Yarm and Eaglescliffe FC

 A trip to Billingham Town awaited me as today's team grounshare here, a fairly newly formed club, Yarm and Eaglescliffe are more than holding their own in the northern league.


Today, they were in F.A. Vase action vs Colne FC. They had given the match a huge build up and it paid off as they broke their 200 target with a crowd of 209. Fair play to Colne they brought good numbers, but the numbers on the pitch were all Yarms with an empathic victory, running out 5-0 winners on the day and really it was men against boys. The Yarm number 9 was excellent with a hat trick and Colne were just chasing shadows, stationed just behind the dugouts, I could see the Colne management duo had no answers to the questions asked of their team.


The ground, Bedford Terrace is an excellent traditional old non league ground, I visited Billingham many years ago when my team, York City played Billingham Synthonia in a pre season friendly, however sadly, their ground is no longer there, probably been bullodozed for houses or an office block. I obtained the obligatory pin badge and the food and refreshments kiosk offered an excellent chip butty and tea under immense pressure to serve everybody. Did a lap round the ground as I was there in good time having driven (excellent car park, very limited street parking) there's a good little seated stand at one side and a nice little covered terrace at the other. Decent bar area if you fancy a pint or two.


Got talking to another groundhopper who had travelled all the way from Fleetwood, his local team of choice being Thornton Cleveleys FC, another fairly new to semi pro level football. 


All in all to say Yarm and Eaglescliffe were only formed 8 years ago, they've made great strides, I would think their own ground would be the long term aim to sustain the progression. 


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