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Post by ojiveojive on Aug 4, 2008 17:25:32 GMT
Final Pre-Season Friendly was a 0-1 defeat at home to Hayes & Yeading. Neither side produced much in the way of goalmouth excitement and Hayes & Yeading's goal was a fantastic diving header from our midfielder Junior English, who quite often scores spectacular goals, but in the opposition's net, not ours!
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Post by ambersalamander on Aug 4, 2008 18:46:16 GMT
Why don't WE get to play nice Sussex teams? Huh?
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Aug 5, 2008 14:05:25 GMT
Two results to mention since our last update. We reached the final of the Shropshire Senior Cup following a comfortable 3-0 win over Bridgnorth. Bridgnorth started well but a mad 5 minutes in the Bridgnorth defence gave Telford 2 goals midway through the first half from Lee Moore and Terry Fearns. Bridgnorth struggled to come back into the game after this and a third goal was added, another by Terry Fearns. Following on from this an impressive performance against a young Chester City side resulted in a 4-1 victory for the Bucks. following a work-related injury where Asa Charlton dropped a barrel of beer on his toe we were down to 14 players for this match. Gavin Cowan opened the scoring in the 1st half to give a 1 goal lead at half time. Carl Rodgers doubled the lead from a Liam Blakeman corner early on in the second half. Later in the half Telford were awarded a penalty when the Chester keeper brought down Terry Fearns about a foot away from the goal line while he was on the ball. Despite the clause in Fearn's contract which says he takes all the penalties (apparently the deciding factor in him coming here ) he let Andy Brown take it. Who slotted home past the chester keeper who had been spared a red card as it was a preseason friendly. Jon Adams then brought down a chester player just inside the box. Chester grabbed one back from the resulting penalty but Telford regained their 3 goal lead near the end from Liam Blakeman's first goal for the club.
A certain Paul Taylor previously from Vauxhall Motors was in the Chester lineup. Last season at the NBH he was marked out of the game and then became one of four Vauxhall players to be shown a red card (what a strange game); following a second booking about 89 minutes in for attacking Asa Charlton. In reality he should have been straight off about 20 minutes in for a 2-footed lunge on Jimmy Turner. No card for him this time but seemed prone to the occasional temper tantrum when things didn't go his way. And i stil lcan't see what all the hype was about him. Sat 12th July - Stratford Town (a) MFA ~ W 5-1 Tue 15th July - Wellington Amateurs (a) ^WM1 ~ W 5-1Fri 18th July - Cheltenham Town (h) L1 ~ D 0-0Wed 23rd July - Nottingham Forest (h) ^CH ~ L 1-4Sat 26th July - Havant & Waterlooville (a) BSS ~ D 1-1Thu 31st July - [SSC SF] Bridgnorth Town (h)^MFA ~ W 3-0 Sat 2nd August - Chester City (h) L2 ~ W 4-1SSC Final - TBA CH - Coca Cola Championship L1 - Coca Cola League 1 L2 - Coca Cola League 2 BSS - Blue Square South (step 2) MFA - Midland Football Alliance (step 5) WM1 - (step 7) ^ - promoted to this season
The Shropshire Senior Cup final will have to be played at a later date as both AFC Telford Utd and Shrewsbury Town FC indicated they didn't want it rearranged for a few days before the season starts. It's not currently known when the final wil ltake place. That wraps up our preseason, as always looknig forward to start of the season this Saturday.
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Post by peekay on Aug 6, 2008 21:54:29 GMT
We can't even beat Ball Haye Green now. We've absolutely had it.
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