275 Saturday 12th July 2025 Moston

 Simon opted to use  his trip  to watch Rochdale's  first  pre-season  friendly away  to  FC  United  who  now play at a new grund in Moston. It  was  a  sweltering  hot  day. We met a work colleague and  his  partner at the station who were  going to see Oasis at  Heaton Park. Our  train  went  straight through to Moston, It  wasn't  a  particularly long  walk to the  ground  but  long  enough in that heat. when we got there , we stayed in the air-conditioned bar until just before kick off when we took seats in the main stand. Happily. it was the side of the ground in the shade.



Rochdale fielded most of their new signings and some  trialists and changed the team round at half time. The guy sat  in  front  of  us looked  familiar and  it was later confirmed that it was indeed former England international Viv Anderson. Rochdale won 3-0 and it could have been more.


When we got back to the station we  waited on  the  ramp down to it which had some shade rather than the platform. We  got  off  at  Manchester and went to O'Neill's to film our latest All The  Eats video  which will appear here in due course.

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