Turned out to be an excellent day on the sporting front, great weather, England destroying the Aussies in the fifth and final test, Soccer AM is back and in full swing, we’re at home, and I’m feeling fine and dandy.
Thackley had a reasonable campaign last year, and had one of the league’s top scorers amongst their ranks Chris Coy – thankfully today we only saw one glimpse of his prowess in front of goal.
Amazingly the crowd was the same as last weeks, 170, and it didn’t take long for the home faithful to see the boys get over their blip of last weeks game with Nathan Hotte scoring after 7 minutes. Ben Knapper scored a wonderful goal on 19 with two great one-two’s with Nathan and Ash Allanson before curling one round the keeper. The visitors scored one on 38 minutes on a rare foray into our half – though you could hear a pin drop when it went in.
Half time comes and yet again no joy in the raffle, Panda Paul has no luck either.
We come out firing on all cylinders in the second half, and eventually seal the game with a header from Palms and a second good goal from Nathan. We seemed to switch off for the last 15 or so, and Chris Coy scored a very good goal (from where I was anyway) late on to bring it to 4-2. Thackley seemed to wake up at this point and started putting us under a lot of pressure, thankfully no further damage done. Thats 2 out of 2, and an FA Cup win – next round for this is this weekend against Shildon FC.
A small prayer for the Brodsworth FC fans and players, played two lost two (9-1 and 10-0), it may be a very long season for them – such a shame we dont play them for a while yet.
Also, on a more serious note, I can’t go without expressing my best wishes to Callum Davenport and his mum who were brutally attacked over the weekend. Davenport had been stabbed several times in his legs with serious & life threatening injuries. His pregnant sisters boyfriend has been remanded in custody on several accounts of assault. The surgeons are unsure whether Davidson will ever play again, they thought he was going to lose one of his legs at one point. Lets hope he bounces back.
