Posted '8:30pm bells🕭' Tuezday 22nd April 2025
"PREMYAA, PREMYAA, HERE WE COME?"
This game woz billed az a '6 pointer' coz if Dunston won theyd be certain to finish 2nd in the table and have home advantage in both the semi final and Final of the play offs, if they made it that far!
Ayyycliffe on the other hand would be just a point behind if they won, with just one game to gan after this!----So it woz a 'winner takes aall' into the final weekend of the season in the leegue!
We started of at 'The Clav' club in Dunston and 15 of us were booked onto a mini bus to take us on the half hour jorney to the game at The Moor Lane Sports Club groond!
A 73 seater bus from 'Stanley Travel' then torned up?----The driver said he had to drop us off and then heed for Seaham to pick a bus load of SMBs up and take them to The SOS where the mackems were playin Bleakburn in The Championship!
Thoughts of puttin some chewin gum on the seats crossed wor minds, but az we didnt have any, it woz a non starter!
The 15 of us had at least 4 seats each for the jorney doon to deepest Coonty Durham for this Easter Munday fixture!
The clubhoose woz open at '11am bells' for this '1:00pm bells' kick off and vast quanities of ale were consumed before heedin for the groond, which woz a 3 minute walk past a cricket groond!
A bumper crowd woz expected, and we guessed that there were aboot 400 inside the groond at kick of time! (400 iz a bumper crowd in this leegue)
There woz a bit of confusion at the start az Dunston fan 'Davy the Silver Fox' thought that Ayyycliffe's colour were yellow shirts! But the two team ran oot in aall blue and aall red strips? Dunston normally play in blue and at forst sight we thought it woz them!----But NO we recognised a couple of Dunston players wearin RED az the teams lined up
The home side started off the better az they attacked the right hand goal from wor standin' position in line with the penalty area!
Dunston foond their feet in the 9th minute when O'Donnell had a shot from distance but it woz easily saved by Pollard in the NA goal!
Then in the 32nd minute Clarkson missed a great chance to put the home side aheed!
Then in the 37th minute The Bad Blue Boys in RED had a great chance to take the lead instead through Pearson, but instead of shootin' he passed to O'Donnell, who woz fractionly offside! HT 0-0
It woz time to heed for somemore 'liquid lubrications' back in the clubhoose, before retornin' 10 minutes late into the 2nd half! Still 0-0, so we thankfully haddint missed any goals! ("hic!")
The big BIG breaktrhough came in the 63rd minute when Dunston's Richie Coulson sent a cross into the box and David Robinson woz on hand to send a powerful heeder into the net with Pollard unable to stop it!
It woz then a case of defend, defend from the visitors and there woz a nailbitin' finish az NA tried in vain for the equaliser!
7 minutes off stoppage time woz played and eventually the ref blew for full time, az the 40 or so Dunston fans and commitee celebrated the great win!---A win that meenz ‘The Bad Blue Boys’ finish in 2nd position in the table and will have home advantage in the semi-final play off next Tuezday neet against a possibility of 4 teams, includin Newton Ayyycliffe again!
History woz made az this iz the highest position Dunston have ever finished in the pyramid system!
Promotion to the Northern Premyaa, Premyaa Division iz now a very real possibility!
The official attendance woz given az 514, double their normal home gate!---so we were just ower a hundred under in wor estimation!
We DID INDEED travel back to Tyneside in a mini bus, but not after several more celebratory 'liquid lubrications' back in the clubhoose!
'Fink' (the mad-sad groundhopper!)
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