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18th Nov: Hinton St George 3 Nailsea 0
Nailsea's cup exploits were ended in a 3-0 defeat at Hinton St George.
An interesting journey deep into Somerset saw Nailsea try and keep their dreams of FA Cup glory alive. Alas, a poor performance resulted in a 3-0 defeat and all dreams put on hold until next season.
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Hinton St George put in a decent performance winning everything in the air, having the lions share of posession and most of the shots on goal. However, a combination of a few dirty players, some cheating by their forward and disrespect from the subs/fans on the side of the pitch (laughing everytime we touched the ball) marred what should have been a good cup match.
Nailsea improved in the second half but couldn't string enough good passes together to really threaten the Hinton St George defence.
The only highlights for Nailsea were:
- A good performance by the back four and goalie, who between them kept the score down.
- A great header by mikenailsea that was cleared off the line.
- A cracking 25-yard shot by Adam not too far off the top corner.
- An encouraging substsitutes performance from Will.
- Everyone tried hard and has now got a real taste for the tournament.
Roll on next years Cup!
Line-up: Moss, Woodward, Britton, Wood, Rowe, Mark, Lansdown, Hass(Smith), Feargo(Maggs), Hall(Bradbury). Unused Subs: Andrews, Provis.
Goals: none.
Report by Mike Provis
The following is an excert from John Britton's diary entry for the day:
Things about todays game.
1. The pitch was on one hell of a slope, with loads of divits and covered in grass cuttings.
2. We had a lady ref .
3. Hinton St George had a few dirty players.
4. Our captain got kicked in the head when heading a ball at head height, he had a bloody nose, ref admitted she saw but took no action.
5. We went 1-0 down when mikenailsea, rose like a salmon and placed a shinned-volley past our keeper. At the time H st G had one striker in the box surrounded by three defenders, at least mike got to the ball first.
6. We went 2-0 after the ref gave a corner when one of their players put the ball out for a goal kick, from the resultant corner their no 10 handled the ball into the net. Ref said she didn't see it.
7. Upon remarking to their no 10 that he hadn't acted very sporting-like he threatened to break my jaw.
8. Me and Mike Wood proceeded to smack their No 10 around the pitch and up in the air at every opportunity for the rest of the game, not one foul was conceded by us.
9. At the beginning of the second half I was deliberately elbowed in the eye, it still hurts.
10. We upped our game and battled for everything, their keeper made some good saves, we had a header cleared off the line and I hit a long range effort quite a bit wide.
11. We went 4-3-3 for the last 20 minutes, well for 10 mins 9 of our outfield players did, not sure what Pete was doing on the right.
12. In search of a goal we got caught on the break with a few mins to go and fell 3-0 behind.
13. Game ended.
14. We changed and showered in facilties nearly as bad as welstocks.
15. We went to the pub - the nags head in Crewkerne.
16. I was voted man of the match by my team mates (woo hoo to me).
17. Came home and had a chinese.
18. Discovered that i have left my lucky pants in the H st G changing room.
19. Shed a tear and had a minutes silence for said lucky pants. They had been with me years and years.
20. Wrote this.
We didn't play particularly well in the first half but much better in the second half, we battled well and didn't deserve to lose 3-0, 1-0 would have been about right.
Roll on next week away to freedom.
Lucky Pants RIP 1999-2006.
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