Reds 1-1 Whites

Reds (Rob Salway)

Aiden Malik, Tim Youngberg, Ben Chick, Clive Vaughan (1 goal), Chris Underhill, Rob Salway, Steve Grant, Terry Wiltshire, Andy Wright, Dave Giles

 

Whites (Colin Batt)

Joe Malik, Paul Rodgers, Russell Young, Paul Chick, Paul Randall (1 goal), Colin Batt, Kevin Rosser, Andy Burgess, Shaun Palfrey, Dave Blatchford

 

Another great game was played at the “Theatre of mature cheese” on Thursday evening when the scoreline ending up level at 1-1, but more importantly everybody having a great fun game, with good refereeing by Tim Richens in the absence of Mervyn Brean.

 

The game started with team selected by Rob Salway and Colin Batt, and on paper it looked as though Batt had been cleverer than Salway, but football is not played on paper and a very even game ensued.

 

The game started with lots of good attacking football being negated by some very good defending, combined with some superb goal keeping from almost everyone on show.

However, this goal keeping supreme ability was unable to be kept going, as you will see later in this report!

 

The White team, stronger on paper, were creating several chances but the non-stop running of Chris Underhill as well as a number of great supporting roles ensured that chances were kept to a minimum.

However just as the White team looked as though they were running out of ideas comment despite some superb prompting from the midfield, the evergreen striker Paul Randall (ex Bristol Rovers, in case you didn't know, lol!) showed why he was a professional footballer, back in the day, by scoring a great goal himself.

 

Many impartial observers felt that this would see the White team go on to win comfortably, but some great energy shown by Underhill and Vaughan meant that the Reds stayed in the game.

At this point Vaughan then made a half-chance for himself, and he was unfortunate his weakly struck shot was straight at the goalkeeper, however the goalkeeper was Paul “Jock” Rogers and somehow the goalkeeper managed to fumble the ball across his own line resulting in lots of “sorry lads” from the ex-fireman!

 

The second half saw both teams “go at it” but defences were very much on top, so much so that Joe Malik, in the White’s goal, was able to have a short nap whilst resting against the post!

However, Malik was very much to the fore in the dying seconds of the game went a long ball from him created a great chance for the Whites, but they were unable to put it away and win the game.

 

So, at the end of the match honours were even particularly between the two skippers – Salway & Batt - and everyone was able to retire to the home of the man's team sponsors, the cider barn, for a  well-deserved and much needed drink and to “put the world to rights”!