New Greens Club, was once a proud and prosperous institution that took no nonsense from anyone, an institution that embodied everything there was about the working man for after all this was a proper working mans club, where the working man went to forget about his woes after his hard day in the field and could saver that moment of elation when he could purse his lips and sip at a nice cold pint of his choosing.
Oh how things have changed, or not as the case maybe, for this evening was a top of the table clash in the local St Albans Darts league (as yet unsponsored) division 2 between the aforementioned establishment and their more (lets just say a polite way of describing the relationship between the two sides would be) salubrious opponents. All that's new these days sadly are some of the faces in the dart team for the cold reality is that this is an institution that is stuck firmly in the 20th century, they may have a Twitter and Facebook account that is cutting edge 21st century but the decor fixtures and fittings remain firmly planted in a time when the likes of Wham and Duran Duran would vie for top spot in the charts.
The dart team is a Phoenix from flames though, dropping out of the league a couple of years ago they have reinvented themselves and in their first season were runners up in Division 4 when perhaps if it wasn't for their own misdemeanours would surely have gone on and won it.
Nevertheless they gained promotion to division two and along with it a fresh face or two mingled in with the odd wiser head giving themselves every chance of redressing the mistakes of last season.
Tonight though they are playing the Rose and Crown, an experienced team who find themselves in the second division for the first time in half a century according to team stalwart Tony Scott. It's been turbulent times for the Rose and Crown in recent years, losing key players at vital times and along with new faces coming and going it was difficult for them to find that winning formula that's needed if you are going to survive in the top flight. So they find themselves in Division two and unbeaten to boot and confidence seems high within the ageing band of brothers.
The evenings darts certainly lived up to the top of the table billing and in truth in parts would not have been out of place in the top division. Eventually New Greens coming out on top 5-3 but the Rose and Crown pushed them all the way. 180's a plenty and remembering singles are 301 double start that's some going and but for the width of a wire, In Big Rons case the wrong side of it, the result could have been entirely different as that was the home teams last throw of the dice. The Rose and Crown had wrung every last drop out of their more youthful opponents (Mickey Norris aside) and had Big Rons arrow been 2mm higher Tony Scott would surely have earned a point for the visitors who had nothing left to give.
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