UNLUCKY CHAPLINS FALL SHORT!
MANAGERS PAUL AND STEVE WENT WITH SAME TEAM THAT PLAYED CHESTERS ONLY WITH ONE CHANGE JONNA CAME STRAIGHT INTO THE LINE UP FOR INJURED JAMIE HAYES AND TO SKIPPER THE TEAMTHE GAME STARTED OFF A SCRAPY GAME WITH SKIPPER MARK JOHNSON RAGING IN THE TACKLES AND WINNING MOST THE 50/50S , BIRD AND PRICE WAS AWSOME AGAIN ALL GAME WITH CLOSE LINKUP AND GRAFT . PRICEY MISSED A ONE ON ONE EARLY ON WITH THE BALL GOING PAST THE LEFT HAND POST , BUT MADE UP FOR IT WITH A LONG BALL OVER THE TOP BY ALEX WITH HIS LEFT FOOT FOR PRICE TO LATCH ON TO AND ZIPPED THE BALL HOME WITH THE BALL HITTING OFF THE CROSS BAR AND IN. CHAPLINS WERE KEEP GIVING AWAY NEEDLESS FREEKICKS ON THE EDGE OF THE BOX BUT WAS MADE TO PAY WHEN THEIR MIDFIELDER WENT TO PASS THE BALL THROUGH TO THEIR FORWARD AS CENTRE BACK ALEX SLIPPED AND HANDBALLED IT AND WAS LUCKY NOT TO BE SENT OFF THEN , THEIR MAN PUT THE BALL DOWN AND PUT IT STRAIGHT INTO THE TOP CORNER BECKHAM STYLE AS KEEPER KIERON WAS PLANTED. CHAPLINS WERE PLAYING THE BETTER FOOTBALL ALL OUT THROUGHT THE FIRST HALF WITH JOHNSON AND STOTT RUNNING THE SHOW IN THE MIDDLE AND SOME GOOD LINKUP PLAY DOWN THE RIGHT WITH WES AND SPOORS. JUST BEFORE THE HALFTIME WHISTLE WENT WES PUT A PINPOINT BALL IN TO THE BOX FOR BIRD TO HEADER FOR THEIR KEEPER TO PALM IT AWAY . 1-1 @ HALFTIME. THE LADS WERE SHOWING GOOD TEAM SPIRIT AND WERE THRIVING TO GET A RESULT AND WERE THE BETTER TEAM . CHAPLINS WERE KICKING UP THE BANK 2ND HALF AND GOT A LIFT EARLY IN THE HALF WHEN PAUL VAUDREY GAVE THE BALL TO GRAINGER AS HE GOT AT THEIR RIGHT BACK AND PUT IN A GOOD LEFT FOOT CROSS STRAIGHT ONTO PRICE'S HEAD TO PUT CHAPLINS 2-1 IN FRONT AND A BRACE FOR PRICE . LADS WERE LOOKING GOOD TO KILL THE GAME OFF WHEN BIRDMAN CAME CLOSE TO BREAKING HIS DUCK WITH A RIGHT FOOT STRIKE FOR IT ONLY TO HIT OFF THE POST. THE WORST HAPPEND WEN ALEX GOT SENT OFF FOR MOUTHING OFF AND WAS WARNED AND LET THE TEAM DOWN AS NEWBOTTLE WMC GOT THEIR EQUILIZER , WITH THEIR RIGHT WINGER GETTING AT LEFT BACK VAUDREY FOR VAUDREY TO BRING HIM DOWN . THEY WIPPED THE FREEKICK INTO THE BOX AND IT LOOKED LIKE AN EASY CATCH FOR KIERON AS HE DROPPED THE BALL INTO THEIR PLAYER AND SCRAMBLED THE LOSE BALL HOME . EXTRA TIME WAS NEEDED. NEWBOTTLE WAS LOOKING FAVOURITES NOW WITH 11 VS 10 AND FITNESS LACKING BY US WITH TIERD LEGS . CHAPLINS NEARLY GOT INFRONT AGAIN WITH SOME GOOD PASSING FOOTBALL WITH THE BALL ENDING UP IN THE BOX FOR BIRDIE AGIAN COMING VERY CLOSER AS THE BALL BOBBLED ALONG THE GOAL LINE AND SHEARSMITH COULDNT GET THEIR IN TIME . NEWBOTTLE DID GET THE WINNER WHEN THEIR CHUBBY FORWARD SKINNED DOUGLAS TO FIRE NEWBOTTLE THROUGH TO THE SEMIS OF THE CUP , CHAPLINS EFFORT COULD NOT BE FAULTED AS THEY FLUNG EVERYTHING FORWARD LAST FEW MINUTES OF THE 15 BUT COULDN'T GET BACK INTO IT.
TALK OF THE WEEK - FEELING SORRY FOR BIRDMAN PLAYED HIS SOCKS OF BUT COULDN'T GET A GOAL , WAS MY MOTM!
GAME POINTERS - ALEX'S SENDING OFF , JONNAS AWSOME TACKLING , PRICE N BIRDS CLASS LINKUP PLAY , TEAM MORAL LOOKING BETTER EACH WEEK AND A HELL OF A GAME OF FOOTBALL TO WATCH..
