4-1 Again!





Rocester beat Oldbury 4-1 at home and then managed to beat Sutton Town 4-1 away in the FA Vase, so expectations were high for this game. Although the manager, Swaney urged precaution there was a general optimism around the club, which had been missing for a while.



The optimism was short lived. Coventry Sphinx, who have been buoyed by closer connections to Coventry City reversed the scores of the previous 2 games by beating Rocester 4-1 in what was quite a bad tempered game. To be honest, the officials did really well in calming things down and injecting humour into the game. Some of the tackles going in looked to have the intent to harm the opposite player and the back chat and appeals of both teams, although mainly from Sphinx players seemed unreasonable. Not surprisingly this fixture led to both clubs being heavily fined last year when fighting broke out among the players, so hats off to the officials for keeping control of things today. That said, they had to be eagle eyed as they were being inspected themselves.



Although the result is a disappointment to Rocester they can take satisfaction from the fact that they played well and were even pressing for goals at the end. Coventry Sphinx are going to cause problems for a lot of teams this season and they, along with Market Drayton Town must be amongst favourites for promotion.



Notes on photos from top to bottom:

1. Bargain Boozers: Asya and Sean walk back from the bar, or something like that

2. Sloping off: Obviously Guiness was stronger than I thought looking at the angle of this picture, although there is a pretty good view of the church.

3. Rocester get ready to take a free kick.

4. Sphinx clear the ball from the free kick.

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