Results 01/06/2007

[Giggy of Telford]

FA CUP Preliminary Round

Spennymoor Town 3 v 2 Garforth Town

Blue Square Premier

Altrincham 1 v 2 Aldershot Town
Crawley Town 1 v 1 Burton Albion
Droylsden 1 v 2 Grays Athletic
Ebbsfleet United 0 v 1 Stevenage Borough
Farsley Celtic 2 v 1 Northwich Victoria
Histon 2 v 0 Salisbury City
Kidderminster Harriers 4 v 0 Exeter City
Oxford United 1 v 1 Halifax Town
Torquay United 2 v 0 Stafford Rangers
Woking 1 v 1 Forest Green Rovers


Blue Square North

AFC Telford United 2 v 1 Gainsborough Trinity
Blyth Spartans 1 v 1 Tamworth
Boston United 2 v 1 Barrow AFC
Hucknall Town 1 v 3 Workington
Hyde United 4 v 0 Redditch United
Leigh RMI 1 v 4 Kettering Town
Nuneaton Borough 2 v 1 Stalybridge Celtic
Solihull Moors 1 v 3 Burscough
Southport 4 v 0 Hinckley United
Vauxhall Motors 3 v 2 Alfreton Town
Worcester City 1 v 1 Harrogate Town


Blue Square South

Basingstoke Town 2 v 3 Eastbourne Borough
Bishop`s Stortford 0 v 0 Dorchester Town
Bromley 2 v 1 Hayes & Yeading United
Eastleigh 1 v 2 Sutton United
Hampton & Richmond Borough 2 v 2 Cambridge City
Havant & Waterlooville 3 v 0 Thurrock FC
St Albans City 0 v 1 Fisher Athletic (London)
Welling United 1 v 0 Bath City
Weston-super-Mare 1 v 2 Braintree Town


Unibond Northern Premier Division

Frickley Athletic 0 v 1 Fleetwood Town
Guiseley 2 v 0 Leek Town
Hednesford Town 1 v 3 Kendal Town
Lincoln United 0 v 2 Whitby Town
Marine 0 v 1 Ossett Town
North Ferriby United 1 v 2 Ilkeston Town
Prescot Cables 1 v 2 Matlock Town
Stamford 1 v 1 Ashton United
Witton Albion 2 v 0 Eastwood Town
Worksop Town 0 v 2 Gateshead


Ryman Isthmian Premier Division

AFC Hornchurch 1 v 0 Chelmsford City
AFC Wimbledon 1 v 2 Harrow Borough
Ashford Town (Middx) 3 v 2 Heybridge Swifts
Billericay Town 4 v 0 Leyton
East Thurrock United 3 v 2 Hendon
Folkestone Invicta 0 v 1 Boreham Wood
Harlow Town 3 v 0 Ramsgate
Horsham 4 v 1 Carshalton Athletic
Margate 3 v 1 Tonbridge Angels
Wealdstone 3 v 3 Hastings United

Arngrove Northern League Division 1

Bedlington Terriers 2 v 1 Sunderland Nissan
Seaham Red Star 1 v 1 West Allotment Celtic
Washington 0 v 1 Bishop Auckland
Whitley Bay 4 v 0 Northalleton Town

[ambersalamander]

WE WON!!!

more on that subject later, I'm off out

[samd]

WE DREW!!!

It'll do for now

[votp]

We LOST!

It's becoming a habit.

[ambersalamander]

Oh dear!

[martello]

WE WON!



It might need some explaining though... ;D

[Giggy of Telford]

WE WON! ;D

But lost a striker for 3 months due to thuggery and cheating; courtesy of the opposition.

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AFC Telford United 2-1 Gainsborough Trinity

We played a more attacking 5-2-1-2 as opposed to our standard 5-3-2, strikers Matty Lewis & Justin Marsden coming in up front with Lee Moore playing slightly deeper; behind the front 2.

2 first half goals scored by Matty Lewis, both crossed in from the right by Justin Marsden and almost identical. After this things started to get nasty, Gainsborough were desperately trying to get back into the game and were beginning to lose their temper, not helped by the referee. Jusin Marsden was plowed down with a 2-footed lunge by the corner flag, only to be booked for his reaction while the offender went unpunished. Shortly after Marsden again was through on goal, keeper rushes out and charges straight into him. The ref does not blow his whistle and both players go down, the ball going out for a goal kick. Both physios come on and after a few minutes the keeper gets up, a few minutes later Marsden gets up only for the ref to show him a second yellow followed by the red card. If anything it was the keeper who was at fault and as Marsden was through on goal it should have been a penalty and a straight red for the keeper. To add insult to injury Marsden had to be helped off the pitch by physio Brin May and had to go straight to the hospital.

The thing which really angered me however was after the game the keeper admitted that he stayed down deliberately to get Marsden sent off. Blatant cheating but because the ref didn't notice he will get away completely unpunished. Especially when as soon as Marsden was helped back to the changing rooms (while being applauded off by most of the stadium) he was back up, running and jumping. About 90 minutes after the game Marsden returned, his leg in plaster. The news was that he had chipped a bone in his ankle and snapped a ligament, he could be out for 3 months now.
Being a man down we contiued to play with 2 up front, Moore becoming a striker and switching to a rather unusual 5-2-2. After half time Telford contiued to dominate despite a numerical disadvantage. Gainsborough pulled one back in the second half and later on the players seemed to be tiring having to cover for having one less player, they still did not look the weaker side but the game was more balanced. Luke Reynolds came on in place of Matty Lewis who had ran himself into the ground y now. They battled on, spurred on by the near constant cheering of the crowd from all around the stadium. Late on defender Richard Teesdale was brought on from the bench in place of Lee Moore, Carl Rodgers moving forward to midfield the team switched to a more defensive 5-3-1. In what seemed almost 10 minutes of injury time Telford still had a few chances going forward before the final whistle confirmed the Bucks' victory.

A fully deserved victory against what was essentially a poor Gainsborough side. The way the game was going it seemed likely that if Marsden had not been sent off/injured we would have won 4-0 or 5-0. A good all around performance with some good football played without stooping to the levels of the visitors.

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Final Score AFCTU 2-1 GTFC
My Motm: 9.Matty Lewis
Attendance: 1895

The Green Writing is to do with a highly controversial incident in which our player was sent off and sidelined with an injury in his first start of the season. The opposing goalkeeper after the match admitted deiberately getting him sent off, the keeper was also at fault for the challenge in which Marsden was injured.

[bonehead]

Thank you, WCFC :-)

[ambersalamander]

martello said:

WE WON!



It might need some explaining though... ;D

So you're not going to explain how you were 2-0 down at 90 minutes and somehow managed to win 3-2? Or are you just going to copy and paste the report you wrote?