football rambles

 So, I moved into Downham at 2 and was down the football by 3. I had seen some good games down here on the odd occasions that I have been here over the season, but this wasn't really one of them. Downham have a cup final coming up and neither team has much at stake as we come towards the end of the season. Downham were probably the better team in the second half, but neither team fashioned any convincing chances before halftime.  Downham came out in the second half with more attempt and took the lead through Artur Visocanskis early in the half. However, they were undone by 2 goals in quick succession by Asa McGeachy and Nathan Russell.

 Ely City carried on their recent good form on Friday night by beating Sheringham 2-1. This was definitely my last game with Ely as my local team though! The last time that the teams met Ely were beaten easily by the visitors and this time they came into the game confident that they would repeat the feet. Their confidence must have grown after just 3 minutes when the Ely defence was split open and Harry Sutton, son of Chris, in goals for Ely and making his home debut was beaten. However, unlike after a number of times in the past Ely rallied and Jack Friend hammered in a thunderous shot that beat the keeper to give Ely an equaliser. At the break it seemed like a fair result, as both teams had had their chances and Ely may have been the slightly better of it after the first few minutes where they were too slow getting out of the blocks. Ely started the brighter of the two teams in the second half and they were handed an advantage when Jack Friend was fouled as he was clear on goal and t

 This may go down as one of the biggest comebacks that I have ever been present at. It's just a pity that King's Lynn were on the receiving end of it. King's Lynn came quickly out of the blocks with Bartosz Cybulski firing the Linnets into a two goal lead before Scarborough had a chance to settle. Jonny Margetts then added a third from the spot to give the Linnets a 3-0 lead after only 20 minutes. The rest of the half was similarly one sided with Scarborough rarely venturing out of their own half. However, whatever the Scarborough coach said to his team at halftime definitely seemed to do the trick. The second half started with Margetts coming close but after three minutes, it was Kole Hall who fired one back for the visitors. After this it was a very different second half with the Seadogs in the ascendancy. They were finally back in the game on 77 minutes when Luca Colville broke through the defence to feed Lewis Maloney who scored with  a deflected shot. Scarborough were

 The second game of the bank holiday bonanza was Ely City v Heacham, which I think will probably be the last time that Ely City are my local team, although I might make it to the Sheringham game on Friday night. Ely went into the game not having won or scored in a league game in 2024. Heacham, who had started the season off well, have also been sliding down the table in recent weeks. However, despite the sun being out for the first time this year too, there wasn't much optimism in the stands that Ely would get the win or that the game would provide that much entertainment. The first half lived up to expectations in that nothing much happened and neither team really created anything. However, a keeper blunder early on in the second let Jack Friend give the hosts the lead. This helped Ely gain more confidence and later add on  a second also from Jack Friend.  A great performance in the second half by Ely, although there still needs to be some questions asked of how they lack confiden

 In this Good Friday coming together, I don't think that anybody would have expected this result and I am sure that a fair few accas were ruined with this result.  Posh went into the game in good form and despite the recent loss to runaway leaders, Portsmouth that I recently went to have been on good form. They still look good for the play-offs and have a Wembley final to look forward to next week, but nobody would have expected a loss, never mind and emphatic loss to bottom of the league Carlisle.  I think that part of the problem was that Wembley final, as Posh didn't really look like they wanted to put a tackle in and the starting 11 yesterday probably expect to be the starting 11 next week. This was coupled with Poku and Mason-Clark uncharacteristically looking off form and being unable to get the ball to Malik Mothersille, who cut a lonely figure up front for the Posh. That said, nothing should be taken away from a great performance by the visitors who battled for everythi

 Before this game MK Irish seemed like a team that couldn't stop scoring and despite being lower mid-table Stansted had won their last four games and there had been plenty of goals in them. Therefore, I turned up expecting a goal-fest. How wrong I was! The first half was a fairly even affair with the one clear cut chance falling to the Irish that went just wide. The second half saw MK try and turn the screw and Stansted were under constant pressure. It didn't help that early in the half, the Stansted keeper, Charlie Turner injured his leg but played through the pain. In all honesty, he was definitely man of the match in what was a hard earned point for the Airport Army.