BRNESC WITH PROBABLY THEIR BEST DISPLAY OF THE SEASON STUNNED LIVERPOOL NORTH AND WON 5 3 AT THE CIVIL SERVICE CLUB
BRNESC STARTED AT A BLISTERING PACE AND ATTACKED LPOOL NORTH FROM THE OFF AND MICK OBRIEN HAD A SPSCULATIVE EFFORT FROM A FREE KICK WHICH THE KEEPER CLUTCHED TO HIS CHEST
MICK THEN FOUND FINN WHOSE CLEVER FLICK RELEASED JOE PARLE WHOSE SHOT WAS TURNED AWAY FOR A CORNER
BRNESC PRESSURE TOLD AFTER 15 MINS WHEN JOE PARLE FED ANTON WHO SWAPPED PASSES WITH SOCKS TO THE BYELINE PULLED BACK BY ANTON FOR SOCKS TO DISPATCH INTO THE CORNER OF THE NET 1 0 BRNESC
ANOTHER FINE BOUT OF INTERPASSING BETWEEN FINN AND SOCKS OPENED UP THE DEFENCE WHO HAD TO CLEAR FROM THE NEARPOST AS BRNESC WENT FOR THE SE
L NORTH THEMSELVES HAD HAD FEW OPPORTUNITIES AS BRNESC WRE CLOSING DOWN ALL OVER THE PARK AND HARRYING THE NORTH PLAYERS WHENEVER THEY HAD POSSESSION.
BRNESC PACE WAS CAUSING NORTH NO END OF PROBLEMS AND PHIL OLIVER RELEASED WHIT DOWN THE RIGHT AND HIS CROSS TO THE BACK STICK WAS MET BY FINN WHOSE HEADER WAS BLOCLED ON THE LINE BY A DEFENDER
CHRIS BELL THEN WAS AT HIS BEST TO CLEAR A DANGEROUS ATTACK AT THE NEAR POST AS NORTH TRIED TO GET BACK INTO THE GAME.HE THEN CLEARED AGAIN OVER THE BAR FROM ANOTHER ATTACK AS THE DEFENCE CAME UNDER PRESSURE .
WHIT THEN CHARGED DOWN THE NORTH KEEPERS CLEARANCE THE REBOUND FELL TO FINN BUT HIS ATTEMPT WAS NARROWLY OFF TARGET.NORTH THEN SHOT WIDE FROM THE EDGE OF BRNESCS BOX THE BALL FIZZING A YARD PAST THE POST
ANOTHER HIGH OCTANE SPEEDY BREAK BETEWEEN CHRIS BELL JOE PARLE AND SOCKS ENDED WITH SOCKS SHOT BEING TO HOT FOR THE KEEPER TO PREVENT IT MAKING IT 2 0 BRNESC AFTER 25 MINS,
MATTY THEN MADE A GOOD SAVE TO PREVENT A LPOL NORTH GOAL AND A MINUTE LATER CHRIS BELL MADE A TYPICAL BLOCK IN THE BOX TO CLEAR THE DANGER ONCE AGAIN.
FINN WAS UNLUCKY WITH A LOOPING HEADER FROM JOE STEPHENS FREEKICK THE KEEPER GATHERING UNDER THE BAR
ANOTHER SCINTILLATING HIGH SPEECD ATTACK SAW BRNES SWCORE AGAIN .WHIT RELEASED SOCKS DOWN THE RIGHT HE WAS FOULED BY A DEFENDER SHRUGGED HIM OFF SPED TO THE BYELINECROSSED PULLED THE BALL BACK FOR THE ONRUSHING JAY HULME TO CRASH IT INTO THE CORNER OFF THE NET 3 0 BRNESC
FINNS FREEKICK WAS DEFLECTED OVER THE WALL AND THE KEEPER JUST BEAT WHIT TO THE BALL TO PREVENT ANOTHER GOAL
BRNESC TORE LPOOL NORTH TO SHREDS AGAIN WHEN SOCKS AND JOE PARLE SCYTHED THROUGH THEIR DEFENCE BEFORE JOE CROSSED INTO THE BOX WHWERE FINN CRASHED HIS 18 OF THE SEASON ON YHE VOLLEY TO MAKE 4 0 BRNESCBRNESC PRESSED FOR MORE AND BOTH JOES AND FINN WERE NARROWLY WIDE WITH HEADERS AS THE HALF TIME WHISTLE WAS IMMINENT,4 0 HALF TIME
BRNESC WERE WELL WORTH THE 4 0 LEAD THEY HAD TORMENTED THE LPOOL NORTH REARGURD WITH THEIR PACE AND GUILE AND HAD WORKED LIKE TROJANS ALL OVER THE PITCH HAD DENIED NORTH ANY WAY BACK INTO THE GAME WITH STRONG RESOLUTE DEFENDING AND HAD PICKED OFF THEIR OPPONENTS AS THEY TRIED TO GET A FOOTHOLD IN THE GAME.
BRNESCED WNT STRAIGHT ONTO THE ATTACK AT THE START OF THE SECOND HALF WHEN JOE STAPHENS FORCED THE KEEPER TO SAVE AT THE FOOT OF THE POST,
AS EXPECTED BRNESC CAME UNDER STRONG PREESURE FROM LPOOL NORTH AND THE REDUCED THE DEFICT IN THE 50 MIN FROM A FREEKICK INTO THE CORNER 4 1
THEY NEARLY SCORED AGAIN FROM A CORNER WITH A HEADER WHICH STRUCK THE BAR WITH MATTY HELPLESS
IT WAS BACK TO THE WALLS STUF AS BRNESC CAME UNDER SEVERE PRESSURE AND THE GAME WAS PLAYED IN BRNESC HALF THE STRONG WIND MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO CLEAR THER LINES PROPERLY AND THEY WERE STARTING TO UNRAVEL ALL THE GOOD WORK IN THR FIRST HALF SEEMED TO BE SLIPPING AWAY UNDER THE ONSLAUGHT
GRADUALLY BRNESC THOUGH STILL UNDER PRESSURE STARTED TO GET THEIR FOOT ON THE BALL AND PUSH LNORTH BACK
ON THE HOUR MICK OBRIEN WAS ADJUDGED TO HAVE HANDLED THE BALL AND FROM THE PEN LPOOL NORTH MADE IT 4 2
IT WAS ALL HANDS TO THE PUMPS AS BRNESC REPULSED WAVE AFTER WAVE OFF LONG BALL ATTACKS BY NORTH BUT WRE STARTING TO PUT TOGETHER ATTACKS OF THEIR OWN WITH JOE PARLE PROMINENT WITH HIS SPEED AND CLOSE CONTROL CAUSING NO END OF PROBLEMS TO THE NORTH DEFENCE
10 MINS FROM THE END BRNESC RELIEVED THE PRESSURE WHEN FINN HEADWAY INTO THE BOX WAS STOPPED BY A PULL ON HIS SHIRT AND A TRIP BY THE CENTRE BACK JOE PARLE DONE THE USUAL WITH THE KICK SENDING THE KEEPER THE WRONG WAY 5 3 BRNESC
BRNESC WRE NOW PLAYING SOMEHERE NEAR TO THEIR FIRST HALF PERFORMANCE AS THE GOAL GALVINISED THEM AND DEFLATED THEIR OPPONENTS AND EVEN THOUGH NORTH SCORED WITH A HEADER IN THE LAST MINUTE BRNESC EMERGED WORTHY WINNERS 5 3.
IT HAD BEEN A BRILLIANT DISPLAY PARICULARILY THE FIRST HALF WHEN THEY RIPPED NORTH TO SHREDS WITH THE SPEED OF THEIR ATTACKSAND IN THE SECOND HALF A STRONG DISPLAY OF RESOLUTE DEFENDING ,WITH A FEW MINUTES OF PANICK ADMITTEDLY ,SAW THEM CLINCH A MEMORABLE RESULT AGAINST HIGH FLYING OPPONENTS ,I WAS TEMTED TO GIVE THE TEAM THE MOM BUT IN THE END I GAVE IT TO JOE PARLE IN THE SECOND HALF WHEN OTHERS WERE NOT GETTING THEIR FOOT ON THE BALL HE CONTINUED TO GET THE BALL DOWN AND ATTEMPT TON THE GROUND AND HE JUST SHADES IT FROM LOADS OF OTHER CANDIDATES WHO CAN CONSIDER THEMSELVES UNLUCKY NOT TO RECEVE THE ACCOLADE
