Trafford 3-3 Witton Albion

Saturday 28^th December

Northern Premier League

Attendance: 234

Admission: £8 Adults / £5 Concessions

 

Trafford FC welcomed Witton Albion to Shawe View in the Northern Premier League. Both sides are flirting with relegation danger in the league, it was going to be an entertaining affair. Trafford FC, formed in 1990, play their home games at Shawe Lane. The ground is made of 3 covered stands. Two of them are seated stands along the length of the pitch, the main stand housing the refreshments and bar and opposing that is the other seated stand with small section of standing behind the seats. Behind the goals there is a covered terrace and an open end. Trafford gained promotion last season through the play-offs after beating Cammell Laird in the final.

The admission at Trafford is £8 for Adults, £5 for Concessions, £2 for Under 18’s and free for Under 12’s which is very reasonable for the league and the quality of the teams. There were many kids at the match a true reflection of the value for Under 18’s. There is a large car park directly outside the turnstiles to the ground.  After getting into the ground I parted with more cash buying a ‘Trafford Review’ and a golden goal ticket. The programme offered a lot of information across the Northern Premier League, premier and northern division and also the NWCFL. It also gives good detail on the playing squad of both teams and also has the match reports from previous games. It maybe lacked colour in the programme as it is primarily black and white. There was a large group of vocal Witton Albion fans who had made the trip.

 

The game was very much end to end, Witton opened the scoring 5 minutes in, messing up my golden goal of 49 minutes, the rest of the first half was even throughout. The action came in the second half as Trafford levelled the match up a few minutes in. Witton took control of the match after that and inevitable came when they went 2-1 up and that looked to be the winner until the 87^th minute when Trafford equlised and just minutes later Trafford took the lead for the first time in the match. It didn’t end there. Witton with the last attack of the game equalised to end the game 3-3.

At half-time we sampled the food on offer at Trafford. We went for the burger, parting £2.50 for Cheeseburger with onions, a nice burger; the value for other things such as cans was good, at 60p. We decided against having a pie. So the Admission/Programme/Burger combo costs £12.50 at Trafford which is pretty good value especially for the entertaining match on offer.

Overall it was a great game to watch, with good value food and admission. The programme was good and overall it was a good overall experience.

Price: 8pts

Programme: 7pts

Food: 7pts

Entertainment: 9pts

Parking: 4.5pts

Staff: 2.5pts

Facilities: 1.5pts

Total Score: 39.5pts

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