Fairford Leys FC

A late winner for Wingrave denied Fairford Leys what would have been a well deserved point. Fairford Leys worked extremly hard, especially Kieran and Tag in centre Mid to deny Wingrave the opportunity to play and created plenty of chances of thier own.

Wingrave took the lead in the first half when Matt tackled a player who was through on goal just inside the area only to see the ball roll straight in to the path of an oncoming unmarked striker who made no mistake in firing the ball past John. Fairford Leys almost equalised immediatly when Matts free kick following an offside decision just on half way released James in to the box but his shot was rather tame and straight at the keeper. James made up for it 5 minutes later following a through ball from Tag when he showed great strehgth to hold off a defender before lifting the ball over the guys head and volleying it home a al Gascoigne against Scotland in Euro 96.

Fairford Leys performed well in the second half but were destined for defeat when Wingraves number 5 connected with a corner to send a powerful header past John from 4 yards out with only minutes to go. Just after the goal Wingraves first goal scorer was racially abused by his own goal keeper casuing him to run 60 yards and punch his own keeper in the face. The keeper retaliated with a roundhouse kick and team mates had to seperate the two players. As the dust settled Fairford Leys players were astonished to see the ref take no action against either player! If this was not violent conduct or ungentemanly conduct or something then what exactly do you have to do to get a red card? In credit to our players no-one surrounded the ref asking for cards to be shown but perhaps this was because everyone was so sure the ref would have no choice bt to send them off. Despite spending the last 3 or 4 minutes camped in Wingraves half no equaliser could be found and the game ended in dissapointment.

 However Matt Mark and Shaun played really well  as a back three, John made some outstanding saves, particularly in the first half to keep the game close. Kieran and Tag totally frustrated the oppostion players by preventing the time and room to play . Hughes did really well in his supporting the striker role and had several chances to score himself and James was outstanding in his lone role upfront and thoroughly deserved his goal.

Starting XI: (3,5,1,1) John, Matt, Shaun, Mark, Jordan, Kieran, Mark, Tag, Craig, Paul, James

Goals: James Ryan

Man of the match: Tag