⚽Southern League Premier Div Central⚽
Stourbridge FC 1 AFC Rushden & Diamonds 1
Played at The War Memorial Athletic Ground Amblecote
This game wasn't my original destination ; I had planned a visit to lye for their game against Boldmere St Michaels but such was the traffic hold-up(roadworks), I turned around and headed to this game(only 5 minutes away). It wasn't a bad decision as this was a really enjoyable spectacle.
The visitors were smartly out of the blocks and were ahead on 10 minutes. I can't describe the goal as I'd only just got into the ground, such was the crowd. Not only were they ahead but also looking very assured, dealing fairly comfortably with anything and everything The Glassboys could muster.
Things changed gradually but immeasurably as the hosts upped their game and many times really good approach work was let down by lack of a decent end product, notwithstanding the immovable object in the visitors defence, ie, their number 5 who hardly put a foot wrong all game.
Following the break, it was The Glassboys on the front foot and in a bizarre repeat of the 1st half, it was they who scored after 10 minutes with a brilliant effort. With this and the substitution of their wily number 9, the visitors were on the back foot for large parts of the last 30 but all things taken into account, a draw was probably a fair result.
MOTM Stourbridge ; Number 5
MOTM AFC R&D ;Number 5
Sorry I couldn't have been there with you my mate.
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