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Horseshoes (04/02/2007) 2006 - 2007 Season, Afc Hithercroft  After an overnight frost the sun had cleared the frost from the Hazlemere Rec pitch but it remained slippery and slightly muddy. Hithercroft’s players were a little late in arriving and some failed to turn up at all, leaving Hithercroft with just eleven players and no substitutes. The referee was Mr P. McGann and Pam Ife ran the line for Hithercroft. The game got under way at 10.40am and the first half was played out fairly evenly but with Hithercroft just shading it. Both sides had attacking opportunities but their on-target shots were easily taken care of by the opposing goalkeeper and neither side managed to get on the score sheet. Just one minute into the second half Stuart Cutts put the Shoes 1-0 up with a well-taken goal and it was expected that this would spur the visitors into action. However, four minutes later the referee awarded a penalty kick to the Shoes and James Rees sent the ball into the left-hand side of the goal to give his side a 2-0 lead. On 56 minutes Shoes made their first sustitution replacing No.11 (Simon Bennett) with No.14. On the hour-mark Stuart Cutts received the ball from the right and hit the ball just inside the right-hand post to give Shoes a 3-0 lead. Three minutes later they made another substitution replacing their No.6 with No.12. In the 67th minute Tyrone Francis came close to pulling one back for Hithercroft when he took the ball into the 18-yard box and struck the ball towards the top of the goalmouth but keeper Bruno Figueiredo rose up to tip the ball over the crossbar. Hithercroft had begun to pressurise their opponents and were awarded a number of free-kicks and corners but were unable to get the ball into their opponents’ net. Much to the surprise of Hithercroft the referee ended the game 10 minutes early but it was very unlikely that they would have been able to pull back the 3-goal deficit. Hithercroft M.o.M: John Baldock Hithercroft team: Neil Stretton (GK), Mike Baldock, Kris Clark, Dan Birch, Kevin Midgley, Tyrone Francis, Richard McKie, Baz David, Frank Smith, Kevin Howell, John Baldock. Three Horseshoes scorers: Stuart Cutts (46 mins, 60 mins), James Rees (50 min penalty) |
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