The venue is a typically basic council facility, with just one of the two pitches in use this morning, but is another example of the autumn colours providing a particularly attractive setting at this time of year.
The hosts face a real test of their credentials in this Lancashire FA Sunday Trophy Third Round tie, their opponents being Devonshire Arms of the Blackpool and Fylde Sunday Alliance Premier Division, who reached the semi-finals of this competition last season.
Greg Anderton comes close to giving Euxton a shock lead with a shot from fully 30 yards that hits the bar, but the visitors are firmly in control at the interval as Dave Cram scores twice in the space of three minutes just past the half hour mark.
Liam Bradshaw sets Dave Cram away to complete his hat trick on 54 minutes, but despite having centre half Rick Wood dismissed for a second yellow card Euxton refused to let their heads drop, and they pull a goal back after 70 minutes, a Tom Eckersley shot finding the net via the far post.
Devonshire Arms are now struggling to lift their game again, having perhaps assumed the tie was won, and ten men Euxton put them under quite a bit of pressure. However, substitute Alan O'Loughlin wraps the tie up once and for all with a 89th minute strike, before Craig O'Neil adds a second Euxton goal in stoppage time to give a final scoreline of 2-4.
