McVitee FC vs Lincoln Imps
Dave Barker
McVitee FC 8 Lincoln Imps 4
Man City played host to Lincoln for their 9th game of the season.
Lincoln turned up with only 10 men so we gave them one of our good young
lads who I spent the entire half trying to mark and tackle - won't do
that again (the bugger nutmegged me as well).
Due to a late start, the game was 35 minutes each way. City started
swiftly and went 1-0 up within 5 minutes, great shot from 25 yards from
our other youngster Michael (will never lend him away!). Goals flooded
in by the blues without being too troubled at our end and by half time
it was 6-0 to Man City and we could have been on to a goal fest.
However, we actually decided to give them our goalkeeper and our top
midfield player and we took their keeper onto our team (although I made
him full-back and Martin Ford donned the keepers jersey for the second
time this season). We started the second-half like the first and scored
again. However due to the changes Lincoln became much better, and we
lost our structure, allowing Lincoln to gain confidence and attack a lot
swifter. They soon started to bang in the goals - I think they were all
lobs (sorry Martin). Apart from the one where the player from Lincoln
who joined our team took the ball at his right-back position and decided
to dribble around his players towards our goal mouth, to be dispossessed
and allowed Lincoln to slot away an easy goal - it definately looked
like a training ground routine to me...
The match finished 8-4 to Man City leaving us with 3 games and in our
hands to win the league...
