This Saturday sees one of the favourites for the league title wend their merry way to Seel Park as millionaire backed Bradford Park Avenue pitch up and compete to see which of us can kick-start their season first.
They’ll be bringing a host of familiar faces to Seel Park including former manager Benny Philips, former captain Danny Meadowcroft and perhaps, somewhat surprisingly, former winger Adam Morning – his sideways step from Woodley a peculiar move considering he was being linked with Football League clubs for a fairly lengthy period of last season.
Avenue also contain a fairly large proportion of last season’s Witton Albion side including Mike Moseley who scored Witton’s opener in the game that sealed our relegation fate last April.
Despite having buzzed around similar levels of the pyramid for a good while now, it’s surprising that we haven’t had to face them more often than we actually have. In fact when we got relegated from the Unibond First Division in 1995, it was Bradford who we swapped places with; the Yorkshirere topping the NWCL that year.
History is on our side though as we've never lost a league game against Park Avenue. Admittedly there have only been four meetings between (and three of them ended in draws) and they were all well over 30 years ago but when you see a straw – clutch at it.
Prediction: Already being 0 for 2 when it comes to these things this season, I'm loathe to make it a hat-trick bad predictions whilst we're still in August. But what the hell... a draw.
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