LATEST MATCH REPORT: MENS 4TH XI

Wanderers 4 2-2 Barnes 3a: 24/02/07

The second of a double header of matches this weekend – still waiting for Conall to write up the first one, but I think I may have been voted dotd for an outstanding airshot – which in view of my claims to be a striker, I think warrants me writing a report!!

After a great result the day before against UCL – where dotd Conall got sent off – and has still not written a match report – we had to get ourselves up for another big match – and they don’t come much bigger than the Barnes Derby!!  A few guys that had not been there on the Saturday played – they had no idea what had gone on and to be fair still don’t as Conall has not done a match report.  Broadly however the team was the same.

The game started off and Barnes controlled the pace – obviously the events of the previous day where we started very strongly, had been forgotten and as we had no match report (Conall) we had no idea how to do it again!! 

Very quickly Barnes showed that they were not going to be a walkover and very quickly we noticed that their umpire had absolutely no idea about what was going on.  To be fair this was for both sides – but some of the decisions were bizarre.  I would like to have had something to compare them to – perhaps a match report from the previous game but Conall has not written that yet.

Late in the first half Barnes were awarded a short corner (we may have had some of those the previous day, without Conall’s match report it is difficult to say??) and the shot from the top of the D crept under Vern’s armpit and into the back of the net.  1-0 down, and with no idea what Conall was going to say about the previous days game!!!

Half time and we were still one nil down.  Much was due to people playing out of position – largely due to the fact that without a match report from Conall – the Captain had no idea where to play people as he had the previous day!!!

At the start of the second half came two wonderful blunders from myself.  Firstly a swing and a miss – then dispossessed for a second Barnes goal.  Because of this report we will remember these facts – strange that Conall does not want to remind us of some more in another report!!

From 2-0 we really dug deep and pushed hard at the opposition.  Conall showed that he had not forgotten what had happened the previous day and did in fact a very good impersonation of it, this time though just avoiding the yellow card – but I am sure he will tell us all about it in his match report.

We managed to bring it back to 2-1 with a tipical Stokky strike and then in the dying seconds we won a short corner through a dazzling run by Max.  (By the way does anyone have a copy of the match report that Conall wrote for the day before to find out who the scorers were?)

From the short Charlie drilled a shot through the keepers legs and there was not even time to restart the game!!

A well fought draw and a hard worked point.  Looking forward to your match report Conall!!

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