We were playing against Horley, who are top of the league, but with us being bottom, no-one really fancied our chances. We had an ace up our sleeve, however, as our first team weren't playing. As Dave couldn't be there due to work, Scruff was in charge, and drafted in Morgo, Baker & Tom Bayliss. The biggest bit of team news was that 'keeper Murphy was dropped, in favour of Henry, who having just turned 16 was now eligible to play. Henry is very highly rated by the club, and the talk on the sidelines was that he was having trials with Brighton. All of this meant that I stayed on the bench, although at least Allan took the linesman's flag for the first half, which is the first time this year, apart from my one game in goal, that I've not started as lino.
The first half was pretty even, but we went in 3-1 up. It should have been more, but Morgo missed an open goal. He was two yards out, and not only missed the target, but the ball didn't even go out of play, ending up near the corner flag. Despite being promised at least a half, I didn't get on at half time, and even had to take over lino duties. Fortunately, after 20 minutes of the second half, with the score now at 5-1, Morgo had had enough, and I went on.
To say I was given mixed instructions is an understatement. I was told to play up front, play as the Trequartista, and to man mark their number 5, who was playing attacking centre mid. In spite of this, I managed to make a few good tackles and flick-ons, but I think it's fair to say that it was my worst performance for a while.
The game ended 5-2 to us, and with other results going our way, we're now off the bottom of the league, although we're still 3 points off third bottom and safety. It's Holland Sports who occupy that position, who have two games in hand on us, and it's them we play next weekend. Six pointer, anyone?
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