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from Saturday, 17 April, 2010
Cavendish
Cup semi-final...
Wel-fare
dos to a fantastic win
Matlock Town Youth 1 Shirland Miners Welfare 3
Home scorer: S Pardey
Away scorers: S Boot, D Hegarty, I Hursthouse
Shirland Miners Welfare
delivered a poke in the eye to the critics who wrote off their chances of
silverware with a fantastic 3-1 win against a well-organised Matlock Town
Youth to reach the Cavendish Cup final.
Shirland's
Richard Harrison was the architect of a win and delighted boss Dave Thurnham
declared: "Richard is an amazing athlete who took control off the midfield
and delivered some fantastic passes which caused Matlock some major problems."
Dale
Hegarty and Steven Wright started up front for Shirland both impressive,
both were assured, showing composure on the ball – class acts whenever
Shirland chipped away at Matlock's defence.
The
visitors took the lead with yet another goal from captain Steven Boot, whose
fight and hunger for the ball is incredible. Shirland dominated the game
and never looked like conceding but a mistake at the back let in Steve Pardey
to level the scores.
The
second half Shirland had the momentum, carrying the ball forward with confidence
as they sensed more goals would come, Wright demanding the best from Matlock's
keeper with two quick fire shots in the first five minutes.
Matlock
seemed to rely on striker Scott Martin too much, turning to the young lad
far too often and clinging to his magic feet and those mazy runs. Instead
he was met by dead ends, blocked by the presence of Gary Bacon and Paul
Hardy, both impressing in the centre of defence.
Shirland's
second goal came when Richard Harrison collected the ball in midfield turned
two players and hit a sweet long range pass which found Gaz Brown who then
crossed a perfect pass to Hegarty who scored a belter of a goal from 10
yards out.
Shirland's
Ian Hursthouse came on as a sub and within one minute ripped Matlock's defence
apart to score and make the score 3-1 twelve minutes later.
With
so many injuries from last week's Manor Pharmacy Shield final and after
dropping two points in midweek Shirland's manager Thurnham tried to give
his players a dose of medicine known to most as 'reality' and asked the
squad to think hard and long about the consequences of winning nothing this
season after working so hard, which worked well as the players gave everything
they had to win this game.
Man-of-the-match
for the seventh time in ten games went to Shirland's Steven Boot.
MINERS
DIG DEEP! Shirland
Miners Welfare moved within a point of their rivals Darley Dale Lions with
a 5-2 victory over AFC Lea Holloway (Wednesday 21 April,
2010). The home team went 1-0 up only for Holloway to get one back
45 seconds later with an own goal by Paul Hardy. Holloway went into half-time
2-1 the better thanks to a Ross Dove goal. Shirland didn't come to life
until the last 20 minutes scoring four goals, with Holloway the better side
until that point. Shirland scorers Steven Boot, Oliver Brown, Dale Hegarty,
Richard Harrison and Ian Hursthouse.
Press
Round-up
Wel-fare
dos to classy Shirland
17
April, 2010
• League fixtures
on Saturday (24 April, 2010) include Shirland Miners Welfare v Laburnum
Saints, Darley Dale Lions v Hilcote United, Matlock Town Youth v Riddings
Rovers, Tibshelf v Harveys.
Man-of-the-Match
players nominated by opposition.
