City Vets 5 Chippy Old Boys 3

[Holdy]

The Vets continued their 100% winning record last night beating Chippy Old Boys at home in an entertaining match 5-3.
City dominated the early stages of the game, and had several clear cut chances to put Chippy out of sight, but the goal didn't come until the 31st minute, when Paul Kimber was brought down in the box. Ronnie Williams stepped up to convert past the impressive Chippy keeper. City then conceded an equalizer completely against the run of play right on the stroke of time. City went in at half-time level, ruing the missed chances.

HALF-TIME: City 1 Chippy 1

City made 4 changes at half-time, and were soon putting Chippy on the back foot, but once again a mix of the woodwork and some fine saves from the Chippy keeper were frustrating City. They eventually got the breakthrough 10 minutes in, when Mike Ford put in a teasing cross, and Barry Primmer went in bravely with the keeper to head home from 8 yards.
City went searching for the crucial 3rd goal to kill off any hopes of Chippy getting back in, but once again Chippy bounced back with an equalizer with 17 minutes remaining after Steve Foote brought down the Chippy forward, and the resulting penalty being dispatched to bring the scores level again.
Worse was to follow for City within 2 minutes off Chippy equalizing they took the lead after a right wing cross was headed home at the far post by the Chippy forward to make the score unbelievably City 2 Chippy 3.
15 minutes to go, and panic stations for the leaders that there 100% winning record could be coming undone, but they dug in, and got their equalizer with 8 minutes remaining after Gary Murphy's pin point cross was headed in at the far post by Ronnie Williams for his second of the game.
City then went in front 3 minutes later after Dave Southam's cross from the left was powerfully headed home by Mike "goal a game" Ford.
The game was wrapped up in the last minute with the best goal of the game, after Gary Murphy powered down the right wing, and whipped over a cross for Paul Kimber to volley home from 15 yards and give a relieved City a 5-3 victory to keep up their 100% winning streak.

FULL-TIME: City 5 Chippy Old Boys 3.

Team: Carl Fisher, Robert Tutton, Julian Dark, Steve Foote, Gary Murphy, Mark Orlando, Justin Lee, Paul Kimber, Ronnie Williams, Paul Spittle, Dave Southam. Subs: Barry Primmer, Shaun Pearce, Mike Ford, Wayne Holden, Paul Creed.

Next game the Over 40's are back in action next Wednesday (16/03/11) away to Abingdon Town in the Quarter finals of the Over 40's County Cup, kick-off 7.45PM.

[bryan]

Firstly the reason I watch city is because ive had enough of the premiership, with its diving, swearing and the lack of respect to the refs.
Im afraid ive got to say last night was a dissapointment, the language of the players was terrible, im pretty sure i even heard julian darke say "bugger"!
and then the reaction of justin to being substituted was petulent to say the least, and his sulking was only matched by ronnie who seemed upset about coming back on!
even worse was my favourite player pete kember who not only dived to get a penalty but then on scoring a goal started firing an imaginary gun and shouting "smoking hot".
but the most sickening thing was the managers reaction to going 3-2 down, the verbal volley he gave the bench was horrific, im pretty sure the young lad with dyed hair (hoddy i think) was actually close to tears, wayne im sorry but you need to realise that football is littered with great players that couldnt cut it at management,
maradona, bobby moore, mike ford and roy keane to name a few, so come on boys you need to set an example out there,
oh yeah, can anyone give me a lift to abingdon next week!

[Holdy]

Go on your f***ing bike to Abingdon. To be fair Bas, I mean Bryan, a 100% win record this season in the vets & my Girls Under 12's team top of the league, need I say more about my Managerial skills. Sometimes you just have to be brutal in this game, even if it is your Dad that you are giving a bollocking to. Look what happened, we ended up winning 5-3 because I said to leave Fordy on, and he only popped up to score???

Holdy Junior (The special one).

[number two]

As part of the player coach bench .... i must say i apologies to the 2 supporters stood behind the pillar in what was an empty stadium .. ... me and Russ abbot were taken back by the reaction of the manager's language and arm waving (don't think he was happy with the size of his easter egg i got him) .. it put us in a nervous disposition .. there were lads who didn't want to go on .. it was that bad .. (apart from tutt who's tracksuit , was on and off like a light) .. still after Justin lee had crawled off the field, longest ever to walk the walk .. it gave us enough extra time to get the goals we needed .. cheers Justin .. we also had to remove Ollie after his two footed tackle with the gate in the corner (nasty) ;D .. we also gave fordy the five Min's he wanted .. i myself decided to replace Paul smoking kimber .. after his goal celebration as it did cause a disturbance in the crowd ... well done boys, well done holdy (you cant do both) come on the city

[Smokey]

I have to say I happened to be on the bench (couldn't believe I was taken off!!), when Chippy went 3 - 2 up!!

Its fair to say the player manager did lose his cool a bit and aimed his disgust at both his Dad (Russ) and Creedy (Great motivational speaker should you ever need one!!)... This seemed to cause panic between the two caretaker managers who spent the next ten minutes talking about tactical changes and what personnel to change!!

Fortunately sense prevailed after this confusion and bad language and they bought the poacher on to net another cracker at the 'Bar End'!!

The City Vets machine rolls on and despite the managers odd moment of madness he remains unbeaten in all comps into Mid March...

On that note a trivia question for the City Faithful.. Who is the oldest player to make their first team debut currently?

[bryan]

thanks for the feedback boys, and yes in hindsight, standing in an empty stadium with a restricted view was silly!
if anyone has a problem with my opinions and wants to discuss them then I was the bloke with glasses and a city scarf on.

[Holdy]

A couple of days to reflect on my actions, and perhaps I was a little bit over the top in my over reaction to my management team on the bench, but when you tell them to take Fordy off, and put Kimber on, and then 2 minutes later I see Ronnie coming on for Justin, maybe I had just reason??? I blame the easter egg that Creedy brought me, as I scoffed it down in the 1st half, which obviously made me a little bit hyper.
Take this as an official apology to my management team. I shall calm down next week.

Holdy (The Special one).

[Julian Dark]

Holdy, don't listen to them.

I think you're a great manager, a superb motivator with fantastic vision and insight into the game and all its intricacies.

Your drive and desire to win is inspirational.

Can I still be captain for the rest of the season?

[russ abbots brother]

what changed the game ...??at 3 ,2 down ..Justin lee off .. Ronnie bandanna on .. Paul swallowed the kick about balls spittle off .. Paul smoking kimber on .. mark open the gate Orlando off .. Dave plastic brummie on ....... action ..... Ronnie scores 3,3 ... Dave southam crosses ,fordy (take him @*;$*~<> off) scores 4,3 .. Paul smoking kimber scores 5,3 ...... Russ and the bench take a bow ... nuf said ..... good luck weds lads me and Russ are unavailable this weds