BRIGG TOWN FC HOME GAME TO WATCH ON BOXING DAY

 

There WILL be football to watch and enjoy in Brigg over the Christmas period.
Brigg Town FC host Skegness on Boxing Day at the EC Surfacing Stadium (Hawthorns).
Kick-off tomorrow (Saturday, December 26) is 3pm for this ToolStation Northern Counties East Division One fixture.
Although Brigg lost narrowly away from home last Saturday when permiited to resume their programme, our local team is having a successful season and is currently fourth in the table.
There is a nationally imposed crowd limit of 150 on fixtures at this level in the football pyramid structure.
With Skegness Town visiting Brigg tomorrow, we jolly well hope the weather for this match is not too bracing!
Back in the 1980s, Brigg Men's Hockey Club used to play Boxing Day morning friendlies involving players from all four teams - some of the participants being a little below par for obvious reasons!
These popular matches were at the Recreation Ground when grass pitches were still used rather than synthetic all-weather versions.
Club president Len Marshall, from Wrawby, generally umpired, in return for which we provided a tot or two of Christmas spirit to warm him up at half-time! "Brandy or whisky, Len?"
From the late 1950s through to the early 1980s, the Brigg Branch of the Grimsby Town Supporters' Club ran buses to take fans to Boxing Day home matches at Blundell Park - another Christmas tradition now lost.
Nothing similar was provided for Scunthorpe United home games back then, although the Iron had more Brigg fans than Grimsby.
However, from time to time (though not at Christmas) Brigg Grammar School's resident bus was used to take pupils to some Iron encounters at the Old Show Ground. Scunny supporters who could't go by car would have to board a Lincolnshire Road Car bus from Cary Lane or Bridge Street (near Button's shop - opposite the Brocklesby Ox).