Shawdale 8 - 2 Newbarn

Shawdale Smash Eight…To shut Newbarns G8

On a cold, wet and windy Heyside Park, two sides took to the pitch with both teams playing some great football, on at surface that resembled a rugby pitch at its conclusion. With the home side coming out victors, through their clinical finishing and their overall skill levels.

Newbarn however gave their all to the final whistle, never gave up the fight, even when the game had slipped from their grasp.

It had everything of an enthralling derby cup game. Supports heckling and cheering, red cards, penalties and some Cracker Jack goals and player celebrations.

Newbarn playing down the hill with a strong wind at their backs in the first period, held their own for thirty minutes, until the tide slowly turned and Shawdale came to terms with the conditions.

Shawdale were first on the score sheet on thirteen minutes, as Holmes took on the visitors defences, with his helicopter vision, put in a square ball for Durrant to slot home his first of the day.

For the next twenty minutes both sides moved the ball around well and it looked as if it was going to be a close run affair come the final whistle.

This was on the cards on twenty five minutes, as a high ball swirled in the wind, Wrigley looked to have it under control in the home sides goal, but a strong gust of wind blew the ball out of his hands, for the visitors number eighteen to pounce to level the scores.

From this moment on the home side took control and dominated the game. On forty-three minutes, Man Of The Match Morrow jinked and spun in the visitor’s penalty area and went down like a small sherry for the penalty to be awarded. He stepped up and planted the ball down the middle of the goal.

The second period, with the wind at their backs, playing down the slop, it was damage limitation for the visiting side. As Shawdale went into top gear and scored further four goals. This also after they were reduced to ten men on the forty seventh minute as Williams was shown his second yellow card and had to walk.

The first on fifty minutes of which was another Holmes and Durrant combination, as Holmes fed Durrant, who coolly took the ball round the keeper and walked the ball into the net. On fifty minutes ‘Cracker Jack Morrow’ who was again outstanding, broke the visitor offside and tucked the ball into the corner of the net.

On seventy-five minutes, from a jinking run in the box from Dawson, he found Durrant at the far post, for him to tap in for his hat trick.

Now…. If I was a bookie, I would of taken this bet all day long, as Coach Wylie brought himself off the bench, saying….. ‘I’m going on to score a goal.’

To everyone’s astonishment, with almost his first touch of the ball……he did just that…. and what a goal it was. He picked up a loose ball twenty yards out and only went and chipped the keeper. Then going into his sliding two-knee celebration.

On the eighty sixth minutes the visitors were awarded a penalty for handball in the box, which they duly scored. However, Shawdale had the last laughs, as on eighty-eight minute, from a typical Dawson run, he finally landed a goal, with a great strike into the bottom corner.

Then almost on the final whistle Ryan struck home with a great strike.

Post match ….Wylie still celebrating his goal said…’What a goal that was’…end of interview!!!!