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Seventh XI
Old Parkonians 1 Winchmore Hill 2
Southern
Amateur League
Minor Section Division Three
Saturday 27 September
The 7’s travelled away to Old Parkonians, which over the years has
always been a tough fixture.
Jason Townsend must have felt right at home as we drove up the high
road, past Faces night club through Ilford. The glare from fake gems
hanging from birds navels was incredible, we even saw a girl bowling
up the road in a bikini top with the customary Burberry vitton
shoulder bag with a mongrel’s head popping out of it sporting home
made ear piercing. Jason then decided to hang out the window singing
Fernando Torres Liverpool’s no. 9 songs for giving his daily Star
dream team a boost.
It was certainly a perfect day for football, a balmy 20 degrees, no
wind, a lovely flat green surface to play football on and all the
Arsenal boys expectant, at home a to Hull – a gimme if there was
ever one, surely
Everyone was really up for this one, - eight minutes before kick off
Mick Orme had to go back to the changing room and drag half the side
out onto the pitch, Paul Cooper had the kit and was delayed because
his meals on wheels had been late.
The first half saw both sides playing flowing football with half
chances at both ends from some long-range efforts. Jamie Bell had a
fine effort tipped over the bar from a free kick just outside the
box mid way through the half.
We went into the break the better team but the score line did not
reflect this at 0-0 with our heads up we still had some hard work to
do to break the opposition down, the team talk was basically keep
doing what we did in the first half and our quality will prevail.
The first attack of the half saw the hill go 1-0 up with a well
worked goal, Jamie Bell won the ball in midfield looked up and
passed to Jason Linton who slid the perfect through ball into the
path of Mick Orme who used his weight to hold off the Six foot two
beast that was man marking him to choose his spot in the bottom
corner from the on rushing keeper. Michael Owen would have been
proud of that one.
With our tails up we played with lots of confidence and spirit as we
pushed on for more goals with some nice crosses into the box from
the flanks, midway through the half Mick Orme was surprised to have
the ball at his feet outside the box and on side! With no defenders
anywhere and the keeper off his line Mick calmly lobbed the keeper
to make it 2-0.
Old Parks pushed on, now with a five-man midfield. The Hill captain
made a decision, which later he would regret in subbing a forward
and adding extra in midfield. Old Parks picked up on this instantly
and pushed another up front. Now they were playing a 2,5,3. Soon
Parks had pulled one back through a scrappy goal. Our stand in
keeper Chris Bond could not hold onto a fierce drive, which was
finally bundled over the line as Chris bravely tried to retrieve the
ball and got a whack to the head for his efforts leaving him spark
out on the floor.
The Hill were on the back foot until about the last ten minutes
until we found ourselves again and tried to put the game to bed with
some nice attacking football, eventually and to our relief the ref
finally blew up for full time giving us our first win of the season.
Well done to all that played, more of the same next week please.
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