Trail of the Lion King

It’s good to do things with my grandson Harry, although he’s at that age where the day tends not to start until the afternoon.

I think the only morning activity that he managed in the time he stayed with us was a visit to Silecroft beach a couple of days earlier. It’s somewhere that we’d gone into the sea with body boards on past visits but with the sewage pollution that seems commonplace these days we limited our activities to wandering along the pebbles and skimming a few into the foam.

Fortunately, the football at Millom was a three o’çlock kick-off and so he was up and about. We’d initially watched the rugby league on the adjacent pitch, which was all very interesting, but it was the proper football that Harry and I had travelled down to Millom to see on the Hanna Field.

The fixture was in the twelfth tier Division One of the West Lancashire Football League with Millom hosting Carnforth Rangers. Millom were in red and black with Carnforth in blue. Each side provided a lino that made little contribution.

As you might expect from a game at that level, there were no seats unless you sat on the wall behind the goal that bordered the rugby pitch. Harry and I leaned on a barrier on the opposite side to the dugouts that gave us a view of the scoreboard and the allotments behind. A handful of kids, who didn’t look to be any older than six or seven years old, watched from behind the goal at the other end to the rugby terracing and did their best to start a few chants.

It was a good-natured game with very little diving. By the time the players took their on-field half-time break Millom were leading two one. Harry and I had been checking on the Boro score and at that stage we were two-one down.

The crowd of around twenty doubled mid-way through the second half as the rugby finished, just in time to see Millom add a third goal.

Carnforth kept chipping away and pulled a goal back in added time, but it was too late. Overall, the score seemed about right, although Carnforth were probably disappointed not to have come away with a point from an even game.

The win for Millom meant that they were the only side to remain unbeaten in their division.

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