle (probably before his time at Brentford) and was on trial at Plainmoor back in 1992. He signed for Carlisle instead, had a spell at Barnet and then got a bad injury, took the insurance money and became a copper.
Met Police are current top of the division but have an injury crisis at the moment and on Saturday they travel to Bognor Regis Town who are chasing them down in 2nd place.
The team they put out last night was a bit on the makeshift side. They opened up their doors to non coppers a few years ago (Athletic Bilbao take note) and now try to make up 75% of the team with players from the thin blue line. Last night they had 6 in the side with a sprinkling of two players from the Guyana international team including the national team captain Shawn Beveney who's managed to play for Cray Wanderers, Dulwich Hamlets, Ashford Town (Kent), Goldalming Town, Kingstonian, Lewes and a brief spell at Macclesfield where he never played. His fellow Guyana international Chris Bourne is off in March as he's signed a 2 year deal with DC United in the MLS. According to the kit man he'll be on 6 grand a week plus a flat!
I have to say that I quite enjoyed my evening in East Moseley. The 80p bovril was a boiling hot two spoonful no questions asked version.
Some photos.
Can you tell I quite like this angle?
Black and white perhaps. Gives it that 1983 Aberdeen V Real Madrid in Gothenburg feel!
From the best seats in the house
