BoC F.C. vs Harretons
1 - 0
23 November 2017
Home league match played on 23 November 2017.
Kicked off at 7:00 PM
1-0
vs Harretons
Home league match
After fears of too many players early in the week, BoC delivered a late collapse the like of which is probably only going to be emulated 6-7 times in England's Ashes performance.
Legitimate reasons from Tom but the ugly, slow, heavy touched, less well hung (APAPYP) Hoff was off to the cinema with 75 year old Austrian director Michael Haneke. His work often examines social issues, and depicts the feelings of estrangement experienced by individuals in modern society so he'd fit right in down the duke/latch/Mexican with his age and philosophy. Still neither turned up which helps explain why Ben is polling 4th in the end of season Hoff of the year award (below Hoof).
Tony also let us down as well so we'll have to reallocate 6 of his goals as punishment.
This was compounded by long episode of Buswatch with Neil and Hoof arriving at half past (at least put your pads on during the bus ride lads).
Tonight we played the posh. Rivalries with Reays, ASJS and now the Royals have ebbed and flowed but our silver spooned overlords have always remained our most competitive fixture.
Their cheating was less evident than usual in a cagey affair.
We were lucky to pick up Conrad and Dom to take us to 10 for the first 30 mins.
The posh maintained their usual defensive formation with the good CB and someone sitting in front of the defence. We couldn't get a foothold in the game but worked hard from front to back and they didn't have any good chances. They had a slow good finisher and then lots of very fast players who were a bit greedy/rubbish at shooting. Still Tyson placement saw him make several good saves.
When we went to 11 our work rate dropped and we didn't play much better.
A scrappy game and no half time meant it all blurred into one. High/low lights
- Stu taking out their decrepit striker with a poor late tackle
- me failing to make a simple 5 yard (4.437m) return pass to Ily having barked at him to pass to me
- some neat interplay saw a chance for Ily he struck narrowly wide
It looked all set for 0:0 (is it a coincidence that we have only conceded 1 in 2 games since Charlie's return) until a 59th minute cross was deflected high in the sky. Neil charged in on the touchline beyond the goal. Did he bring it down? Side foot cross to me (open in the middle)? No he Marco van Zondervan'd it back across the goal and in off the keeper. Incredible technique and we all agreed it rightly usurped Mole-A's fluke as BoC's goal of the season.
The posh were delightfully bitter afterwards - "you could play that game 100 times and not get the same result" "if we had the same chance to goal ratio we'd have won 14:1".
We magnanimously avoided saying - well fuck it you lost. But really fuck em it was a great ending. Viva la revolution