Five ‘Pay What You Want’ Matches For This Weekend

Saturday 23 April sees a bumper crop of ‘Pay What You Want’ and free admission football to mark the end of the season for many clubs at Non-League level and to also provide a nice reason to celebrate St George’s Day.

Whitby Town FC, looking to secure their safety in the Evo-Stik Northern Premier League, have to fit in three home fixures this week with Barwell and Darlington the visitors on Tuesday and Thursday evening respectively.

Supporters can then pay what they want for the game against Skelmersdale on Saturday afternoon.

The Floodlight Fund appeal at Hitchin Town continues in a bid to replace the existing lights at Top Field for the first time in many a year.

Any money raised, over and above the budgeted expenses, from Saturday’s clash against St Neots Town will go into a brighter future for the Canaries who have secured a place in the Evo-Stik Southern Premier play-offs.

Goole AFC, of the Evo-Stik Northern Premier League First Division South, host their final home match of the campaign against Newcastle Town on Saturday.

Admission will be on a ‘Pay What You Want’ basis while the club also gave away around 1,000 tickets to local school pupils earlier in the year only to see the games they were valid for postponed due to bad weather.

Those tickets will be valid for the Newcastle match so hopefully a bumper crowd will be in attendance at the Victoria Pleasure Grounds where admission for Under-18’s has been free throughout the season.

Colne FC are currently battling for promotion from the North West Counties League Premier Division and played one of their games in hand on leaders Runcorn Linnets on Monday evening, a 5-0 victory against Winsford closing the gap at the top to two points.

They are offering Pay What You Want admission for the visit of Bootle FC on Saturday 23rd, kick-off 3pm.

I’ve stretched the weekend out to include Atherton Collieries, one place behind Colne in the NCWFL at the time of writing (the two sides are due to meet on Thursday this week) and who host Nelson on Monday 25th at 7:45pm with Pay What You Want admission at the Alder House turnstiles.