After a period last season where it appeared that the Stags were about to go the way of the Dodo and decent television programming at weekends, they've managed to turn it around and currently reside in fifth spot in the Unibond North league table.
Dark Lane is also where Mossley picked up their biggest win in recent times - an 8 - 1 walkover during our 'wilderness years' in the NWCL. In fact we've scored more goals against Rossendale at their place than we have at Seel Park in all our previous league meetings. That said, the last meeting between the two sides at Dark Lane was towards the tail end of the 05/06 season; a 0 - 0 draw that could have been prosecuted under the trades description act for being advertised as a football match.
The only thing of note that happened during that afternoon (other than another example of Mossley's legendary prowess from the penalty spot) was the appearance of England Women's keeper Rachel Brown at half-time to promote Crossbar Awareness - a now defunct initiative from the football authorities to highlight the dangers of the goal frame collapsing on the goalies bonce.
On the 'ex-players who could come back to haunt you' front is Lee Bracey. And I'm sure that I'm not the only one who hopes that he'll be kept considerably busier than he was when he played for Ashton United against us last season. Fingers crossed...
Prediction: For some reason I can't see us losing this one so I'll say a win. A draw at worst.
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