High Wycombe 4′s 2 Ashford 4′s 3
Goals: The Lip, Chrissie D, Gordo
Despite Greeny’s attempt to ambush 3 of the team by having part 1 of his leaving drinks (and a curry) on the Friday, a battling, spunky performance saw the boys beat a High Wycombe team who will undoubtedly finish top 5 minimum.
The game started evenly but Ashford were disjointed generally and ceded the ball regularly to the home team – full of skilful, young and fit sprogs (not a good combination imo!) and a few old gits pulling the strings.
We held them a little fortutitously but we were looking quite spritely up front with Greeny busting a gut (not a pretty sight) to get a goal in his last game before emigrating to Australia and Chris Davies leading the line well. We took the lead when a Big Amit whack from outside the D was deflected by Shaggy past all bar Phil ‘The Lip’ Lewis who swept home imperiously (unfortunately his goal celebration was akin to Rosie’s (got to work on that, Phil!)). Great to see Phil scoring in only his 3rd league game for the 4′s (by contrast his bro’ JLo scored 0 in 93 games for us!)
Very pleased and then we went 2-0 up, a fantastic tackle and dribble-ette from a completey out-of-position Jon Hunt set up the ‘prolific’ Chrissie D who trundled through, rounded the keeper and smacked it home with aplomb (most players would have used a stick). They scored a shortie near the end of the half to make it 2-1 which was the least they deserved.
Big Amit had taken a knock to his infamous big toe and had to play at the back so Jon Hunt moved into the midfield with Gordo and they swapped around so many times, everyone was confused…but we continued to compete. HW were getting into our D quite a bit but with little cutting edge and Doggers also had a good day.
Greeny should have had his goal but their defender slipped over and blocked his shot a yard out, only their umpire knows why it wasn’t a penalty! Midway through the half, we attacked down the right and got a free hit. Shaggy looked up to see Gordo in full flight into D and actually passed it!!!!! Gordo swept it from under his feet from about 10 yards and it curled hard into the corner – Gordo jumped miles in the air, did his manly roar aand a lot of fist-pumping - then I got a bit embarrassed and wandered back (rats, this 3rd person narrative is hard!)
HW came at us but we were pumped and it was our day and we played out reasonably comfortably with them scoring their second on final whistle.
A memorable performance and a fitting send off to Greeny, an Ashford stalwart since 1980 – Good luck to him in sunny Melbourne!!!!
