Despite currently sitting in mid-table, Ponteland United have already shown several moments of potential in the stop-start 2020/21 Northern Football Alliance season. United see themselves lying eighth in the table after eight games played so far this season, although have regularly challenged – and beaten - teams currently sitting higher in the league. After narrowly losing out in their opening game of the season 4-3 against Winlaton Vulcans, Ponteland claimed a fine victory in match two against Cullercoats. The 1-0 victory for the hosts also meant getting the better of current Golden Glove leader Daniel Gladstone, with the ‘keeper having only conceding 15 goals all season at a rate of just 1.36 per match.
IT was without mounting concern that he watched the stranger get up from the railway bridge where he had sat for some ten minutes before squeezing through the wire fence to get onto the railway track near the New Forest station. Discarding boards he had been carrying by laying them on the bank, the trespasser walked a further five yards and then placed his head on the rail. The shocked railway employee Bill Holyland knew he had little time to prevent a tragedy. A train was imminent. He dashed down the track and grabbed the man who refused to move.