Match Reports
17/11/07
Crowborough 1s 6-10 Men's 4th XI
Blimey!!
Looking at this result you’d be mistakenly of the belief that it was a game of high skill and classic goals. It was much more a tale of two rather poor ‘keepers.
Brighton welcomed back another person from the Super 4s illustrious Almnus, the master of moan, the crown complainer himself Wappy! We also welcomed this season’s journey man of the club the mercurial JC.
Brighton started like a steam train and within a blink of an eye were 2-0 to the good and coasting. It was early days though and there was still time for it all to go wrong. A short corner was awarded and deflected off Potter’s stick and it was 2-1. Crowborough still didn’t have a foot hold on the game and two more goals swiftly followed and twenty minutes in the score was a ridiculous 4-1 to Brighton. Cue the curse of Ready and Brooksy. A quick chat after the fourth goal and a chuckle for an easy day at the office. Woops!
Crowborough had three more shots that half. Well, when I say shots, the ball was directed towards the goal by the oppo. Brooksy either did his usual mixture of diving out of the way or over the oncoming projectile….. This game has been described as the worst ever by Brooksy, and that’s saying something. The pressure of captaincy has taken its fair share of casualties over the years add the form of this ‘keeper to the list.
With the half-time score a ridiculous 5-4 to Brighton no one was really sure what the hell was going on.
Wappy tried to get a hold on the game and get the midfield working as a team, that worked for the next 30 seconds until Crowbrough unbelievable levelled the score. It was all getting a bit squeaky bum time. Luckily for Brighton our midfield did begin to function and Crowborough started to lose their heads and whinge at the umpires. There were also a few run ins between their playmaker and our ruler of remonstration. Suffice our man came out on top time and time again.
Two more quick goals gave Brighton a two goal cushion which soon became three. Crowborough came again and the score was 8-6.
Thankfully, in the dying moments Crowborough self destructed and a green card soon became yellow as their affable skipper was sent off. Two more goals finished a crazy game.
You’ll note that we are bit light on goal descriptions but really there are too many.
Graham and JC scored four apiece (some classic screamers, a joy to watch) and are now officially jug debtors. Matt Harding definitely got one (a deft back post finish which is his trademark) and one other…. Who knows who it was….. was it wappy…..?