JD-LIONS 1-1 AAA FC

DIVISION FOUR
JD-LIONS 1-1 AAA FC (ht:0-1)
at The Tesco-Express Arena

West Midlands Police are to investigate reports that JD-Lions goalkeeper Phil Davis was racially abused throughout the second half of the game, last night. It is alledged that elements of the crowd in the Bristol Road End chanted racial abuse at the veteran 'keeper who refused to comment on the incident.

Dave Sorensen earned JD Lions a priceless point against high-flying AAA last night to keep JD's feignt promotion ambitions alive. AAA took the lead just before half-time with their first real chance of the match, Mickey Mellon squared the ball to Steve Stone who let fly, Davis did remarkably well to tip the shot onto the post but the ball came back off the upright and struck the prone 'keeper on the back of the head and bounced into net.

In the second half JD Lions continued to press and carved out more chances, Walker put Dandy through but Lions' top scorer could only hit the side-netting, Carlos also went close as his shot whistled past the upright. James Walker was involved in an ugly altercation with Mellon who, arguably, should have been given his marching orders for an 'ale-house' tackle from the ensueing melee parity was restored, Walker burst forward and was brought down again, referee Uriah Pennie waved play-on as Dandy squared the ball to Dave Sorensen who tucked the ball away to level the scores. Sorensen, Slater and Summerfield were rock solid at the back as ever to plug any gaps and when AAA did find a way through Phil Davis was more than equal to whatever was thrown at him as he made several smart saves to earn his side a share of the spoils. One-one it finished which was a fair result.

JD Lions are in sixth place and unbeaten in their last seven games but next week must play Kings Norton who are just above them in the league. "It would be great to beat them because it would give us a bit of breathing space as we come into the final eight games." said player/manager Walker. "Playing the way we are at the moment, with confidence and always looking like scoring, I can see us getting up the top and challenging near the end of the season but it's going to be tough."

1.Davis 2.Summerfield 12.Sorensen 23.Slater(sub:13.Swannick) 4.Walker 9.Dandy(sub:17.Carlos) MAN-OF-THE-MATCH: Phil Davis?

FRIENDLY
REAL-JD 4-0 DISTURBED FC (ht: 2-0)
at Red-Bull Cola Centre, Birmingham, Alabama

"Bitterly disapointing to be honest." said player/manager James Walker following PL Quake's igneminious exit from the league, the polish side had dropped from the division meaning that JD could not get revenge for their 2-2 with the Krakow team back in august. JD were awarded the 5-0 forfeit victory which see's Real-JD climb to fourth in the table, the highest since august. JD played an 'exhibition' match instead against division one Disturbed FC.

Alex Dandy was the obvious hero and man of the match again as he bagged a brace to add to his, already, impressive tally for the season. Dandy struck early on, despite the presence of Julian Dicks, with a well-placed drive into the bottom left-hand corner beyond Stephan Postma to give JD the lead. 'Alex-The-Great' doubled JD's advantage inside seven minutes when he lost his marker and flicked the ball with the outside of his left boot after a delightful throughball from Summerfield who was solid at the back and instrumental in bringing the ball out of defence for JD as ever.

Carlos also got on the scoresheet when he blasted home at the near post following good work from Sorensen to tee-up his team-mate and Dave Swannick completed the scoring on a great night for JD when he pounced on a loose ball and slid it past Postma to make it 4-0.

1.Davis 2.Summerfield 12.Sorensen 23.Slater 4.Walker(sub:13.Swannick) 9.Dandy(sub:17.Carlos) MAN-OF-THE-MATCH: Alex Dandy?

DIVISION THREE
LOKOMOTIV SELLY OAK 4-2 STANDARD LI-ANGLESY (ht: 3-0)
at Tesco Express Arena

Owen Dimbylow blew Standard Li-Angleysy out of the water on sunday night with a sensational
hat-trick to open the gap between the bottom two sides. Lokomotiv are out of the relegation zone for the first time this season, player/manager Mat Shotton only took charge two weeks ago and has already dug his team out of danger; "Well, we've all chipped in, to be honest, I've got a decent bunch of lads here who know their strengths and weaknesses and we just work top them, it's not rocket-science but we can get out of danger and get safety, that's the idea."

One of Lokomotiv's 'strengths' is Owen Dimbylow who tore Standards defence apart in the first half as Summerfield, Oldfield and Martyn were supplying the goal-getter with the perfect service and he gave John Frain a torrid evening from as early as the second minute when he beat Frain for pace and smashed the ball beyond a hapless Bart Griemink and it was soon followed by number two, Summerfield-to-Martyn ho squared it to Dimbylow and he slid the ball in off the far post. Martyn also got on the scoresheet too as he chased a throughball from Alex Dandy and slid the ball underneath Griemink, three-nil. Debutant Andreas almost got booked when he cynically tripped Sidwell as halftime approached but the referee let the german off with a verbal warning.

In the second half Standard crept into the game but found Summerfield and Shotton almost impregnable, however Steve Sidwell managed to pull one back for the bottom club as the ball ran loose from a throw-in and the 'ginger-ninja' volleyed the ball past a stranded Davis. Dimbylow was in the mood for goals, however, and completed his hat-trick with five minutes to go with a vicious low-drive, across the 'keeper into the far-post. Four-one. It could have been five a minute later when debutant Dean Powell, who showed some nice touches, came off the bench and had his effort well saved by Griemink.
Standard did manage a consolation goal right at the end when Sidwell again engineered a chance for himself and beat Oldfield for pace and fired past Davis at his near post, the game ended four-two.

Lokomotiv will face FC Disasta next week hoping to build on this win and get further away from the drop zone: "Well, we really needed that, we've won this one but there's alot of hard work to do before we can relax, we know that. We're out of the relegation zone for now and just need to make sure up-the-tempo and get some more points on the board and try to survive the drop. I can praise the lads highly enough, to be honest, Richie Summerfield was superb again and Phil's (Davis) has made a few decent saves but Owen (Dimbylow) with them three goals has won it for us, to be honest. I was pleased with us performance for lots of reasons,to be honest, Mark Oldfield linked up well and looked much more composed this week, we just need to eliminate the silly mistakes we made at the back in the second half."

1.Davis 2.Summerfield 5.Martyn (sub:3.Shotton) 14.Andreas? 4.Oldfield (sub:22.Powell) 10.Dimbylow MAN-OF-THE-MATCH: Owen Dimbylow

SPITTING FEATHERS!-The pigeon rants and bitches about the week of football that just happend

1.Poland need to get their house in order, otherwise they won't host euro 2012 and risk their world cup qualifying campaign being hampered by 0-3 forfeits.
2.Nice to see champions league underdogs Cluj and Famagusta upsetting the natural order, they are europes equivalent to Hull City. Go tigers!
3.Reuben Noble-Lazarus! The 15 years and 45 days old schoolboy became the youngest ever footballer in britain, full respect...now tidy your room and do your homework!
4.Everton are cack.
5.Respect to Pompey for their UEFA cup fightback at midnight, go on Crouchy, you are my favourite posh-giraffe.
6.Four games on Match of the day!? What a joke and the games were shit. The reason? Footballers playing in UEFA cup need an extra day off! Lazy bastards, I don't get two fucking days off after I've finished work, pay me £60,000+ and I'll play every day! These lazy cunts want to try getting a real job, soft bastards.
7.Spurs are so wank it's almost stopped being funny. I say almost, I did chuckle when Hull got three points at the White Hart Lame (not a spelling mistake, a spelling mistake would be calling it 'the lane') Juande, get your coat and clear your desk because you are in danger of turning a potential champions league club into a championship club.
8.Geovani is going for goal of the month every month and fairplay to him, he entertains me.
9.Vidic elbowed Brown for the first goal against Blackburn, why do ref's give needless free-kicks for people legally challenging 'keepers but when one gets assaulted he gives it? Don't be frightend of Sir Alex Ferguson, ref's, he has to get up four times a night for a piss.
10.So happy to see Skrtel get hurt, he is a horrible, tattoed scallie prick and it was karma at Middle-Eastlands because he stamped on a player and didn't get sent off, all's well that ends well.