Two of our favourite teams went head to head - they might as well not have bothered.....
It was Jimmy Greaves who coined the phrase "it's a funny old game". Nothing funny about this game though -- this was excruciatingly painful to watch, and not a giggle was there to be heard!
2nd v 3rd in the table it may have been, but none of the 20 outfield players had any idea about how to play in the gusty conditions we encountered down by the Riverside.....you would have thought there would have been shots raining in at both goals, or plenty of "on the floor" passing and movement, but no, the players seemed unaware it was windy and kept the ball in the air where it had a mind of it's own! Corners swinging hopelessly behind the goals, even one throw-in was blown out for goal-kick!!
To be fair, Gedling should have been one down at the break, Adam Lillie firing wide in the 45th minute with just Spriggs in the home goal to beat. H-T 0-0
Rainworth started the second period looking to attack, but they soon ran out of ideas and Gedling eneded up dominating the half. They managed only a couple of chances though - one of which was a header from Ash Dyce that was cleared off the line by former Gedling player Brendan Sweeney. F-T 0-0
Disappointed to have selected another 0-0 game, but that's the beauty of football - we could have gone to Belper who drew 2-2 with Shepshed - we could have gone to Coronation Park to watch Eastwood beat Frickley 3-1 to go through to the UniBond Cup final - we could have picked half-a-dozen other games --but ended up watching a poor 0-0.
Rainworth started the second period looking to attack, but they soon ran out of ideas and Gedling eneded up dominating the half. They managed only a couple of chances though - one of which was a header from Ash Dyce that was cleared off the line by former Gedling player Brendan Sweeney. F-T 0-0
Disappointed to have selected another 0-0 game, but that's the beauty of football - we could have gone to Belper who drew 2-2 with Shepshed - we could have gone to Coronation Park to watch Eastwood beat Frickley 3-1 to go through to the UniBond Cup final - we could have picked half-a-dozen other games --but ended up watching a poor 0-0.
Not funny this one, but we still have about 20 more games to go to this season and one or two are sure to cheer us up!
Tuesday -- not much on offer so it's off to Teversal to see them take on Rossington Main...
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