Tockwith 4-0 Marston Green
York Football League Division One
Saturday 21st December 2019
The village was listed as Tocvi in the Domesday
Book. with the name deriving from Old
English - toc and wic - which is most commonly translates as 'dairy farm'.
Tockwith's greatest claim to fame is being used as a
staging post by Oliver Cromwell prior to the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644. He
made reference to Tockwith in his diaries, in which he said: "If heaven
should be half as blessed as the fields of Tockwith, all those who should pass
St. Peter's Gate shall be met with joys unequalled".
Tockwith Sports Field
Tockwith Lane
Tockwith
North Yorkshire
YO26 7PX
Tockwith AFC have two senior teams in the York Football League,
with the first team currently in Division One. The club started off in 1987 as
a junior football club, playing on a school pitch and following a break
reformed in 2002.
Sport has been a feature of Tockwith life since the pre-war years, with football played on the site of the present Sports
Field in the 1930's. Since then it has moved to various farmers fields in
the village, until finally settling once again in its present location.
The Clubhouse and car park was built by local
tradesmen and volunteers and completed in 1988, with permanent floodlights
erected in 2000. The pitch is railed on both sides with a pair of unused
dugouts on the far side.
Marston Green(1oth) 0
York Minster Engineering League - Division One
Matchday 8v12
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Att.26hc
Goalscorers names to be confirmed
Tockwith took the lead when Alex Wilson connected with a corner
kick in the 17th minute. It looked like that strike would be the match winner,
until a three goal burst in the final 9 minutes. Mario Campagna volleyed home the
second before the ball was squared to Jamie Perkins who fired into an open goal. In
the last minute Tom Richards raced through on goal before rounding the keeper and
firing in to top off a 4-0 win.
#HeedHopper
77 miles door-to-door
York Football League grounds visited - 8
Our original play was to have another crack at
Staithes Athletic, until we learned on Friday evening that their fixture had
been moved. As I had another night out planned, I couldn’t drive too far, so we
agreed on ticking off a York League ground. After much debate we decided on
Poppleton United with a departure time of around 11.30am. We stopped off for
petrol just outside Upper Poppleton, just a mile away from the ground and it
was here when we found out the match was off, just 20 minutes before kick off time.
Lee had a quick check of the fixtures and found Tockwith was just 16 minutes
away, so we raced along the 7 mile route and arrived just as the players were
emerging from the changing rooms.
The early kick off meant I was back
at 100FgC HQ for just after five bells, and then out on the lash at 6 o’clock.
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