Saturday 12th April 2008

Hucknall Town v Nuneaton Borough -- Blue Square North

Thought we would pay a final visit of the season to Watnall Road to see our hometown club fight for the three points in their desperate struggle for survival .... well strangely, for 75 minutes there was no fight at all..

Borough had former Mansfield Town player Tom Curtis in their ranks ( I never did like him - too much of a Spirite if you ask me !), but he was a different class to anything on the pitch...

It took 37 minutes for the away team to open the scoring, a mix up between the Town centre-halves allowing Danny Williams a simple tap in from close range. H-T 0-1

The home team levelled on 58, left back Danny MacPherson bundling the ball over the line after the keeper was blatantly fouled - he was so convinced he was fouled, his lengthy protests earned him a place in the Ref's book. 99 out of 100 would be called a foul, on this occasion Hucknall got away with it.

Town were only level for 9 minutes though - they allowed Williams to run all the way across the box before his peach of a ball picked out Curtis who hammered the ball home. Ben Saunders earned Hucknall a point on 38, a ball into the box hitting him on the knee before dropping over the keepers head into the net. F-T 2-2

If Hucknall are relegated, it will be because they are not good enough to be at this level - no other reason ....

We were treated to an elderly gentleman's inane whistling all the way through the first half - aaarrghh, it almost drove me crackers -- no tune - he just kept on whistling !!!!

We were also treated to a fancy dress parade by the away fans ... It's not every game you go to that you get to see : a nurse, a doctor, Chewbacca, a Panda, D'Artagnon, Pirates and a priest!!! Great stuff..

Tuesday should see us visiting Calverton MW for the first time this season.