Midland Football Alliance
AFC Wulfrunians v Heath Hayes
After seeing Heath
Hayes defeat Wulfs earlier in the season, at the Coppice Colliery
ground, with two goals in the final few minutes, I was looking
forward to this game, albeit the choice of games was limited,given the crap
weather at present. Wulfrunians are always good to watch and HH have
played nice football whenever I've seen them.
The game was pretty
even-steven for the first ten to fifteen minutes of the game with
both sides playing a nice pleasing-to-the-eye passing game. For the
hosts,Thompsons running off the ball to wide right and cutting
in-field,was creating havoc in the Hayes defence and it was from one
of these runs onto a peach of a pass from Stevenson he fired the ball
under Jenkins into the net. The standard of football being played by
both sides was a joy to watch with Wulfs putting the visitors under
increasing pressure. Midway through the half Wulfs were awarded a
penalty,converted by skipper Sedgemore. Neither I nor anyone by me
could see why the penalty was given but Wulfs now had a two goal
cushion and were very unlucky with another two or three efforts.
Half-time ; AFC
Wulfrunians 2 Heath Hayes 0
Wulfs had a couple of
chances to increase their lead early in the half and the visitors
also started brightly. Hayes reduced the arrears from the spot and an
equaliser looked on the cards for a short while but Wulfs stood firm
and continued to call the tune with Thompson still a continuing thorn
in the visitors' side. Robertson was denied a spectacular goal when
his shot from distance cannoned off the cross-bar with Wulfs upping
the tempo and playing some smashing one-touch stuff. Substitute
Rose-Laing very nearly got on the score-sheet before Thompson rose to
head in with a couple of minutes left, to cap a fine display of
front-running.
Without going
overboard, this was a cracking game between two footballing sides and
I for one, cannot understand why these games do not attract bigger
crowds. Credit to both teams for such a whole-hearted game.
Sedgemores penalty makes it 2-0
Heath Hayes reduce the arrears
Result ; AFC
Wulfrunians 3 Heath Hayes 1
Entrance ;
£3(concession)
Programme ; £1
Drink ; £1
Crowd ; 100(est)
Ref ; Ok
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