Staines Town P
Tonbridge P
Wasted Mileage: 136/3,315
Lightning might not strike twice but Jack Frost certainly can. Three years ago, the same journey was made on a day when Kent was snow covered and, despite assurances from the home club that the pitch had been deemed fit for the game to go ahead, I was met at the gate with the news that there had been a postponement after all.All the same checks had been made before departing for this particular fixture, once again a pitch inspection had been made at 16:00 and passed by a local referee only for the match official to declare that a strip in front of a stand was too dangerous and decided that match could not go ahead.
A pint in the local pub was a small compensation and in there we met a Staines director who told us that the pitch was perfectly playable, in his opinion, and that the offending strip would be quickly cut up by the player's studs.
I jokingly asked the director if he could ensure that this fixture next season was given a August date as two out of three visits here to see no football is a percentage record that I would like to lower in the future.
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