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Did you know? Pontefract cake was used both for human and animal medicinal purposes up until 1760, when sugar was added to form a confectionary..of Sorts!  Local worthies, not often mentioned in the same sentence, are Tim Bresnan and Harvey Proctor.

Pontefract Collieries (First Team) v Stocksbridge Park Steels FC (First Team)
Northern Premier League - East Division    
Referee: Hall, Jack
Assistant Referee: Langdon, Matthew
Assistant Referee: Trevethan, Michael

Well, this was an awful game. Hustle and bustle and not much else. It was bad enough to leave six minutes early.....and miss a saved penalty from a red card!

The only goalscorer is known in this parish not for his footballing skills, which I'm sure are plenty, but for century and double century scoring in local cricket. For purposes of pride, it's probably best not to say in which division, but had JCFC been early at the cricket, he'd have got a game, and not been the last to bat!

Mr Hall, laid back in the extreme, and very much looking and refereeing like a young Des Morrison imo, will struggle to make enemies. Nothing flustered, an approach which generally rubs off for the best on the players.

He occasional got in the way, the ball hitting him twice, but I'd be splitting hairs.

Leaving on 84m and hearing the hullabaloo half way back to the car, the next five minutes were taken up manoeuvring past some adventurous third party parking. A mate saw me through the tiniest of gaps, and I did the honourable thing straight after, driving off before he asked me to see him through the same gap.

Well, you gotta beat the traffic if you're leaving early !