An early season opportunity for revenge against our old friends from Ettington, last seen meekly celebrating their ill gotten gains at Racing Club this time last year. More importantly it was a chance to progress to the second round of another cup competition
With Macca having finished his short term contract we welcomed back Nathan Carro into goal against the side that he scored against in the previously mentioned final. You might of heard him talk about it at some point over the last 12 months! Whitey came into the back three at the expense of Bez and Jordan went back up top with Malc back to assistant referee duties
Bishops took the lead in record time, quoted at barely believable 8 seconds by Ref Tranter. The ball was rolled back to Benno from kick off, he moved forward, slid the ball down the side of the centre half and Jordan rounded the keeper and tucked into an empty net from a tight angle.0-1! Later experiments in the Greaves Club proved that 8 seconds was possible and this will take some beating, but we'll have a go. Bishops dominated the game and played against 10 men for a while as Brian from Ettington injured himself in an innocent challenge by Adam Trinder. Despite his visible discomfort on the side of the pitch Ettington waited a good 10 minutes before bringing a sub on. Somehow they created a chance which the sub screwed wide from close range after a mix up between Whitey and Adam Trinder. After 20 minutes though Benno drove into the box, past a couple of defenders and pulled it back for Matt Trinder to tap in from a yard 0-2! and at that point the screw was turned and Bishops were playing sexy football, really sexy, like all your sordid dwarf fantasies rolled into one and covered in chocolate..hmmmm yummy! The third was the pick of the bunch when Trinder turned one of the defensive tugboats with great skill and drove a crisp effort across the keeper for 0-3!. Between goals 3 & 4 we could have had a few more with one particular move of at least 6 passes ending back with Adam Trinder who couldn't work the keeper at the end of a really good move. Tom Stanley had two impressive individual efforts come close and their keeper was under constant pressure. The fourth came on the stroke of half time when the veteran Faulkner found Jordan with a searching through ball and the little mans shinpad lofted it over the keeper for 0-4! HALF TIME
Seb Cox came on for Faulkner at half time and after a shaky first 5 minutes he started working well with the French's in the middle of the park. Ettington adopted a more aggressive attitude for the second half and started to hoof players with only a little more accuracy then they were finding with the ball. Benno's joy at megging one of the Etty players with a call of "megs" was followed immediately by the world's shittest footballer and 80's throwback steaming in with a grunt of "legs" and lunging wildly. The mulleted muppett then came out with " We can all play those games!!" This man's only previous contribution to the game was kneeing it back to his own keeper from 40 yards when trying to hook it over his head I think, but good to see that he views a skilful nutmeg in the same category. Inevitably the next ten minutes was based solely around baiting and goading him before Trinder got his hat trick with another individual goal 0-5! Bez came on for Carro at the back, allowing our self appointed psycho the opportunity to take the flag and wind up the Ettington fans and Malc replaced the impressive Tom Stanley. Not much happened in the last 15 minutes or so, but they nearly grabbed a consolation on a couple of occassions and Malc could of done better when heading wide, although the lino had got his flag up anyway.
Good facilities at Ettington's new fangled community centre and a good spread at the White Horse mean we'll look forward to going back there for the league fixture.
Goals: Jordan Cox (2) and in the words of Bear " Trinder, Trinder, Trinder...."
