KENYON CUP NOW TUESDAY EVENING

If you’ve been keeping an eye on our Twitter and Facebook, you’d notice that our scheduled Kenyon Cup semi-final against Heywood St James tonight had been called off for a third time at Ramsbottom’s Riverside ground.

With Gigg Lane being booked for the final next Tuesday, the number of available dates for getting this game played was already small. Throw in to the mix other regular league and cup fixtures for both us and Heywood and we were basically left with tomorrow evening.

Playing at Ramsbottom was then out of the question what with their possible promotion-clenching last game of the season against Winsford United there this Saturday.

Other neutral venues would almost be impossible to book at such short notice so it was decided to play at either our ground or theirs. The sodden state of our pitch pretty much ruled that out as a possibility straight away, especially with the Reserves cup quarter-final against Broughton Amateurs due to be played on Wednesday night.

To their credit, Heywood said that with a bit of prep work on their pitch, they could host the game but obviously with no floodlights, the kick off would need to be brought forward an hour to 6:30pm.

So that’s where we’re at. Tuesday 24th April, 6:30pm at Heywood’s Phoenix Ground which is on Shepherd Street, just next to Lidl on the main road (Bridge Street) through the town centre.