With just four minutes left both sides seemed to have settled for a draw when we got another penalty which Reeves converted, had to sit back and defend for 8 minutes of injury time but in the 2nd of the 8 Al Hamadi broke from the halfway line outpaced the defence and crashed home the fourth to rapturous acclaim, whether we can keep the Iraq striker will be key to how high we end up in the table this season. In the second period Notts missed a sitter straight away and got back into the game at 2-2 with goals on 62 and 67 minutes and it looked ominous when keeper Bass saved well from close range. Given that we have missed about 5 penalties this season already this was a surprise to many and before the interval we were 2-0 up when Al Hamadi scored, could have made it more before the break too. Then within 30 seconds we missed a superb chance to take the lead then were given a penalty which Jake Reeves, who once played for Notts Co, converted. With both a clubhouse and tea bar too, and all set in a very rural location, I really liked it.ĪFC Wimbledon 4 Notts County 2 crowd 8,479(1,200 away)įreezing cold day in London and for the first 25 minutes not a lot happened although the visitors dominated possession without threatening much. Good honest fayre on a sunny but chilly afternoon.Īs for the ground, the only thing I can add to Ostrich’s excellent description earlier in the season ( ) is that the new stand on the near side is nearly complete, and it already looks a good ‘un, complementing the existing facilities nicely. And the players generally just got on with it. In fact the visitors felt aggrieved with quite a few decisions in the first half, and occasionally they may have had a point, but every blast of outrage from the visiting fans was countered by rapturous applause for the ref from the resident old boys behind the goal! All in good spirit. The game was decided by two first half goals, the referee overruling the linesman’s flag for the first. Holt, who fielded three or four really young-looking but very capable lads, seemed to have the better ball players, Stur maybe a little more physical presence. So a big three points for them this afternoon.Ī heavy, leaf-covered pitch would’ve sapped both sides’ energy and, in what was a fairly even and competitive encounter, there wasn’t much room for finesse either. Last season’s champions v runners-up and both are in the mix this season, although Holt do have a bit of ground to make up. Didn't even get the badge in! But I'll remain magnanimous and wish them good luck with the rest of the season, even if their budget is about 10 times bigger than ours. I'm a lover, not a fighter, so I basically left them to it. Seriously, they both end in 'port County'. Only sour point was me being offered on after some members of the Stockport Mafia took umbrage to Newport's city centre: if he didn't repeat the same joke three times, maybe I wouldn't have pointed he came from the highly glamorous town of Stockport. The same one who squared up to an Ipswich player once. One of the Stockport players bumped into him and there was a good 5-10 minute delay whilst he had his gums checked and paper tissue applied. The referee was a bit toothless in the first-half. It's strange being exactly in mid-table when you've spent the last few weeks imagining what Dorking away feels like. Stockport did score late on - might have been a foul, but, in the words of Slaven Bilic, 'to be fair, I don't care'. Shane McLoughlin scored an absolute end of a goal, hitting the ball with the power of a lightning strike and the control of the key you combine with alt and delete. But the County (the winning ones) lit up the game throughout first, one straight off the training ground by Bryn Morris, who met a short pass from a corner to slot past Ben Hinchcliffe. Definitely the coldest game of the year so far. The burning was actually useful, because this was cooooooold. Stockport, on a 12-game winning run - the likes of which the EFL had never seen - and quite literally on fire, being sunk by us, a team who had won 5 in 18 and, having watched us play several times this year, not exactly the epitome of unbeatable. No, not in a 'mate, you should see a GP about that' way, but in a way that only your team could provide you. Oh, my loins were burning at the end of this.
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