Saturday 5th April 2008

Shepshed Dynamo v Carlton Town -- UniBond Division 1 South

One of our favourite grounds -- the Dovecote on Butthole Lane ....final visit of the season to see "Gedling Town old-boys" take on Carlton Town.. the Shepshed team had no fewer than 5 ex-Gedling Town players ( Whitehead, Millns, Saunders, Wilkes, Cobley) in the starting 11, with 2 more ( Jefferies, Massingham) on the bench...add the Manager and Assistant Manager -- you see what I mean about " Gedling Town old-boys".

Anyway, a lot of local rivalry between the two sets of players meant this would be full of incident - and it was.

After Carlton's Gent had received a yellow for a poor challenge on Whitehead, Carlton's no. 3 was given a straight red after about 25 minutes for a clattering challenge on Saunders ...

Clarke put the home team ahead on 33, a well timed run saw him latch onto the ball some 18 yards out, and fire over the Carlton keeper. H-T 1-0

Gent received a second yellow early into the second half, leaving Carlton to battle on with 9 men. They did trouble the Shepshed defence on the odd occasion, but Millns was superb at the back, hardly missing a thing. Dynamo substitute Jefferies' run and cross from the right was tapped in by Menga to double the Dynamo lead and ease the tension -- after failing to impress when coming from the bench, Massingham didn't endear himself to the Dovecote faithfull by firing a spot-kick so far over the bar, that Jonny Wilkinson would have been proud of it !! F-T 2-0

Snow, rain, sleet, hail and glorious sunshine -- God, I love this Country!!

Tuesday -- Gedling MW v Ollerton Tn -- Notts Senior Cup 1/2 final

Wednesday -- Carlton Tn v Eastwood Tn -- Notts Senior Cup 1/2 final

Saturday was supposed to be a trip to Borrowash, but it's Hucknall Town's final home game of the season, so we may just dig deep to find the £9 entrance fee.....