Match Report – 20th March 2010

Posted in U10s Blue News ... March 24th, 2010

Purley Jubilee  1 – 3  Kennet Valley Hawks

Maidenhead Pythons  2 – 0  Purley Jubilee

Our first match today was against the league leaders so we were determined not to let them have it easy & to give them a good fight. We held our own during the first half & we went into the break level at 0 – 0.

The Hawks went 1 -0 up at the start of the second half but we battled back to equalise with a goal from Shaun Barnes. We obviously had the Hawks worried as they started to play tough & they scored their second goal whilst Purley’s Harry Young was on the ground after a hard tackle. We didn’t give up though & we continued to battle but the Hawks scored again whilst another of our players, Luke Fifield, was down after being at the end of a high tackle. Although we had shouted at the referee that we had a player down, he had allowed play to continue & despite our protests, he allowed the goal to stand. Not satisfied with the referees decision the Purley manager removed the team from the pitch & the match ended before the final whistle.

Sadly, the Hawks manager was only concerned about the final score & walked away without so much as an apology that 2 of our players had been in tears from hard tackles.

The Fair Play Award went to our goalie Connor Taylor for some good saves & some good shouted instructions to the team.

Our 2nd match was against the struggling Maidenhead Pythons. Unfortunately, the 1st match had left us disheartened & we showed no enthusiam in the game at all. Joe Wakefield battled hard throughout the game in defence stopping some shots that could quite easily have ended up in the back of the net & the one’s that he couldn’t stop were cleared by our on form goalie Connor Taylor. The Pythons did manage to get one shot on target & then we gave them a second from a deflection off one of our own players. The final whistle went with Purley losing 2 -0.

The Fair Play Award went to Joe Wakefield for continued battling.