MATCH REPORT : YELLOW away to South Morningside, 9th April 2011

South Morningside 5-1 Sciennes Yellows, Meggetland.  Robin takes up the story...


Expectations had been raised to fever pitch by two fine victories, would the yellows be able to make it three in a row? Well, er .. no, to be honest it all proved to be a bit too much, and overconfidence and nerves led to a thumping defeat.


The team started with Joe R between the sticks, a solid looking defence of Dawood, Valdi and Connor, an energetic and skilful midfield of Matthew, Aidan and Owen, and Alex A leading the line. With Amir poised to make a telling intervention from the bench.


South Morningside started in confident mode but initially the yellows competed well, however as Morningside broke forward they were able to find a player in space in front of the goal and the ball was driven into the net (1-0), this was quickly followed by a second as the yellows now struggled to clear their lines and after a stramash in the goal mouth the ball broke to the opposition to be prodded home (2-0). At this point some of the old jitters started to re emerge and confidence was clearly rattled, however the yellows rallied and Alex A was unlucky to shave the woodwork on either side of the goals with a couple of fine efforts. With the game in the balance the yellows reached half time, when Ron (the special one) had a chance to alter the formation.


The yellows started the second half brightly with Owen and Alex testing the opposition defence, but then against the run of play came a breakaway goal for Morningside with a fine finish at the end of a flowing move (3-0). A fourth goal followed shortly afterwards, though the purists at the side of the pitch were moved to describe it as a bit of a toe poke (4-0). The boys all continued to work hard but the game was now beyond them. By this time the goal keepers top was changing hands regularly, and sad to say was dropped a couple of times in the handovers. South Morningside took advantage of the confusion to slot home another (5-0). However in a fantastic display of resilience Sciennes broke up the wing at pace and a fine cross from Owen was volleyed home by Joe R. This was followed by one of the most memorable goal celebrations which you are ever likely to see, combining gymnastics, dance and acrobatics as Joe made his way from one end of the pitch to the other. 5-1 but at least the yellows had salvaged some pride.