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Away Ground Guide - Chorley FC (Tuesday 17 April 2018)

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Chorley Football Club The Chorley Group Victory Park Stadium Duke Street, Chorley, Lancashire PR7 3DU Nickname: Magpies Capacity: 4,100 Seating for: 900 Covered Capacity: 2,800 Disabled Facilities Available Car Parking: Limited match day parking, contact club for details Admission Prices (2017/18) Adults             £12 O 60:               £9 Students         £7      12-16               £5 11 & Under         Free Arriving early in the Flyer, last season,it was `about turn' at the infamous ginnel, for  route march around most of Victory Parks outer perimeter , having discovered the game, for the first time, was segregated. Greeted by a phalanx of stewards, and searched , we entered the ground to take up our positions. Stadium. There’s nothing special about this stadium, but given freedom to roam around all 4 sides of same, it can be a pl

Stockport County1 Brackley Town 1 ( F A Trophy Quarter Final)24 February 2018

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I am guessing that this was the result that nobody, from either club, wanted, as Stockport County came from behind to battle out a 1-1 draw against promotion hot shots Brackley Town yesterday at Edgeley Park. This set up a repeat on Tuesday in Northamptonshire and by that time we will have weather conditions fit to make a vicar swear to cope with if Michael Fish’s successors are to be believed.   Those looking for a football classic, would have been disappointed yesterday, it was more hard grind than pulsating excitement, with both sides having their moments….and chances…..but never really, in either case, quite having the necessary fire power to put the tie to bed. O'Halloran covers..... Brackley must have thought that they were set fair , when they took the lead on 69 minutes via a goal from Lee Ndlovu, but it took a determined County side just 4 minutes to equalise as Jimmy Ball applied the required finish after an Oswell header had rattled the cr