Rooting Around In The Bushes

Bit of a ding-donger against old adversaries Harretons, with some excellent football from both sides.

Ben rang onto a pass from Paul, a lot of work still to do, but belted it over the keeper for 1-0. Misplaced clearance and we were punished for it, 1-1.

Paul with a couple of goals, can't remember the first, but the second was a sharp finish at the near post.

I was seeing stars from a Tyson ball smashed into my face, but no harm done!

Tom launched a clearance into the kids play area and Alex spent a good 5 minutes in the bushes looking for the ball.

3-1 at the break, I think, approximately, although given Harretons aversion to half-time we played straight through, as usual.

The oppo scored a nice finish from distance to get back in it, 3-2.

Paul with a penalty after their huge defender just shoved him over in the box. "Agricultural but not a penalty" said the oppo striker, but not sure what that meant and it felt like a clear penalty to me. 4-2.

Oppo scored with a little flick at the near post for 4-3, before Alex scored a goal from inside the box which the oppo claimed as offside but we got our way on that and it was 5-3.

Ben kicked someone in the box with a strikers challenge and we had conceded a penalty, Tyson beaten by the older but very useful striker for 5-4.

We hung on for the win.

Paul - with a hat-trick and a fine all round display - was MotM.