poplar cats alive wrote:
I went that evening a Wednesday night, finished work early and drove straight up to Whitehaven. We got to the top of the hill overlooking the ground and it seemed very quiet at the ground, a local said the storm drain had backed up and flooded the pitch. So we drove back to Cockermouth for a couple of beers and fish and chips.
Are you sure that it was a Wednesday match?
We travelled up on the supporters' bus and it was flagged down by the team bus, somewhere up in Cumbria.
David Topliss came onto our coach and said that the game was off. He said the team had done their 'loosen up' and gone back into the dressing room, whilst our Aussie half back, (Helliwell I think) stopped out to practice his kicking. He went and found the rest of the team and said that the water on the pitch was over his boots. As he was the team joker, he wasn't believed until a Whitehaven official followed him into the room and confirmed it.