Match Preview

Today we welcome North Leigh Football Club to the Central ground for a rescheduled fixture from 16th October. North Leigh FC are based in Witley, Oxfordshire and were founded in 1908, and following the Second World War started to make their mark in the Witney and District League.

North Leigh, or The Millers as they are known by fans, play at the Eynsham Hall Sports Ground, a ground which holds 2000 supporters, 175 of who can be seated in the George Hazell stand. More recently Improved facilities at the Eynsham Park ground included floodlights, a stand with approximately 150 seats, and for the start of season 1998/99, a £100,000 changing room block which included a committee room, kitchen and public toilets. Further improvements which have been completed contain substantial pitch drainage work, a 2-metre-high ground fence enclosing the pitch, new dugouts, turnstile spectator entrance facilities with a new 175-seater stand with disabled spectator and press facilities alongside the pitch. This replaces the previous seated stand which has now been converted to undercover terracing for standing spectators.

North Leigh play on a grass pitch measuring 103m x 66m and have a home kit of yellow & black shirts, black shorts and yellow socks. Their away kit is a red shirt, red shorts and red socks, and the 3rd kit is a white short, shorts and socks. The goalkeeper wears a green shirt, green shorts and green socks.

Todays game is an important one for Sutton as it could be their first home victory of the season. Sutton and North Leigh both lie in the bottom three of the table, so a win today would see them climb out of the bottom few teams, and give them some much needed breathing space from any future relegation battle.

Here’s to an entertaining and successful game.

COME ON YOU ROYALS.