May 7, 2024 | Football Writing, The Main Blog
The final match of the season, is upon us; Cables’ 50th in all competitions during the campaign. And what a way to bring up the half-century; a local derby which is a winner-takes-all showdown with promotion at stake. Everywhere you look, there is a story, just...
May 2, 2024 | Football Writing, The Main Blog
So, a season’s work comes down to this. A local derby. A Cup tie against a local rival who have recorded their best-ever Step 4 season to reach this point. Horrible, isn’t it? It is, of course, the best kind of ‘horrible’. As stomach-churning as the pre-match nerves...
Apr 21, 2024 | Football Writing, The Main Blog
Tuesday’s Liverpool Senior Cup tie against Marine might have seen Prescot Cables bow out of the tournament, but the fantastic attendance of 1,051 will have been as morale-boosting for the club as the valiant performance from a patched-up team. The midweek match was...
Apr 7, 2024 | Football Writing, The Main Blog
In February, I wrote about the rash of clubs which had withdrawn from non-League football over the course of this season. In that piece, I observed that “I’ve never known so many clubs to be struggling so publicly as is the case right now”. Just before Easter, two...
Dec 6, 2023 | Football Writing
Tonight, Prescot Cables and Ashton Town meet in the Liverpool Senior Cup for the first time in seven years. That game ended in victory for Cables, who went on to win the tournament at the end of the 2016-17 season. The photo of the Pesky Bulls captain, James...
