Whip Y’all for real 5 Keen as Mustard 3
With Gaffer Thornton sunning himself on a Portuguese beach it was Downey that stepped into the caretaker manager’s chair for Mustard’s crucial clash with high flying Whip Y’All. And as caretaker manager spells go, history will probably rank it as about as successful as Joe Kinnear’s Newcastle stint.
Hit with a long list of absentees including Cookson (parental leave) Thornton (holibobs) Hyde (playing footie with his real mates) and Haddock (mythical shin splints) League of Ireland all time top scorer Declan Reddington was drafted in as an emergency signing meaning that Mustard went into the game with a squad of six.
The talk before the game was about the importance of getting a good start and the yellows got exactly that as Angus fired low past the South African goalie with roughly 0.2 seconds gone. Unfortunately Whip equalized about 3 seconds later and it was 1-1.
Mustard settled quite well though with Declan looking ever threatening and it was his shoot on sight policy that yielded a superb second for Mustard as they took a deserved 2-1 lead. The challenges were flying in at quite a rate as there was certainly no love lost between the teams, Declan took the physical nature of the game one step further by charging into the ref then trampling all over him while he was on the floor. Not the ideal way to get the man with the whistle on your side.
The Whip Y’all striker was being well marshalled/kicked by Bakes but still managed to find enough space to squeeze an equalizer past Donc and we swapped ends with the score at 2-2.
The second half however, was a whole lot tougher, the youth and speed of Whip Y’all started to tell as the Mustard legs tired. A couple of speculative strikes, one from the tightest angle I have ever seen put Whip Y’all 4-2 up and the game seemed to be over, however Declan’s second of the game made it 4-3 with a couple of minutes left and gave the yellows the faintest of hopes. Unfortunately those hopes were extinguished when the Whip Y’all danger man nutmegged Mason before slotting home. 5-3. Game over. There was however still time for Baker to get involved in a war of words with the South African/Austrian keeper
The championship looks like too big an ask from here but with teams taking points off each other left, right and centre stranger things have happened.
Even worse news followed as it turned out Dec had given Dickie’s name to the ref when he scored thus adding two much needed goals to the absent gaffer’s goal scoring tally this season.
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