Bob’s View

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

30th September 2007

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Thought for the week: If your eggs are scrambled does that mean your team is no good ?

So here we are with another week of “The View”.

It was the start of the long haul in the Charity Cup to Bromley this week for a few teams as the Preliminary Round commenced where Bromley Common came unstuck after last weeks triumph as EC United ran out winners 3-6. Copers Cope who have a good cup pedigree of late beat “Sunshine” Mark Freeman’s VS Bexley 6-2 and Cudham United lost out narrowly to Lessa Albion Res, 3-4. Dartford were comfortable winners in the end against Cricketers 2-0 and EPR ‘A’ went down at home 1-3 to Shortlands Athletic. New side Eltham Progress Res won 3-2 against Wickham Park to progress as did Ex Blues who thumped Crayside Colts 6-0. Fairfield had the better of The Blues 3-1 and Freelands glided effortlessly past Rohan 5-2.

Lessa Albion ‘A’ beat Bromley Eagles 4-1 and goals from Lightfoot, Enoch and Plummer saw Lombard Phoenix Res draw 3-3 aet, after 2-2 on the full with a 5-4 after pens. Lombard Phoenix had goals from Fletcher, Cele and Beaumont as they eased themselves into the next round 3-1 over Bromley Flamengo – no Brazilian magic there then Will ?? In my game Masters came up against a determined and physical Swanley Cardinals and ran out the losers as their season starts to go flat. Good chasing and movement kept Cardinals on top but they seemed intent on collecting yellow cards today ! A well worked goal on 15 mins saw them go ahead and Masters struggled to have any reasonable shot on goal. However up till that point the best move of the game on 41 mins brought the equaliser. Poor Darren Parkins had a bit of a ‘mare in the Masters goal as goals in the 54, 59 and 65th minute saw Cardinals run out worthy winners with Masters losing a player to a silly 2nd caution in the closing minutes. So 1-4 in the end. Room for thought for both teams I would say.

Midway Res had a good game with Kings Park Ranger and eventually ran out winners 4-2 aet, and 2-2 on the full. My spies were out at Orchard v North Kent Rangers and reports – “After a late make shift team shuffle Orchard came out very slow with little chances, on 5 minutes a curling free kick from Daniel Griffiths on the edge of the area hit the cross bar, then nothing much happened until 25 minutes when a long cross field pass from Darren Poet found Michael Smalls who neatly took it round the North Kent Rangers keeper and slotted home for 1 -0. Half time it went a disappointing 1-0.
Five minutes after the restart a pinpoint pass from Michael Eldridge found the boots of Smalls who again took it round the keeper and punished the back of the net to make it 2-0. On 57 minutes Smalls dribbled the ball into the NKR area and hit the bar but was then brought down in the area. He slotted in his second hat trick of the season to make it 3-0. On 60 minutes a booking for Chris ended in him being subbed for Ricky Rice, an excellent debut for Ricky with a rocket left foot into the roof of the net on 75 minutes made it 4-0. On 83 minutes Darren Gilmartin came off to let Anthony on. After 85 minutes the Orchard defence fell asleep to let in NKR to upset the goalkeepers clean sheet, with a final score being a comfortable 4-1.

Otford Colts won 3-1 over London City and Paul Birch Res lost out to Eltham Progress 0-2. The final game saw The Wood beat Beckenham Imps 1-0

Turning now to the league games and in the Senior Div, Catford CC beat FOBG 5-0 – FOBG are having a woeful start to the season it seems. Centresports decided to get their hiccups out of the way early as they went down 2-3 to Eltham Town and Goldsmith United had a low scoring win, 1-0, over Centaurs. Lessa Albion had a close win over Milldean 1-0 and Midfield and Defiance shared the honours 1-1. I saw these 2 goals during the half time interval in my game at HSBC. Nicely taken both of them – looked a hard game though.

In the First Div Chelsfield OB’s are still seeking to impress Pete Small as they lost 2-4 to Coney Hall.

In the Second Division Eltham Town Res lost out closely to Valley Valiants Res 1-2

And finally the Fifth Div where Fairfield Res beat AFC Lessa Christchurch 4-1.

Thanks for your time, see you all next week.

Bob.