North Street Sunday, November 11th, 2018 k/o 12:45   FA Cup First Round Attendance: 872       Alfreton Town 1-4 Fleetwood Town
2018 /19

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Drove to the game with my mate Tony. Had visited the ground before on a none matchday whilst working in the area. Interesting fact it was five successive games attended with a minutes silence, three for the Leicester chairman at Tranmere v Exeter, Murryfield(Celtic v Hearts), Cefn Druids v Newtown and two for Remembrance day Tranmere v Oxford City and today''s. Plenty of Tranmere connections in both squads although fast Eddie Clark didn''t feature for Fleetwood, Ryan Taylor was an unused sub with James Wallace getting around 15 minutes. Alfreton had former youth keeper Sam Romsbottom and Martin Riley plus former trialist Jordan Sinnott. Fleetwood started strongly with paddy madden sweeping home a shot and added a second on the counter attack from Hunter. Second half a soft penalty gave Madden his second before Alfreton pulled one back with a deflected free kick which the keeper could only help over the line. The home side pressed for more and in truth deserved more from their second half performance but Fleetwood added gloss to the scoreline when debutant Garner flicked a header home in added time