Lancs Northern League: Rain denies Chorley (14 Sep 1998)

14 September 1998

Rain denies Chorley

The Lancashire Evening Telegraph

The rain which completely washed out five of the six fixtures in the Northern League on Saturday left the placings at the top of the table unchanged.

With no play possible in either Netherfield's match at Preston or Chorley's game at Morecambe, Netherfield thus retain the championship by a three-point margin over Chorley, runners-up again for the sixth time in eight years.

The only match to start was at Leyland DAF where the home side collected four points from a rain-affected winning draw against Lancaster but these were not enough to lift DAF above third place.

It was a double frustrating end to the season for Chorley because under the new points system they missed out on the title despite winning more games than any of their rivals. Ironically last year they finished level on points with Netherfield but were pipped for the championship because the Kendal side had won one more.

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