Mansfield Town 3-0 Macclesfield (FA Cup Round One) Straight outta Compton.. Or Quorn at least (which is nothing like Compton I’m told), it seems no sooner has the Saturday morning mist lifted am I out (after writing last nights report) again to another game, this time it’s the FA Cup and Mansfield are big dogs, against minnows Macclesfield hoping for yet another giant kill. I was supposed to be at Hednesford v Morecambe which I was looking forward to, but the bosses switched

Anstey Nomads 0-3 Macclesfield (FA Cup Fourth Qualifying Round Replay) I keep saying I’m not coming back, but here I am. Returning sooner than expected due to these two teams drawing at the weekend. I was supposed to be at Quorn v Bury and was looking very much forward to it, but Bury drew their FA Cup game on Saturday with Harrogate and they are also replaying tonight, the closest alternative after re-arrangements to fixtures is little more than 6 miles south of my original

Spalding United 0-0 Macclesfield (National League North) I’m back in the South Lincolnshire town of Spalding, after watching the Tulips in a promotion chasing playoff match here in May, I return to the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field for a National League North game. It’s my first watch of sixth tier competitive football this season. Two games into the new campaign and Spalding have won one and lost one so far, they started their step two era by beating Radcliffe 2-0 but los

Peterborough Sports 4-3 Macclesfield (National League North) Storm Chandra has been threatening to call matches off up and down the country today, but Pims Park is made of hardened stuff these days, a 1pm pitch inspection passed, it’ll be my first watch of Macclesfield FC, the team that beat the FA Cup holders Crystal Palace earlier this month. Formed as recently as 2020 after Macclesfield Town went bust, it’s been a rapid rise since local businessman Rob Smethurst brought t