October 13th, two weeks without a game, now we're back to face a team new to the league, a team without a win, Richard Thornton back in goal, this game has to be ours...right?
Right! In less then 10 minutes we go 1-0 up from an Andy Amoss free-kick. Simple, refined, understated; victory is calmly assured, as predicted.
Wrong!
1-1: It seems they want to play too.
2-1 to them: This is not right.
3-1: What the heck is going on?
4-1: We're being whipped by the whipping boys! Even the team who can't win are beating us, oh no! ...We're the whipping boys!
Time for some real drama. Let's take this back.
4-2: James Clarke
4-3: Tom Jones
4-4: James Walker and time for a break I think; half-time.
The second half is slower, but no less tense, we control the tempo, we have got ourselves back in charge. Knowing this is a cup game is knowing that the next goal is most likely a winner, unless it opens floodgates of goals, a la first half.
GOAL!!!
An exact replica of his first free-kick form Andy Amoss (Danny Hayton looks on enviously, and curses his new limp). 5-4 to us and about 20 minutes to go.
Now all we have to do is make sure there are no defensive mistakes whatsoever. You can almost feel the intensity of concentration we all feel as we go in for challenges, track our runners and intercept balls. We do not want to take this to extra time and penalties, we have to win this in the first 90 min.
Finally comes some respite, James Clarke has scored his 2nd and this gives us some breathing room. With 7 minutes to go there's no way they can score 2 goals as well, not after the game we've had...right?
Right.
Wakefield Baptist Church 6-4 AS Normanton
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