Date:
Saturday 3rd November 2012 (15:00)
Venue: MayDay
Trust Park (Bath)
Full Time
Score: Bath City 3-2 Farnborough
Competition:
Blue Square South Fixture
Attendance:
605
My
Matchday: 14
BCFC
Scorers: Charlie Griffin (17, 84), Sean
Canham (92)
FBFC
Scorers: Reece Connolly (58), Dan
Bennett (78)
On a cold
November afternoon, action returned to Mayday Trust Park for possibly the last
time for a month depending on the outcome of the FA Trophy tie next Saturday. I
always love a home game. It means I can get up around 9am, watch ‘Fantasy
Football Club’ until 10am, then put on ‘Soccer AM’ until 12noon. After this
finished I made my way down to the ground via my grandparents house on the
customary shop stop on route. I arrived at the ground at around 1.15pm and got
my staff badge and set up to sell the matchday draw tickets until 2.45pm.
2.45 came pretty
quickly and I made my way into the ground, returned the badge and tickets and
move round to meet Andy who was on the popular side. Unusually the ground was
suspectly quiet and it took a while to realise the PA system was down due to a
blown fuse in the media box at the top of the main stand. This meant for no
team news, music, other scores or confirmation on scorers for Farnborough, but
I did find them out soon enough.
The line-up
was fairly predictable for us this season and was as follows:
Glyn Garner
(GK), Danny Ball, Aaron Brown, Harry Hooman, Gethin Jones ©, Joe Burnell, Josh
Low, Noah Keats, Chris Allen, Sean Canham and Charlie Griffin.
City started
the brighter of the two teams on the afternoon but didn’t look to threatening
in front of goal. Something we really should have done in the game was test the
Farnborough keeper who looked to be carrying and injury and fairly
dis-interested in the game itself. It took 17 minutes in total for City to
break the wall down as Charlie Griffin raced through on return from injury to
slot the ball home into the corner of the net to give us a 1-0 lead. It
remained this way for the rest of the half, with City domination possession and
the game itself yet couldn’t find that way through to try and kill of the game.
Half time came and it was 1-0 going into this.
Half time saw
the customary switch of ends whilst Andy headed off down to the shops to buy
himself some sweets. We met again at the Bath end behind the goal whilst trying
to dodge the balls from the subs warming up at our end. Farnborough changed
their keeper at half time, obviously due to the injury that had appeared to the
original keeper. The new lad brought on looked much better and I was surprised
they kept him on the bench.
I couldn’t
keep up with the second half so I’ll let you read the BathCityFC Website report
of the second half.
“
City were good value for their lead at this point but
the visitors came back well and were unfortunate to go into the break still
trailing. However, after 56 minutes Connolly was allowed too much space from a
quickly taken short corner and he drove a low shot into the corner of the net.
Both sides pressed to earn the win after this and it was Boro who looked to
have grabbed it when Bennett's shot took a lucky deflection of Mark Preece to
loop beyond a wrong-footed Glyn Garner with just 12 minutes left. City did not
let their heads drop though and, after Canham had been pulled down right on the
edge of the box, Griffin curled the ball home from 20 yards. Lifted by this
City continued to push forward and two minutes into stoppage time a great cross
by Kerry Morgan was headed in by Canham. There was still time for a Jones shot
to canon against the angle of post and crossbar before dropping into Garner's
grateful arms, and the visiting players were still claiming the ball had crossed
the line when the final whistle went seconds later.”
It was a
superb game on show today at Mayday Trust Park and one of the most enjoyable I’ve
seen in a while. A late Sean Canham head/hand/anything he could get on it did
it for us. It’s now for me to leave you from home reports until 1st
December as we now face a string of away trips that you can look forward to:
Wellington –
Somerset Cup 2nd Round (7th November)
Leatherhead –
FA Trophy 3rd Qualifying Round (10th November)
Sutton United
– Blue Square South (17th November)
@mannojunior –
Catch you all soon!
Pictures Courtesy of Simon Howe (yuffie_city)
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