football rambles

Last week we had a great day out in Cambridge and the York lads. After a few pints in The Mitre, The Barron of Beef, The Brew House and The Champion of the Thames we made our way to the Abbey Stadium to the match. We went into the home end and they went to the away for the game. The game was better than the previous Cambridge home game, but York offered little resilience in defence and at times it was too easy for the Us. Cambridge capitalised on their early domination and took the lead on 10 minutes with a Jimmy Spencer header and the writing seemed to be on the wall when Josh Couldom doubled the lead on 26 minutes. York were thrown a life line on 33 minutes when a quality strike into the top corner by James Berrett got the Minstermen right back in it.  They weren't able to capitalise though and the teams went in at the break with the home side in the lead.  The Us continued to dominate in the second half with Ben Williamson capitalising on Scott Flinders' spill in goals for t

Last week Sean's team went to Cambridge United v Dagenham. They got to have a look around the stadium, meet the players and have a kick around on the pitch. The game wasn't exactly a classic though. The wind played a big part in spoiling it and the teams were finally separated by a Luke Berry penalty in the 83rd minute.

It's been a couple of weeks ago since this game in the Eastern Counties Division 1 Cup. It was quite a bad tempered game and not a classic with the visitors winning and having a man sent off.

On 23 January we went to Ely v Stowmarket in the Eastern Counties Division 1 Cup Quarter Final and on Saturday we went to Cambridge United v Dagenham & Redbridge. I'll catch up on the posts as soon as I can.