Kimberley Town 4-4 Southwell City

Thursday 11th March 2010 -- CML Supreme Division

Third game in three days -- Mrs. Kev will be looking at serving divorce papers at this rate, and I will soon be experiencing brain meltdown keeping this blog up to date...!!

Another game where most people are known to each other -- the list included Rob Hornby, Richard Lane, Danny Staley, Simon Matters, Neil Smith, Brian Dennett and "the tall lad", who advised us his name is Chris, but he likes "the tall lad" nickname, so hopefully it will stick.....

After the first 10 minutes in which there was little football played, we began to wonder if my prediction of a goal-fest was somewhat optimistic. Kimberley had a few new faces on show and they took a while settling down, but the home team did take the lead on 15 when evergreen Roy Sharpe played in STEVE RUDGE who beat off a challenge before drilling the ball past the Southwell keeper.

Another spell of huffing and puffing followed, but then on the half-hour, both teams switched off defensively - first Town's Marvin Wilson let the ball go past him, allowing ADAM MEAKIN to hook the ball over keeper Lycett, then straight from the restart, City won a corner that the home defence failed to clear leaving a tap in at the near post. Kimberley were soon level though, this time ROY SHARPE hammering home after being played in by Rudge. H-T 2-2

The half-time bevvies were served up by Kimbo Chairman Graeme Critchley - and very nice they were too.

Seemed a very short interval, but we were out in the chill again in time to see Kimberley take the lead on 47 through RYAN BOWEN - a fierce drive from 12 yards that flew past the City keeper. ANTHONY "FRENCHIE" CANDELLA increased the home teams lead soon after, crashing the ball into the roof of the net after some decent approach play and more poor defending. Kimberley's lead was reduced from the kick off when the home defence left a Southwell player unmarked on the edge of the box and he hammered the ball arrow straight past Lycett.

The game went into a bit of a lull and after having seen 6 goals in a mad 25 minute spell, we had to wait until the 78th minute for the next goal - it fell to Southwell who took advantage of yet more slack defending to make it 4-4. This ended the scoring, but with just five minutes to go, the Referee decided to dish out bookings to a couple of the Town players when a quiet word would have been sufficient. He'd had a decent game up until then - but like Mr. Jackson last night, Mr. Hunt seemed to lose the plot late on..... F-T 4-4

Admission £3

Attendance : H/C 32

Tea/coffee : £0.75 - a bit expensive, but hot, hot, hot!!

Saturday : Stags v Tamworth.........