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							Man of the Match Jon Kendal
							Starting Team
							GK	Pratt, Lawrence
							DL	Konkoly, Zoltan	S1
							DR	Lanham, Danny
							DC	Powell, Adam
							DC	Palmer, Tom
							MR	Kendal, Jon
							ML	Wilson, Pete
							MC	Baxter, Scott
							MC	Kumar, Will
							F	Gray, Allan
							F	Harris, Steve	S2
							S1	Wyatt, Rich
							S2	Pouncey, Steve

Date: Saturday 31st March '07         
Time: 10:30                                             
Competition: League
Location: Home (Played at Kings Sport)


St Albans Romans                            3 (1)     
  P Wilson (2)
  Gray
  
Kings Sport                                        2 (1)   


Match Report 

The League Decider

The day started with the thought “Six games from history; three league games and three cup finals.”

 

With two games in hand, a victory against Kings Sport would virtually hand the league to St Albans Romans for the second successive year. (Albeit the league could be lost if the last two games were lost by a total of around 20 goals.)

 

But despite the naming of an international line-up, the win wasn’t made easy by the boys in Blue & Yellow.

 

The first few minutes saw the Turkish captain Kumarlopolis return to his highly self-critical ways with a call of  “Rubbish Will!” after some poor control.

 

Chief Phillipé Bambini, in the style of José Mourinho stated “I never have selection problems, people have problems with my selections.” We all know who’s boss, Chief!

 

Yet again, despite some great play from the Scandinavian Jan Keedal and an effort from the token Englishman, Gray, The Romans went 0-1 down again.

 

Juan Paulo allowed the ball to deflect off his thigh into the path of the Kings Sport striker, who was poorly marked by American Dannylanham, and was able to neatly finish.

 

Then followed some great football from Petr Wilgnar, an unbelievable miss from Steffan Arri (2 yards… and he ran off to celebrate!), however he almost made up for this miss with a devine pass to Keendal who’s shot flew high over the bar.

 

Not much else happened until the 34^th minute when Arri fed a ball to Wilgnar who hit a great strike into the back of the net… 1-1 and nerves were calmed, slightly.

 

More chances went wide or high and after a long period of injury time, due to a couple of … injuries … it was half time.

 

The second half started much like the first. Many efforts, and more self-criticism from Kumalopolis. Keendal was influential throughout and after 69 minutes he played a good ball across to Gray who finished well to make it 2-1.

 

Thirty minutes into the second half, a free kick to Kings Sport in a seemingly harmless location. A save by O’Pratt, alas… “Ooooh NO!” cried the crowd. The ball is palmed down into the path of one of three unmarked forwards who tapped the ball into the open goal. Two goals each! With 15 minutes remaining.

 

Frenchman Poncé replaces Arri and within a minute Man of the Match Keendal plays another great cross onto the head of Wilgnar. Goal!

 

Less than 10 minutes remaining and a spot of handbags from the Kings Sport midfielder was shortly followed by a shout of “Let’s play football” from the Romans skipper. Bit late in the game, so hopefully it’s being saved for the next match, after the Easter break.

 

That’s the league wrapped up, not so much in style, but lets try to turn it on in the last two matches and then see if history can be made with the 3 finals.

 

Squad:

 

Laurence O’Pratt (Irl)

Dannylanham (USA)

Juan Paulo (Esp)

Carltom Palmer (Eng)

Zac Kennedy (Can)

Petr Wilgnar (Ger)

Kumarlopolis (Turk)

Baxter Scott (Sco)

Jan Keendal (Nor)

Steffan Arri (Bel)

Allan Gray (Eng)

 

Steffani Poncé (Fr)

Lars Wilhelmson (Swe)

Ricardo Wiat (Port)

 

Tomatz Gunnig (Ger)

Sylvain Whitinho (Brz)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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