Newhaven FC away to Peacehaven and Telscombe FC the the Sports Park in the Southern Combined Premier League
It's Havens Derby Day the sequel, Easter Edition. The Dockers visit The Tye on a very wet and cold Easter Monday. It's the Peacehaven Centenary this year so we should help them celebrate it by beating them. Just like the Christmas Edition of the Derby, Big Robbo is out but he's hopefully stayed home in the warm and dry. The pitch doesn't look great but the match is on. It's not going to be pretty, it never is here. Can only hope the football is better than the weather with the drizzle blowing right into the stand.
It scrappy from the off with the wind and rain causing issues. The hosts scored from a low cross and far post tap in on 10. Only bit of the first half that gets a mention is Harry Reed for the run then finding no options for a pass so taking a shot and hit where the post and crossbar meet. 1-0 to the hosts at h/t.
Second half was even worse as they scored on 61, 64 and 78. Henry for sin binned for telling the truth about how bad the ref was was doing. Tye's Captain was one of the worst culprits for moaning and tried to get on of the Dockers sent off by feigning an elbow in the face. The Captain clearly setting the (low)standards for the rest of the team. Highlight of the whole game was the Tye keeper getting booked for time wasting. Every time he got the ball he would kick it to the outer edge of the penalty area then fall in it. Not once or twice but a dozen times. Needed dealing with early on not right at the end. Dockers didn't really turn up today. They could have made all the peripheral issues inconsequential with a good performance but delivered a dire one instead. 4-0 loss but at least it's over and we can go home and dry out 🔥.
There is winning ugly and then this which hit every branch tree on it's fall from the ugly tree 🌳. Taking the dark arts to new heights by the opposition bench (allegedly)😏 rolling an extra ball onto the pitch to stop a Dockers attack. Also making Newhaven wait 2-3 minutes to take a corner as there were no balls available. Tin Pot.
Ref let far too much go early on an it was a lucky no-one got hurt. If he had booked the keeper for time wasting early on instead of near the end it would have finished sooner and we would have had to watch about 10 minutes less of utter dross football.
POTM: Harry Reed for getting so close to the top corner to give us at least something to cheer however briefly.
Glad that's over. Back here on Boxing Day 🥊 by the looks of if so maybe not the last time.
Love Tranmerekat 🐾
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