A Two Game Week

A Two Game Week

In the last week my beloved Ollerton Town have played two game with differing results. On Saturday we travelled to Doncaster to face Armthorpe Welfare in a game which we lost by Two goals to Nil. But that flattered the hosts. Two errors, and he won't mind me name dropping him, by Jack who basically dropped two efforts over the goal line cost us the game. The standard of officiating is woeful at this level as seen by one of the offside calls in this game... the linesman flagged a player offside who cam from behind the player who passed it to him and by the time the player reached the ball and had been flagged he had yet to the pass the defensive line. Needless to say the players were up in arms! The second Armthorpe goal again showed the referees inability to cope. The goal came from an indirect free kick, which he struck at goal, the Ollerton goal keeper palmed it onto the post but it passed the line. As Jack, in the Ollerton goal had touched it the goal should have been allowed to stand. However the referee disallowed it, until the linesman who dropped a bollock in the first half told him to allow it. In the closing stages Ollerton's Sam West, who is never usually far from trouble, was involved in an incident that saw him get strangled by a former football league player, Darren Mansaram. The Armthorpe Player was rightly dismissed. On his way off he shouted to one of our players that he should google him before googling himself. So we did. Less than impressive. Hardly something to brag about anyway... The tea there wasn't very good either, good pie and other food as well, tea was weak (told you I'd mention tea at some point).

The second game of the week was in the Notts Senior Cup, where we beat Radcliffe Olympic 3-0 away from home. The side was as you'd expect in strength terms. the Goalkeeper was given the chance to amend his errors, by that I mean stand in the cold and do a very little, in a game that we dominated. A brace from Chris Hewitt on his return to a starting berth and a goal from Lewis Bingham sent us through to the next round of the cup with ease. The pitch was awful, it was freezing as the game went on and the facilities were even worse. We took a decent away following as usual with around twenty following us to Nottingham on a freezing cold November evening. You can tell me as much as you like how East Midlands Counties is the same standard as North East Counties but that's rubbish. Ollerton have knocked out two teams from that league without really playing that well. The teams and their players just aren't that good. Some players appeared to only use one foot, one in particular didn't look like he even knew how to use that. Even more surprisingly, the former England Under 21 international Julian Joachim turned out for Radcliffe at Centre Back. The Englishman once played in the FA Cup Final for Aston Villa as a Striker in 2000. What a fall from grace... The tea here was much better but the other choices of food were very average. Chips, bread or cake is hardly an amazing choice. 

But we're into the next round of the cup, and with a massive league fixture coming up against local rivals Shirebrook Town, where two of our former players are playing as well as a former captain and coach as assistant manager things will definetly be interesting.

Up the town. We're all town aren't we? Etc...

Until next time.

Craig.