Tues 27-04-2010 - Fulbourn 1st Team 4v1 Littleport (H)
A sunny evening game in the marathon that is the end of our season this year with the backlog caused by the exceptional winter weather. Our latest opponents Littleport are mid-table but always give us a hard game home or away.
For a change we started well, zipping the ball about with accurate passes and we were a goal up after 5 minutes when Fearo scored from close range after some excellent interplay. Matt Glass looked sharp but is a bit low on confidence of late and everything he tried did not come off but to his credit he kept plugging away. The visitors defence were frightened to death of his pace and took no chances, booting it into touch whenever he threatened.
Ben tried a long range effort with the inside of his boot which bent round and rattled the cross bar and would have been the goal of the season if it had gone in.
Littleport did not trouble our goal at all until 30 minutes into the game when Smith dwelt on the ball too long in front of goal and a shot crept under Buster’s diving body to equal up the score. The goal was really undeserved and there was no doubt anywhere that the score would not end up even and that we would grasp back the initiative.
Nothing changed despite constant pressure from the home side until a few minutes before the end of the half when Glass finally broke his own deadlock and ran onto a long through ball which he gratefully slotted in. This was followed by another raid as the irrepressible Fearo pounced when he found himself in front of goal and he dived to head in number three from close range again, the man is a veritable goal machine.
3-1 at half time and again we were cruising but contemplation of a large score proved to be unfounded and although we had cross after cross and shot after shot nothing went in. Dave decided to mix it up a bit and brought on an old face Lee Meadows who has played for us in the past. He looked very sharp and together with Sean Frost affected our performance immediately. It was Smith who redeemed his first half mistake which led to a goal, as he poked in number four putting the result beyond any doubt. There was a classic pinball machine incident near the end when virtually every one of the six front players had a go at scoring and the ball was pinging around in front of goal but all to no avail as it just would not go in.
It ended 4-1 but the heartening thing was that Fulbourn looked full of running right to the end. The heavy program of all these recent games do not seem to have taken their toll and with players coming back for the last games we look on course to be on top of the heap once again this season.
Report Dave Bradford