An imperious display from Stu Conibear saw BoC FC unlucky to escape the Battersea Park arena with just a point. A physically aggressive display from Stu saw him dominate the opposition strikers and even when their chunkier midfielder Bodhi was pushed up top he was left rolling around on the ground screaming for mercy while Stu stood over him with a look that basically said - "who's the daddy". Eerily prescient given that 19 hours later he was towering over the safely arrived Alexia Mya Conibear (7lb 1oz) with the same sentiment if not the aggressive facial expressions. If the new domestic circumstances do mean that he misses a few weeks he certainly went out on a high.
It was a tight game of few chances. BoC FC ranks were bolstered with our own solid midfielder Neil (ringer 1) and Chris Duffy (ringer 2) turning out for us. Some early BoC pressure and a few corners but no chances other than a few crosses flashing across the face of the goal at high pace with their pacey injury causing CB Tyrone not looking comfortable with crosses as he guarded the net for the first quarter. Neil (tank) guarded the defence very well while Flip pushed on and made a menace of himself around the box. One bit of pressing saw ASJS give the ball away in their own half and Sheedy was soon marauding forward before a neat cross low along the ground around the penalty spot to Latchford. It was an easy chance but one that basically screamed - you must score this - normally followed by leaning back and smashing it 20m over the bar. With a pained grimmace of concentration Latchford planted a firm but safe sidefoot past the out of position ASJS keeper.
With Duncan's injury proving worse than Hoofs there was a switch in goal (and big thanks for both for coming along when we thought we only had 10 and playing in goal despite being walking wounded). Jack went up top and Latchford replaced Molby at centre back. With much of the play compressed into the midfield it was a pretty scrappy second half. BoC had a couple of half chances to kill the game - one narrowly wide from Flip after some great team play down the left. The defence - well marshalled by a vocal Charlie George and Stu - didn't look too threatened but then Tris's favourite brawl buddy from ASJS (nothern lad who likes the Hollywood balls) tried an audacious shot from 30 yards out. It dipped at the last moment right into the top corner. This led to a few double takes as it nestled in the back of the net since most of us, including keeper Hoof, thought it was heading comfortably wide (not that there was anything he could have done about it).
1:1 it finished - probably a fair reflection although we probably shaded it. Congratulations to the Conibears and also to BBZ on the arrival of Elias William Bolch (7lb 7oz) on Wednesday who sadly didn't have the decency to wait until Dad played his footie match.
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