From Stocks to Bamber

Up till about 2:30pm on Saturday I, along with a good many others, had assumed that our opponents in this game were to be Skelmersdale United.

However the team from the ‘new town’ are unavailable due to the fixture clashing with a Liverpool County Cup tie, and because local FA competitions bizarrely take precedence over everything other than national FA competitions, we’ve been bumped.

A blank midweek schedule, and therefore the remote possibility of catching a second or two of the horror that is Holby City, has been avoided though by someone managing to arrange an even tougher game for us - current league leaders Bamber Bridge at home.

Both teams will be looking to bounce back from the heavy defeats they received in the Trophy at the week end; Bamber Bridge’s 5 – 3 reversal at Sheffield being slightly less humiliating than our 5 - 1 capitulation at home to Stocksbridge. History isn’t on Mossley’s side though as Bridge have never lost a match at Seel Park, winning all but one of their previous visits.

Even so, it doesn’t matter whether it’s Skem, Brig or someone else who turns up, or even what the omens are, ahead of Saturday’s match this game is about as welcome as Richard Dawkins at a convention for Rapture-Ready Christians; chocolate sauce in our FA Cup/Trophy bacon sandwich.

I know there’s a school of thought that says this game will give us the chance to get what happened at the weekend out of our system before we meet Curzon, but equally there’s the possibility that the problems will just get worse and be compounded by injuries, etc.. And personally speaking, if a team is to going to be on the end of a backlash from us after the last result, I’d rather it was our neighbours than the men from Preston.

But then, what do I know? I'm just a blogger desperately filling space in the fastest way possible because what should have originally been here is no longer relevant thanks to the Liverpool FA.