...A rightous inflifiction of retribution manifested by an appropiate agent...personified in this case by some horrible c**t's...The Clems!
Boreham, still unhappy about their Div 1 cup semi final exit at the hands of Mayland Village were looking for six valuable points as compensation in a second successive double header. Boreham welcomed Bigland back to the squad for the first time since September and with Parkhurst and Hawthorne also on the bench, the Clems had a healthy squad for the 120 minutes of football ahead of them. Gaffa, Ad Dale continues in goal behind Stammers and T Wright at centre half with Jay Dale at leftback and Coleman on the right for the injured Chittock who battled on bravely despite his obvious discomfort for the depleted Saturday side the day before. Joughin started on the right with Gothard on the opposite wing with the well balanced central partnership of R Ince and J Wright behind Rush and Parks in attack.
Boreham were expecting a tricky game against the only side to have beaten them in over seven months, but from the first whistle to the last, the Clems were in devestating form and in complete control all over the park. Four or five good chances were squandered before the deadlock was broken midway through the first 30 minute half. Gothard found himself with half a yard in the penalty area, plenty of room for the silky wideman to swivel and shoot past the rooted keeper for a well deserved lead.
The second came soon after as good build up play left Ince to finish the job from an acute angle 10 yards out and finish he did. The skipper showed his class with a scorcher of a top bin finish with the outside of the right for 2-0 and the Clems could sense it was going to be a special day with everyone from back to front playing at the top of their game.
The two zip scoreline at the break was far less than the home side deserved, but the job was not done. Ten minutes into the second period, Mayland won a corner against the run of play and a rare defensive lapse allowed the visiters back into the game via a powerful header from 6 yards for 2-1. A lesser side may have felt the pressure with the lead halved having dominated the game for so long but We. Are. The. Clems!
Dale's boys were straight back on the front foot and Rush who was having a great game again had a shot tipped on to the bar, only for the ball to drop kindly to the goal starved Joughin who sniffed out the opportunity to end his 18 month drought and hit an unstoppable right footed screamer in to the top corner (from nearly a yard out) to restore the two goal cusion.
Boreham never looked back from that moment and it was just a matter of humiliating & demoralising the opposition before the second game. Defending superbly, working hard through the midfield and looking like scoring with every attack, it was one of the Clems' most complete performances of a fantastic season with Mayland (who lost the final that they should never have been in, earlier in the week) looking completly shellshocked.
Parks who'd had a frustrating game in front of goal finally got on the score sheet before Rush got the goal his fine foward play deserved. Late in the game, Parks, who had now found his shooting boots, hit a verocious finish from the edge of the area to complete the scoring at 6-1, as Mayland had learned a harsh lesson for angering the beast five weeks previously. Take that you bastards! With part one of the job done so comprehensively it was now all about resetting the mind at nil a piece and keeping up the intensity for the second game.
