Things unlikely to happen today: the Dec 6th Eckington Works game was held up by a pitch invasion from a large, angry bullock. With the players running for the safety of the small stand, play was held up until the animal got bored, and wandered off.

Minor Cup. Eckington protested that Ike Turner was cup-tied and we won the re-arranged game 6-2. We won 1-0 at Milton Keynes in 2014, and again a few weeks later after Georg Margreitter was judged ineligible. Lastly, and legitimately, we won 2-0 at Rochdale in the 2016-17 Checkatrade Trophy.

It will be the Spinal Tap of World Cup draws.

the club have invested in a new set of red shirts; half a gross of rubber studs have also been bought, so that spare boots can be prepared for playing on frozen pitches. The Manager has been asked to prepare a scheme for playing junior players under the club’s umbrella. 4/4 #CFC100

Due to a frostbound pitch, the reserves’ game at Notts County was postponed.
At Chesterfield’s insistence, the ground admission price for next week’s FA Cup tie at Worksop has been dropped from 1/6d to 1s. With a number of matches against teams in blue coming up, 3/4 #CFC100

to both points at moments in the second half. Jimmy’s goal was born of opportunism; the home keeper was shepherding the ball back towards his penalty area when Cookson was on him in a flash and robbed him before stroking the ball into an empty net. 2/4 #CFC100

The reserves went down 3-0 at home to Grimsby. It was their seventh successive league defeat and they now sit next to bottom in the Midland Combination. 3/3 #CFC100