Belper Reserves 2 - 0 Mickleover, Derbyshire Divisional Cup

Had a look at the Belper reserves the other night (Tuesday). they were at home to Mickleover RBL in a Derbyshire Divisional Cup Tie.

It was freezing cold but we quite enjoyed the game and Belper won it to progress to the next round.

I'm not good at "Under floodlight" photography so the pics I have are, essentially, rubbish but I had a play with the video camera and managed to "get" Belper's 2nd goal..... click here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5OsHmpQkpE

The goal is way better than the camera work by the way!

Belper 1-1 Goole Town... Then the lights went out - Saturday 8th November 2008

Well, to be truthful, the problem was that some of them never came on!. After 70 minutes, the ref decided that the game could not continue. I think he realised that Belper looked likely to score and it was better to abandon it at 1 - 1 rather than with one team leading and 10 mins left!

Mind you - it WAS pretty dark by the time he said "Enough!" as the above shot (taken after 75 mins) shows. (1600 ISO with 1/125th shutter).

Anyway the debate in the bar afterwards centred on whether Ben Walker's suspension had been served and if the three yellow cards picked up by Belper players still stand? (Ant Wilson's spectaular "overhead kick" goal will certainly be wiped from the record!) Who knows? We shall have to wait and see!