THIS BLOG WAS CREATED FROM THE VERY BEGINNINGS OF SCARBOROUGH ATHLETIC'S FORMATION

Scarborough Athletic F.C were formed on June 25th 2007 following the winding up order imposed on the old club after the local council turned down the club's survival plans. The club were finally forced into liquidation with debts of £2.5 million by a High Court judge, and so ended the club's magnificent 128 year history, no thoughts or consideration was to be spared for anyone connected with the club or the towns footballing public. However a trust had been formed and we were prepared for such a situation should it arise. The Seadog Trust applied to the Northern Counties East League to enter newly formed Scarborough Athletic and they were succesful in their application.
The new club are a continuation of the old one, they have the same kit, badge, motto etc and most importantly have kept a large number of the old supporters. This blog was started by me from the very beginnings of Scarborough Athletic FC and will follow the fortunes, both good and bad of the newly formed club as they try to get back to the higher levels of the football pyramid where they rightly belong. A rival team has also been formed 'Scarborough Town', I do not expect that particular club will have much of a future, but do they realise the damage that they are causing to the future success of football in the town, our town cannot support 2 teams, Athetic are here to stay, we are the town's number one football team and will return to the higher levels of the game in the next few seasons..


THIS BLOG WAS ESTABLISHED FROM THE BEGINNINGS OF SCARBOROUGH ATHLETIC AND WILL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THE CLUB ON THEIR JOURNEY BACK TO THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE. I AM NOT HERE TO ADVERTISE OR MAKE MONEY FROM 3RD PARTY LISTINGS, I AM HERE TO SIMPLY FOLLOW THE CLUB AND TRY TO KEEP THIS BLOG AS INTERESTING AS POSSIBLE. COMMENTS ARE WELCOME.

Thursday, 5 March 2009

NORTHERN COUNTIES LEAGUE MID-WEEK MATCHES

At the same time as Boro were thrashing luckless Pickering Town 7-1 in the Presidents Cup, 3 games were being played in Division 1.
Pontefract who were flying high until their last 3 or 4 games threw away another 2 points as they only managed a 2-2 draw at Brighouse after leading 2-0, the official attendance at Brighouse was just 34.
Ross Heywood grabbed an 88th minute winner for Hemsworth MW (our opponents on Saturday) as they beat Yorkshire Amateur 3-2 in front of 110 fans. I am looking forward to our game at Hemsworth on Saturday, it will be good to play a side with enough fans to create a bit of an atmosphere, around 200 Boro fans will probarbly make the trip, so I would guess there will be around 350 in the ground.
The other game was between Tadcaster Albion and Stavely, Tom Deighton opened the scoring just before half time for the home side but Stavely were the eventual 3-1 winners.
38 was the Albion's official attendance.
3 games were also played in the Premier Division, the matches at Dinnington,Liversedge and Long Eaton attracted just 206 fans in total, less than half of the attendance of 425 present at the Boro v Pickering game, how these teams must be looking forward to the revenue they will generate next season when Scarborough Athletic will also be one of the teams in the Premier Division.
24 hours later there were 2 Division 1 matches.
Emley beat 3rd placed Rainworth MW 1-0 in front of 117 fans and Grimsby Borough were beaten 3-1 at home by Teversal, this was after Richard Creer had given the home side a 15 th minute lead with a penalty, the attendance was just 15.
UP THE BORO.........

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