Lot's wife comes to tea

I had been wondering what to say about the visit of Witton Albion to Prescot at the weekend, when a quick bit of butterfingers on the keyboard provided a start.

I put in a draft title for the post, thinking of the salt mining heritage of the town of Northwich (Witton is the historic name for the centre of the town, reflected in the name of the parish church, St Helen's Witton), and the Biblical tale of Lot's unfortunate wife, who disobeyed the instruction not to look back when fleeing the Cities of the Plain, and was turned to a pillar of salt as a result. Such tales are not confined to the Bible, many places with natural rocky pillars have a legend of a notorious local person who came to a suitably solid end.

I then started the post, with a capital P. Well, that was the intention, but instead of shift, I pressed Ctrl+p. In most applications, that brings up the print dialogue box, but in Blogger it publishes your post.

Phil Cooney has had to stop playing again due to work commitments,

Phil Cooney in his last game of his current spell, against Salford City

which is bad news for the team, as he has made a significant contribution in the few months he has been able to play, but reduces the scope for accidental posting. Once I had posted the title, I was stuck with it: although it is possible to change it after it has been posted, it is not advisable, as it will start to appear in searches, and lead to an error message when people follow the link.

Stephen Longrigg makes a save

The game was a closer in the play than the 3-1 scoreline suggests, with all the Prescot players putting in a good performance, especially after Liam Hollett was shown a rather harsh straight red towards the end of the first half.

The rest of the pictures from the game can be seen here.