Notts Intermediate Cup: First Round
BOOTS ATHLETIC FC 6 FC SUTTON FORESTERS 2
Boots Athletic FC of the Notts Senior League Senior Division have had the best starts to the season results wise, whilst todays visitors to the Lenton Lane Ground Foresters had won 2 out of the three games they had played in the top Division of the MAA League, so maybe a close game was on the cards here.
Before the match, I had a quick meeting with old friend Boots Chairman Dick Durrant about this seasons Notts Senior League Groundhop of which his club are a away side at Ruddington Village FC.
Teams entered the pitch and after the team photo and the hand shakes, it was down to the action and the visitors looked good for the first 10 minutes unsettling the hosts but not forcing a save from the home keeper.
Boots began to settle down to their game plan and after just 12 minutes, GARY WILLOWS put them ahead. This then opened up the gateway, as Boots poured forward and could well have added to their total before they did on 22 minutes, when a cross from the right wing was pushed in to his own net by the visiting keeper. Straight from kick off and the Foresters heads a bit down, the hosts won the ball and it was played through to TIAN WALTON who fired home low from 25 yards out to increase the score to 3-0. Before half time it got better for Boots when ASHLEY McPHERSON fired home to make it 4-0.
A nice cuppa at half time was needed as the sun set and it began to feel a bit cooler, so on went my jacket for the Second Half. The Visitors began the brighter of the sides and was playing their best football of the match and when the home keeper brought down the visiting forward after 52 minutes, NICK BARSBY stepped up from the spot to fire back a bit of the arrears. Boots had made a couple of substitutes by now and this seemed to disrupt the rhytham they seemed to have in the first half and Foresters had a couple of half chances, but on 69 minutes JOHN WALTON fired home from 30 yards. Boots leading 5-1 began to relax and their visitors had other idea as within a minute, they made it 5-2 with a shot from just outside the area. With the game drawing to a close, home sub JOHN McCAULEY fired home the final goal of the game to make it 6-2 to send Boots through to Round Two.
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For information or to read about the upcoming NOTTS Senior League Groundhop, please read this LINK as Advanced tickets are now on sale. Thre is a coach running from Nottingham on the Saturday to all 4 Saturday matches.
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