COLTS HEAD TO QUARTERS

Notts FA Saturday Senior Trophy

Third Round

TRENT VINEYARD FC 1 ROBIN HOOD COLTS FC 6

The beauty of the Notts FA Cup Competitions is that I can go to grounds that Ive never visited before and when the third round draw was made, this tie caught my eye as a new venue. Jay from Robin Hood kindly offered to give me a lift to and from the ground from Mansfield, so I would like to thank him.

On arrival, I noticed there was 2 pitches and on the far pitch was to be played another tie in the competition where Wollaton III were hosting Sherwood Colliery Reserves. The players were soon changed and on the pitch for the match Id come to watch.

From the kick off, The Colts missed a early chance through Pearson and Vineyard matched their opponents in a evenly contested start to the tie, but the visitors were beginning to press more forward and more chances were coming.

Watching part of the other tie was Wollaton FC chairman Bill Fishwick and club Committee man Steve Smith who came over for a chat before heading to their First Team match at Radcliffe Olympic FC, Bill kindly donated £2 to the Blogs Charity, so a big thankyou to Bill for his support.

On 26 minutes, the deadlock was broken, when a cross from the left side was net by the head of DANIEL TYSON who put the Colts in front. Vineyard pushed forward but this left gaps at the back and on 35 minutes, the Colts doubled their lead when a bit of a strange goal occurred when a long ball was floated in from the right hand side, it took a odd bounce in front of the home keeper and sprung up, GEORGE CAMPS then leaped up and the ball landed over the keeper in to the net.  I was now watching the match with Leicester based groundhopper Gordon Grimes who had seen my tweet on twitter on the morning of the game.

As the game was heading to half time, a cross came from the right hand side and DANIEL TYSON slid the ball home to make it 3-0.

During the half time break, Gordon kindly donated £5 to the Blogs charity, which I must thank him for.

The Second Half kicked off and The Colts were straight on to the attack and on 46 minutes, GEORGE CAMPS was bought down just inside the penalty area and he dusted himself down before planting home to make it 4-0.

At this stage, there was danger of how many would it be, but to the Beeston clubs credit, they kept on battling and pressed forward forward creating several chances and after 52 minutes LUKE COLLEN slid in on the back post to reduce the arrears.

Vineyard pressed again and Wigglesworth in the Colts goal made a outstanding save to keep it at 4-1, but as gaps appeared the visitors began to exploit them and in the 65th minute of the game, they were awarded their second penalty of the game, to which GEORGE CAMPS chipped the keeper to complete his hat trick.

With the home sides hearts broken and a few heads down, Colts were moving the ball and attacking constantly and it came as no surprise on 69 minutes, when NICK WESTERMAN cut in from the left wing and curled his shot into the top corner of the net to make it 6-1.

A few comments about the game, I felt young Referee Grace Lowe had a superb match, the game was played by both clubs in the correct manner and both were a credit to their leagues.

With the donations given to the Charity Blog today and the goals scored this takes the running total to £1,039.75p for FORGET ME NOT, a small charity that supports people with dementia and their carers and partners.

91 Photos from the match can be seen on this LINK