They don't give refunds for waterlogging anymore up there. With their track record on excess water they give those that turn up a small bucket of worms and the loan of a fishing rod and have a competition for the biggest catch of the day. If brb has his bath in the local river whilst away there could be a record catch.................
Lovell gave an interview with Kent Online to say that they had planned to travel up on the day to Carlisle so they got an extra training session. Replay to be played on Tuesday 19th December.
While on the subject of cancelled matches, this article i found makes amusing reading... Until they lost their place in the Football League in 1972 a midweek match in Barrow was always a bit of a trip to a footballing outpost. No more so than when Gillingham tried to get there for a Fourth Division match on Monday October 9th 1961. With Barrow not having floodlights the match was due to kick off at 5.15pm and a train from London at 9.05 would have got the Gillingham party there an hour before kick off. Sadly the coach taking them to Euston Station was delayed and they missed the train. The next train wouldn't have got them to Barrow until after kick off time. Road travel was too slow (few motorways in those days) and scheduled flights to Manchester and Newcastle were both full so they chartered their own plane - something of a first in those days. That was delayed as well and it only got them as far as Blackpool with another 70 miles to travel by car. The kick off was put back 15 minutes and even with a police escort for part of the way Gillingham only managed to get to Holker Street at the new start time...and they still needed to change! With that sort of preparation it was hardly surprising that by the 76th minute Barrow had taken a 7-0 lead. But by then - despite turning on the training lights - it was too dark to continue and Gillingham's agony was ended with an abandonment. Thankfully the Football League took pity on Gillingham and did not order the match to be replayed, the 7-0 result standing. One player who was particularly pleased that the match was not replayed was Gillingham's Billy Jervis. It was the only Football League match he ever played in so if the match had been declared null and void his one league appearance would have been deleted from the record books.
