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Farnborough north end 5 Shaftsbury 1 |
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Written by Paul Duff
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Wednesday, 03 February 2010 |
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Sealed with a Kiss North Ends first league win in months was sealed with a blown kiss by the young Shaftesbury winger who took a fancy to our own Pretty Boy Andy Newcombe. The referee wasn’t going to have any of that sort of thing going on, on a football field and booked the winger and Newcombe for persistent flirting………I mean flaunting of the rules of the game. Then in the dying seconds the young Shaftesbury winger just couldn’t contain himself any longer and decided to take Newcombe out !!!! It was no date as Newcombe was felled to the ground. The referee had no option other than to give the offending player a red card, but it wasn’t a Valentine.
After a great workmanlike win over Alton during the week it was hoped by Manager Brooks that North End would carry on were they left off. Playing a very high tempo game but it was Shaftesbury who seemed more up for the fight and it was they who took the lead on 20 minutes after Millie and Duffers went for the same ball. From the confusion the Shaftesbury winger crossed the ball for his colleague to tap into the North End goal. It didn’t take long for North End to equalize and on 23 minutes the ever improving Bonny Boniface crashed the ball into the top right hand corner of the goal. North End started to take control and on 35 minutes Bonny took a corner from the left and Standage headed home from 6 yards out. On 43 minutes it looked as if the game was over when Grant Stevens slid the perfect pass through to Aaron King who slotted the ball hone with ease to make the half time score 1-3 to North End. The start of the second half saw the game completely open up with both sides creating chances the best of these being when a Shaftesbury forward broke through one to one with reserve keeper Mark Tottle who made a fantastic save. In fact Tottle had a good game making a couple of tremendous saves. It wasn’t until the 65th minute when the old war horse Mark Thomas who’s never say die attitude and persistence got him a deserved goal when it looked impossible to score. He seemed to out muscle two Shaftesbury defenders and thundered the ball into the net from an impossible angle. Two minutes later from a corner North Ends answer to ‘Road Runner, Beep Beep’, Richard Hale scored with his head, which was unbelievable as he very rarely uses his head !! To make the score 1-5. It could have been 6 but manager Brooks decided to put himself on as sub for the last ten minutes and he was then pushed in the box. The referee awarded a penalty. Brooks grabbed the ball and though there were many volunteers to take the penalty Beefy Brooks was having none of it and placed the ball on the spot for himself. Unfortunately he missed, much to the delight of the players on both sides. Men of the Match the Whole Team. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 17 February 2010 )
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