Tuesday, 17 February 2009

Totaal Delight at Thundera

Totaalvoetbal won the clash of the top two at Thundera Grounds to leapfrog ThunderCats. In a topsy-turvy game the match lived up to all expectations. ThunderCats were to take an early lead through Silvio Falcao but were pegged back by a Robin Boschker header. With ThunderCats continuing to push they regained the lead through Falcao just before the hour-mark. It wasn't to be enough, however, as first Abbas Erol headed home and then playmaker Shirsh Vajpayee thumped home a long range effort to send Totaal away with the three points. Meeblind was full of praise for how his side went about their victory, "We've had to withstand a lot of pressure....and attacked with quality when given the opportunity."

Hun Haters returned to their usual selves with a 5-0 thrashing of Glasgow Rangers. A brace from David Mailer and further goals from Finlay MacCleir, Ashton Crosby and David MacArthur made sure that this rivalry has been well and truly won by the Haters this season. The margin of the victory wasn't lost on manager Celticchris who said before the match-up, "...we hope to take advantage of this (manager absence) by humiliating the team which will also boost our goal difference which could be important as the league is so close at the moment."

Crystal Palace saw their title hopes fade as they fell to a 2-1 defeat at 23rd Professionals. It looked good for Palace early on when Lou Stamp opened the scoring after 8 minutes. Their joy proved to be short-lived as first Lennox Beard stroked the ball home and then Hjalmar Grandin scored from a well-worked free-kick to give the Professionals a much needed boost in their battle against relegation. MarkieRich seemingly threw in the towel in his team's title chase when he said, "Poor result for me, thought my team had turned the corner. Just too inconsistent, that's my title challenge over!"

One of the league's form teams won again as Yorkshires Amateurs defeated Doncaster Rovers 4-2. An inspirational performance from youngster Kit Bigelow set the tone for the Amateurs as he netted twice with further goals from Hans Riegler and Julian Partridge. Doncaster did keep fighting and managed to net through Walter Axford who hit a fine double. Amateurs manager Danlufc singled Bigelow out for praise in his post-match interview, "Kit has a great future at this club and played a blinder today."

EASTHAM FC pulled off a fine 3-1 home win against champions AS Roma. The sides shared strikes from Elton Barkworth and Johnny Douglas before two late goals from the home side settled matters. Ray Hearts scoring in the 81st minute with a quality header before a late breakaway from Rex Victory sealed matters as Roma tried to push for an equaliser. Roma manager Cathalio explained the direction of his club to the fans in this open letter, "This club decided after a successful 4 games that they wanted to build up big for the future and worry about the side's form." Going onto explain that relegation wouldn't necessarily be a disaster, fans have to put their faith in Cathalio and will look for brighter things next season.

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