In the match after the match before Cambridge South suffered a hangover as they let slip their 7 match winning streak.

Jon Hawkes, ever an astute student of Sun Tsu, started South’s rolling midfield substitutions after 30 seconds so he could rearrange his protective shin-pads - a tactic that earned him several votes for Lemon. With order restored South started to boss the midfield and control the game. The makeshift defence of George Wych, Chris Graveling, Finn Johnson and Jack Chalk filling in at right back was looking secure. Upfront an unfamiliar front line with 3 of 4 from Chris Pearson, Richard Claes, Tom Howell, Graham McCulloch was gelling nicely.

With South in control it was no surprise when Graham McCullough opened the scoring with a goal that seemed eerily familiar. So familiar in fact that I’ve just copied & pasted a description from a previous match report … Alice Hug retaliating with one of her infamous hits - that Graham deflected into the goal, despite it heading in the left bottom corner already. Or as Graham described it in the pub afterwards: “Graham scored a wonder goal from a short corner.”

In the unfamiliar right back position Jack Chalk unleashed an ariel bombardment that had Wisbech defenders (and on one occasion cheering supporters) wishing they had brought hard hats to the match.

In the 2nd half South faded and Wisbech took control in the middle. The action moved towards the South goal and I couldn’t see who made which telling contribution - but these are the points the team remembered in the pub.

· Finn’s wonder save from a penalty corner (definitely missed this, must have been chatting)

· Dave Aston - slow and had a bad game as left back (In fact he was totally anonymous. I don’t remember applauding or castigating Dave once. Something’s not right here!)

· 2 good balls into the D (Only 2? No wonder South didn’t score more…)

The pressure grew as Wisbech started to find their rhythm, scoring to equalise and then again to take the lead. However, South weren’t going to roll over without a fight. In a memorable moment Tom Watson tackled the Wisbech ‘Stone Cold Austin’ double. The move, more often seen in the wrestling ring, involved Tom starting with flat stick tackle before helping ‘Stone Cold’ over his shoulder. The Wisbech player took exception to this and received a yellow card to help him cool off.

Staring all sorts of lazy defeat based clichés in the face Richard Claes embarked on a mazy run. Somehow he avoided a series of last ditch tackles before rounding the keeper and dispatching into the goal. Parity! Just minutes later Richard embarked on another mazy run. Once again he evaded the defenders’ last ditch tackles, rounded the keeper and… missed. And that was as close as South came to the winner that they’ve recently become accustomed to. Although they were awarded a last short corner this time it wasn’t to be.

The final point to mention was Tom W’s effort to unquestionably claim Lemon by trying to climb under an open gate. I missed this but from the description in the pub it sounds comedy gold.