It was my aim today to see Mickleover Royal British Legion FC in their Central Midland Football League - Division South game at The Poppyfields, thus completing the set of seeing all the remaining Derby teams play at home in competitive games. Today would have been a fitting occasion to see RBL, the day before Remembrance Sunday, but it wasn't to be.
Arriving at The Poppyfields, 15 minutes before kick off, the lack of goal nets and the deathly quiet of a football ground without people present was alarming. Managing to find some chaps playing football on the adjacent 5-a-side pitch we (myself, father and my pin badge collecting companion) learnt that the game had been abandoned due to a waterlogged pitch. We wondered whether the other game of the afternoon in Mickleover would suffer the same fate.
Arriving at the Don Amott Arena we were relieved to find out that Mickleover Sport's game versus Ashton United in the Northern Premier League Premier Division was to go ahead as planned. We then wondered whether the Derby suburb of Mickleover has microclimates that result, during a shower, in Western Road suffering more than Station Road.
Newly promoted Sports have struggled so far this season and they struggled today too. Ashton's number 9 tore Sports to bits in the first half and we feared that the 3:0 half-time score line would turn into a 6:0 defeat. Ashton sat back in the second half however and Mickleover got back in the game. The solitary Sports consolation goal made the 3:1 score line a little more respectable but on this showing we fear that there may be a swift return to NPL South.
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