Making it safe

There is something to be said for enjoying the last week of the season without worrying about results. Occasions like avoiding relegation at Lincoln United in the last game of the 2007-8 season are not good for us if they come around too often.

Prescot Cables approached our penultimate home game of the season against Burscough knowing events off the field had probably ensured our safety. Since our game at Wakefield, the League had accepted the resignations of Wakefield, dropping one step due to ground issues, and Cammell Laird, dropping two steps due to ownership issues. That should fill the two places, but there was a rumour that the club finishing bottom would be relegated, presumably making three clubs if Wakefield were not in that position. Results last week made us safe from that, with our win at Wakefield and Ossett Albion's loss at home meaning only those clubs could finish in the bottom position. It is still better to secure safety by finishing out of the last two places, and we needed points to make that sure.

Max Pouncey

Outside football, I look after the servers in a traditional High Church parish, so Holy Saturday (not Easter Saturday, that is the Saturday after Easter) is a busy day, helping put everything back into church that we took out on Good Friday, in time for the Vigil service in the evening. Away games are out of the question, so I was quite fortunate that, for the fourth time in five years, we were playing at home.

Burscough's green kit is one of those to which the camera never seems to do justice, certainly not in daylight, reproduction under floodlights seems better, but it is a more vivid shade than appears here.

Richie Mottram

This is a day where my primary weather concern is not the light, but the absence of wind and rain in the evening - back at church we have a candle to light, from a wood fire, outdoors, in the encircling gloom. However, for the record, there was a decent amount of sun, which presented the usual challenges with backlighting from the white parts of the perimeter fences at the Safari Park End.

Antony Shinks

For some reason, the Fire Service used the Hope Street end to park an appliance for most of the second half. I am not sure why, there did not seem to be any flames, no water needing to be pumped out, and not even any trees from which a cat may need to be rescued.

The visiting goalkeeper was once again Tim Horn, who had been vociferous in our meeting in the Liverpool Senior Cup back in November, especially in the penalty shootout, where he successfully encouraged our penalty takers to aim the ball in his direction, with Isaac Kusoloka being one such. What goes around comes around, and our guest has lost none of his willingness to come off his line, which brought Isaac the opportunity to score his second goal.

Isaac Kusoloka dispossesses Tim Horn near the changing rooms...

... and puts the ball in the goal

The third goal came from Luke Robinson, putting away a loose ball at close range. I got some sort of picture, but even with the "goal is a goal" principle, I include enough of the player for him to be identifiable, just from the knees down is not enough to make it into the collection.

Luke Robinson

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

Final score: Prescot Cables 3 (Kusoloka 2, Robinson), Burscough 0