Lancashire: Accrington and District League (30 July 1999)

30 July 1999

Lancashire: Accrington and District League

The Lancashire Evening Telegraph

After a weekend off for the July holidays, the League resumes on Saturday for the final third of the season.

Attock retain a nine-point lead at the top of the A Division and are also favourites for the Harry Wood Cup, although Taveners must also fancy that this could be their year if only by virtue of "ourturnology," after 30 years of competition.

A lot will depend on the fitness of Taverners captain Paul Fitzpatrick in the final. If Liquat and the Shahs fail with the bat, it will be an interesting match.

The battle for the B Division rests between four clubs, with Taverners B in the driving seat, but any slip ups and Peel Park, St Philip's and Accrington A could pounce. Holidays and football commitments may well have a big say in the final month of the season.

Secretaries of clubs past and present are reminded that old scorebooks are still required for next year's league history book. Recently, some excellent statistics, compiled by Bernard Unsworth, have surfaced from the archives of Jim Coady, the former Hibernians and Whalley Road all-rounder. Paul Brankin has also provided the old scorebooks for Black Bull and Huncoat and Abrar Shah has done likewise for Attock.

Attock v Whalley Road (King George's); Taverners A v Haslingden Methodists (Wilsons); Millennium v Manchester Road (King George's); Everest v Taverners B (Bullough Park); Peel Park v St Philip's (Highams).

Source :: Lancashire Evening Telegraph (https://www.reednews.co.uk/let/)