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North Berks Football
League Division One (2nd January, 2010)
Crowmarsh Gifford 2
Wootton and Dry Sandford 4
(Phil Annets, NBFL
Media Relations Officer)
Wootton Win ‘Match of the Day’
In the only match across
the whole of the North Berks League to survive the frosty conditions Wootton and
Dry Sandford continued their excellent current form with a well deserved victory
over Crowmarsh Gifford.
Crowmarsh Ben Willis (Orange) and Wootton's Adam Brooks shake
hand at the start of the 1st NBFL game of 2010 with referee Michael Billinge-Jones
On a pitch that was in
remarkable condition given the frosts of previous evenings, Wootton played the
better football and could have taken the lead in the 10th minute when
a close range header was cleared of the line by a Crowmarsh defender. The home
side had a couple of chances of their own before the deadlock was broken by
Wootton with a powerful header by Tom Srawley from Jonathan Weir’s well placed
corner kick in the 21st minute.
Wootton had chances to
double their lead before the break, not least when George Casserley went clear
through in the last minute of the half only to see his tame shot well saved by
Chris Sutton in the Crowmarsh goal. However, they didn’t have to wait long to
extend their lead as in the first minute of the second half their captain Adam
Brooks launched one of his many long throw-ins into the Crowmarsh penalty area.
Ben Taylor header the ball on from the edge of the six yard area and Jonathan
Weir dived bravely at the far post to head home.
Seven minutes later saw the move of the match as Steve Madge ran with the
ball down the left hand side of the pitch, played it inside to Ben Taylor who
laid it into the path of the onrushing Casserley, whose curling shot was only
parried by the keeper into the path of Tom Cooke who calmly blasted the ball
into the back of the net to make it 3-0 to Wootton.
Unsurprisingly Wootton eased off after this goal and were almost made to
pay for it. With just over 20 minutes remaining Scott Gesner’s low hit corner
was turned into the back of the net by Jon Fanstone with his back to the goal
from six yards out. Crowmarsh twice went close to getting a second before they
eventually did do so when with just three minutes remaining Paul Hannigan played
a short one-two with substitute Adam Phillips and saw his shot from the edge of
the area deflect off a defender to make it 3-2.
However, within a minute Wootton extinguished all thoughts of an unlikely
comeback as a well struck free kick on the right hand side by Damien Dodds was
eventually met at the far post by substitute Richard Chilvers who bundled the
ball over the line to give Wootton the victory that sees them swap places with
Crowmarsh in the table moving up to third.
