Posted by coltfan on July 21, 2007, 7:04 pm, in reply to "Re: Milton Utd 1 City 2 (A Damp View From the Terraces)" --Previous Message--
Has jermaine mcsporran signed for city ???
: So as the sun beamed down (quickly followed by
: torrential rain) Milton United hosted City
: in the first match of the ‘friendly’ season.
: City had plenty of new names on show and the
: team that came out rather tentatively into
: monsoon-like rain after half-time bore
: little resemblance to the eleven who had
: sought shelter fifteen minutes earlier!
: The hosts caused a couple of early scares in
: the City defence but did not get their final
: shots on target and slowly City began to get
: the upper hand. Considering few of the City
: team had played together in earnest before
: today they settled into a good rhythm quite
: quickly. Mark Bell and Steve Davis were
: playing well and debutant James Faulkner put
: in some strong runs at the front and kept
: the Milton keeper on his toes.
: The only goal of the half came after 34
: minutes when a corner was cleared to Molton
: on the edge of the area and although he
: fluffed his first shot the ball ran nicely
: for him and he fired home past an unsighted
: keeper into the corner of the net.
:
: HALF-TIME: Milton United 0-1 City
:
: A very different City XI took the field
: after the break and it saw Jermaine
: McSporran in City colours for the first time
: in nearly a decade lining up with Mark
: Jones, Alex Stewart, Liam Malone, Mark
: Janes, George Redknapp, Jon Gardner and Mark
: Avery among others. City took the game to
: their opponents more now and Jones, Janes
: and McSporran were making plenty of
: openings. A fine save by the home keeper
: kept out McSporran’s sharp volley from a
: Jones cross; and the keeper did very well to
: push away a Stewart header that was bound
: for the bottom corner five minutes later.
: After 80 minutes Milton made the most of one
: of few chances to come their way in the
: second half when a Milton forward
: (apologies for the lack of a name!) popped
: up on the right of the City box and placed
: his shot neatly wide of the keeper’s left
: hand.
: Four minutes later City won a corner on the
: Milton left and, in one of those
: ‘what-happened-next’ moments, Jon Gardner
: kicked the flag as well as the ball as he
: took the kick, looked concerned as the ball
: rolled three yards, and then relieved as
: Mark Jones reacted quickest of those on hand
: to play the ball back enabling him to put in
: a good cross that Mark Avery drove in at the
: far post.
:
: FULL-TIME: Milton United 1-2 Oxford City
:
:
: So the management will have seen plenty of
: players during the afternoon and will have a
: lot to think about over the remaining
: friendlies during the next three weeks.
: Hard for the supporters to get really
: involved while watching friendlies but most
: of those beneath the smart new
: blue-and-white umbrellas * (and some rather
: older and more moth-eaten) felt that there
: was some good football played for so early
: in the year and there was plenty to build
: on.
:
: *Available from the hooped-hut at the
: give-away price of only £12.50!!
:
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