Crying foul over pitch

Rugby players, they claimed, made life almost unbearable during a hard fought match.

For the row of houses on Pollock Drive found itself smack in the front line of attack, with carelessly aimed shots thumping off back doors, walls and windows.

“The ball hit my house four of five times. I felt sure it would come through the kitchen window,” complained one irate housewife.

“When the ball did land in back gardens, which border the new pitch, players scrambled through the hedges to retrieve it. They didn’t even ask or say so much as ‘thank you’,” another resident added.

Householders in the immediate vicinity of the game were demanding that the club erect a high chainlink fence to prevent the ball going out of play.

“What happens if the ball injures someone or causes damage to a house? Will the club be prepared to compensate us?”