Birmingham University Division One, thursday 31st July 2008LA Galaxy Caramel 1-1 The Lads FC
Galaxy took the lead after five minutes with a sweet finish following a smooth build up; Slater touched it to Connor whose crossfield ball found Summerfield and when he squared it to Shotton and the yorkshireman made no mistake as he tapped it away.
Shotton's evening could have been alot different as far as emotions are concerned; only a few minutes before his goal he almost put through his own net when he closed down Franny Jeffers only to play a hazardous backpass wide of his flat-footed 'keeper, luckily that 'keeper was Phil Davis (ahem) who pounced on the ball like a fat woman on a mars bar. The relieved Yorkshireman Mat Shotton spoke to Furious-Pigeon about the game: "Aye, 'appen that coulda' bin as tragic as a closed coal-mine!" (I'm only messing,Mat)
Slater, Shotton and particularly Richie Summerfield were rock solid at the back to protect Galaxy lead until halftime, Jeffers and Guy Whittingham didn't have a look in. Halftime 1-0 to the Galaxy.
In the second period Luke Chadwick began carving out more opportunities but The Lads could not find a way through, the best chance fell to Dalian Atkinson but his tame effort effort was easily stopped by Davis. Paul Slater was everywhere and he and super-sub Bhavesh Patel were closing down The Lads, who began to turn the screw. There were only three minutes left when Luke Chadwick slid the ball to Dalian Atkinson whose low, angled drive found the inside of Galaxy's far-post, The Lads went crazy and the Galaxy were gutted, denied a point in their league debut but a deserved point was an impressive start to their history.
Allbeit highly unrealistic the result means that officially Galaxy cannot win the league now: "Devestated, absolutely devestated, the lads have worked hard all evening to make the impossible-possible but that's football. Only joking, I didn't realise that until you told me, well we don't know where we're going to be playing in a month's time, you know, maybe a different league, we'll have to wait and see. Just got to praise each and every one of these lads who've worked very hard tonight in a muggy atmosphere and almost earned two unlikely points, I'm happy with a draw, definately."
1.Davis 2.Summerfield(c) 3.Shotton(sub:5.Patel) 6.Connor 14.Slater 15.Dandy
LA-GALAXY-CARAMEL-FC-OFFICIAL-SQUAD: 1.Phil Davis 2.Richie Summerfield(c) 3.Mat Shotton 4.James Walker 5.Bhavesh Patel 6.Dave Connor 12.Billy Bishop 13.Dave Sorensen 14.Paul Slater 15.Alex Dandy 16.Simon Hartland
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