Zombie football

This doesn't really refer to the match between Ely City and Stanway Rovers on Saturday, but my own state of mind. I'd been up since Thursday night and travelled back from Dalyan to Ely on the morning of the match. I think that most people were surprised that I had made it back in time for the game. Anyway, the first half offered a lot of niggly tackles, but didn't offer much in the way of goal mouth action. Ely did break the deadlock just before half time though when either Simon Warren or Grant Robbins put the Robins ahead. I say either as Simon Warren had a shot that seemed to spill on to the goal line and Grant Robbins seemed to put it over the line. Most of the debate at half time seemed to think that it was Warren's goal, but the referee gave it to Robbins, however it said that Warren scored the goal in the Cambridge News, so I guess we will never know who really got the goal.

There was no doubt about who got the second goal for Ely though as Robbie Mason powered through the Stanway defence to make it 2-0.

For most of the match Stanway were frustrated by the Ely off-side trap, but it's always a dangerous game for Ely to play and a lot of goals are scored from them not doing it properly. On one or two occassions it seemed that Robins could be thankful for some generous flag waving from the linesman. Stanway did get a goal back when Lee Pacey handled outside the box, but as it was accidental he only got a yellow. This set up a tense finish, as happens quite often at the Unwin, but it was a good result for the Robins who were missing 5 first teamers.

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