Saturday 18th January 2014 @3pm
Southern Counties East League
GREENWICH BOROUGH 0-1 ERITH TOWN
Princes Park, Dartford
Admission: £7
Programme: free (£2 cover price)
Attendance: 162
Refreshments: Kent Best (bottle), £3. Mars bar, 70p.
Vegetable cup-a-soup, £1
Greenwich Borough has shared Dartfords ground from the beginning
of the season after a nomadic few years at Holmesdale FC. Before 2009 they
played at Harrow Meadow in Eltham, a ground which now has housing on it. At
Princes Park, Greenwich uses the near entrance near the car park and the small
bar just to the right of the turnstile for hot and cold drinks and filled
rolls. Note there is no hot food
available. The usual facilities and bar
for Dartford games are not available.
I have visited the ground several times with Dartford but a
first with the tenants. The Chairman has
grand plans to eventually be on a par with their landlords and to have a
similar ground and facilities back in their home borough in the foreseeable
future. I wait and see how far they get
towards this vision. The attendance was
twice the season average due to the lack of games in North Kent and that
Dartford fans can get in for £2, where around 30 took up this offer.
On the plus side, the capture of Ian Jenkins as new first
team manager looks a good appointment; probably for next seasons promotion push
and new recruits so far are coming from Step 4 clubs. The match however, was a disappointment. A
large covering of sand on the pitch and the touchline in front of the Main
stand seemed to consist of several inches of dark sand from Sheppey! Greenwich
certainly had more of the attacking play in the second half, after an instantly
forgettable first 45 minutes. Erith Town
however, got the important goal 15 minutes from time. From a corner, the ball wasn’t
cleared at the far post and it fell to Joe Nwoko, 10 yards from the centre of
the goal to easily drill in past the keeper.
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