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Saturday 27th September, 2003 |
FA Cup 2nd Qualifying round |
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Moor Green 1 - 2 Hinckley United |
| Hinckley: |
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Whittle |
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Cartwright |
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Lenton |
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Crowley
(Dyer 70mins) |
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Penny |
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Stone |
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Storer |
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Jackson |
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Smith
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Jenkins
(Sadler 75mins) |
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Murray |
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| Moor Green: |
| 1. |
Rachel |
| 2. |
Robinson |
| 3. |
Frain
(Haarhoff 70mins) |
| 4. |
Collins |
| 5. |
Sanders |
| 6. |
B Petty |
| 7. |
Stanley
(Faulds 30mins) |
| 8. |
Peer |
| 9. |
Bailey |
| 10. |
Martin |
| 11. |
Doyle
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| Goals: |
| Smith, 45 mins |
0 - 1 |
| Peer OG, 47mins |
0 - 2 |
| Doyle, pen, 55 mins |
1 - 2 |
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| Half Time: |
0 - 1 |
| Full Time: |
1 - 2 |
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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. |
Oooh my first FA Cup game with the Knitters. Jimi had already told me about the
magic of the Cup. Infact all week he's been going on about it. He asked me if I was
experienced and of course I replied: "no, I've never seen an FA Cup match, are
you experienced?" Jimi said: "I have." We knew Moor Green well only having seen
them two weeks ago, and surprise, suprise the match was just the same.
I don't know if Dean Thomas had a master plan, but it appeared that Hinckley's
tactics were to do nothing and wait. They sat off the Moors for half an hour letting
them push forward. Both Richard Robinson and Dennis Bailey wasted chances before
'KoJack' Jackson saw his header go over the Moors crossbar, and Chris Smith saw
his low cross cleared for a corner nearly being an own goal. Dean Thomas' master
plan seemed to have worked. For the last 15 minutes of the first half it was all
Hinckley. That lovely, lovely young man Neil Cartwright and the 'whippet like'
Chris Smith were linking well on the right and creating chances. Two of those
chances should'v been penalties. The ball came in from the right and Justin Jenkins
was climbed all over but no foul apparently. Then almost immediately the ball came
back in from the right and Chris Smith with his back to goal was pulled down by
his shirt, but with the referee blind sided he couldn't see anything. In injury
time of the first half that's where the opening goal came from. The 'Forrest Gump
stylee' endlessly running Justin Jenkins held the ball up in the midfield and
played in Neil Cartwright on the right. Lovely young Neil went down the wing and
played the ball inside to Chris Smith who turned and fired low across 'Jaws' AKA
Adam Rachel in the Moor Green goal and into the bottom corner. Half time came and
Hinckley had sneaked a 0-1 lead.
Moor Green came out flying for the start of the second half and nearly got a bizarre
equaliser. In a melee of players in the Hinckley area, a shot came in and took a
deflection in a 'Paul Parker World Cup 90' style and Tommy Whittle furiously
backpeddling managed to tip it over for a corner. Poor Moor Green's tactics then
went out of the window. From that corner Hinckley broke out and lovely, lovely,
young Neil played the ball in low from the right, and just like the first half
Dean Peer put his foot out to clear. Only this time the ball passed the stranded
'Jaws' Rachel and into the corner of the net to give Hinckley a 0-2 lead. Moor
Green would get something out of the game in contraversial circumstances. In
another melee in the Hinckley goalmouth the ball was pinging around like pinball
and a fierce shot came in and hit Gavin Stone on the arm. Ball to hand versus hand
to ball? You decide. The referee gave a penalty and Daire Doyle stepped up to
convert. Moor Green had no option put to push forward and this they did. They
didn't however really create any worthy chances and Hinckley could've hit them on
the break a number of times. With 15 minutes left the loudest cheer of the day
came from the 'knutters' behind the goal as Dave Sadler came on as a second half
substitute. "It's the return of the Sad, return of the Sad." With Moor Green unable
to force an equaliser the final whistle went and Hinckley had won theough, 1 - 2,
to the next round of the cup.
Jimi's thoughts: that overall the score was about right. Hinckley had sat off and
let Moor Green come at them but coped with what they had. Towards half time Hinckley
got their own attack going and looked sharper infront of goal. Getting the second
early on in the second half was a grateful gift but the defence never got casual.
Even after a harsh penalty they mopped up Moor Green and could've increased the
lead more if the forwards had been trying harder towards the end of the match. |
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