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Newhaven FC away to Peacehaven & Telscome FC at The Sports Park in the SCFL Premier League |
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The sun is shining on East Sussex for the Havens Derby Day as the Dockers visit the Tye. Newhaven are this year's Christmas No.1, topping the table for the first time this season and today, we on the road to play our local rivals in 4th. It was raining when we were here on Easter Monday and lost 4-0 in a horrible game. The wind and rain of the last few days has gone leaving a blue sky laced with patterns of high cloud so at least if the football is dreadful, we will have something else to look at. We have signed Callum Edwards and Ryan Warwick from the Tye since our last visit and hopefully they will be out to impress. Not that they don't always. We have comfy new seats to sit on, replacing the very rusty and broken ones here previously. And, they are red, hope that’s a good omen 🙏. Also red is the new Christmas jumper on loan from Miles who also provided the Cologne badges.
The Dockers are straight out of blocks and go ahead after just 2 minutes⚽. It's from a corner but no-one is sure whether it was headed in (by player or players unknown) or if Alfie curled it straight in. Bothered 🤷♂️. It's 2-0 on 4 minutes as Ryan Warwick volleys in from just outside the box⚽. More pressure can't find a 3rd and the Tye start to find their feet. They start to put some pressure on the Dockers defence and it pays off as they get the important 3rd goal on 30 when the Dockers fail to deal with a corner. Still 2-1 at the break.
The Dockers were sitting a bit deeper in the second half and soaking up a lot of pressure. The hosts looked vulnerable to the pace of Robbo and eventually it paid off and Lee ran onto a ball from Alfie and does what he does best on 73⚽. 3-1. He came close again after a great low cross from Callum but didn't get enough power on it. Luka, who came on for Robbo, had a great chance as the Tye keeper came out to meet and missed it. With just one defender to deal with he hit it from miles out and it rolled just wide. A bit more composure might have seen the Dockers comfortably ahead but it never works that way, especially in a derby. It got a bit more bad tempered 😠 towards the end like it usually does but the score didn't change. It finished 3-1. Bragging rights 🥳 re-instated and three points heading 3 miles east on the A259.
Another Boxing Day derby victory for the Dockers and away from home this time. Bragging rights with be retained, and cherished 🏆, until the next re-match on April Fools Day👀😜. Going 2 goals up so early settled the team and the crowd and made it a far more relaxed watch than the last time we were here. In spite of the very poor officiating, it was a good watch and a shame we didn't finish them off early on.
The ref set very low standards from the first minute when he allowed, not 1 but 2 players to delay a quick Dockers free kick. Despite him and the linesperson on the stand side having already visited Spec Savers, the officiating was inconsistent at best except, when it came to letting Peacehaven get away with everything and letting Newhaven get away with nothing. A horror sliding tackle with studs up on Robbo didn't even draw a free kick when it looked like it justified a red. So apart from being pretty useless for about 100 minutes, their performance were quite unmarkable.
POTM: It's a tough call today as the whole team played well but the 🏅 goes to Ryan Warwick from his usual combativeness and a great volley. Can't be easy returning to your previous club for a difficult Derby Day game.
The Scranometer registered a yummy 9/10 for the hot chocolate☕ .
Tranmere won away. I'll say that again, Tranmere won away 👀😍. Not an ordinary win either. 5-1 at Salford with 5 different goal scorers.
Love Tranmerekat 🐾
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| Happy Boxing Day |
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| Back at the Sports Park |
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| A good line up |
