Holker Street Saturday, September 2nd, 2017 k/o 15:00   National League Attendance: 1,159       Barrow 2-1 Boreham Wood
2017 /18

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My first solo National League game. Train from Crewe via Lancaster to Barrow in Furness on a beautiful sunny day. The journey from Lancaster was really picturesque across the sands at Grange Over Sands and beyond. Lovely. A short 20 minutes walk to the ground via a leisurely pint in the Ambrose Hotel and then a swift JD in the clubhouse bar before taking my place in the stand. Everybody very friendly and pleasant and a surprising and very pleasant absence of foul language in the stand. The pitch also gets a mention for being literally like a bowling green. Never seen anything like it even at Wembley. Game very robust but some good football and genuinely entertaining. back on the trains - both just about on time and then trouble getting out of the Crewe station car park as the machine wouldn't take credit cards or old pound coins or one of my new pound coins. Made it eventually and home before 9. Happy happy day.