Bob’s View

…………..how does he get round all those matches !!

2nd March, 2008

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I must start this weeks copy of the “View” with an apology to The Wood – due to a venue switch poor old “Sunshine” Mark Freeman, the Results Secretary, was nonplussed and got a result the wrong way round. Mark says, “All, Please be advised that the result between Eltham Progress v The Wood was won by The Wood 4-2 not the other way round. Apologies for the error but was due to game being switched”

So to the “old boys “ at The Wood and Mr CloughieTraer – many apologies !!!

Okay so onwards and upwards after that hiccup ……………………..

Lots of cup action this week and Kent County cup news as well.

We had 2 clubs left in their respective parts of the Kent Cup but sdaly its only one now as Otford Colts lost out 6-2 to a stronger Medway Queen in the Junior Cup. In the Premier Cup, Dabe and Jeff’s Goldsmiths United march on to the next round as they went away to Sutton Valence Village and won 2-4. Well done lads.

In our own cups a few interesting results got played out. In the Charity Cup Round 3 Valley Valiants Res made a game of it with Centaurs with the latter just squeezing through 2-3. In the Charity Cup Round 4 matches Catford CC had an incredible game with Vista with the scores locked at 1-1 after full time and extra time the game moved to penalties and Catford squeezed through also 5-4. In the delayed Jack Standen Cup Semi Final, Peter Palmer’s Lessa Albion Res thumped Coney Hall 5-1 so they now play Otford Colts in the final scheduled for 27th April. The Paul Picard Semi-Final saw Centresports Res do it again as they beat Keyworth 4-2 to secure a place in the Final scheduled for 27th April also. In the Smales’ Trophy, 3rd Round, Ex Blues beat ElthamTown Res 2-0.

Turning now to the bread and butter, in the Senior Division only 2 games this week and Centresports thumped Lessa Albion 7-0 and Defiance reclaimed top spot with a 4-1 win over early season leaders Eltham Town.

In the Prmier Division FC Bickley outsmarted Valley Valiants to win 4-0 whilst EPR suffered a setback against Leabridge and lost 0-1. Midway had a fine win as they cracked in 8 goals to Griffin Sports 3 in reply. Prince of Wales not to be outdone also scored 8 to 2 in reply from AFC Albatross – sorry Clive looks like the “magic” 100 goals conceded is going to happen next week !

In Division One Eltham Progress beat Cudham United to keep their promotion hopes on track. Hatcham beat Chelsfield Old Boys 4-2 to move into top spot as Coney Hall were on cup duty.

So to Div Two and The Buff stumbled badly in the bottom of the table clash as S E Twente clawed their way up the table with a 1-2 win. Fairfield lost 0-2 to The Wood who slid into a deserved second spot ably guided by Mr Cloughie-Traer. In my game a dour first half was transformed for Lombard Phoenix when I awarded them a penalty against Duke 94 who were battling it out all the way. This was converted and another was added 10 mins later to make it 2-0 to Lombard Phoenix but they then found that perhaps it was not all going there way as sloppy defending meant Duke clawed a goal back. Not a lot happened in the second half. I turned down a big penalty shout from Duke and a couple of Lombard Phoenix players got booked for offering an unwarranted opinion but the game ended the same as half time, 2-1.

In Div Three where The Blues had a good win over EC United 4-1 and Copers Cope turned it on to beat VS Bexley 6-0. Lessa Albion ‘A’ turned last weeks reversal around and beat The Flames 3-2 . Finally, Swanley Cardinals did themselves no favours as they lost to Eltham Town ‘A’ 1-2.

So now in Div Four and Beckenham Imps scraped past Freelands 4-3 and Dartford had a romp 5-1 against North Kent Rangers. Euro United and Cricketers ended 2-1 in Euro’s favour whilst Ex Blues Res stumbled once more as they could only manage 1-1 with second bottom club Midway Res. The spies tell me that it started well for Orchard bossing the game for the first 15 minutes. Then a quick break found the right-back flat footed who played them onside which left an easy run through to take on Richie Bull, Orchard’s keeper, but with two sides of the goal to chose from an easy chance made it 1-0 to Orpington. This is how it stayed until half-time.  The second half started well for Orpington when a needless free kick was given away by the central midfield. This was floated in to find an Orpington player who had lost his marker through sloppy defending. His header came off the bar only to deflect off Darren Poets head to make it 2 -0.  Many chances went begging in a pretty even affair. Then on 75 minutes a long range lob from one yard inside the Orpington half from Peter Collard found the net. With the scores being 2-1 Orchard stepped up a gear but just could not net the leveller. Subs for Orchard were Chris Curum on for Anthony Gandhi, Michael Small on for Nathan Muller and finally Tom Wild made way for Lee Keelan.

In Division Five Cudham United Reserves were found to be lacking as they lost 2-5 to Shortlands Athletic at home. EPR ‘A’ returned to winning ways as they beat AFC Lessa Christchurch 3-0. Lombard Phoenix Res on the next pitch to mine at Norman Park won 2-1 against Starks Park Rovers and cast doubts on their escape from the re-election positions. A win for Fairfield Res 1-2 against Paul Birch Res poses more pressure for the Starks Park crew.


Cheers,

Bob.