Sunday 17th June @ 3.30pm.
New team have joined last minute.[br][size=1]Posted on: June 13, 2007, 02:11:29 PM[/size][hr]Witton Team;
GK - Johnson; DF - Marshall, Robinson; MF - Green, Sh.Carter(c); FW - Haspell.
Subs - Jones, Sc.Carter, Blundell.
Team Rating ****
Match Rating ****
Man Of The Match - Drew Haspell.
n/b - Greg Marshall.
Drew Haspell’s last contribution as a free man was his most telling to date. Due to get married next weekend, and knowing his honeymoon will cost the side his experience for the following 2 games, Haspell ensured that he gave Witton Albion Supporters FC full value for money on Sunday afternoon. With the side once again having an excellent defensive platform to build on in the shape of the now legendary Marshall-Robinson partnership, there could only ever be one outcome as Witton stretched their unbeaten run to a record 3 games - including 74 minutes without conceding a goal.
Despite early appeals for a blatant penalty being waved away by the pint-sized referee, Witton were not to be denied the opening goal. After excellent approach play by the boys in red and white, Marshall released Haspell who grabbed his first ever goal for the club with an excellent low finish past the hapless Jumpers keeper. This prompted Witton to play some of the best football they have ever produced, as Green and Shaun Carter dazzled in the centre of the park - although they didn’t dazzle quite as much as Shaun’s ear-rings did. With Marshall and Robinson as miserly as ever in the Witton Defense, it gave the attacking players license to run riot - and before long it was 2 nil. With the play being sprayed around the pitch in a manner not witnessed since the Dutch team of '74, it was again Marshall who played the killer ball into Haspell, who again sent a low finish into the net for his - and Witton’s - second goal of the afternoon.
At this point Witton began to go for the sensational rather than the simplistic, and some of their fluid passing game was replaced by long-range shooting. Unfortunately the shooting from distance didn’t quite match the thunder-cracker that Robinson had driven home a few weeks previously, and as Witton failed to add to their tally Jumpers bagan to get into the game a little. Infact they did get the ball into the net at one point, only for the ‘goal’ to be chalked off as the striker had advanced into the area before scoring. So at half-time, the score remained 2 nil to Witton.
The second half followed a similar pattern to the earlier stages of the first, as Witton again dominated. Several chances were missed, before Blundell finally made it 3 nil and put the game out of Jumpers’ reach. At this point it really could of become a massacre, as Jumpers midfield all but gave up. Green will certainly feel he should of scored at least one goal in a frantic second half, as Blundell and Shaun Carter also wasted excellent opportunities. However, there was another goal to come as Haspell headed a long through ball-down and advanced on to it, sending a rasping left-footed half volley into the back of the net for 4 nil - and to become the 2nd Witton player in 7 days to grab a hat-trick. So 4 nil it stayed, with yet another excellent performance from the Albion - you can really sense the confidence flowing through these boys now. The win was made even sweeter by the fact that their opponents were a team of V*cs fans, with Green ensuring he kissed his Witton badge each time his team drove the ball home. Excellent stuff.
Witton Albion Supporters FC 4 - 0 Jumpers For Goal Posts
Haspell 3
Blundell
Att - 3.
