Newhaven FC v Saltdean United FC In the Southern Combined Premier League at the Trafalgar Ground
The Dockers ⚓️ hosts the Tigers 🐅 on a sunny bank holiday morning at Fort Road.
The Tigers are a very different team to last season due to their off pitch "troubles"💰💰. It was a good crowd and the Dockers performance didn't disappoint with plenty of attacking football on show. The first goal proved to be hard to come by not being helped by Lukas poor penalty being saved 🧤 and 2 goals disallowed for offside 🤬🤬. The boys seemed to be taking it in turns to slice over the bar from 1 yard out. The deadlock was finally broken just before the break by crowd favorite Alfie ⚽️. At last.
We had been waiting for the first goal to open the floodgates and it did right from the start of the second half. Three goals in a four minute spell saw the Dockers go 4-0 up with goals from Alfie ⚽️(header), Alfie⚽️ (pen) and Jack Merres ⚽️ (back post header). Alfie was subbed off for Marley who proved to be his usual handful and added a 5th⚽️ with a great run and 1 on 1 with the keeper. Cue the long range target practice for the Dockers where it's top corner worldie or nothing. Nothing. Again.
First league win on the new pitch. Will be a few more if we play like that.
The young tigers don't lack enthusiasm but need feeding up a bit. I would get some Frosties into them if I were you.
POTM goes to it's all about Alfie. Strong, aggressive and skillful. Showed no signs of playing 48 hours ago or the battering he took against Sheppey.
No scran today but the hot chocolate 🍵was a solid 7/10.
Not much to say about the officials. Offside decisions were spot on for once. Ref booked Robbo for reasons known only to himself. 🤷♂️ Ditto the disallowed throw in.🤷♂️ Bless him. 🙏
Not sure where I'll pop up next but wherever it is, I'll see you soon.
Love Tranmerekat 🐾
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