BIFC continued their fine start to the new season with a stunning dismantling of old foes Whitnash on their own patch. Due to the vagaries of Post Office laundry schedules the boys were resplendent in the new gold kit that the Saturday reserves will eventually wear.
With Scott and Whitey joining the "Unavailable" list on the morning of the game, the back four had two new members with Beach slipping in at full back and Joey playing his Saturday role at centre half. Becuase of these late changes Goode started up top with Matt Trinder playing out wide to keep his equine flu from spreading amongst his stable mates.
As per last week it took us quarter of an hour to get going, even though Cooper's energetic. (if somehwat bewildering) warm up had put the lads through their paces. The grass was too long and Benno in particular looked to be having trouble getting it out of his feet. On one occasion he was robbed 30 yards out and the Whitnash midfielder burst through only to put wide when he really should of hit the target. With tackles flying in all over the shop and the ref being generally inept, this wasn't one for the faint hearted. A long ball by Nath caused confusion at the back, and with Tino stranded Matt Trinder hooked the ball goalwards and Goode followed up to tap in for his first Sunday league goal in several seasons, 1-0! After that Bishops started turning the screw, and when Trinders low cross found Jordan there was only one thing on his mind. With a swivel of his tiny girl hips, the little pygmy boy drove home with his left foot from the edge of the box, 2-0! Whitnash had chances to pull one back, most notably when Bones had a tap in but somehow contrived to thrash it over the bar from a couple of yards. At the other end Boycott waltzed through towards goal shortly after and for the second week running was denied a certain penalty, shortly followed by a booking for diving from ref. Goode was the clattered by the blonde bombshell in Whitnash's back four and had to be replaced by Baby Spice Habel. Things got better for the Captain Boycott and Bishops though when his whipped free kick found brother Joey for an easy header and 3-0! The game had hardly restarted when the ref blew for half time!
Once the first ten minutes of the second half had been safely negotiated this game was beyond doubt. The BIFC back four was defending brilliantly and Nathan was back to his commanding best, making goalkeeping look easy. Aaron was giving Bones the run around and was unluck when his half volley flashed just wide. Thefourth came when Benno's free kick or Jordy's throw ( memory lapse..) was again headed home by Joey for more "A. A" celebrations and 4-0! was a fair reflection of the game. Maltby returned from injury and stag to replace Caz at left back and Malcy came on for Trinder who was flagging with illness. Number five came when Nath's long ball evaded the defence via a flicked header and Jordan raced on to expertly lob the keeper for 5-0! Joey had chance for a hat trick but his reaction was too slow and could only deflect the ball over the bar.
So two from two, some brilliant individual performances and another clean shet
All round an excellent team performance only blighted by a series of bookings for dissent, see last week's report, it's not on! Please don't let us become known by players and refs as a team of knob heads! There's plenty of other teams that already fit that bill...
