"You were lucky today," said one of the opposition parents as I walked over to complete the matchcard after the game. Such lack of grace took me by surprise and it was only later that I thought of what my reply should have been; "Yes, I was lucky! Lucky to have the best team on the pitch. Lucky to have a squad of players willing to work their socks off without whingeing all the time…"
Yes, I got the distinct impression that Woodhouse didn’t like the fact that we beat them. Beat them fair and square. A three-goals-to-one scoreline doesn’t lie, and they didn’t like it. A couple of incidents illustrated this, but - hey, they’re gone – and we’ve got the three points in the bag.
Credit to all of the team again, they dug in a found that extra 'something' when it was needed. Chris Sykes got 'Man of the Match' and this was his best performance of the season so far.
A brief run through of performance would look something like this:
Goalkeeper – excellent, always in the right place at the right time.
Defence – solid and unmovable
Midfield – determined and relentless
Attack – tireless in the pursuit of the next goal
We went behind early from another debateable 'offside goal', and had to fight our way back from there.
A first half goal from Connor had us level by half time, and again the team talk was about giving 'more of the same'. And they did, only better. Another goal with 20 minutes gone from Oliie gave us daylight and I steadied myself for one of those white-knuckle finishes that doesn’t do the heart-rate any good! But no need – a third goal from Danny with 5 minutes to go and that was that. Goodnight, Woodhouse!
It had been a warm and sunny afternoon, and, as we packed away the nets and corner flags from our last home game of the season, the sun was still shining brightly over the yellow and blue half of Beighton.
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