Another Football Club Sells Naming Rights To Stadium.

[Spoff]

Ossett Town are proud to announce that Eric France Scrap Metal Merchants of Church Street, Ossett, were pulled out of the hat first and won the right to name our stadium for the next twelve months, therefore Ingfield will now be known as The Stade France Ingfield. The club are proud to be associated with Eric France Scrap Metals, they have provided generous support in the past and hopefully this will be the start of a mutually beneficial partnership. The club would like to thank all other businesses and supporters who purchased tickets for the Stadium Naming draw.

 

[KeefG]

[No message]

 

[Yerman]

Portsmouth and Chester are fighting for the right to the name "Property of HM Revenue and Customs"

 

[Imurg]

You've got to feel a little sorry for Chester - here we are, well into February and they're still on -3 points! Wonder what the odds are on them finishing in the minus?

 

[PaulE]

That means I've played football at The Stade France Ingfield.
I must have been a bloody good player back in the day!

 

[Spoff]

That means I've played football at The Stade France Ingfield.
I must have been a bloody good player back in the day!

Who did you play for Paul?

 

[PaulE]

It was a mediocre sunday league team from Birstall called Priestleys.
We only played there once and we got well and truly thumped.
It wasn't too bad going down the slope but uphill was a different matter.

Oh, and it was about 15 years ago.

 

[Spoff]

You sure it was Ossett Town? Pitch is flat there.

Ossett Al*ion is on a slope, next to the cricket pitch.

 

[PaulE]

Definitely Osset Town. Opposite the bus station.
The pitch does have a slope on it but it's nowhere near as bad as Albions'. It slopes down from the stand behind the goals.
It might have seemed more severe than it actually was 'cos it was Sunday morning and I'll have been carting a load of ale around from the night before.
Oh yes. I was some athlete back in the day!

 

[Spoff]

I've never noticed, although it has been years since I went to watch them.

Although I think I'm going soon just so I can mention to a mate who is trying to do as many grounds as he can that I have been to Stade France!!!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

It'll never be as bad as the slope we faced on a Sunday morning over at a place called Whyteleafe in Surrey. It was a double header (2 matches of 30 minutes each way). I knew it was bad as I'd played cricket on the square over the other side of the rec that summer and that had a slope that meant you had to pitch a foot outside off one end and a foot to leg the other. Anyway we got out and realised that if you stood on the goalline at the bottom of the hill you couldn't see the crossbar at the other end.

The first game wasn't too bad but we lost the toss for the second one and so were uphill in the 2nd half. I gave up my marauding runs from left back and settled for a more holding role. I was pretty fit in tohse days too (half marathons etc) and I was dead chasing up and down that hill.