Untied put Combined in a tangle
Combined Honours are blown away by an Untied side after shipping eight goals with the first coming after just 48 seconds
Photo- Moises Bedrossian
Intra Mural Wednesday Cup 2nd Round
Dyslexic Untied 8-0 Combined Honours
It took all of 48 seconds for Dyslexic to breach Honours’ defence as they romped their way to comfortable cup win on the Longbenton 3G.
Simon Schofield snaked inside from the right after a lovely flick-on header by Dominic Robson put him through on goal and he finished with aplomb into the bottom left corner for his fourth Wednesday cup goal of the season. The low sun in the sky wreaked havoc for both teams with many passes failing to simply find a team mate, a period of unsightly and ungainly football ensued until the sun ducked behind a cloud and Dyslexic could continue with their assault.
Another brisk passing move saw ‘Torres’ Windle thread through an inch perfect pass for Ben Wheelhouse who tucked home the second. Dyslexic could sense a big win and a chance for several players to get off the mark for the season but chances were being spurned on a regular basis. Robson was one such player who was guilty of missing several good opportunities and along with Wheelhouse and Loz Jackson started trying to force the issue with numerous, speculative long range shots. The enjoyment was sapped out of the game for Dyslexic however when a recklessly poor timed tackle by Honours centre half Chris Gill shackled Untied’s Windle, who had to be carried off in severe discomfort. The presence of their captain, who has only just recently returned from injury, will be sorely missed for the upcoming league match against Henderson Hall next week.
Untied were left dismayed at only finding themselves two goals to the good at half time after dominating possession and territory for effectively the whole half.
Robson was to steal the show in the second half with a four goal haul and extend his impressive goal scoring record to ten in his last nine games. His first came courtesy of a horror show from the Honours ‘keeper, Robson’s tame effort wasn’t dealt with by the goalkeeper, who watched on in embarrassment as the ball bobbled into the back of the net. Dyslexic were into the grove now with even stand-in captain Chris Smith taking his foot off the pedal and encouraging some free-flowing football. Robson’s second was a classy affair; receiving the ball inside after good work by winger Freddie Rose, the centre forward proceeded to cleverly turn and chip the keeper from 20 yards out.
At 4-0 Untied continued to lay siege on Combined Honours’ box and Robson added his third and fourth midway in the second half slamming the ball home from six yards after an inch perfect cross from Rose and an easy poacher’s goal when the keeper spilled Wheelhouse’s shot.
At 6-0 Honours decided to go down swinging and attempted to be more adventurous in their play. A Guy shot being the pick of the bunch of their attacking ventures, which went wildly over to round off a dismally disappointing day. There was still time for Rose to get on the score sheet with yet more woeful keeping to blame. Receiving the ball out wide on the right by-line, Rose, who was running out of space, swung his right foot and the ball dribbled to the near post with the keeper falling over the ball. It is most likely to be his one and only right foot goal in his career and also his most fortuitous. So often an option out wide Rose again collected the ball from Schofield and advanced from the right to whip in his second into the bottom left to round off an 8-0 win.
There was to be no giant killing this time with Dyslexic proceeding to the quarter-finals and will have to be at their impeccable best to make it to the final. For Combined Honours the score line served as a reminder of the gulf in class between the First and Third Division. Some solid performances exemplified the gulf in class, Untied’s Will Southall put in a mature, stalwart performance at centre back, but the day belonged to Robson, who once again underlined his class in front of goal.
Who the hell writes these match reports? Seriously? the difference in class between the 3rd and the 1st division, yes we were very shit but to say that dyslexic played well is an overstatement, they were terrible. The chances they wasted proves how bad they were, with simple one on ones blazed wide. I think it is safe to say that our keeper was absolutely atrocious but imagine if we had had a decent keeper. Dyslexic had the majority of the ball but what did they do with it? Were you even present at the game or (as per usual) have you asked for an account from one of your sources (a mate who plays for untied) to give you a report of the game? You really need to get a grip on these reports. ‘The enjoyment was sapped out of the game for Dyslexic however when a recklessly poor timed tackle by Honours centre half Chris Gill shackled Untied’s Windle’, do you hear yourself right there, and again if you were present at the game, it originally was a poor challenge on the centre half ‘Charlie Shaw’ not Chris Gill, and then the referee did not blow up for a foul and the ball was to be won in a 50/50 challenge. So for you to turn round and say it was a reckless challenge I find personally insulting, is football not a contact sport still, the fact that my team mate was stronger in a tackle on one of your friends does not earn you the right to say it was a reckless tackle that disgraced the game. How about you actually start to report on the match as a whole rather than how your friends played, it is a pretty poor show how you portray new teams to the league and point fun, after all, isn’t this inter mural, I understand the competitiveness of the game, i myself am a hugely competitive player, i just ask you to maybe appreciate how difficult it is to get a team together every week in the 3rd division even without people pointing fun with no positive report on them ever. I hope your next report may contain a little more about both teams as opposed to listening to your friends acccounts.
Regards
Codge
Typical report with the writer’s tongue lodged firmly up the winning team’s ass you obviously didn’t watch the game – about 5 of the goals were down to our keeper, the other three were great goals in fairness. And 48 seconds?! Got that from the scoreboard did you?