Match Report
Brand new nets but same old story , we should just stop playing teams whose players were once upon a time good. As Bagley once said when skippering the 4th XI – “There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that the opposition look past their prime, the bad news is that some of them once had one.”
The Vets lined up well and had some quality across the pitch; but after quite a bit of fuss and palaver setting up the brand new nets, they remained unsullied for only 7 minutes before the first home goal of the season was conceded. Essemay had cheated by recruiting a new player who was obviously a veteran but both young and talented, and doubled the cheating by giving him a number 13 shirt which made the Ramblers think he was rubbish. He wasn’t and at half time he had orchestrated another two.
The second half was much better. A sweeping move saw Eddie Jones find Crutchley’s shin perfectly, and it didn’t miss. At 3-1 the Vets were right back in the game then conceded a stupid goal. Matty Gray bucked the trend by scoring with his foot, and at 4-2 it was game on. Perhaps only Ged Nolan could have thought that his rugby tackle in the dying moments wasn’t a penalty, but the referee finally got one right, Power went (as usual) the wrong way and the game ended 5-2.
Not a bad effort but not not an especially good one either. What better way to m make amends than Woolton Vets away next week.