We never forget
After the usual reports I write, some justified critisicm has been made to the actual content and how it compares to the actual match we played so here we go.
After the checking the pitch for the usual brown patches we were rewarded this week with some variety with a dead pigeon with the poor chirpers guts hanging out across the half way line! A quick elevation with a spade meant he got some air for the last time into the bushes, with bits narrowly missing my face.
We started with a depleted side this week with 5 absences
Old Man - Tonsulitis - Too much shouting
Cookie - His 70th Birthday or did he have tonsulitis?
Mason Chapman - Rememberance Sunday
Mathew Coleman - Our spare player had high jump in Birmingham
Fingers - Broken fingers after feeding a bird
Then with 10 on the day!
Mehmet limped in after being run over on his bike by a bus
BUT Mehmets made of stronger stuff!
So with 9.5 moving bodies this week part of Mehmet was squashed
Starting line up playing 3-2-3-1
Mehmet Goal keeper as he could not walk and only had half a body
Sort of defence/mid
Adam the goal keeper
Elliott
Guy
Cam
Charlie
Sort of midfield
Harry
Jamie
George M
Up front
Flynn
We kicked off after a respectful two minutes silence with a referee who looked a bit dodgy. We hoped his refereeing would be better. The sun was shining though!
Milton applied most of the pressure as we could not seem to move the ball forward mainly because we played quite defensively with..
"The old addage you can lose a game in the 1st 10-15 minutes if you go down a couple of goals"
Oh well, with this formation we were caught on the break with their pace up front and were 2 down in 15 minutes! poor Mehmet could only only rush out of goal slithering on his stomach.
At this point we were flapping
With this we moved Charlie further forward and brought Harry into the defense to stop leaking goals and the pigeon/ship began to steady. We put several attacks together only to shoot directly at their goal keeper, we probably should have converted at least 2 chances.
Unfortunately before half time we leaked a further goal and went in 3-0
We came off half time looking dejected and dishevelled with Mehmet also looking leg less. With some gentle encouragement all looked in good fettle.
Second half came and we looked a better side with Flynn scoring on 33 mins which game us some hope BUT then almost immediately we were caught on the break trying to push forward to go 4-1 down.
That was it the feathers were off and Harry went forward with Charlie pressing hard and we lost another two goals 6-1.
The managers and linesman continued to battle the lady bird invasion on the far side and with the managers not providing instructions after fighting off the thousands of bugs we clawed our way back into the game.
At 41 mins almost immediately after their last goal Harry pressed forward and gave us the momentum we needed 6-2
At 56 Jamie put in a cool one for 6-3 and we were off albiet a bit late (His 1st goal on his debut).
Harry was everywhere the later part of the game with Charlie playing beatifully weighted balls through their defense BUT Harry was adjudged to have hacked down a Milton player in the box and the miserable blind referee had the front to give them a penalty. That ref should be registered then at least we could have his labrador on to make some decent decisions as long as the dog can clear up his own .........................................
Mehmet made a fantastic save to his right on the ground
At 59 Jamie scored his second after a shot of the post from Harry and we definitely had our beak in front.
Full Time 6-4
A cracking game at the end with tremendous performances by our team
Special mentions
Jamie a good strong debut with 2 goals - MOM contender
Harry was literally everywhere plugging holes - MOM contender
Mehmet gave it his all and made 3 excellent saves and was not mobile enough to do anything about the others - MOM contender
Adam played very well on pitch
Elliot some times excellent when his head was going, was a good part of our revival in the second half.
Guy sat in an unusual position for him and played well in his 1st full game
Cam always plays well and his mental attitude is so strong he kept some players going.
George battled and
Flynn had little support but managed to carve out one goal and held the ball up at times for support - well done
Man of the match Charlie the squark Sayers after his performance in centre midfield this will give us something to think about going forward - One of the many positives
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Well done to all including MR STEVE BRYCE AN EXCELLENT REFEREE and an an excellent performance.
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