Another football away trip weekend featuring a first-ever visit to an award-winning CAMRA pub in a Midlands town I had only visited once before. Here's what happened.... It was a cold and grey morning as we waited at Halifax railway station, having first met up for breakfast at the Shay Cafe, just down from the Shay football stadium, home of FC Halifax Town. We were heading to the Midlands to see Town take on Tamworth FC in the televised teatime game in the National League, which had been moved back from the regular 3pm kick-off time due to the demands of the TV schedule. That fairly recent decision hadn't really affected our plans, though; we were stopping over to join one of the lads in celebrating his birthday so the only inconvenience if you could call it that was having to spend up to 4 hours in the pub before the game rather than a more manageable and practical hour and a half. The train took us to Leeds where we had a few minutes to wait for a Cross Country train heading...