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Tuesday 9th December, 2003 |
DM League Cup 3rd Round |
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Hinckley United 3 - 0 Histon |
| Hinckley: |
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Whittle |
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Cartwright
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Dyer |
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Jackson |
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Penny |
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Stone |
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Goodwin |
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Crowley |
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Sadler
(Evans 73mins) |
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Smith |
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Lewes
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| Histon: |
| 1. |
Barber |
| 2. |
Farrington
(Andrews 66mins) |
| 3. |
Goddard
(A.Cambridge 72mins) |
| 4. |
Hipperson |
| 5. |
Vowden |
| 6. |
Tovey |
| 7. |
Coburn |
| 8. |
Mintus |
| 9. |
Shelly
(Kenndy 57mins) |
| 10. |
I.Cambridge
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| 11. |
Barker |
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| Goals: |
| Lewis, 54 mins |
1 - 0 |
| Cartwright, 60 mins |
2 - 0 |
| Lewis, pen, 81 mins |
3 - 0 |
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| Half Time: |
0 - 0 |
| Full Time: |
3 - 0 |
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the Hird Dimension: |
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Hello my darlings, well from my stairlift in heaven I've been looking down on
you all, and in particular that lovely football team in red & blue. Me and
Jimi Hendrix love a bit of 'knitting' of an evening and we really can't wait for
Geri Halliwell to join us for a threesome. Knit one, Perl one, deary. So we
thought what better way to pass our time than to follow the Knitter's football
team.
There isn't that lovely, then. |
Another evening welcome to the knitting lounge and with Manchester United on
the telly all the glory hunters are in club Cloud#9. Terry Thomas, Sidney James,
John the Baptist, Buddy Holly, Bill Owen, even Bob Hope and Bing Crosby have
joined the billy big time boys of Busby and Shanks. They never lower themselves
to venture as far as the knitting lounge. Anyway tonight's game was in a little
known competition called the League Cup. I know me or Jimi hadn't heard of it
either. Jimi did his research as usual and apparently Hinckley are normally so
bad in this competition they very rarely make it past the first round. However
today's game was a third round match. "Ooooh" I said to Jimi "Have Hinckley won
some games then?" Apparently not, Jimi told me that Premier division clubs had
been given a bye to the third round. Oh well. Tonight's opponents would be
Histon from the Eastern Division. Apparently they had not lost once in the league
this season and had only been beaten in the FA Cup by a Conference team. Jimi
says this could be another 'banana skin' game like Gresley. I'm not sure what
he meant because I've only ever seen Jimi roll up his banana skins. Mmmm, I'll
have to ask one of my grandkids...
Hinckley pretty much controlled the game start to finish. Within the first 15
minutes that lovely young Neil Cartwright had made a run and a shot, and Wayne
Dyer had also made space on the right then crossed for Matt Lewis to just glance
his header wide. Oooh, I can see the 'Tena Lady' would be pretty full tonight,
the lovely young Neil Cartwright came inside from the right again and this time
his shot was savd by Paul Barber in the Histon goal. After 30 minutes we saw the
best and worst in one move. Matt Lewis received the ball from a corner, he looked
up and placed his shot curling around Barber only to see his shot rebound off
the post. The rebound fell straight at the feet of Gavin Stone, who in true
defender stylee placed the ball about 55 yards over the bar from close in. Then
right on half time Matt Lewis again forced Barbour into a save seeing his shot
turned away for a corner. Half time came with the scores 0-0.
Jimi's first half thoughts: Hinckley had dominated all the half and Histon had
threatened little. Hinckley were creating chance after chance and it would only
be a matter of time.
Hinckley were ahead within 10 minutes of the second half. Chris Smith was his
usual Whippet self and his determination won the ball on the byline. He crossed
it low to the far post for Matt Lewis to tap in from 55mm. Oooh, oooh, oooh the
'Tena Lady' has burst. Neil Cartwright has scored a goal! 5 minutes after the
first goal, this time Dave Sadler down the right crossed in again for Matt Lewis,
but with Barbour blocking him he tapped it left for Neil Cartwright to blast it
into the roof of the net. Oooooooh. With the game coming to a close Chris Smith
was clumsily bundled over in the area and a penalty was given. Matt Lewis stepped
up to comfortably score his second and Hinckley's third. The final whistle sounded
and Hinckley had a 3-0 win.
Jimi's verdict: Hinckley had controlled the game start to finish and were not
really pushed at all. Wether Histon had really tried or not who knows but the
only surprise on the night was that Hinckley only scored 3 goals. We must do
this League Cup stuff more often. |
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