ON ANOTHER NIGHT THIS GAME COULD OF BEEN 5 - 0 FIRST HALF AND TO BE DECIDED OUT OF SITE, INSTEAD MENAN WENT INTO HALF TIME 1 - 1. DAVE HUGHES PRODUCED A SUBLIME PERFORMANCE BUT JUST COULD TURN HIS CHANCES/SHOTS INTO GOALS. THEY COULD JUST NOT LIVE WITH HIGHES WHO PRODUCED ONE OF HIS BEST PERFORMANCES IN A MENAN SHIRT.
MENAN WENT 1 - 0 UP THROUGH WARDLE IN A HOT STREAK OF FORM, BUT UNFORTUNATELY COULD NOT ADD TO THEIR EARLY LEAD WHEN QUITE FRANKLY THEY WERE MAKING TO BE DECIDED LOOK A POOR OUTFIT.
THE EQUALISER WAS A STRONG SHOT THROUGH A NUMBER OF BODIES THAT SINGLETON IN GOAL ONLY SEEN LATE AND NESTLED INTO THE FAR CORNER. MENAN HELD FIRM AND STILL COULD OF GONE INTO THE BREAK WITH MORE GOALS TO THEIR NAME BUT JUST COULD NOT BEAT TO BE DECIDED KEEPER WHO MADE A NUMBER OF GOOD SAVES TO HIS CREDIT.
MENAN WERE LOOKING ASSURED AND UNFORTUNATELY SECOND HALF THIS WAS NOT TO BE THE CASE. SUBSTITUES COST US THIS WEEK INSTEAD OF THE USUAL FITNESS, AND TAKING ANDI VINE OUT THE BACK TWO COST MENAN A LACK OF SHAPE DISCIPLINE AND MENAN FELL BEHIND TO AN EASY THROUGH BALL AND ON ANOTHER DAY SINGLETON COULD HAVE CHARGED OUT HIS GOAL AND PUT PRESSURE ON THE OPPOSING STRIKER BUT IN ALL FAIRNESS AFTER LAST TIME HE DID THIS AND WAS HOSPITALISED MENANS FAITHFUL UNDERSTOOD THE LACK OF CONFIDENCE SINGLETON SHOWED.
IT WAS A TIDY FINISH AND MENAN HAD FALLEN BEHIND TO A CHANCE WHICH WOULD NEVER OF BEEN CREATED FIRST HALF.
MENAN PUSHED ON AND TO BE DECIDED HAD FURTHER CHANCES BUT SINGLETON HAS TO HOLD HIS HAND UP ON THE THIRD A WEAK FREE KICK SINGLETON MISREAD THE SHOT AND DIVED TO EARLY WITH THE BALL TRICKING IN TO THE NEAR POST. APOLOGIES ALL ROUND FOR THIS ERROR.
MOVING ON TO THE LATTER STAGES OF THE SECOND HALF SINGLETON IS GLAD TO STILL HAVE A NOSE AND FACE FOR THAT MATTER, THEY SAY AS A KEEPER IF IT HITS ANY PART OF THE BODY THEN ITS A GREAT SAVE, TO BE HONEST I DONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT IT BEING A GOOD SAVE WHEN I ALMOST BROKE MY NOSE, THE BALL SMASHING INTO SINGLETONS FACE MAKING A SAVE TO GIVE MENAN A SMALL MINOR HOPE OF A COMEBACK.
ALL HOPE WAS IN VAIN AS TO BE DECIDEDS ONLY PLAYER WHO PRODUCED AN 8 OUT TEN ON THE OPTA STATS PRODUCED A LOW DRIVE INTO THE FAR CORNER OF THE NET TO WRAP UP THE POINTS , BEATING A NUMBER OF MEN BEFORE POWER DRIVING A BALL PAST SINGLETON.
IN ALL HONESTY SINGLETON WAS DISINTERESTED IN SAVING ANY MORE SHOTS AT THIS STAGE AFTER BEING BLASTED IN THE FACE AND WANTED TO WRAP THE GAME UP AND HEAD HOME IN DISSAPOINTMENT AT HOW MENAN WERE NOT 5 - 0 UP AND BEATING THE TITLE WINNERS WHO HAVE NOT LOST A GAME ALL SEASON.
MENAN HEAD INTO ANOTHER BREAK RETURNING VERSUS ARDLEY ATHLETIC A FEW DEFEATS ON THE BOUNCE NOW BUT THE TEAM IS STILL IN THIRD PLACE AND ALL MEMBERS SHOULD BE FIGHTING FOR EVERY POINT NOW TO ENSURE MENANS BEST FINISH IN A NUMBER OF YEARS
LESSONS FOR NEXT WEEK, DISCIPLINE, BELIEF, COMMUNICATION ARE ESSENTIAL IF WE ARE TO IMPROVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
