It was a match that showed how well the team is playing together now. Rutland 3s is the team that neat us 7:0 earlier in the season and this was a match we could easily have won.

South started a little bit nervously and Rutland scored 2 early goals before South could even work up a sweat. Slowly, but surely, South got into it stride and eventually fashioned some chances of their own. South actually had the better last 20 minutes of the first half which saw Boris pulling a goal back for the team just before half time. It was well deserved after coming so close to getting his first goal for the club in recent games.

In the second half, South shaded it once more and created a number of chances which were saved or went narrowly wide. With 5 minutes to go John Parker came back on the pitch and with 3 minutes remaining he managed to score the equaliser. Rutland also had their chances and had a sequence of 4 corners in a row, but John Sharp was not to be beaten today and practically stopped the short corners single handedly. Worth mentioning that the combinations of Ian Evans and JJ Clark is working really well in the midfield and Boris and David Doupe are also proving to be an effective partnership up front.

After so many cancellations, The Corner House finally met us for the first time and realised that we are not some made up team who book teas and then cancel them for a joke :-)