2005-6 Season
Marble Hill 1 Kenchels FC 2
Another stonking result for the ‘Chels – and it would have been even better but for a controversial refereeing decision by Pierluigi Newbods in the last couple of minutes that gave Marble a goal they never really deserved. There were excellent performances all around, terrific passing and, on top of all that, Kevin Gallan got the chips in at the pub afterwards and Stevie B got two rounds in. What more could a team want? We even had a huge crowd – well, three anyway – featuring MK Power, son Sam and Mr B.
Marble were half our age but they never got a look in, apart from a superb Tom B shot at our own goal that drew an awesome save from Craig. The first goal came five minutes from half-time when a Dotden throw-in, one of many that created havoc among the Marbles, bounced and bobbled in the penalty area before Kevin Gallan slotted it with a neat little kick over his head. One-nil.
Tom Taw gave an excellent reprise of his Ukelele performance, breaking up their attacks and slotting neat little balls back out to our midfield. Euan’s free running down the left had the opposition spinning around inside their shorts and set up numerous chances for Jake and – after halftime – Arif. It was Stevie B who nicked the man of the match though, with a sterling effort as centre-back and pulling off several crucial tackles. In fact, the defensive performance was good enough to prompt a cry of ‘Wayne who?’ in the changing room afterwards.
Inspired half time substitutions (Shurely shome mishtake? Ed) took EP off for Arif and Newbods off for Tom Taw, who had reffed the first half. Early on, a glorious move began out at the right back position (no names, no packdrill), crossed to the left, down the flank and ended up with Arif chipping it, left-footed, over their keeper’s head. Of course, the keeper was only 4ft 9 and Dave Goodheart would have had no trouble with it (he has of course, stopped more than his fair share of shots from Arif’s defensively inept boots).
The crowd went wild! They went even wilder when a clumsy challenge from MoM Stevie B just inside the box led Pierluigi to blow the dreaded whistle. Craig got a hand to the resulting penalty but it still went in. It was a minor blot on an otherwise terrific ‘Chels performance.
PS: Stevie B’s beer-buying prowess is the real reason he is my MoM.
The lineup: Craig, Den, Steve, Terry, Newbods, Tom B, John Murphy, Gavin, Euan, Robin, Jake.
Subs: Tom T for Chris, Arif for EP
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