GAINSBOROUGH T 1 HYDE UNITED 1

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21

I WILL be confined to family duties over Christmas so make a late decision to go for a last pre-Christmas leg-stretch on the Lincolnshire coast and a revisit to a favourite old football ground afterwards. The Fox is similarly family-bound, so opts to come along for the ride.
It is the shortest day of the year so it gets dark very early on this truly dismal day. The temperature is dropping by the minute as darkness sets in. By the time I pull up at Gainsborough Trinity’s Martin & Co Arena, the outside temperature gauge on the Hoppermob...