December

Sunday 6th December 2009
Waltham Sunday League Division One Match at Hazelwood Sports Ground
EDMONTON ROVERS	P	CHESHUNT CORINTHIANS

MATCH POSTPONED...WATERLOGGED PITCH
Report (by Laurence Hughes): This game was called off on the Thursday before the match by Enfield Council because the pitch was too badly waterlogged for the groundsman to get his machine to mark the lines out. (They are not contracted to do that job on a Friday apparently !). Of course our players moaned like hell about that, especially as we would have been fielding a much stronger squad than when we lost 7-1 to Cheshunt Corinthians in the League Senior Cup in November, but more torrential rain on Saturday night meant the pitch was still badly waterlogged on the morning of the match anyway, and indeed every game in the League was eventually called off waterlogged on this date. Ironically, Cheshunt Corinthians apparently had numerous key players unavailable according to their Secretary, but then we also had Jim Arrowsmith (Visiting the in-laws), Paul Woolston (Babysitting) and Vernon 'Kizza' Nxumalo (Shoulder injury) drop out of the squad before the postponement was announced, while Daniel Daley, Danny Smith and Terry Brown did not reply to text or Forum messages as usual, so they might not have been intending to play anyway for all we knew !?

Sunday 13th December 2009 .....NO MATCH ARRANGED (Due to our Third Round opponents in the London F.A. Sunday Intermediate Cup not having been finalised because of continual waterlogged pitches delaying their Second Round match).

Sunday 20th December 2009

London F.A. Sunday Intermediate Cup Third Round Match at Hazelwood Sports Ground

EDMONTON ROVERS
P
YAVRUVATAN

MATCH POSTPONED...SNOW/FROZEN PITCH

Report (by Laurence Hughes): This fixture was called off by Enfield Council on the Friday before the match due to snow on the pitch, which presumably meant they could not mark out the lines. With the weather forecast correctly predicting sub-zero temperatures over the weekend though, there was never any chance of this game being on, and indeed all matches in the Waltham Sunday League and elsewhere in the North London area ended up being called off because of frozen pitches. Although Alan Barnard & Jim Arrowsmith were out in South Africa with the 'Barmy Army', Steve Cokell (a plumber) was not surprisingly working and Darryl Johnson was on holiday, we still would have been fielding a strong squad of 14 had the match gone ahead, but we should have a full-strength squad to choose from when this game is finally played after Christmas, so the postponement may be good news for us.

Sunday 27th December 2009 .....NO MATCH ARRANGED (Xmas Break).