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15th January 2011: OWE 3 – 0 Burscough

 

Ben, Lewis, JF, Robert, GH, Scott and Marcus started on a wet, muddy surface against familiar foes. Savas’s ASBO was folded neatly in his tracksuit trousers and a few early verbals from Paul sent an unusually quiet sparring partner to the opposite touchline.

 

As if on cue, there was early controversy with restrained appeals for a penalty when Robert was felled in the box but the ref, working on loan from Man United †, was having none of it. The second appeal, when Scott was chopped down by the keeper could not be ignored and Ben stepped up to convert – 1-0.

 

Some hard defensive with both his head and feet from Lewis and JF helped keep a clean sheet at the back. Scott nearly added to the tally hitting a rebound from Robert’s shot just wide. (M, GH, JF off, H, JD,GP on). Bit more footy. (S,R,L off, GH,M,JF on). Half-time.

 

Revitalised after the break/managerial hair-dryer, the second half saw some better passing and movement with immediate results. A neat through ball from GH found Marcus who controlled, turned and scored. Harvey nearly added a goal – a birthday present promised to their mum by both Rankins – soon after. (H, GP, JF off, L, S, R on). Then disaster struck when a second penalty was awarded to OWE after a handball and Ben contrived to tickle the keeper’s shins with his shot, spoiling a long held record from the spot of 2 ½ years without fail. Watch out for him in the new Pizza Hut adverts coming to your screens soon!

 

However the team saved the best to last. Robert took the ball in the centre of the field, beat two and passed out to Scott on the right hand side of the box. His shot low across the keeper could not be stopped and ended a lovely spell of play – 3-0.

 

Goals: Ben (1), Marcus (1), Scott (1)

Man of the Match: Robert

† For the benefit of any learned friends reading, this is an attempt at humour and contains no direct or implied imputation against either the impartiality or ocular abilities of the match official, except to say he should have gone to Specsavers.