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Good win in pretty testing conditions. Perfect response to Tuesday. Bit patchy initially but only going to be one winner once Johnstone swopped wings. Glad the pitch will get a weeks rest now. Let’s hope for a prolonged dry spell, look very heavy out there today, not a criticism, it’s just by dint of nature

That sums everything up very well. I would just add that I hope that there's nothing seriously wrong with Ben Harrison, following his withdrawal, as he would be missed

Quote from: One Foot in the Grave on December 19, 2017, 10:20:47 PM

Downright poor. Once we scored  (great strike from Hulme) we seemed to think we'd done the job and dropped deeper.

On the 13th.January the league may rearrange a fixture. The options are Barwell at home or Stafford away.

We've got Workington at home.

Workington are away at Weston-Super-Mare in the Trophy that day.

Very good question. Also, even more embarrassing when they fire off another flare when we are trying to salvage the game after going 2-1 down.

I wouldn’t hold your breath for an announcement on their website. The last news update was 14 days ago!

They have announced on twitter that there will be an update on today's fixture at 1030, so I am waiting with bated breath.

If you google Vince McBean (Clapton’s Chief Executive and owner of the ground) you will see he is one of the dodgiest figures in London non league football today, think like the Turkish gangsters who used to run Fisher Athletic when we played them back in the day. The fans are fighting a long running battle against him to regain control of the club and secure its future and its Old Spotted Dog ground. He essentially sees the ground as his pension fund. Sure the notorious Clapton Ultras have far left politics that many on here would disagree with but their passion, noise and community spirit is widely appreciated and their travelling support welcomed in the Essex Senior League and by the Clapton’s players (same level as NW Counties league).

The issue with the London Senior Cup tie is a bizarre one as the Met struggle to get 150 at their Imber Court ground and none of their players are even cops anymore anyway so banning the away fans is bizarre in the extreme. Seems like their committe is running scared and McBean has effectively persuaded them to ban his own fans on some spurious grounds of possible disorder.

The Met may also have been seeking an excuse to maximise home advantage. Anyway, the result was Metropolitan Police 3 Clapton 1  before an attendance of 28, so the ban was certainly observed or enforced.

Quote from: Sale Holmfield on December 05, 2017, 09:53:55 AM

No direct connection to Altrincham, but Clapton, whose supporters were banned from an Essex Senior League match a couple of weeks ago, have now been banned from a London Senior Cup match at Metropolitan Police tomorrow.
Some of the background, and our London correspondents may know more, is that Clapton, in a league where 100 is a good crowd, have attracted a lot of younger ultras who are noisy and use, or, they say, used to use flares, as well as being quite political. They also seem to be in constant dispute with the club ownership and are boycotting home games, hence other clubs check with Clapton who agree they should be banned.
This could be the thin end of the wedge.

  http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/metropolitanpolicefc/news/club-statement-2102647.html

whats your point? You saying those boycoting our home games should be banned from away games?

By no means and quite the contrary! The clue was in my final sentence.
Those who boycott home games are then portrayed by the authorities of their parent club as troublemakers, and end up being banned when other clubs "have a word."
Try reading the entire post.

No direct connection to Altrincham, but Clapton, whose supporters were banned from an Essex Senior League match a couple of weeks ago, have now been banned from a London Senior Cup match at Metropolitan Police tomorrow.
Some of the background, and our London correspondents may know more, is that Clapton, in a league where 100 is a good crowd, have attracted a lot of younger ultras who are noisy and use, or, they say, used to use flares, as well as being quite political. They also seem to be in constant dispute with the club ownership and are boycotting home games, hence other clubs check with Clapton who agree they should be banned.
This could be the thin end of the wedge.

  http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/metropolitanpolicefc/news/club-statement-2102647.html

Agreed. They were a decent, and physically a very strong team, who finished the stronger. Quite a contrast to the defeat at nearby Alfreton last season. We owe a debt to Jordan Hulme for his alertness which resulted in the goal, and was also apparent at other times.

Don Amott surely deserves some sort of award for managing to include Napoleon, the Great Fire of London, President Woodrow Wilson and Britney Spears all in the same programme notes.