Saturday 14th September 2024 - 2:30pm ko - away (foots cray) - Richard Ayling Second Division
New Park vs Northumberland Heath
Well, let’s start this news update with ‘that was an eventful match!’. To start with the opposition arrived with just 6 men, it was close to being called off, thankfully for them another player arrived which meant the game could go ahead. 7 Players against 11… Surely they knew their chances? However, in no time the match was underway and as predicted we were dominating the field, holding them in their half resulting in us getting goal after goal, it seemed like an easy win. If the game continued like this surely they would fold, and we would win by forfeit… unfortunately this did not happen because around 20 minutes into the first half New Park had their prayers answered, with 4 more players appearing along the sidelines, some what ready, to join in and help fight back the 5-0 score advantage we already had. After a short water break the game continued, and so did our domination, they challenged us a tad more and we had to cover a lot more of the field but that didn’t stop us! At half time we were up 9-0! Quickly, we returned to the starting formation and the second half begun. New Park were more defensive than the first half but still every few minutes we were scoring left, right and centre! I don’t think their goalie has ever worked so hard, or well tried to work so hard. Around 10 minutes before full time a situation involving one of the lads taking out someone from behind, resulted in a penalty for the other team! The guys were gutted especially when they saw that ball go straight into the back of the net! No matter how good our goalie is, he was never getting that! The game moved forward and we came back and added more goals to the tally, totalling our goal count to 13-1! As the full time clock was counting down, a few players from each team got hot headed and a painful collusion occurred, resulting in the ref calling the game and blowing his whistle for full time! Another win for the books, keeping us at the top of the leader board for this league… We are looking forward to the next one! Bring it on.
Player of the match - George
