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Sat 3rd January, 2004 |
Dr Martens Premier League |
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Hinckley United 1 - 2 Chelmsford City |
| Hinckley: |
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Whittle |
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Cartwright |
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Lenton |
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Jackson |
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Penny |
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Stone
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Storer |
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Dyer
(Murray 70mins) |
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Lewis |
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Smith
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Crowley
(Jenkins 70mins) |
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| Chelmsford: |
| 1. |
Nicholls
(Street 46mins) |
| 2. |
Hopkins
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| 3. |
Norman |
| 4. |
Clarke |
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Edwards
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| 6. |
Wiles |
| 7. |
Cross |
| 8. |
Jones |
| 9. |
Butterworth
(Whitnell 90mins) |
| 10. |
Wallace |
| 11. |
Lay |
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| Goals: |
| Butterworth, 11 mins |
0 - 1 |
| Stone, 37 mins |
1 - 1 |
| Butterworth, 58 mins |
1 - 2 |
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| Half Time: |
1 - 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. |
Hello my little china tea pots, welcome one and all back to the knitting lounge
for the first home match of the New Year. Today it would be bottom four club
Chelmsford City and after two 1-1 draws me and Jimi were hopefully expecting a
positive result. Jimi informed me Chelmsford have been struggling this season
and had won only 3 games all season.
As in the last couple of games Hinckley started very well with plenty of good
approach work getting the ball forward in numbers. Leon Jackson headed wide
before he again forced Paul Nicholls to make a good save. Matt Lewis also placed
the ball wide before Chelmsford very unexpectedly and quite flukily went ahead.
Chelmsford had broken forward and Stuart Butterworth was on the byline between
the corner flag and the goal as he flicked the ball with the back of his heel,
to keep it in play. Everyone in the ground, and up here in the knitting lounge,
were quite amazed when the ball looped up and over Tommy Whittle into the back
of the net. We all turned towards St Peter and Jesus sitting in the corner but
they said it wasn't them, though I have my doubts. Nothing changed though as
Hinckley kept raining down on the Chelmsford goal. Chris Smith met Jamie Lenton's
cross on the volley but was saved by Nicholls, then Nicholls again saved at the
feet of Jamie Lenton. Smith was trying from every angle and his spectacular
overhead kick was only inches wide. Eventually Hinckley had to score and it was
an unlikely source in the end. Lenton crossed again and Nicholls this time failed
to collect. The ball fell to Wayne Dyer who shifted it sideways for the Mop
Topped Middlefield Rock, Gavin Stone, to shoot from 10 yards and see his shot
deflect in off Matt Lewis. They all count! Then the referee showed what his intent
would be later in this match. Chris Smith got to the line and crossed brilliantly
for Jamie Lenton. Lenton only had to get any part of his body on the ball for it
to be a goal, however he was bundled over right on the goal line by both central
defenders before the ball reached him. Surely a penalty? No, apparently, only a
goal kick. The half ended with Chelmsford looking for a goal keeper. Paul Nicholls
had challenged Chris Smith for a ball and literally jumped over his shoulder and
as he fell, he fell back on his shoulder, meaning he would take no further part
in this match, and defender Simon Clarke would be in goal for the second half.
Jimi's thought's: Hinckley had done everything except score loads of goals. They'd
laid siege to Chelmsford's goal and somehow found themselves one down despite
Chelmsford not even having a shot on goal. A fluke goal maybe, but still a goal,
and Hinckley had responded correctly by carrying on in the same vein as before.
The equaliser was deserved but Nicholls had been in fine form to keep Chelmsford
in it. Would that change now he'd been stretchered off?
Second half Hinckley pushed forward in ever increasing numbers, but the Chelmsford
defence, and the referee, were doing their best to protect their stand in goalie.
Leon Jackson missed a golden opportunity when with a virtually open goal he missed
the target after a beautiful cross from Matt Lewis. Chelmsford then broke away
after this attack and as is typical in football scored a goal to rub in the miss,
though this goal was surrounded in controversy. The lovely young Neil Cartwright
had left a ball to go out for a goal kick, but George Lay didn't. Even though the
ball crossed the goal line Lay put in his cross and with the Hinckley defence
expecting a goal kick, Stuart Butterworth headed his second goal unmarked in the
center. St Peter and Jesus kept sniggering behind me and Jimi, so I'm certain
they still had a hand in it somewhere. Hinckley should have equalised after but
Chris Smith's goal was ruled out for offside, again another controversy. From a
corner the Chelmsford defender had headed towards his own goal when Chris Smith,
in the six yard box, bicycle kicked the ball into the net. The lino gave offside
despite a Chelmsford player playing the ball forward? Then deep into stoppage
time Matt Lewis shot goalwards and the Chelmsford defender was adjudged to have
cleared the ball before it crossed the goal line, despite himself being behind
the line when he cleared it. The final whistle went and Chelmsford were jubilant
having won 1-2.
Jimi's overall thought's: This was one of those games where everything goes against
you. There was nothing more Hinckley could've done. They absolutely camped in the
Chelmsford half but couldn't get the ball in the net. Then get hit by a sucker
punch, even though the defence should have played to the whistle. Then even when
Hinckley do score twice, they are ruled out by very poor refereeing decisions.
Best to chalk it up as one of those games and get on with the next match. Some
games you just aren't destined to win. |
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