Well, a win is a win. Though that’s not quite how I felt after Satdy’s match, having frozen my nuts off watching us for a large part struggle against the basement side, at home, who only had 10 men for 70 minutes. We were s***. We never got out of our half until they had a bloke sent off (allegedly for throwing an elbow at Waring off the ball). Until then, Yeovil were camped in our half and coulda scored 3 times. Weirdly, it felt like a carbon copy of last year, where they shoulda scored 10.
Then the sending off. Never look a gifthorse in the mouth, we’ll romp this. We limped to half time, creating nowt. In the meantime, they picked us off on the break. I tell you, every time they had the ball, 5 of them would race forward. Then when they lost it, 4 of those 5 would leg it back, while we tippy-tappied it amongst ourselves. The only player not playing tippy-tappying was Kiwomya, who delighted in running at players at pace, before losing it. Still, Danny preached patience before the game and I guess the message seemed even more apt against 10 men.
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However, not long after the restart, the breakthrough came. Thank god Hourihane can’t take a corner, cos the resultant clearance was headed straight back to him. 2nd time lucky, as he swung one in deep, Kiwomya challenged the keeper and the ball dropped for Waring to tap home. He celebrated like he'd won the world cup. Later, a fast breaking move from US (or should I say, from the new Slovakian) ended with Hourihane being brought down and slotting home for his 12th of the season. We settled for the two.
*** Pearson. Absolutely ran the game from defensive-mid. Always made himself available, looked to make a pass and broke down so many of their moves, either through a tackle or an interception. The new Darren Sheridan. Sponsors MOTM.
** Holgate. Pure class, again. This time moved over from full back after Ramage went off injured. He's the composed centre-back Nyatanga (who?) was meant to be (but isn't).
* John Malkovic or Kiwomya. Do I go with the Slovak, who ripped them to bits, ot Kiwomya, who softened them up in the 1st place? I'll go with Lalkovic (yes, I had to look him up). He looked terrifying, yet I worry with his track record of clubs, it's never gonna work out. We'll see.
Londontykes top 3:
1. Holgate
2. Pearson
3. M'Voto
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As I said Kiwomya looked fast and dangerous. Just needs to know when to take the right option. Waring, 6'5" tall, 6'2" stood up and about 6 foot when he jumps. His touch looks better than his ability to head but everyone else thinks he was bullied on Satdy. Awww, bless. He's meant to be a brick outhouse FFS. Williams (the non-league bloke) looked ok, no more - but it was great to see Holgate making his mouth go and telling him what to do, where to go. Lita couldn't get a kick, and was problies upset at being hauled off while Jennings came on for 13 minutes and looked fat. Digby got a runout (hurrah!) but then proceeded to keep kicking it to them (boooo). His BFC career is disappearing over that hill. If his passing's not top notch, there's little else to his game. Smith was sound defensively, but his crossing was all a bit Tom Williams. And then there's Hourihane. Given I've not seen any of you 5 or 6 put him in your top 3, you may be as amazed as I to see his mark in the Football League Paper: 9/10. Yet another trundling effort for me. Can't we sell him? I hear he's worth money....and Washday are interested. Perfick.
The massive plus of course was all the youngsters in the team (some of 'em actually ours!). But let's not get excited. The sending off was key. And we still only won 2-0, including a penalty.
Away: 156. Really? Andy and Andy counted 57 and 75 respectively. Maybe at any one point half of em were under the stand keeping warm. Clever barstewards.
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