The spectre of failure at Andover FC

 

Who’s the B****** in the white

Petersfield Town Football Club’s friendly against Andover Football Club has been cancelled as the opposition declare they didn’t have a ghost of a chance.

PTFC were due to play Andover next Tuesday, but the match had to be called off with the club being dissolved and going to the extraordinary lengths of calling in an exorcist.

When taking on this sort of role, one would expect there to be a few skeletons in the closet, but things were much worse at Andover.

The demised club’s recently appointed Chairman Terry Fyed told news reporters: “During the last three weeks many ghosts have appeared out of cupboards.”

This can’t have made life easy at the club, with staff and players running around screaming and Fyed reaffirmed:  “I find this totally unacceptable and will not work in this kind of environment.”

Pull the other one

Rugger buggers out on the pull

Two of Petersfield’s major sports clubs will battle it out on the streets of Petersfield next weekend.

Petersfield RFC and Petersfield Town FC face a battle of strength along the High Street when they take part in a charity vehicle pull competition on Sunday, August 29.

The town’s biggest club, the golf club, declined to join in, with a representative saying that many of their members were unable to carry their own golf bag, so an event like this was completely out of the question.

The rugby club put on a tremendously successful field gun display at last year's festivities, and this seemed the next logical step.

Petersfield FC will pull any illegally parked cars to Chapel Street and Petersfield RFC will pull vehicles to College Street. The winning team will be the one that has moved the greatest number of vehicles at the end of the day.

Mark Etstall speaking on behalf of Petersfield Festivities told us: “We always have a huge problem with vehicles being parked where they shouldn’t be and in the knowledge that we have no traffic warden, everyone will be out to take the piss.

“The police are supposed to be concentrating some of their efforts on parking controls, but I understand they dedicated a few hours to traffic control back at the beginning of August, so we won’t see them again until September.”