A word from our sponsors

Before Prescot Cables' game at home to Brighouse Town, I was buttonholed by our new commercial manager, Steve Garnett. He asked if it was possible to take some action shots in front of the advertising boards: whilst I occasionally crop a picture so the board is included, I had not thought of sending them to the advertiser. Our commercial activity has increased recently, including new advertisers, and a Cables Commercial Twitter feed, forwarding our advertisers' tweets, so we see their names even when we are not at the game. We are benefiting from new contacts Steve has been able to bring to us, and ideas to give them extra value for money. I would not set out to concentrate on the boards, it would be a quick way to miss out on pictures of play. However, there are a few pictures I have identified where I can make a slightly different crop for the sponsors.

We also have a new Pitchero website, which has been in the pipeline for a while. Our former website, created a few years ago by our webmaster Geoff was a definite improvement on what was available at the time, but the Pitchero template has improved, many other clubs use it, and we really need the facility to have more than one administrator. I can upload photos directly, without having to try and embed a link, for which Geoff and I made several attempts, with the method of creating the link in Picasa seeming to change every week.

The game started with the weather bright and dry, with the shadows falling in the usual parts of the pitch.

Jonah O'Reilly

During the first half the visitors probably had the better of play, which was taking place more in our own half. However, we went a goal ahead, courtesy of a penalty. There was some doubt about what it was for, but a consensus emerged for dangerous play by Brighouse's goalkeeper.

Phil Bannister scores from the spot

The weather was a bit cloudier for the second half, which assisted one of our spectators, Mike Bayly of When Saturday Comes, visiting for his book 100 British Football Grounds to Visit Before You Die, due to be published at the end of the year, who captured this picture of the main stand.

A new starter was Jacob Jones, on loan from Atherton Collieries.

Jacob Jones

We had the better of the second half. I did not capture Joe Evans' header from just in front of me (play can get too close for the 70mm minimum length of my lens), and he might have intended for someone to get on the end of it rather than for it to go in directly. Still, there is no requirement for intention when it comes to a goal.

Joe Evans

The visitors pulled a goal back late in the game by getting a free kick round our wall, but never looked like taking a point.

Loading the photos to the website was straightforward, if slightly annoying when you have wait for the photos to load before saving, which, on a standard broadband connection takes some time, as there is no tool to compress the files. Once they are online, the site displays them in a square format. Plenty of sites do this, but not generally in a square of the short side. You can click though to the full photos on a desktop or laptop, but not on a mobile, where they remain resolutely square - Marcus Burgess flagged up to me that even downloading, he looked like this.

Here is the picture as it should be.

I posted the link to the club website first to push traffic towards the site - and our sponsors - but still linked to the Google+ collection later for a mobile friendly display, with better resolution for downloads.

The rest of the pictures from the game can be seen on the club website here, and on Google+ here.

Final score: Prescot Cables 2 (Bannister pen, Evans) Brighouse Town 1.