Bank holiday weather

We have a number of rather unusual Bank Holidays in the United Kingdom (along with the Republic of Ireland, who derive them from the same Victorian legislation), in that they celebrate nothing more than that the banks are closed, rather than being tied to a religious or national festival as in most of Europe. The time at which they occur has some significance, with a holiday in August coming from Lammas, the baking of the first loaf from the new harvest. This is at the beginning of the month, and Scotland and Ireland still have a holiday at this time. England and Northern Ireland moved it to the end of August in an attempt to extend the season in holiday resorts. This could not, however, extend the good weather or stop the nights drawing in, so it is quite often cold and wet. This year was no exception.

At our level, our bank holiday games are usually against local opposition, and with the FA Cup Preliminary Round not being until the following week, there was no danger of postponements due to replays. Prescot Cables hosted Burscough.

Our visitors had the same kit as last year. I could not capture the colour very well in the sun at the end of last season, although oddly it looks a bit better in the grey light of this fixture.

James McCulloch

Burscough goalkeeper Tim Horn is well known to us, both for liking to wander, and for being quite vociferous. With injury particularly affecting our potential scorers, although there was good news that Rob Doran had been able to play for the Reserves at the weekend, we were likely to find goals hard to come by. However, we were able to keep Tim on his toes.

Yunus Giwa

One good aspect of our start to the season is our clean sheets, something we have often found difficult in the past, with goalkeeper Ciaran Gibson growing in confidence and working well with his defence.

Jack Phillips, Liam Dodd, Ciaran Gibson

With this combination, and the intermittently wet and blustery conditions, a goalless draw came as not much surprise - with a positive point being a third clean sheet in four games. and of course a point is a point, and they all add up at the end of the season.

The Management watch Joe Evans

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

Final result: Prescot Cables 0 Burscough 0