Home league match played on 03 December 2011.
Kicked off at 2:00 PM

A MUCH DEPLETED BRNESC TEAM EARNED A POINT WITH A GUTSY COMMITTED DISPLAY AGAINST 3RD IN THE TABLE LEYFIELD AT A WIND BUFFETED MELLING ROAD.

BRNESC SHORN OF 6 PLAYERS WERE UNDER PRESSURE FROM THE START AS THEY STRUGGLEDV TO GET INTO THE GAME AND THE DEFENCE AND MIDFIELD WERE PERFORMING HEROICS KEEPING LEYFIELD AT BAY.IN THE 10 MINUTE PAUL FINNAN PUT A DIVING HEADER WIDE FROM A JOE STEPHENS CROSS BRNESC FIRST ATTEMPT ON GOAL.

PAUL FINNAN THEN PLAYED NICKY CLARKE IN THE KEEPER BLOCKED HIS ATTEMPT AND JOE PARLE WAS WIDE WITH THE FOLLOW UP,AT THE OTHER END BRNESC WERE AT FULL STRETCH TO PREVENT LEYFIELD SCORING WITH VITAL INTERCEPTIONS AND BLOCKS BY THE OVERWORKED KEEPER AND DEFENCE KEEPING IT 0 0,

JOE STEPHENS THEN NETTED AFTER A MOVE INVOLVING PAUL FINNAN AND JOE PARLE BUT WAS JUST OFFSIDE.PAUL FINNAN THEN PLAYED A FINE BALL DOWN THE LINE TO JAY HULME WHO PICKED OUT THE ONRUSHING JOE PARLE WHOSE GOALBOUND EFFORTWAS BLOCKED BY A DEFENDER,JOE PARLEV WAS THEN INCHES AWAY FROM A CROSS AT THE BACK POST AS BRNESC STARTED TO MAKE INROADS INTO LEYFIELD DEFENCE

BRNESC THEN SUFFERED A INJURY BLOW WHEN JAMIE ASPINWALL  LIMPED OFF ,WITH A REOCCURRENCE OF HIS LONG STANDING KNEE INJURY,TO BE REPLACED BY DAVE DEMPSEY.WHOSE FIRST TOUCH WAS TO HEAD CLEAR OFF THE LINE,A REMARKABLE SAVE FROM MATTY NAGLE PREVENTED LEYFIELD SCORING

,MATTY PARRIED A POINT BLANK EFFORTWHICH HIT PAUL TRIGGS LOOPED IN THE AIR HEADINGFOR THE GOAL MATTY CLAWED THE BALL ONTO THE POST AND IT REBOUNDED INTO HIS ARMS,MATTY THEN MADE ANOTHER OUTSTANDING SAVE WHEN PAUL TRIGGS STOPPED THE FORWARD WITH A STRONG TACKLE ON THE EDGE OF THE BOX AND MATTY SPED FROM HIS LINE AND SMOTHERED THE BALL AT THE ONRUSHING FORWARDS FEET HAS THE BALL SQUIRTED INTO THE PENALTY BOX

 AT HALF TIME IT WAS 0 0 BRNESC HAD SURVIVED SOME STRONG PRESSURE HAD DEFENDED STOUTLY AND YES HAD HAD NEEDED LADY LUCK TO HELP THEM OUT AT TIMES BUT HAD A FEW GOAL SCORING OPPORTUNITIES OF THERE OWN

AFGTER 5 MINS OF THE SECOND HALF A HUGE KICK FROM MATTY NAGLE FOUND ITS WAY THROGH TO PAUK FINNAN WHO SHOT NARROWLY WIDE

MATTY NAGLE THEN PRODUCED ANOTHER BRILLIANT SAVE TOUCHING A FIERCE VOLLEY ROUND THE POST AND THEN 5 MINUTES LATER TOUCHING A SHOT OVER THE BAR FOR A CORNER

BRNESC WERE NOW UNDER CONSTANT PRESSURE AND LOTS OFF THE GAME WAS BEING PLAYED AROUND THE BRNESC PENALTY BOX WITH CROSS AFTER CROSS RAINING DOWN ON THE BELEAGURED DEFENCE.

MATTY NAGLE PRODUCED TWO MORE PONT BLANK SAVES AS LEYFOELD CRANKED UP THE PRESSURE AND JAY HULME AND MICK OBRIEN BOTH BLOCKED GOAL BOUND EFFORTS AS LEYFIELD GREW MORE AND MORE DESPERATE TO SCURE THE THREE POINTS BUT BRNESC WERE REMAINIDG STRONG AND RESILIENT IN THE FACE ALMOST CONSTANT PRESSURE

BRNESC WWENT CLOSE THEMSELVES WITH PAUL FINNAN AND JOE PARLE SHOOTING NARROWLY WIDE AS BRNESC ATTEMPTED TO CARRY THE GAME TO LEYFIELD AND STOPTHE FLOW OF ATTACKS

AT THE END IT WAS 0 0 AND BRNESC HAD A HARD EARNED POINT IN THEIR GRASP SPECIAL MENTION TO JOE ASPINALL WHO HAD COVERED EVEY BLADE OF GRASS ,THE TWO CENTRE BACKS CHRIS BELL AND PAUL TRIGGS WHO HAD PUT THEIR BODIES ON THE LINE FOR THE TEAM TIME AND TIME AGAIN FOR ALL THE OTHER PLAYER WHO HAD ALL PLAYED THEIR PART IN A GUTSY EFULL OF CHARACTER AND RESOLVE BUT THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE  MOM AND THAT WAS MATTY NAGLE WHO STOOD STRONG AND RESISTED LEYFIELD TIME AFTER TIME WITH SAVES AND BLOCKS BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY AND YES BRNESC HAD SOME LARGE SLICES OF LUCK BUT THEY DESERVED THEM AND THE TEAM PERFORMANCE AND MATTY NAGLES HEROICS DESERVED THE REWARD THEY GOT

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