HAPPY MEMORIES OF HANNIBAL AND HIS BRIGG A TEAM

Brigg amateur football team Briggensians lost 4-1 at home to Bruce FC on Saturday in the TSW Printers Scunthorpe League - Bishop scoring our side's goal.
This coming Saturday, March 8, Briggensians - based at Sir John Nelthorpe School - have another home game, this time against Santon.
Scunthorpe side Santon have a very long history in this league. So long, in fact, that we can remember making an appearance against them as sub for Brigg Amateurs A team in the mid-1980s! We think that was at Ashby Ville sportsground in Scunthorpe - now the site of the Lakeside retail park. Long-serving full-back and club official Mally Ayre was playing for Santon in that match.
Who can remember the A team? Amateurs were then one of only a handful of clubs that could field three Saturday sides. Local teacher Mike Stevenson was our popular player/manager. He was nicknamed Hannibal, due to being in charge of the A Team - a reference to that very popular all-action TV series of the period starring George Peppard, whose catchphrase was: "I love it when a plan comes together!"
The Brigg Amateurs A team plan didn't come together very often - we were't a very successful team. But the lads enjoyed their football in the lower reaches of the Scunny League, just as Briggensians FC do today.

CURRENT STANDINGS - TSW LEAGUE DIVISION THREE

                                                             P   W   D   L    F    A  Diff Pts

      EAST DRAYTON                  11   9   2   0   45   10  35   29

      BROUGHTON COLTS          10   9   1   0   49   13  36   28

      BRUCE F C                              12   9   1   2   50   20  30   28

      EPWORTH TOWN RES       16   8   3   5   34   31   3   27

      CROSBY COLTS JNR             14   7   1   6   62   35  27   22

      SIX BELLS                              14   5   3   6   24   31  -7   18

      SANTON                                 13   4   1   8   32   60 -28   13

      LUDDINGTON                       12   2   2   8   24   40 -16    8

      BARNETBY UNITED RES    16   1   4  11   16   72 -56    7

      BRIGGENSIANS                   12   1   2   9   15   39 -24    5


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