Winsford United v Sandbach United, St Luke s Cup Final WINSFORD United play in a cup final with fans in attendance on Saturday. Blues chiefs created a tournament for the St Luke s Cup to provide some meaningful competition for their players and three rival teams in the wake of the league football season being brought to a standstill by the coronavirus pandemic for the second year in a row. So after United, Sandbach, Skelmersdale and Runcorn played each other twice, Winsford finished top of the pile and Sandbach second to allow them to meet in the final at Barton Stadium on Saturday, kick-off 2pm.
Among the most important takeaways is how this schedule represents many distinct learnings in the league’s short history: the excitement of Year One, the refinement of Year Two (the unfulfilled schedule that was released on March 11 last year), the safety prioritization of the Championship Series (aka PLL Island) and the MLL merger last offseason.
In speaking with COO Andrew Sinnenberg, I began my line of questioning by asking “With so many priorities, how do you rank them?” He laughed before launching into an extended answer that he subsequently had to return to in order to address more priorities. In light of that, let’s lay out the list of considerations that likely most interest fans, and then tackle them one by one.