The Bonny Blues entertaining teams from Bonny Scotland !

Since the draw for the Extra Preliminary Round of the FA Cup 2016-17 was made on Friday pairing Penrith with Sunderland RCA, I have been engaged in some initial dialogue to find out what the link between Penrith FC and Scotland is. I got a twitter reply from one of my new virtual pals Matthew Read who plays for Penrith FC and tweets as @wizzer25. I am assuming Matthew's day job is as a delivery driver as Matthew reported that as far as he knows there are no Scots players in the current Penrith team but he does deliver in Scotland! However, it would appear that the Penrith physio, Susan Pollock, is Scottish. More about Susan perhaps in a future post.

As the dialogue continued it became clear that one link between Penrith FC and Scotland is that they regularly play pre-season friendlies against teams from just over the border. Indeed, this Wednesday the Bonny Blues, as they are known locally, will be entertaining Queen of the South at their Frenchfields Stadium. Over the last few years Penrith have played Gretna a few times and when their new stadium was opened on the 3^rd August 2009 Annan Athletic provided the opposition. It would appear that the electricity supply was not ready but the match went ahead with the leccy provided by mobile generators.

I am very grateful to both Matthew Read and Geoff Jackson out there in twitter-world for providing the detail above. Also many thanks to @KarlPif who handles the Penrith FC twitter feed. I feel sure that as I continue my e-conversations with Matthew, Geoff, Karl and others I will unearth more Scottish links between the Bonny Blues and Bonny Scotland. Now, back on to twitter to try to find links between Sunderland RCA and Caledonia.