DOWN AT CHAMPION SOCCER THIS WEEK WEATHER CONDITIONS MADE THIS GAME A DIFFICULT MATCH. MENAN HAD THE BETTER OF THE FIRST HALF CREATING NUMEROUS CHANCES BUT FAILED TO TAKE A DESERVED HALF TIME LEAD.
IT WAS THE RETURN OF MARTIN CLARKE ALL BE IT FOR JUST ONE GAME, BUT HE PROVED TO BE NOTHING BUT AN ANNOYANCE FROM FIRST KICK TO LAST. WARMING UP IN FRONT OF THE KEEPER WHEN TRYING TO CONCENTRATE ON THE GAME AHEAD, CONSTANTLY IN THE GAFFER'S EAR IN FORMING ME OF ILL DISCIPLINE ON THE PITCH, NOTEING ME OF INJURIES TO PLAYERS IN HIS DESPERATION TO RETURN TO THE FOLD.
HOW SINGLETON IN GOAL ONLY CONCEDED ONE GOAL IS A CREDIT TO THE MANS CONCENTRATION.
IT MUST BE NOTED CLARKE CAME ON AND LOOKED ASSURED ON THE BALL SECOND HALF AND WAS UNLUCKY NOT TO MAKE IT A FAIRY TALE RETURN IN A LOVELY MOVE BETWEEN DURHAM AND CLARKE.
BACK TO THE FIRST HALF AND MENAN WERE PLAYING LOVELY FLOWING FOOTBALL SINGLETON AND VINE WERE SOLID AT THE BACK AND IT SEEMED ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE MENAN WENT ONE NIL UP. IT WAS A NIGHT WERE DO CREP'S KEEPER WAS IN PHENOMINAL FORM, IT SEEMED NO MATTER HOW WELL MENAN PLAYERS STRUCK THEIR EFFORTS ON GOAL HE WAS NOT GOING TO CONCEDE.
ALOT OF PLAYER BATTLES WERE STARTING TO DEVELOP ON THE PITCH AND THIS FIXTURE HAS BROUGHT MENAN SO MANY FRUSTRATIONS OVER THE YEARS WHEN PLAYER FOR PLAYER WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE BETTER SIDE.
THEY HAVE A PLAYER UP FRONT WHO WEARS PINK BOOTS NOW TO ME YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO EVEN OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND DISH OUT CRITICISM TO THE OPPOSITION WHEN YOU HAVE THESE ON YOUR FEET. IF UR MESSI THEN YEAH ILL TAKE IT ON THE CHIN AND SAY FAIR PLAY, BUT A STRIKER FOR DO CREP , TUESDAY NIGHT 8PM KICK OFF I DONT THINK SO IT WAS GREAT TO SEE BOTH THE VINES SMASH THIS PLAYER FOR ALL HE IS WORTH WITH TWO CRUNCHING BUT I MUST SAY FAIR TACKLES. WHAT A DELIGHT TO KNOW HE DID NOT PUT THE BALL PAST SINGLETON IN NET.
IT ALSO MUST BE NOTED PWOLEY WILL GO DOWN IN HISTROY FOR THE FIGHT AND DETERMINATION THIS MAN GIVES THE CLUB NOT ONLY DOES HE ADD QUALITY TO THE SQUAD TONIGHT THE MAN PICKED ON THEIR FATTEST , BIGGEST MAN HE COULD DURING A CORNER FOR DO CREP. SPEAKING TO POWLEY AFTER THE GAME HE SAID HE TOOK AN ELBOW FROM HIM SO ILL BACK HIM ALL THE WAY TO FA HEADQUATERS IN PROVING THIS MAN IS INNOCENT IN ANY SITUATION FOR INTER.
IT WAS ONE OF THEM GAMES WHEN YOU KNEW IF MENAN DID NOT TAKE A CHANCE SOONER RATHER THAN LATER THEY WOULD GET HIT ON THE BREAK AND MENAN LOST THE BALL IN MIDFIELD AND THE COUNTER WAS ON UNFORTUNATELY THERE WAS NOT MUCH P.SINGLETON COULD DO TO STOP DO CREP IN THEIR TRACKS AND THE ONRUSHING A.SINGLETON WAS BEATEN WITH A SHOT LOW INTO THE FAR CORNER.
BUT CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN TO ALL MENAN PLAYERS TONIGHT IN THE PAST HEADS WOULD OF DROPPED BUT NOT IN THIS FIXTURE NATHAN VINE PRODUCED A RUGBY STYLE SCRUM DOWN DRIVE TO MAKE HIS WAY THROUGH TO DO CREP GOALS AND STILL MANAGED TO COMPOSE HIM SELF TO SECURE MENAN A VITAL POINT.
IT WAS A NERVOUS FINISH FOR MENAN DO CREP HAD A NUMBER OF CORNERS, AND ALMOST SNATCHED THE WIN AT THE END BUT THE SIX LAYERS A.SINGLETON HAD ON IN GOAL MANAGED TO DEFLECT THE BALL AROUND THE POST. STILL NOT SURE WHAT PART OF THE BODY IT HIT BUT WHO CARES.
MENAN MOVED UP TO THIRD PLACE IN THE TABLE BEFORE LEAGUE ACTION TAKES A BREAK AND MENAN RETURN TO THREE VITAL CUP FIXTURES. ALL WINNABLE GAMES.
CREDIT MUST GO TO ALL MENAN MEMBERS WHO TURNED UP TO THE SOCIAL THIS FRIDAY, TEAM SPIRIT WAS HIGH, VODKAS WERE FLOWING, POWLEY STILL MANAGED TO TAKE HIS ANGER OUT ON A BOTTLE OF CORONA IN FRUSTRATION AT THE BOUNCER TELLING HIM TO DRINK UP, I THINK POWLEY WAS WITHIN HIS RIGHTS AFTER SPLASHING OUT £3.50 ON ENTRY.
NATHAN VINE WAS DESPERATE FOR A KEBAB THE MAN MUST OF ASKED 15 TIMES IF ANYONE WANTED TO JOIN HIM, SHAME REALLY NO ONE WAS UP TO IT BUT I THINK THIS DISCIPLINED DECISION BY ALL MENAN MEMBERS AS TOUGH AS IT WAS HELPED SECURED N.VINE A MUCH DESERVED MAN OF THE MATCH AWARD THIS WEEK.
