Spent most of the morning keeping an eye on possible postponed games - little realising that our scheduled game Stags v Rushden was off!! Alerted by a text from good buddy and top photographer Dan Westwell - he ended up at Dunkirk v Ibstock Utd after his games of choice at Eastwood and Mansfield both went...
Looked at the games on offer and plumped for Blidworth W v Kirkby Town..... not a bad choice really - and it's always a pleasure to spend some time the company "Fredkirkytown"...
Hand-shakes
Daft lad tunes in to Radio Nottingham
Pulled up to the Welfare with 10 minutes to spare and as we walked towards the ground, we noticed that the old changing rooms had been demolished. Ambitious plans are in the pipeline for Blid, and removing the old building is the first stage of the planned re-development.
The diggers are in!
You gotta put the demolition material somewhere!
Surprised that there were only 30 odd present... Kirkby are flying high in the CML Supreme division at the moment and in Carl Haslam have one of the most exciting players around at this level.
No programme, no team sheet - no idea of most of the players' names..... Fred helped with the Kirkby line-up, but apart from keeper Jason Fisher, the identities of the Blidworth players will remain a mystery!!
For the first 20 minutes or so, the home team were not over-awed by their high-flying visitors and we were wondering which team was third top and which was third bottom. The home team almost took the lead on 15 when the no. 7 shirt latched onto a ball from the right and hammered it against the bar, with keeper McCormack well beaten.
Kirkby shook off their early malaise and on 29, after a corner was cleared by the home defence, they somehow allowed Nathan "Reg" Hollingworth to play the ball back into the box where CARL HASLAM was on hand to fire home left footed from 12 yards.
Carl Haslam
The white kit is not very flattering Reg!!
Seconds later, Lee Wilson tried his luck from 18 yards, and it took a great diving save by Fisher to keep the ball out of the net. McCormick was the victim of a poor, lunging challenge by the Blidworth no. 9 in the 40th minute - the Referee had a word but issued no card - this is worth a mention because the same player was sent off in the 89th minute just for telling the linesman to "f*** off"...a phrase used hundreds of times during any game...... why this occasion warranted a straight red, I have no idea. H-T 0-1
The vistors increased their lead on 50, after Lee Wilson looked to have been awarded a "soft" penalty - couldn't give him anymore than 5 or 6 on the dive-o-meter.!! Up stepped HASLAM to rifle the spot kick into the net, giving the keeper no chance.
Blidworth tried to make a game of it, but with 10 to go, Kirkby added their 3rd, effectively ending the game as a contest. As a free kick was cleared out of the home penalty area, it fell to HASLAM who controlled well before running into the box and drilling a low shot past Fisher to complete his hat-trick and take his total goals tally this season to 25.
Then came the sending off -- a straight red for foul and abusive I presume, but as the players tried to point out, none of the other players wanted this outcome.......F-T 0-3
Potty mouth / early bath!!
No programme
Raffle £1
Coffee / tea £0.60 - wet and warm is about all you can say about it - not the best....
MOM -- Kirkby's Lee Wilson ( selected by Kev)
Tuesday ( weather permitting) Carlton Town v Shepshed Dynamo
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