Trail of the Lion King

With the Boro’s Easter fixtures taking place on Good Friday and Easter Monday, I’d normally have filled the Saturday gap with a lower-league fixture. However, Saturday was also the date for Stockton Calling and so we went to that instead.

As ever, it was worth the visit and it’s always good to discover new bands. Highlights this year were Sister Madds from Glasgow and a Liverpool band, Casino. No doubt we’ll be going along to see them again playing their own shows.

As I hadn’t been to a Saturday game, I nipped up the A19 on Sunday morning to the Murton Welfare ground for a fixture in the Premier Division of the Peterlee and District Sunday League. Murton Colliery were taking on Seaham Island Social Club in a clash between second v third in the table.

Murton Welfare is only twenty minutes or so up the A19. I’d turned up there a couple of years ago for a game only to find out that it had been postponed. It’s got a covered stand with benches in, a raised standing area and a toilet. All very impressive features at Sunday League level.

There were maybe thirty or so spectators and a few dogs including a pair of shih tzus and two sausage dogs. I passed three lads behind one of the goals who were taking the piss out of their absent mate, who apparently spends a fortune on fake tan but rarely brushes his teeth.

As I stood behind the benches, I noticed a sub who couldn’t have been far short of my age. I was hoping to see how he performed but unfortunately, he didn’t get a run out.

Seaham went a goal up early on and then added a second ten minutes before half time. I must have smiled or something when the second went in as a fella inquired as to whether I was an away fan. Perhaps an unfamiliar face is noteworthy in Murton.

The first half was pretty much one-way traffic, and the visitors could easily have been five or six up by the break. The second half was more evenly contested. Murton pulled one back on the hour and then the sides traded goals for an eventual four-two away win.

Tags: Casino, Sausage dogs, Sister Madds

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