Went over to watch Trinity play Featherstone yesterday evening , to be honest we made an afternoon of it and had a meal and a few pints before .

We ended up having to drive out to Castleford to find anywhere that looked the sort of place you'd take your wife having driven around Featherstone looking for such a place .

It's over 25 years since I last visited Fev , we simply haven't played them since the 90's .

What I saw last night shocked me , how the hell was this once proud community allowed to end up like I witnessed last night ? .

Since my last visit we've had 13 years of a Labour government , we were once part of the EU , this deprivation didn't start under the current government or since the country decided to leave the EU , no this is decades in the making .

Don't get me wrong I wouldn't expect Featherstone to resemble Notting Hill these days but I'd expect not to see multitudes of houses boarded up , abandoned pubs and a general atmosphere that actually nobody gives a fuq about the people who live there .

Absolutely scandalous and I guess there are many other places such as Featherstone that are just allowed to go to the wall by politicians who couldn't care less about the people that seemingly the world has left behind .