BRNESC WENT OUT THE CUP LOSING TO PREMIER LEADERS EAST VILLA AT A SUN BAKED HERON ECCLES BUT PLAYED WELL AND WERE UNLUCKY NOT GO TO EXTRA TIME
ROBBIE WHITE SHUFFLED HIS DEPLETED SQUAD FOR THIS TESTING ENCOUNTER AND MIDFIELDER JOE STEPHENS LINED UP AT CENTRE BACK IN A BOLD MOVE TO PROVIDE PACE AT THE BACK
ON A HOT NIGHT MORE LIKE JULY THAN MARCH BRNESC ATTACKED FROM THE START AND PLAY WAS END TO END FOR THE FIRST 6 MINSTHEN BRNESC STUNNED VILLA BY TAKING THE LEAD ,BRNESC ATTACKED DOWN THE LEFT AND JOE PARLE SPED INTO THE AREA AND WAS CRUDELY CHOPPED DOWN BY THE CENTRE BACK PENALTY !!!
JOE PICKED HIMSELF UP DUSTED HIMSELF DOWN AND SLOTTED THE PEN WITH HIS USUAL APLOMB LEAVING THE KEEPER HELPLESS 1 0 TO BRNESC
VILLA WERE STUNG INTO ACTION AND THE DEFENCE CAME UNDER SEVERE PRESSURE AS THEY PRESSED FOR A GOAL AND IN THE 15 MIN THEY SCORED ANTON MCDONNEL WAS CAUGHT UPFIELD AND VILLA ATTACKED DOWN THE FLANK AND THE WINGER FIRED UNDER MATTY TIO MAKE IT 1 1
MATTY NAGLE THEN BLOCKED A SHOT AS VILLA STEPPED UP THE PRESSURE BRNESC WERE MORE THAN HOLDINFG THEIR OWN AND WERE STRETCHING VILLA WITH THEIR SPEEDY COUNTER ATTACKS AND FROM ONE DAVE WHITNEY WAS PLAYED THROUGH AND SPED ON GOAL ,HE HAD TWO OPTIONS FIRE PAST THE ADVANCIBG KEEPER OR TAKE IT AROUND HIM HE CHOSE THE LATTER AND WAS CLIPPED BY THE KEEPER AS HE WENT ROUND HIM PENALTY!!!
THE ONLY PERSON INVOLVED IN THE GAME WHO THOUGHT IT WAS NOT A PEN WAS THE INEPT REFEREE WHO SAID PLAY ON .
BRNESC CONTINUED TO DEFEND WELL WITH THE TWO CENTRE BACKS FORMING A FORMIDABLE BARRIER WITH JOE STEPHENS HAVING A FINE GAME IN A ROLE HE HAD NEVER PLAYED BEFORE WITH THE WHOLE TEAM WORKING LIKE TROJANS AND NEVER LETTING VILLA SETTLE INTO ANY RYTHM WHILST PLAYING SOME FINEATTACKING FOOTBALL TO STRETCH VILLA REPEATEDLY ALL OVER THE PARK
A WELL WOKED MOVE IN THE 30MIN ENDED WITH DANNY KEARNEY SHOOTING JUST WIDE
IN THE 36 MIN ANOTHER CONTROVERSIAL DECISION OCCURRED WHEN A GOAL BOUND SHOT WAS CLEARLY BLOCKED BY A VILLA HAND PENALTY!!! ONCE AGAIN THE MYOPIC OFFICIAL WAS THE ONLY PERSON WHO DIDNT THINK IT WAS A PENALTY
ANTON NADE A GOAL SAVING TACKLE IN THE BOX AS VILLA THREATENED TO SCOREAND THEY NEARLY SCORED WHEN A HEADER FROM THE VILLA FORWARD WENT NARROWLY WIDE OF THE FAR POST
BRNESC FINISHED THE HALF WITH A FLOURISH WHEN JOE PARLE PLAYED IN DANNY WHOSE FINE SHOT WAS BLOCKED IN THE SIX YARD BOX AND SPUN OUT FOR A CORNER .A MINUTE LATER JOE PARLE DIAGONAL BALL WAS MET AT THE FAR POST BY WHITAND HIS VOLLEY WENT NARROWLY OVER THE BAR 1 1 HALF TIME
BRNESC STARTED SLOWLY AND ALLOWED VILLA TO GET CONTROL OF THE GAME FOR THE FIRST TIME AND IN THE 50 MIN THEY PAID THE PENALTY WHEN THE BALL WAS GIVEN AWAY CHEAPLY AND THE RESULTING MOVE SAW MATTY PARRY THE RESULTING SHOT WHICH WAS PUT INTO THE NET FROM THE REBOUND 2 1 VILLA
WORSE WAS TO COME ANOTHER SHODDY PASSAGE OF PLAY ENDED WITH A SHOT FROM DISTANCE TAKING A HUGE DELECTION AND LOOPING OVER THE STRANDED MATTY 3 1 VILLA
THE GAME HAD TURNED ON ITS HEAD IN THE FIRST TEN MINUTES OF THE SECOND HALF BUT TO THEIR CREDIT BRNESC RALLIED AND STARTED TO TAKE THE GAME TO VILLA
THE NEXT 15 MINS THE GAME WAS END TO END AS THE PLAY WAS STETCHED OUT AND JOE PARLE HAD A GLORIOUS CHANCE TO REDUCE THE DEFICIT WHEN A SHOT FROM THE EDGE OF THE BOX BY JOE ASPINALL DELECTED TO HIM 6 YARDS OUT BUT HE SCUFFED THE SHOT INTO THE GRATEFUL KEEPERS ARMS
THEIR WAS CHANCES AT BOTH ENDS WITH BRNESC BRINGING RITCHIE CAMPBELL ON AND GOING TO 3 UP FRONT WHICH LEFT THEM LIGHT IN OTHER AREAS AND A FINE BLOCK BY JAY HULME IN THE BRNESCPENALTY AREA SPARKED A COUNTER ATTACK WHICH ENDED IN A CORNER TO BRNESC
BRNESC THEN PUT TOGETHER A BRILLIANT MOVE INVOLVING JOE ASP ,DANNY ,SUB JAY ONEILLWHO PLAYED A FINE CROSS TO THE BACK POST WHERE FINN WAS NARROWLY OFF TARGET WITH HIS HEADER
ANOTHER SEARCHING CROSS FROM DANNY ,SET UP BY ANTON WAS HEADED AWAY FOR A CORNERAS BRNESC WENT FOR BROKE
AS THE GAME DREW TO A CLOSE JOE PARLE WITH A TRADEMARK DRIBBLE WENT ROUND THE KEEPER BUT COULD ONLY HIT THE POST FROM A ACUTE ANGLE,
AT THE END IT WAS 3 1 TO EAST VILLA BUT BRNESC HAD PUSHED THEM
ALL THE WAY WITH EVERY MANJACK PUUTING IN A SHIFT AND JOE STEPHENS PLAYING BRILLIANTLY IN THE CENTRE OF DEFENCE AND HAD DONE THEMSELVES AND THE CLUB PROUD.
IF THE WRETCHED OFFICIAL HAD DONE HIS JOB IT COULD HAVE WEJJ BEEN 3 1 TO BRNESC AT HALF TIME AND WHAT A DIFFERENT SECOND HALF COULD HAVE UNFOLDED WITH THAT SCORELINE TO DEFEND!!!
THEIR WERE 3 STONEWALL PENS FOR BRNESC AND HE ONLY GAVE ONE OF THEM!!!HE SHOULD STICK TO GARDENING ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON!!!
WHICH ENDED WITH A CORNER TO BRNESC
