Utd Tce 2 v1 U.S Melrose park 21 june08 2.30

Football is a cruel game.

Many will have played in games where their team has dominated in every area on the park only to be undone by one or too sucker punches that gift the game to the opposition.
Saturday was one of those days.

With Four stallions showing complete disregard for their team mates (By driving right past K.P leaving nick g to travel from one end of town over too k.p to pick up Gus and Aaron) the Stallions were in an awful predicament only 10 players on the field one ball to warm up with,which Panda kicked over the fence into the ZOO !! and the prospect of a fourth choice keeper(me) in goal (even Bolton wanderers would look to sign an emergency loan deal ffs).It was shaping up to be a great day for football,cue Benny hill music as Nick G, Aaron and Gus arrive 1min from kick off.

Gus was first one striped and ready,so he made the starting 11, with his Oranje socks on, i was expecting a Dennis Bergkamp Esq performance.

kicking off with the low solstice sun behind us.The stallions had the game from the outset, clearly dominating in the midfield and playing all the football attacking the goal at will,with the tce side happy to give U.S all the space and time on the football we wanted, there were numerous times their defence would do just enough to stop tristin or Gus from taking a shot, or clear a cross sent in from either Joe on the right and robin or Spencer down the left.

The makeshift defence, due to the late arrivals, was proving to be a strong well managed unit. working well together to snuff out the tce attacks early and used the ball well between each other to move up the field giving some great service to the forwards who again were unable to capitalise on some loose defence.

going it at halt time 0-0 would have been a better result for Tce than U.S

The second half would be the tester, with the now even lower sun in the eyes of the stallions any time you looked up to the field and right. it was going to be a half where the game could be won or lost by the sun.

Again tce really had nothing to offer in terms of attack we'd kept them well away from the 18 yard box all day and the closest they got was a couple of corners which they bottled,we defended brilliantly,so it was fitting that we took the lead, Gus being the cheeky bugger he is, chipped the goalie from I'm picking 20 yards out and we went up 1-0.

We continued to dominate, until a free kick 30 metres out on the right side of the field with that low sun behind it was taken, i saw him take the kick moved over to site it and got blinded by the sun the ball would curl into the top left hand corner and somehow (well they score that's how) Tce are tying it up 1-1 not deserved at all

kicking off we pressed forward and were dead eager to put ourselves ahead again and unlucky not to have done three or four times in the process.

alas another free kick in almost the exact same area as the first, would prove our undoing ,again with the exact same outcome, a curled kick into the sun was last seen hitting the top left hand corner of the goal gifting Tce the win. we pressed hard and pushed forward but the time ran out and we were just short.

A shame really from a point of view, that they were never in the game. and didn't deserve the win, but fair play to them it's their home ground, i bet they'd counted on the sun helping them out in the second half too.

c'est la vie.

Stallions Starting : Corey,Nick W,Paddy,Jason,Spencer,Robin,Joe,Panda,Ben H,Tritin,Gus
Subs : Nick G,Aaron

Goals: Gus 65 mins
Tce 75-83 mins

next week Olympic at Mcalister park 12.30