Ashford Scorers:
Gordon Smith (3), Dan Williams
The season is drawing to a tension-building, nerve-wracking and sphincter-clenching climax as all 4 teams at the top of the MBB0 Div 4 Premiership won. We won at a canter against a Wallingford side whose main objective (which they succeeded in) was to keep the score down.
We started out with an atypical side with all the sprogs apart from Ryan and Ant promoted to the 3’s (and quite right too)…so an unusual amount of experience and girth was in evidence as the mighty 4’s wobbled out onto the field. We started quite brightly but impatiently and were too direct against a basement club intent on defence. It took 15 minutes to score the first - good work down the right from Dean and Chris and the ball was worked to Shaggy in the D who unselfishly squared the ball to Gordo who made no mistake from 3 yards out (from an open goal). 5 minutes later Dan W scored a nice goal, making room for himself he reverse-stick undercut the ball past the startled ‘keeper (who played very well throughout). A third goal a few minutes before the break - Chrissy D setting up Gordo again - this time from a full 6 yards - made the game safe.
Having started with 13, we finished with 11 - PC Carl was wilting after a 12 hour night shift and our bubble-shaped dynamo, Barrel… no, barrel-shaped dynamo, Bubbles… had done a mischief to his calf. No doubt induced by playing right-half and finding himself in the oppo half for the first time this season. We should have gone on and scored a hatful in the second half - let’s hope goal difference isn’t a factor - but we didn’t and I’m going to draw a veil over it as I know minors read this report… I suspect some sort of spread-betting scandal myself. Anyway we scored with the last hit of the game from a switched short, Rhino accidentally crossed it and evergreen El Gordo was there 2 yards out to deflect it in for his hat-trick - a Gerry-’atrick I guess - much to the oldster’s obvious delight…. 2 games left, the cliches await….
