One of the leagues stronger outfits arrived to the icy tundra of cranford with an early xmas present of only having nine men so in the true spirit of the festive season we spent much of the first period trying to give the ball back to them until their tenth and final man arrived. To say we made hard work of the first half would firstly be an understatement and secondly would not highlight how well Ibis competed. Whilst our passing at times was truly shocking, they closed us down really well and looked dangerous on the break.

 

Nick missed a great chance one on one managing somehow to scoop the ball further vertically than horizontally and it seemed he would have on eof those afternoons where cow’s arse and banjo would not be far away when his name was mentioned. Ibis decided they might fancy winning it and when Matts beardsley dummy which has gone so well for him all year was for once not bought, their gleeful forward nipped in to beat the advancing banksy. I say advancing but as he’d tweaked a hammy in the warm up, and we had no sub due to dozie oversleeping....again...it was more like John Inman running for a bus after a hard nights sodomy.

 

1-0 half time.

 

Thankfully the second half was more like us as the 10 men tired we created more and more...and missed more and more until Ben found space to slot home and Nick finally found his shooting boots with a brace. Ibis still remained dangerous and brought a great save from John and hit the bar and at full strength we would certainly have struggled to take the points, but we did and can look forward to the Xmas break in with a real shout of promotion.

 

MOM - Stuart at the back, solid again.