Catch points

In the wider world, attention last week was on the Scottish Independence Referendum. A Yes may have given a league in England trips to Berwick Rangers, further away for most than "bloody Blyth bloody Spartans on a bloody Tuesday night", the question being which league is the same standard as Scottish Division Two. The No result put Yorkshire independence off the agenda for a bit too, so we welcomed Harrogate Railway Athletic. Dr Phil the Pharmacologist travelled from Edinburgh, although he attended the Liverpool Food Festival and joined some of us later. I do not consider a large variety of food on matchday, the main issue is steak & kidney or meat & potato, and whether to have peas and gravy with it. Still, he missed the match to attend the Food Festival last year too, and we won 7-1 against New Mills.

Harrogate were wearing blue, the first time I have seen their away colours. They have always worn red and green when I have seen them playing us in the past, but they had a home game on the following Monday, so would need it for that.

James Cairns

Most benches have someone taking notes these days, rather than relying on recollections for team talks and assessments as most did when I started watching the game. We do not have coaches in the stand using laptops, but paper and pen are much in evidence. Dave Powell was very economical with a single sheet of paper folded multiple times, but funds now stretch to a clipboard.

Ian Johnson makes notes as Sam Corlett receives the ball

It is one thing to be taking notes, but the visitors looked like they were drawing a picture, and not necessarily choosing the safest place to do it.

We saw the return of a couple of a couple of familiar faces.

John Beattie

Mason Ryan leaves the opposition in disarray

Prescot could not convert possession into goals, despite coming close a number of times, and, as so often happens in such situations, Harrogate scored just before half time.

The second half saw the return from injury of Matty West, who added himself to the score sheet.

This picture has everything for a picture of a goal, apart from one flaw - the number 4 being in the way of my view of the ball. Still, at least from there he will not be stopping it going in the net.

Harrogate went ahead again, and it looked as though we would miss out, until Sam Corlett scored in the last minute to pick up another point, which we have yet to see come in threes this season. Once again it was welcome that we were able to keep up the pressure to the end, and gain from the last minute goal rather than falling victim to it.

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

Final score: Prescot Cables 2 (West, Corlett), Harrogate Railway Athletic 2