Men's 4ths v : Awaiting Result

It was the fourth away game in the last five weeks; we conceded four goals in the first fifteen minutes; there was a hat trick, a few spectacular misses and ten goals: the football Premiership cannot beat this game for sheer entertainment! All we need is for Sky to buy the television rights and we all get paid £50,000 per week each.

It was a game of one quarter and then three quarters (as opposed to two halves!). Peterborough fielded the usual young side, but for some reason they came out of the traps flying and promptly went four goals up inside fifteen minutes ,with two well worked short corners and two well taken shots.

South then started to move things around and, by luck rather than design, the 'hole' in front of the defence was filled and we started to gain more possession. Suddenly, Dom Nelson got one back to bring the score to 4-1 and the game looked more even.

Peterborough then brought on a number 9 who looks like he should be playing in one of the higher teams, but Simon Jelly decided to stick to him like velcro. South started having a few chances, which included a James Raikes spectacular reverse stick flick that went narrowly wide shortly before half time.

Despite South being more attacking and more dominant in the second half, it was Peterborough who went 5-1 ahead via a counter attack. South continued to press forward and Don Nelson eventually got the score to back 5-2 but that was after a number of shots that went just wide from Simon Ta, James Raikes and Dom Nelson himself.

As it often happens in these games, South confused themselves by their own substitution and Peterborough scored another to make it 6-2. A late surge saw Dom Nelson complete his hat trick and James Raikes finally got one of his reverse stick flicks to go in to make it 6-4. The number of chances South missed meant that we could easily have drawn level.

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