Naming names part 3

When a club folds a new club founded in their place has to adopt some variation of their name. Farsley AFC, formed in 2010, had until recently been in such a position. I am not sure of the rules regarding how long a club has wait to revert to the old name, or whether the FA consult the traditional entrails, but the club obtained permission to revert to Farsley Celtic this season.

The visitors have had a poor start to the season, only recording their first win in midweek. However, they have been a strong side in the past and I suspect they will not finish the season in their current position.

Joe Herbert added himself to our happily growing list of scorers for the season. One problem with your number 4 going round scoring, especially if you photograph from behind the goal, is that if you do not get the goal, you do not always have a decent picture of the player to substitute. Whilst I do not have a hard and fast rule for whether a picture of a goal works, as a rough rule of thumb, if the ball is more than the player's height away from him, it is unlikely to be of use as a single photograph. This one did not quite make it: the distance between ball and player is enough that even Joe might not remember it as his goal.

I was pondering this whilst listening to the excellent Forward the Hamlet podcast, which had an interview with one of the official Dulwich Hamlet photographers, Duncan Palmer, in which he discussed moving around the pitch, and getting better shots of the defence and goalkeeper, which I think I should do more.

A second goal came from Lloyd Dean, a more familiar presence at my end of the pitch.

Lloyd Dean

I could have done with following the approach of looking at the defence for the second half, as the visitors came out more strongly.

Marcus Burgess

Not that we were without action in the half we were attacking.

Rob Doran gets away from Farsley's Harley Wigley

Our new kit has shirts numbered up to 22, which came in handy, as our physio Nicola was kept busy with two blood injuries in quick succession, with Joe Herbert suffering a nosebleed, and, as soon as he was back on the pitch, Sam Staunton-Turner sustaining a cut to the face.

We had a couple of new faces coming on from the bench.

George Lomax

Aiden Kirkbride

Our third substitute, Jamie Hayes, had joined us under Neil Prince, and then been injured, which gave us a spot of bother identifying him on the team photo - when you see a player again it is a relief to know you got his name right the first time. Once he was back in action, he quickly established a claim for a place.

Jamie Hayes

The result left us scratching our heads - none of us could remember the last time we won three games in a row!

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

Final score: Prescot Cables 2 (Herbert, Dean) Farsley Celtic 0.