Newhaven FC away to Little Common FC at the Little Common Recreation Ground in the Southern Combined Premier League
The Dockers are away to the Green Lane Boys on a cold night at the Rec in Bexhill. Last time we saw Liitle Common play they were based at the Oval in Eastbourne but they moved back here about a year ago. The Dockers were here in the cup earlier in the season and left with a 5-1 win. Didn't think we were going to get going tonight as there were issues with a couple of the floodlights but they all lit up eventually. Pitch drains well as it slopes across instead of end to end. It's cold so hope it's a good game to help keep us warm.
The Fort Road Boys started with Callum Connor up front and Lukas as a no. 10. The Dockers were attacking from the start and the hosts keeper kept them in it early on with an amazing series of 3 saves in about 15 seconds to keep ball out of the net. The Dockers continued to threaten, even though the pitch surface wasn't the best. Been spoilt by the new 3G 🤣. Callum Conner got the Dockers of the mark on 20 ⚽. Charlie doubled the lead from the penalty spot on 43 ⚽. The Common player had already been booked and was expected to walk but the ref didn't punish the tackle other than the pen. 2-0 at the break.
Watching at the other end in the second half meant we got to watch Little Robbo up close and he had an amazing game again causing constant problems down the left. Big Robbo also causing problems on the right. Charlie has taken over free kick duties from Alfie and out of respect for Rogers Senior he put it over the bar. Callum Connor got his second on 61 ⚽. The GLB had some better spells towards the end as the Dockers pressed for a fourth. Bussy even had to make a save at one point. 'Little' was desperate to get a goal and was getting closer and closer but it never came. Highlight of the second half was the Common players telling us fans to go back to our council estate. Which we did taking 3 points with us. Fanks. Beats being called a bin-dipper from Birkenhead.
What a good game that was. Plenty of football, lots of niggles and a side serving of top banter. Glad that the game was on as a few were postponed locally due to frozen pitches. Also could have lost it to the floodlight issues. On the pitch there were some good performances too especially Little, Marcin and Charlie. The 3 points moves us up 1 place us top of the league🔝.
Scranometer was an unexpected 7 for the chesse sandwich 🥪. Hot chocolate only earned a 6 being more hot that chocolate.
POTM: Goes to Callum Connor for finding the net with a brace🏆⚽⚽.
Ref and team did well despite some fairly strong language from the hosts. Never heard anyone say to the ref "Are you mad" to a ref before. First time for everything. Sin bin could have been overflowing.
Back to our council estate to warm up now and hang our 3 points on the wall next to our 3 flying ducks🦆🦆🦆.
Love Tranmerekat 🐾
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| First Time At Little Common Rec |
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| Tonights Teams |
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| Waiting for the floodlights |
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| Top of the League |
