Samba Nottinghamshire Senior League
Division One
KIMBERLEY MINERS WELFARE RESERVES 1 RAVENSHEAD FC 7
Att: 29(headcount)
With Shawn attending a young adult course for people with special needs, I pre looked at my day and saw this fixture and having not visitied The Stag Ground for nearly 2 years felt it right I should do so.
The Miners Reserves sit at the bottom of the table having only mustered only two wins all season, having lost most of their squad when their manager left during the season and in stepped Simon Revelle to try and patch up a team to play each week, to which all credit they have done, whilst other clubs may well have try to cancel games.
Ravenshead FC arrived in to this fixture sitting in 2nd position and having a unbeaten 11 match run behind them, so were coming in to the game as strong favourites.
The game kicked off and it was the homesters who had the first chance of the game in a effort that flashed wide of the goal, but Ravenshead were playing the ball to feet and looked organised and on 7 minutes, old veteran PAUL SMITH blasted the ball home from close range.
Ravenshead then pressed forward and Liam Bradley in the Welfare net had to keep his side in the match, but on 14 minutes, a free kick from the left hand side was floated in to the area and PAUL SMITH rose and headed home to double his goal tally and also his teams advantage.
From the kick off and it was the Welfare lads that were back in the game, when a neat cross from the right wing avoided everyone and TOM SYSON got the slightest of touches to slide the ball home to reduce the arrears.
Welfare seemed to have found a extra step as they pushed forward but didnt create anything on target for their rewards and on 26 minutes fell further behind when the Ravens top striker MARTIN McDONAGH bustled past the last defender and slotted past the oncoming keeper to make it 3-1.
On 37 minutes, it became 4-1 to the visitors when BRETT HORTON added his name to the goalscoring list.
With a nice warm cuppa at half time, it was back out for the Second Half, with the home side pressing down the slope towards the changing room end and Dan Hurst in the visitors net was first to be called up on, as he punched a dangerous looking cross to safety.
After 51 minutes, MARTIN McDONAGH got the ball just outside the homesters penalty area and hit a low shot in to the right corner of the net, to the disbelief of the diving keeper to make it 5-1. Then on 55 minutes, ALEX FAULCONBRIDGE cut in from the left and scored from a acute angle.
Kimberley then possibly had their best spell in the game and all credit to them, as they didnt give up and kept on playing, though the final ball just wasnt there for them to score, meanwhile on this day Ravenshead were lethal in front of goal and on 76 minutes, BRENT HORTON hit a crisp shot from just out outside the area to make it 7-1.
I felt the Referee Derek Spray had a excellent match and both teams played the game in the correct manner and both a credit to the Samba Nottinghamshire Football League.
I would like to thank Simon Revelle(manager of Kimberley Miners Welfare Reserves FC) who before the match kindly donated £10 to the Blogs Charity, which is Forget Me Not, a small charity that supports people with dementia and with the 8 goals scored today takes the running total up to a outstanding amount of £1,223.70p
Photos from the match can be seen on this LINK
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