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Goddard (3)
Barnett (2)
Smith (2)
Morgan
C.Carter
Dunmore
Creedon
S.Cobley
Ref: Kevin FrenchHoood Park Rangers
squad
Noron, J.Farley, Smith, Jones, S.Cobley, Hoegger, Mills, C.Carter, Dunmore, Morgan, Creedon, Knight, Barnett, GoddardFosse City Vs Hood Park Rangers
What turned out to be a beautiful day despite chilling mornings, turned out to be a beautiful game of football. After suffering at the feet of the ‘Mighty’ Fosse City in previous weeks Hood Park Rangers where looking for revenge….This however wasn’t the case, after only 4 minutes into the game, Dunmore opened up the score sheet by gently caressing the ball from a Morgan corner into the net.
The subs, manager, banded player and a lonely supporter turned match day reporter new it was going to be one of those days for the Fosse boys, but did HPR? 3 minutes after the first goal it was clear when a simple cross field ball from Barnett end at Goddard’s feet, turning the HPR defender Goddard then slotting the ball into the far corner, liking to add it was a 3rd attempt at goal…
By this time HPR new it wasn’t going to be a good afternoon with Fosse playing some fantastic one touch football with the combination of closing down and tackling that even Robbie Savage would have been proud of. Without a doubt Fosse where the better team through the match and it became inevitable when Fosse pressed and gained another corner. The subs, manager, banded player and lonely supporter turned match day reporter egged on the big centre half ‘Grant’ to get up for the corner. With another clean cut corner from Morgan and a giant leap from ‘Grant’ only ended one way, a Goal of course.
With constant heckling and abused being poured from the sideline, HPR had their 3rd kick off with only 20 minutes of being played, it may have been more, however Dunmore’s shooting was like that of a blind man and leprosy victim combined . With being 3 nil up this didn’t faze the Fosse boys, continuing to press on the depleted HPR, not long after ‘Grant’ scored, Creedon wanted a piece of the action with a 15 yard shot aimed low and hard that somehow found the back of the net through the bodies of players. We all new to round off the first half surely the captain had to put his name on the score sheet, and with not long to go before the first half ended Carter picked up a lovely switch ball from Cobley, and to everyone’s surprise beating the HPR left back and bagging a brilliant individual goal.
The end of the first half and not only was the subs, manager, banded player and lonely support turned match day reporter feeling sorry for the HPR boys, I quite sure the Fosse boys did too. Yet another ‘compelling’ and ‘passionate’ team talk from the manager left the boys bored and not mentioning Goddard’s hissy fit that a 10 years girl would be proud of set the boys up for the second half.
The odds where high that Fosse would score first, and surely they did, Morgan who played out of his skin all game creating chances, set Barnett up with a pin point pass, feelings where tight when the first touch of Barnett was heavier than Michelle McManus, but cool and calm racked up goal number 1. The team had been strong all game in every position, even with Goddards many chances on goal and Dunmore’s disappointing shooting both passed the ball sexually. Once more Fosse gained a corner, ‘Grant’ lurking around the far post and with a soft touch and strike it was goal number 7, by this time the Fosse goal keeper expressed his boredom with telling the subs the score over on the next pitch….
HPR where tense on the ball and sloppy unlike that of Fosse, with the HPR defense rushing the ball around the back 4, Barnett stole the ball and ‘luckily’ placing the ball in between the keepers legs, or ‘Megs’ as it is a commonly known as. I can’t remember what happened with goal number 9 as I was playing with a strand of grass…but my colleague Barnett expressed that Morgan again glided through 4 of the HPR players with fantastic foot work, with Barnett unselfishly shouting “Score” and Goddard selfishly shooting “Pass!” unselfishly Morgan passed giving Goddard the goal.
With it being 9 nil you would of thought Fosse would have given the HPR boys some credit not going into double figures…well fortunally Fosse wanted to make them look more poor than a 9 nil score line…With a great cross from the right side and a heroic dash by Cobley combined with a 4 yard header Fosse made it 10 nil. The subs, manager, banded player and lonely supporter turned match day reporter egged on for Morgan to finish off a great game with a goal, and not to our surprise he scored again taking on 2 HPR players and leaving the goalkeeper for dead.
Subs Mills, ‘Shrek’ and Knight played just as good with accurate passing and determination. Knight caused problems down the left side, with Shrek holding strong, Mills doing the Mills thing ventured up the park looking for a goal, narrowly missing two headers in front of goal. As Fosse where given a free kick just outside the 18 yard box, moans where heard, as another Fosse player had a hissy fit about taking a free kick (Barnett who was nearly in tears). Every player and supporter doubted Goddard as this was his 10 chance in front of goal, putting all that aside with a low and hard strike the ball found the back of the net for the 12th time. As the full time whistle blew I’m sure even the ref and HPR supporters where laughing at the score line, with mostly fantastic football, Fosse City truly deserved to go to the 3rd round of the Billy Walton Cup.Many apologues if anything’s wrong as the grass was green a fun, combined with a late night.
Written by
The lonely supporter turned match day reporter.
