Viking Greenford 0 Wokingham 4
FA Vase, 22/9/00

Having made an early exit in the FA Cup the pressure is on Wokingham to maintain interest in the other premier cup competition, the Vase. They're not doing a bad job so far, with two wins and none conceded. However they are now only in the First Round proper and there is a long way to go yet, last year Town got a bye right through to the 2nd round.

But lets not get carried away as despite dominating the game and scoring 4 goals you have to consider the standard of the opposition. They were terrible, little more than a sunday league outfit with at least 4 genuine fat blokes. They could string little more than 1 pass together and their main attacking threat came from the centre backs' long punts forward. Most of which either ran straight through to Town keeper Freeman or just sliced out of play. They were hardly a side bursting at the seams with inventive, one touch, silky attacking play; more the one touch and straight back to the opposition variety.

Well this was all good news for Town though as they had an easy game and a less than difficult passage into the next round. Viking rarely troubled the Wokingham penalty area, let alone the goalmouth so it was down to the strikers to show what they could do. Not a lot going on the first half showing. Blake opened the scoring after about 20 minutes when Ward cut inside from the right, slipped the ball to him, he rounded the goalie and slotted home. The supporters thought the heveans would open but no such luck, Town failed to create any clear cut chances but had plenty of wild shots that were off target. Half time and 1-0, a little dissapointing that Wokingham did not have more to show for their possesion.

The second period went much the same way but with Town having more of the ball in the final third. Mellor was demanding Town to raise their game within 5 minutes of the restart as they looked too comfortable and not menacing enough. Ward had to go off injured but was replaced by Ryan Adger, the majority of Town's attacks continuing to go down that right hand side.

Wokingham got their second when McCoy got hold of the ball about 20 yards out, his rasping shot was straight at the Viking goalie. However in AC Milan v Leeds style he failed to get much on the ball and it went trough his hands and trickled into the net. Wokingham were by now carving out more and more chances. The third came from a Jon Christopher cross from the left which was well headed into the bottom far corner by Inns who had broke into the box from midfield. The fourth came in the final minutes when Blake latched onto a rebound to fire home, 4-0.

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