✔762. Longfield Avenue

Golcar United 2-2 Liversedge

The Yorkshire Trophy (Group 2)

Tuesday 18th May 2021

Golcar (with a silent L) is a village above the Colne Valley in West Yorkshire, just over 2 miles

west of Huddersfield. The village sits north of the River Colne and the Huddersfield Narrow

Canal, named after St Guthlac, who preached in the area during the 8th century. The village is

recorded in the Domesday Book as Goullakarres, and throughout the Industrial Revolution

became a major centre for weaving. (population: about 6,900) 

Golcar United was founded in 1904, initially played in the Huddersfield & District League. They joined the West Riding County Amateur League in 1934, finishing runners-up in their

debut season, but resigned after finishing bottom of the table in 1937–38.

The club returned to the West Riding before winning promotion to the North West Counties

League in 2019.

West Riding County Amateur League:Premier Division champions 2004-05,2017-18,2018-19

West Riding County Challenge Cup winners 2001

Huddersfield Invitation Cup winners on 9 occasions.

Skye Direct Stadium 

Longfield Avenue, 

Golcar, 

Huddersfield, 

West Yorkshire 

HD7 4AZ

The club moved to Longfield Avenue in 1955, where the pitch had a prominent side-to-side

slope. The 100-seat stand was erected in March 2020 and sits on banking, beside the entrance

hut and clubhouse, which has an overhanging roof. There's a fully covered terrace behind one

of the goals with floodlights installed following their promotion to the NWCL

The Yorkshire Trophy has been split into 2 groups of 3. Each club will play each other once in

the group stages, before the Semi-Final and Final. Golcar United are in Group 2 along with

tonight’s opponents Liversedge, and Nostell Miners Welfare making up the round robin.

The clubs competing in Group 1 are Brighouse Town, Penistone Church and Wakefield AFC.

Golcar United 2(Cox 42,44)

Liversedge 2(Raw 31,Cyrus 33)

The Yorkshire Trophy G2 match 1

1945 ko

Art.575

Admission £5

Programmes available £2

Pin badge £3

Coffee £1 sausage roll £1.70

 

Golcar came back from two goals down to earn a point. Liversedge controlled the first half and

finally took the lead on the half hour through Alfie Raw, quickly followed by a firm header from John Cyrus. A succession of corners late in the half saw Buddy Cox twice benefit, with a

towering header followed by being on hand to profit from a mistake from the Sedgie 'keeper. 

Surprisingly both sides failed to add to the score in the second half and a draw was probably a

fair result.

#Heedhopper

117 miles door-to-door A1/M62

I picked up Lee & Katie in Houghton-le-Spring at 1645, before stopping off at Simon Lee's

house in Barton, North Yorkshire, who drove us the rest of the way. 

It was great to be in a proper football ground again with stands and facilities. There were a lot

of familiar faces at this one, which was good to see and hopefully a sign of things to come.

✔717 Clayborn

Liversedge 1-1 AFC Mansfield

Northern Counties East FL - Premier Division

Saturday 8th February 2020

 

Liversedge is a township in the former parish of Birstall in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, recorded in the Domesday Book as Livresec -  a manor belonging to Radulf, a vassal of the Ilbert de Lacy Norman family. The name derives from the Old English Lēofheres-ecg meaning 'a ridge or edge belonging to Lēofhere'.

Liversedge F.C. are based in Cleckheaton, on the border with Hightown in Liversedge. The Sedge formed in 1910 following the demise of Liversedge Rugby Club.

Bradford League 1919–1922 - Champions 1920-21

West Riding County Amateur League 1922–27 and 1949–72

Champions 6 times:

1923–24 1925–26 1926–27 1964–65 1965–66 1968–69.

Spen Valley League 1947–49 Champions 1948-49

Yorkshire League 1972–82

NCEL 1982 – present

League Cup winners 2005–06, President's Cup winners 2007–08

Clayborn Ground 

Quaker Lane, 

Hightown Road, 

Cleckheaton, 

WF15 8DF

Capacity 2,200 (250 seats)

Current NCEL grounds visited 31/40

The clubhouse, changing rooms and snack bar are in the top west corner of the ground. The covered Stuart Silverwood Stand does what it says on the tin - 3 rows of wooden flip seats painted silver. There's a tidy looking covered enclosure at the turnstile end, made with fancy brickwork and wooden tree trunk style supports. There's also a few individual wooden benches on top of the banking and plenty of dining furniture, with the team dugout on the opposite side.

Liversedge(4th) 1 (Simpson 88)

AFC Mansfield(18th) 1(Duggan 80)

NCEL Premier Division Matchday 21v22

Att.106

Admission £6

Pin badge £3

Coffee £1/Chocolate 50p

Mansfield looked to have grabbed all three points following a brave backs-to-the-wall defensive display. After being on the back foot for the majority of the game they broke the deadlock ten minutes from time, when the league’s top scorer Ross Duggan latched onto a through ball, before going around the defender and lashing in his 29th goal of the season.

Some fabulous saves from Warhurst in The Bulls goal and numerous blocks and tackles from the back line looked to have been enough to deny The Sedge, but with time running out a corner kick was met at the far post by Mark Simpson, his stooping header finally breaching the Mansfield defence to make it 1-1 at the finish.

 #HeedHopper

108 mile drive door-to-door via A1/M1/M62

Drove straight down after finishing work and arrived at Clayborn at 1.40pm. As I’ve been to Cleckheaton previously, I decided on an hour's shuteye in the back of the car, having been on the go since 5.20am. I was just beginning to nod off when I was suddenly awoken by a selection of shitty modern dance music, with the volume turned right up to the maximum 11. The banging noise was coming from the clubhouse and it was probably loud enough to be heard across in Birstall. I gave up on the snooze and headed into the ground, being quite impressed with the neat set up and a terrific location for football. As always, I saw someone who I know, this time it was Billingham Groundhopper Andrew Clark, who as usual, was combining watching football with bairn sitting duties. 

I had a clear run up the motorways for the return journey, not feeling too fatigued to arrive back at 100FgC HQ at 6.40pm.