9 MEN BLUES GO DOWN FIGHTING!
⚽ Result
University of Sunderland F 4
Bluestone Construction F.C 2
🏆 Competition
Wearside Combination Saturday Afternoon League Division 3
Away league match
📅 When
Saturday, 13 August 2011
📍 Venue
Downhill - Pitch A (Away)
<p style="text-align: center;">AS THE EXCITING SEASON STARTED IN THE NEW WEARSIDE COMBINATION LEAGUE AND STEVE TAKING CHARGE BY HIMSELF WITH PAUL GOING AWAY FOR THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. , STEVE KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE HARD BUT IT WENT DARK A BIT QUICK AS WE GOT TO THE CHANGING ROOMS AND TURNED OUT THERE WAS ONLY 9 LADS COMING. WE KNEW WE WERE IN FOR A TORID TIME AND A VERY LONG DAY AT THE OFFICE . WE STILL HAD A JOB TO DO AND THERE WAS NO POINT IN CRYING OVER SPILT MILK THE REST OF THE LADS HAD TO WORK . THE NINE LADS THAT WERE THERE WERE ALL GOOD PLAYERS AND HAD TO STICK TOGETHER AND BATTLE FOR EACH OTHER AND WE ALL REALLY DID FANCY OURSELVES THOU WE WERE UNDERDOGS . <p style="text-align: center;">ROSE <p style="text-align: center;">SPOORS GRAINGER STOTT(C) FORTUNE <p style="text-align: center;">K-JOHNSON <p style="text-align: center;">BIRD DOUGLAS <p style="text-align: center;">MCKENNA <p style="text-align: center;"> <p style="text-align: center;">A GREAT TIGHT PERFORMANCE AS UNIVERSITY WERN'T MAKING THE MOST OF THE EXTRA MEN THEY HAD AND ALOT OF THEIR SHOTS WERE FROM LONG RANGE AND DIDN'T TROUBLE ROSE ONCE . THE 9 LADS WERE GRAFTING WELL AS THE REF SAID TO STOTT TWO MINUTES TO HALF TIME , A FLOTTED CROSS CAME IN AND THE FORWARD BROUGHT IT DOWN AND PUT IT IN THE BOTTOM LEFT HAND CORNER. 1-0 AT HALF TIME , YOU'D OF THORT THIS WOULD OF TAKING THE STUFFING OUT OF US BUT WE KEPT GOING AND BATTLE WE DID. A BIZARE PASSBACK FROM THE UNI. DEFENDER SAW THE KEEPER PICK IT UP AND WAS QUITE COMICAL . THE REF. GAVE A INDIRECT FREE KICK EDGE OF THE 6 YARD BOX AND THE BLUES KNEW THIS HAD TO BE A GOAL . GRAINGER LAID IT OFF AS DOUGLAS SMASHED THE EQUILIZER TO BE FARE THE DEFENCE DIDN'T DEFEND IT PROPERLY 1-1. THE BLUES WERE STARTING TO LOOK TIRED AND LADS FOUND IT HARD TO GET BACK AS UNI. FINALY CLICKED ON TO PASS THE BALL ROUND US MORE THEN SHOOT FROM DISTANCE AS THEY THEY GOT THEY TOOK THE LEAD WITH AN EASY TEAM MOVE. UNI. FOUND ABIT MOTE CONFIDANCE AND GOT THEIR 3RD FOR 3-1 , BLUES BATTLED ON AS A BREAK FROM DOUGLAS SAW A GREAT BALL INTO MCKENNA AS HE TEAD UP BIRD TO PLACE THE BALL PAST THE KEEPER 3-2 . UNFORTUANTLY THE BLUES DIDNT AHVE IT IN TE TANK TO PUSH FOR ANOTHER AS SUNDERLAND KILLED THE GAME WITH ANOTHER FOR 4-2 AND THATS HOW IT STAYED . <p style="text-align: center;"> <p style="text-align: center;">GAMEPOINTERS - THE 9 MEN BATTLED BRILLANTLY , GREAT DEFENDING FOR 40 MINUTES, POOR UNIVERSITY SHOOTING FROM DISTANCE & TIRED LEGS COULDN'T GET THE EQUILIZER. <p style="text-align: center;">JOKER OF THE WEEK - UNI'S KEEPER ON THE PASSBACK GREAT TO WATCH. <p style="text-align: center;">DANGER'S OPINION - " I HONESTLY THINK IF WE ONLY HAD 10 PLAYERS WE'D OF BEAT THEM , THEY WERE A POOR SIDE WHO DIDN'T USE THE BALL ASWELL AS THEY SHOULD OF ,REVENGE ON THE CARDS WHEN WE GET THEM BACK TO SILKY WITH A FULL SQUAD -VERY HARD TO BARE". <p style="text-align: center;">GRAFT - 8/10 , PASSION -8/10 , CRAIC- 5/10.