football rambles

 Boxing day morning saw Ely take on Soham in the Fen Derby in front of a bumper crowd of nearly 300. Although they are fairly close to each other in the league, Ely have seen a number of departures and changes, so Soham went into the game as heavy favourites. Soham were also missing players, but it never really looked in doubt from the start. Sam Mulready opened the scoring for the visitors after they had had most of the pressure on 19 minutes. Ryan Sharman doubled the lead just before the break, but at this point Ely hadn't really got into the Soham half. Ely came out stronger in the second half and had most of the play in Soham's half, but never really caused any serious trouble for the Greens. On 86 minutes Luke Brown put the result beyond doubt as Soham caught Ely on the break and made it 3-0.

 A very cold day at the Abbey saw  the struggling Us take on table-topping Plymouth in a game that everyone thought was going to be an easy win for the visitors.  However, it was Cambridge who probably feel the most disappointed with the result. A result that sees them stay just out of the relegation places and sees Argyle slip to second as Ipswich beat Posh. This was a really good performance by the Us and in the second half Knibbs really should have put the ball in the back of the net and Sam Smith probably should have scored too. The Us had the better chances, but as has been so often in the last few months failed to convert the chances into goals. Not a bad result all in all, but a massive disappointment to see Cambridge draw yet another blank. 

 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