The BIG MATCH - line up and stats

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BRENTWOOD 4 CONCORD RANGERS 0

BT – Nick Hardingham – Steve King – Keith Marsden – Glen Golby – Craig Dennis – Greg Tiffin – Don Wilson – Nick Cowley © - Sean Thomas – Carl Griffiths – Lee Noble

Subs – Steve Jones for (not sure who) 86, Riki Holmes for Tiffin 84 – Julian Ashby for Wilson 84 – James Davies, Phil Skelton

 

CR – Grant Lee – Gareth Thomas – Michael Lee – Gary Ogilvie – Sam Ing – Danny Scopes – Ollie Baker – Taylor Lang – Danny Greaves – Michael Hart – Ashley Hawkins

Subs – Marl Kelly for Hawkins 74, Ricky Defreitas for Hart 74, and number 15 for Land 58

Bookings – Lee 55 ©, Baker 84 ©, and Concord manager / coach 84 – off

Noble 74 ( – Cowley 89 (

 

Concord line up may be incorrect, due to me not being able to find any Concord supporter / official to confirm the line up.

 

Attendance – triple the normal amount – estimated at between 103 and 301.

 

Scorers – Steve King 55 secs – Sean Thomas 46, 81 – Nick Cowley 84p

Weather – 15 degrees – overcast – wind speed up to 25 mph

Officials – Ernie Forsyth with Mark Bradshaw and Tom Ramsey

 

The news on Danny Cowley is that he hopes to be able to play in the next couple of weeks, following his hamstring injury incurred in the final match of last season – if the treatment is not successful then he may he out for the rest of the season.

 

A packed car park – possibly due to the antiques show at the nearby Brentwood Centre – whilst the New Hive is now known as The Brentwood Arena. Llittle changed from last season, but there is now a bright blue corrugated iron fence surrounding the ground, and a new stand is in the process of erection at the car park end of the ground.

 

The pitch had an ample supply of long grass, and was very soft. Urchins reserves took the lead after 55 seconds when STEVE KING headed downwards from a corner and the ball crept over the line. It was mostly one way traffic in the first half, both on the A12 and on the pitch, as Concord rarely got into the game. King twice went close, once with a header and once with a shot which went wide, but Carl Griffiths was rarely in the picture. Brentwood should have been more than one up at the interval, where the main talking point was the sheer vastness of the crowd, which sent the odd home supporter scurrying for cover, overawed by the masses. Tea was £1 a cup – what a rip off. Burgers were £2.50 though I am informed they were very good.

 

A sensational start to the second half, when new signing SEAN THOMAS ran like an antelope – yes, it is the Sean Thomas form Stansted – rounded the keeper and glided the ball home after 56 seconds. Intense home pressure, with King prominent, and it was King who won a penalty when a Thomas challenge sent him tumbling. When the arguing had stopped, (and it did look a clear cut penalty, despite the visiting protests), up stepped Carl Griffiths to hit the ball hard and high, but too close to Hardingham, who palmed it over the bar. A loud hand ball appeal was rejected when King’s shot appeared to be handled en route to goal, and the third goal came when SEAN THOMAS again ran like an antelope to get into position, only to have his shot deflected vertically upwards (well it could hardly go vertically downwards), and the dropped almost straight back down to Thomas, who simply prodded it into the net from a yard out. The fourth goal came when Wilson went through, Thomas tackled, and the linesman signalled for a penalty, hotly disputed by the away side. It looked a perfectly good tackle, but penalty it was, and two bookings later (the referee never once waved a yellow card), NICKY COWLEY calmly slotted the ball home. ‘You’re a f***ing twat, lino’, yelled someone from the away bench, and a short delay followed whilst the referee invited said official to vacate the bench and reside the other side of the wobbly wooden wall which serves as a fence. And so it ended, Urchins having won 4-0 against a none-too-impressive Concord, who were clueless, pointless and Heale-less, although Thomas and Ogilvie both had reasonable games. For Brentwood, Tiffin was very impressive, as was Glen Golby and Sean the Antelope. The news that Dagenham had lost to Oxford Utd was greeted with great sympathy by the massed Urchins who had turned out for this match.

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>>>‘You’re a f***ing twat, lino’,

 

Correction to my previous post - what was actually said was ' your'e a useless f***ing twat, lino' - apologies for leaving out the word 'useless'.