POSTED: April 27 2018 08:17:00 By David Farrand
- BEECHFIED LADIES v Fc UTD of M/C 21-1-17
BEECHFIELD LADIES v Fc UNITED of MANCHESTER
21-1-17
THIS WAS A QUARTER FINAL MATCH IN THE COUNTY CUP
THIS WAS GOING TO BE A DIFFCULT GAME FOR BEECHY NOT ONLY WAS Fc UNITED TOP OF THE NORTH WEST WOMENS LEAGUE DIVISION ONE SOUTH BUT ALSO THE WEATHER WAS ATROCIOUS IT HAD BEEN SNOWING IN THE MORNING BUT WHEN THE GAME KICKED OFF IT WAS THROWING IT DOWN WITH RASIN AND FREEZING WIND
THE GAME KICKED OFF AND STRAIGHT AWAY Fc WERE PRESSURISING BEECHY AND FORCING THEM BACK AND EVERYTIME BEECHY MANAGED TO GET THE BALL IT WAS JUST BOOTED UP THE FIELD TO EASE THE PRESSURE BUT THE BALL CAME STRAIGHT BACK AT THEM. SHOTS WERE RAINING IN ON BEECHYS GOAL FROM ALL AREAS OF THE PITCH AND ONLY FOR A COUPLE OF GOOD SAVES BY RACHEL IN BEECHYS GOAL KEPT THE GAME TO NIL NIL
THE PRESSURE WAS TO MUCH FOR BEECHY AND AS Fc FOUND THEY SHOOTING BOOTSTHEY OVER RAN THEM AND BY HALF TIME WERE 6 UP
AT HALF TIME BEECHY STAYED OUT IN THE POURING RAIN AND THE PLAYERS DISCUSSED AMONGST THEMSELVES HOW THEY WERE GOING TO DEAL WITH THE SECOND HALF. WHILE Fc WENT INSIDE OUT OF THE RAIN
BEFORE THE SECOND HALF STARTED THE REFEREE CAME OVER TO INFORM BEECHY THAT THE SECOND HALF WOULD ONLY BE 35 MINUTES BEECHY ASSUMED THIS WAS AFTER TALKING TO Fc BUT IT WAS NOT SO HE HAD MADE THE DECISION HIM SELF THIS ONLY CAME TO LIGHT AFTER THE GAME WHEN SOME Fc PLAYERS AND FANS ACCUSED BEECHY OF THROWING THE TOWEL IN EVEN THOU BEECHY HAD NO CHANCE OF WINNING THE GAME THEY WOULD PLAYED THE 45 MINUTES AND WERE DEEPLY UPSET AT THE COMMENTS MADE BY Fc PLAYERS AND THERE FANS
Fc SCORED TWO MORE GOALS IN THE SECOND HALF AS THEY TOOK THERE FOOT OF THE GAS AND AT THE FINAL WHISTLE TWO VERY WET AND COLD SETS OF PLAYERS LEFT THE PITCH