Match report V Latymer 14 November 2009

Match Report v Latymer league 14 November 2009
Score 3 - 3

I knew this game would cause us a problem as last season we were never able to beat them. We drew one and lost one in the league and lost to them in the Cup although they are cheating bastards.

The weather report for Saturday said that there would be a slight breeze in the air in the afternoon.

Our game was moved to Firs Farm on Saturday morning as the top pitch at Bramley was waterlogged. The first 11 were complaining that they now had to play on the bottom pitch, and as I am such a nice guy, I offered to switch with them so they could go to Firs Farm. I was told to Fuck Off. Never mind, I tried.

When we got to the pitch the wind was kind of fresh and blowing from right to left. Shag is the unlukiest bastard I know as he lost the toss, again, and Latymer chose to kick against the wind in the first half. I think we should keep him as captain but ask someone else to do the toss as he must have run over a bag of black cats whilst driving under a very big ladder.

Anyhow, with the wind on our side we we were pressing forward for the first 20 minutes, but the wind also caused us problems as the ball was running away with each pass. We did play some good football and were rewarded with a goal from Petros. 1 - 0

For the rest of the first half the game was played mainly in their half with the only chances that they had, coming from errors on our part. One such error occured right at the end of the half when we gave the ball away on the edge of thier box and they broke and scored. Also towards the end of the half Aaron got a knock to the head and thought he was in Ibiza, so had to come off as he was asking if anyone had any e's. The Mad Scotsman then went to the Centre back position and Sonny came on in midfield.

HT 1 - 1

It did not look good as I was hoping to have a least a two goal lead at half time as the wind was picking up and it was in their favour in the second half. The wind was so strong that we had trouble getting the ball out of our half. Both teams found it hard to control the ball as the wind was so strong. Then the craziest thing happened. Their goalkeeper took a drop kick and it bounced once and sailed over Nutter Lewis's head into the back of the net. 1 - 2

I then took of Petros in order to give Harvey a game with about 20 minutes left. Neither of our forwards were getting much of the ball as the wind was gathering pace as the second half went on. They were constantly attacking us with Lewis pulling off a string of fine saves. In the end the pressure was too much and they managed to score with about 7 minutes left 1 - 3

It looked all over as we had the wing agaonst us and picking up pace all the time. I think it was about a Force 10 gale. I had to play my last card. I moved Dont Fuck With Me Tompkinson to Right midfield and put Ben O'Neil at right back, taking Carl off.

Then against the wind and the run of play, a ball was played through to Harvey who was about 5 yards offside. He went through and put the ball into the back of the net. GOAL. The ref did not blow up and the Latymer boys went mad. 2 - 3

With only about 2 minutes to go, the ball was played to Harvey who then cut inside onto his left foot and stuck a sweet shot towards goal. Even with a gale blowing against the shot it still managed to reach the keeper who parried it behind him and grabbed the ball before it went into the net. By his reaction you could tell that it had crossed the line. There is no way the ref could have seen it but Barroll was claiming a goal and the ref gave it. Cue the Latymer Boys having a fit again. 3 - 3

Great result in the end as it felt like a win. Hopefully one day we will play LAtymer when the conditions are good and they do not have higher players in their team. My dream is that we thrash them and they go home crying to their mums.

Man of the match: Lewis Nutter Pontin




John