football rambles

 Despite starting the season with a wealth of players up front King's Lynn have lost all of their established goalscorers and this really showed on Saturday. The young Sean Sealey showed some good movement, but was bullied a bit by their older defenders. Both sides had chances and Lynn looked the better team in the first half, but neither of the goalkeepers had much to worry about. The second half was more even and Hereford looked to take advantage after Cameron Forde Brown hobbled off with what looked like a nasty injury and Ross crane was sent off for what looked like an innocuous challenge. However, neither side looked like scoring today and it did indeed finish 0-0

 On Saturday we visited the Walks for a game between Kings Lynn and Hereford in the National League North. On paper it looked like it should be an easy win for the Linnets. However, they didn't have things all of their own way. Herford came quickly out of the blocks and Lynn didn't look like they knew what had hit them. They took the lead on 16 minutes through a Tyrone Barnett goal. After this Lynn grew into the game and created a few chances. Josh Coulson probably should have buried one to put them on level terms. That's not to say Hereford didn't also create chances. Christian Oxlade Chamberlain was pretty busy at right back with Hereford preferring to attack down this side. Nevertheless, despite being behind at halftime, you felt that King's Lynn had more to offer and that the game was far from over Lynn came out firing on all cylinders in the second half and it felt like things were going to change. Ken Charles eventually got the equaliser on 62 minutes. A Jorda...

  Perhaps not immediately obvious that this is a Hereford scarf, but this was what it was marketed as when Hereford played Morpeth in the FA Vase final on 22 May 2016. This was the first time that the FA Vase and FA Trophy were played on the same day and it was really a good day out. We had gone supporting Hereford in the FA Vase final, which unfortunately finished in a 4-1 win for Morpeth Town. Herford were the heavy favourites and had a big backing in the stands. When Purdie put them ahead in the 2nd minute it looked like the Bulls were going to get the win, but Swailes, Carr, Taylor and Bell scored for Morpeth to give the Northumbrian team a big win. In the other game, Halifax Town beat Grimsby Town 1-0 to win the FA Trophy. On the topic of scarves, this might not have been a proper Hereford scarf, but I'd rather have this than the ones that appeared for AFC Fylde in 2019 where the team was spelled in two different ways - neither of them correctly.