Sunday 27th March 2004

A Brave Try, but possibly doomed from the beginning ......

Sunday 27th March 2004

Scawby Jets 11 - Park Tigers 1

Man of the Match - Our Liam

This is , almost, a first for the Tigers, a Semi- Final. The major problem being that we have met the Jets before, and , to be honest , history is not on our side.

There was extra training yesterday, but we shall have to see what happens today.


11.15

Late again .

Tilly just wouldn't decide whether she was going to watch her brother play or not. And to be honest this is becoming a bit of a pain. I wish she would "choose" with a bit more decisiveness. She was still a bit "yes and no" right up to, and really well passed, the time we could be doing with leaving for the ground.(luckily Liam had got a lift to game earlier in the morning - thanks Chris)

In the end a session on the computer won, so here I am - on my own, with Cathy having to stay with Laura.

The weather, as it always seems to be on this ground, is cold, grey and windy.
But at least it isn't raining - not yet anyway.

1st Half

On arrival the score was already 3 - 0 to Scawby. Going on previous history , this is no big surprise .

Then it was 4.

The Tigers put together a good attack, only for Scawby to break away.

5-0

Then,just before the halftime whistle , Jacob took the ball down the left hand wing. Played round the defender. Played a lovely ball across the face of the goal, and there was Liam Bontoft - GOAL

5 - 1.

2nd Half

The half started well for the Tigers. Some good pressure ,but then, once again, they got caught on the break. Scawby played the ball across the goal. The ball dropped to the floor and began to roll. I looked up , expecting our Liam to move and and reach for the ball.

Drop on the ball!

Something.

Anything.

But all he seemed to do was look.
I have to ask "What did our Liam think he was going"?. There was no real pace in the shoot, but it bobbled in. Mind you, the whole defence stood and looked too.

6 - 1

And then it got worse. Scawby played another ball across the goal. You could see Liam begin to move to intercept the cross. The only problem was there was another Tigers shirt in the way.
Liam was already moving.
The ball came off the defenders shoulder and found its' self being deflected away from our Liam, and away into the back of the net

7 - 1

After another period of Scawby pressure, with some sound goalkeeping from Liam, they scored 2 further goals in short shrift. Whatever the Tigers tried, Scawby just kept on coming.

9 - 1
Then a penalty for handball?

From where we were stood , we all thought the "offence" was outside the box. Talking to Liam after the match, his view was that the "Handball" was most certainly accidentally, but it was one of those "six of one, half a dozen of the other" sort of situation, and from what he could see the hand struck the ball just over the edge of the Penalty Box.

Their Goalie V ours.

10-1

Then, as the game came to the end, Scawby finished with a corner. The ball came in from the right hand corner post. It bounced from player to player, just to see the ball then vanish into the back of net, through the smallest of gaps, Liam diving one way and the Tigers defence "shuffling" to try and block what was obviously coming.

11 -1