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Millhead Football Club - North Lancashire & District Football League What's in a name!! Our front page photo is taken from inside the wonderfully named Iodine Park, home of Millhead Football Club, members of the North Lancashire & District Football League. On his visit to the club this season our chief correspondent Mike writes: 'Millhead FC’s ground should be preserved as a national treasure. The area is noted for its limestone deposits and several quarries have been excavated. This is one- two sides of the pitch back on to the walls of the abandoned quarry with the ball frequently bouncing back off the unforgiving surface. Behind the far goal a darts board-style target has been painted several feet wide and upwards of the goal. ‘Dom’s Target’ is scrawled the message- it turns out that the home side’s no7 is indeed called Dom. He doesn’t disappoint'. He adds: 'On the nearside is a small covered standing area bearing the legend ‘Iodine Park’ an ironic game given after many players over the years have incurred cuts and bruises from the rocks appearing through the surface'.
For the record Millhead won this North Lancashire & District Football League game 8-2 (v Grange, played on Wednesday 27 August 2008). Photo: Mike Latham |
