Ilkley Town 2-4 Carlton Athletic
West Yorkshire Premier League
Saturday 19th May 2018
The town centre is portrayed by
Victorian architecture and its spa town heritage makes it a popular tourist
destination next to the dales. Ilkley Moor is the subject of a folk song, which
is often described as “The unofficial anthem of Yorkshire” - "On Ilkla
Moor Baht 'at" is written and sung in Yorkshire twang, its title
translated as "On Ilkley Moor without a hat."
West
Yorkshire League Division Two runner-up in 2004-05
Promoted
from Division One to Premier Division for 2015-16 season
Ben Rhydding Sports Club
Leeds
Road
Ilkley
West
Yorkshire
LS29 8AW
The complex was a hive of activity with a cricket
match in full swing and a ladies hockey match taking place. The football ground
is sandwiched in between, being fully railed with a pair of dugouts down one
side. The clubhouse was build in 2001 and has generous space for a large
function room with a bar, large TV screen and a substantial selection of hot
drinks and snacks. There is also six changing rooms in the building, but the
football teams used the facilities on the far side of the hockey pitch.
West
Yorkshire Association Football League - Premier Division
Matchday
30v27
2.30pm
ko
Att.70est
Carlton
Athletic need to win just one of their remaining two away fixtures to clinch
the Premier Division title. They fell behind to an early goal when an Archer
cross picked out Jordan Boxhall-James in the third minute, but drew level when
a left wing free kick picked out Liam Moore at the far post to nod home.
Just
before the half hour mark the visitors were reduced to ten men after an
unnecessary two footed lunge by Reece Fenel. The red card seemed to spur
Carlton on as they scored two more before the break, with Scott Hargreaves
lobbing the ‘keeper followed by Moore being on hand for a tap in, after the
initial Hargreaves shot was saved.
Straight
from the restart Ilkley were back in it, when a fine solo run from Tom Archer
was finished off by a rasping left foot drive. The match was nicely poised with
both teams creating plenty of chances, with Harry Higgins making some great
saves in the Ilkley goal. With time running out the match was finally settled
when a shot by Younis was helped on its way by the substitute Kris Robertshaw to make it
4-2 to the champions elect.
ITFC
2(Boxhall-James 3 Archer 47)
CAFC 4(
Moore 21,44 Hargreaves 34 Robertshaw 81)
Entertainment
9/10
Top
Bloke - Anees Younis(Carlton Athletic)
Admission
& programme:none
Coffee
£1
Tea £1
88 miles
door-to-door via A1/A61/A59
The
mission to escape the royal wedding was a drive down to west Yorkshire after
work, for my last match of the season. I picked up Lee & Katie on the way,
arriving in Ilkley just before 2pm, which gave me a bit spare time to nip into
the local JDW for another pub tick. We met up with ‘ull ‘oppers Dave and
Phil at the ground and the five of us enjoyed a smashing game in glorious
sunshine.
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