Heathfield Rangers 1 vs Wombles 1

1. Dr No (Vocal Chords)
2. Nase
3. Bugsy
4. Winners
5. Flasers
6. Joey J
7. The Metronome
8. Psycho
9. Robinho
10. Burbasloth
11. Winners
12. Broken Skipper

MOM Truss?

Goal – Berba

Who’d have thought after our start to the season that we would be having a table topping clash in mid November? The Wombles were missing several players again and the captain was the second most drunk man ever near a football pitch (behind Nase who once had an own goal dissallowed the night after wetting the babies head!). With the skipper so drunk he was sick more than once walking to the pitch, Higgsy and Winners were called into the starting line up.

The Wombles were up against a side who had averaged 4 goals a game and whose oldest player was 25, so with a weakened team in terms of numbers but a strong side in terms of quality and spirit, they kicked off in terrible conditions at the Racecourse.

It was actually the Wombles who had the better of the first half with Robinho having his best game for the club, doing Berba’s running and nearly scoring on a number of occasions (hit it hard mate!!!). Unfortunately Higgsy was to last about as long as one of Lewys mmmmmmmmsss (8 minutes) and was replaced by the Skipper who after much debate was slotted in at centre half with Winners pushed out wide.

Heathfield were using their pace well but the Wombles defence marshalled well by Flaser and midfield held firm and Linesy was excellent as usual. It was the Wombles who looked the more dangerous on the counter attack took the lead when a neat low Nasal free kick from the right was half met by Nath, and after a bit of pin ball in the area fell to where Eason had been standing all game and true to form he made no mistake.

Utd held tight till the half and knew the second half defending the hill would be a tough ask with their traditional second half fitness causing a slight concern. The second half was a real case of backs to the wall defending with the three defensive midfielders of JJ, Truss and Winners providing a good shield whilst still looking dangerous on the break through Nath, Rob and Berba.

Unfortunately the Wombles couldn’t hold out til the end when with 10 minutes left Nasal blocked a shot but it took a wicked deflection up and over Linesy to see the Wombles deflated. A lesser team could have folded but the Wombles spirit and the promise of chicken stuff and popadoms down barrats for the 4th week running saw the tired legs play through to the final whistle to grab a point.

All in all an excellent performance, probably the best of the season considering the number of players missing, and gave the club a great confidence boost knowing they could match any team in the league.

(Sorry it’s late. Good job my memory isn’t too addled!)