BURNGREAVE UNITED 1 V 2 WORKSOP TOWN RESERVES CENTRAL MIDLAND ALLIANCE PREMIER 28th MARCH 2026

 

My 17th game of the season takes me on a quick 4 mile trip to the industrial heartland of Sheffield on this extremely cold and windy day in Attercliffe, the steel city stadium is part of the Legacy park which stands on the old ill-fated Don Valley Stadium.

 Now any trip to the Steel city stadium must also warrant a trip to the best chip shop in the world namely the Frymaster about 5 mins walk up Attercliffe road, on a cold day like this its got to be a certainty, if you have the time as well there's the choice of seating in its 70 seater restaurant at the back, today i had the chip butty with loads of salt and vinegar but i would recommend the cod, anyway back to football!

I'd been looking forward to watching Burngreave for a while as all reports had been good about how well they played and their style of play,as far as i know they have climbed up from the S&H league but don't quote me on that! quite a multi cultural mix of players and it wasnt long before they got into their style of passing and moving 1/2 touch football, entrance to the game was £4 and £2.50 for a fairly decent Programme, i stood out in the sun behind one of the goals but that wind was biting so i sat in the main(and only) stand, early pressure from Burngreave put Worksop on the back foot with Burngreave going close a number of times and scoring on the 28th minute, this seemed to sparked  into life and they had a couple of chances playing the ball down both wings and another opportunity down the middle completely catching the Burngreave midfield rooted to the spot, again the Burngreave mids got caught out just before half time and probably against the run of play by making it 1-1

2nd half begins and Worksop come out strongly and push Burngreave back to their penalty area with a strong attack that results in a corner coming in from the right but the keeper has no trouble in catching it and releasing the ball quick, a couple of handball shouts from Burngreave comes to nothing and where I'm sat i would say they had a reasonable shout on one of them, Worksop freshen the game up a bit with 4 changes and it seems to work well with Worksop adding a second goal giving Luke Abdy his 2nd goal of the game, this 2nd goal was a real shellshock to Burngreave it certainly took the wind out of there sails as at times they had a lot of the ball but ultimately they didn't take their chances and paid the price, Burngreave finished the season with a well earned 3rd place and seemed to have kicked on in 26/27 sitting top of the league.