08-10-2017, 16:20
Sutton Coldfield Town 0 Lancaster City 2 (Wood 60, Mayers 90)Att 238
Noin League Day is one of those rare days when neither top divisions are in action due to the strange demand to play dire International Football.
So it was off to the West Midlands for today's football fix. Train from Preston easy bit, trying to find your way around Birmingham New Street station hard bit, then locating strange ground via pub using Google fairly straightforward.
Town having a shocking season having conceded a shed load of goals this season faced a Lancaster side that had been hammered 5-1 on Tuesday night. On paper looked like a win for Lancaster however throw in the extra factor of an artificial pitch which would even things up a bit more. Town's Dutch manager Richard Sneekes had also signed five players during the week to bolster the struggling home side.
Town probably shaded the early stages having a couple of greeat chances which really they should have taken and also hit the bar, but once the initial flurry from the home side petered out City looked the better side but failed to find the target on the occasions they were able to get efforts at goal.
City hit the bar and also had a goal chalked off due to the Sutton keeper apparently being hit by a flying claymore at a City corner, the keeper didn't seem to be to badly injured and received expert medical advice from the City contigent behind the goal. One thing Town did excell with was the band with the trumpeteer being pretty good however they were silenced early on in the second half when following a scramble in the box a Wood snap shot ended up in the net.
Once City took the lead in all honestly although they piled the ball forward to the well built lad they brought on as a substitute Town never suggested they were going to score and when City double dthe lead in injury time after a Bailey free kick had been paried to Mayers it was game over.
Decent set up at Coldfield, fair sized social club, the pitch though spoils the game but as there are four sides playing at Coles Lane it is probably a good community club and is therefore an assett.
Quick yomp back to the station another battle to find your way round New Street and it was homeward bound with some quite happy City supporters.
Noin League Day is one of those rare days when neither top divisions are in action due to the strange demand to play dire International Football.
So it was off to the West Midlands for today's football fix. Train from Preston easy bit, trying to find your way around Birmingham New Street station hard bit, then locating strange ground via pub using Google fairly straightforward.
Town having a shocking season having conceded a shed load of goals this season faced a Lancaster side that had been hammered 5-1 on Tuesday night. On paper looked like a win for Lancaster however throw in the extra factor of an artificial pitch which would even things up a bit more. Town's Dutch manager Richard Sneekes had also signed five players during the week to bolster the struggling home side.
Town probably shaded the early stages having a couple of greeat chances which really they should have taken and also hit the bar, but once the initial flurry from the home side petered out City looked the better side but failed to find the target on the occasions they were able to get efforts at goal.
City hit the bar and also had a goal chalked off due to the Sutton keeper apparently being hit by a flying claymore at a City corner, the keeper didn't seem to be to badly injured and received expert medical advice from the City contigent behind the goal. One thing Town did excell with was the band with the trumpeteer being pretty good however they were silenced early on in the second half when following a scramble in the box a Wood snap shot ended up in the net.
Once City took the lead in all honestly although they piled the ball forward to the well built lad they brought on as a substitute Town never suggested they were going to score and when City double dthe lead in injury time after a Bailey free kick had been paried to Mayers it was game over.
Decent set up at Coldfield, fair sized social club, the pitch though spoils the game but as there are four sides playing at Coles Lane it is probably a good community club and is therefore an assett.
Quick yomp back to the station another battle to find your way round New Street and it was homeward bound with some quite happy City supporters.
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