Deans 1 Denton Town 5 (u14's)
On paper you would of thought, Denton, full squad, champions elect, vs. Deans, only 3 wins all season, only playing with 10, no brainer surely, Denton should walk it. Don't you kid yourself, Deans had other plans, and we were lucky to be level at half time. Deans took an early lead after 9 minutes, and to be honest, could of netted another couple before we levelled.
Samantha's goal perhaps had a bit luck to it, after their keeper spilled the ball, and had it not been for Sam's team mates shouting "it's behind you", we may well of gone in at half-time a goal down. Sometimes you need a little bit of luck to get going, and that certainly did it for us, as 2nd half, it was virtually one way traffic. Not all luck of course, because the stern half-time team talk by Alan, trying to demonstrate Football - Ballet style, was certainly a little amusing, but he got the message across to you all brilliantly.
It took 18 mins for Yoyo to bag our 2nd, and what a relief it was. From half-time to that moment, we peppered Dean's goal, and I know Tim and myself weren't on our own thinking "one of those days", and Deans are going to "snatch a 2nd at the death", to really poo poo the party. Got to say though, one parent was full of confidence and predicted we would win 5-1. Well done Paul (Nic's dad), should of had a tenner on it lol.
Three minutes later and a power shot from Keely made it three, and I let out a huge sigh, and said "thank God for that", could relax a little at last. Yoyo scored two more, one on 61 mins, but saved the best till last 3 minutes later with a powerful header from the edge of the 6yd area, any premiership played would of been proud of.
On reflection, 5-1 was deserved for our 2nd half dominance, but if you take the 1st half into account, maybe it flattered us a bit, and lets give full credit to Deans, playing with just 10 girls, against a team that was going for the title, they must of thought the worst at kick-off, but they rolled their sleeves up and got stuck in. You could hear their manager Anthony, just before half time shouting, "this is winnable girls", and you know what, he was right, if we hadn't of changed our game in the 2nd, then Deans could well of gone on to win this game. I really hope Anthony can keep them going next season, as they certainly have some talent in the team, especially their player of the match No.7 on the left wing, who had a great game. Ref did ok, gave him 8.
Final league game of the season, and it seemed appropriate to me that Captain Nicole should be nominated as our player of the match by the opposition. This was backed up by Billy and Mike from the ladies team who mentioned to me on a couple of occasions, that Nicole was a superb player, who held her position well, and was confident in giving out instructions and encouragement to her team mates. Nicole is an unsung hero, who just gets on with the job of motivating the team, and holding the defence together, pity she can't quite hack it up front; it was quite amusing seeing her giving it a go though. Soz, Nic, you're never going to live that down you know. Poynton tournament in June, if Tim/Alan's not there, I'll put you up front and Yoyo in goal, that should make life interesting don't you think? lol.
Thanks to Billy and Mike for coming down to support again, and to Mike for taking the pics., though bit of camera shake was in evidence, perhaps you girls made him nervous lmho. That champagne (alcohol free) wasn't cheap, and I don't think much of it was drunk. Never mind, it was fun, and at the end of the day, that's what we do it for.
Special word for Georgia, who was the only girl that didn't make it yesterday. Though she is injured, she really wanted to come, but her Great Gran is seriously ill in Stepping Hill, and obviously at times like these, its important to be with one's family. Can I just say on behalf of us all, "we're thinking of you and wish you and your family well during this difficult period for you all".
You are all truly worthy of the title CHAMPIONS - Back to Back as well, real sign of a
Lets not forget, the greatest partnership in girls football the world has ever seen - Tim Sullivan and Alan Brewer.
S*I*M*P*L*Y T*H*E* B*E*S*T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who needs City when I've got you!
NIGEL.
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CLICK ON YOUTUBE LINK ON RIGHT OF BLOG TO SEE LITTLE MOVIE MIKE TOOK OF THE CELEBRATIONS - QUALITY NOT COME ACROSS VERY WELL ON YOUTUBE THOUGH.
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WOW! CHAMPIONS AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a great accomplishment that is, we have struggled so bad this year with players being injured, I just said to Tim and Nige that "what will be will be this season", we will just go out and play our games. each game at a time.
Well look where its got us lol; We are league champions again Whoooopeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't tell you enough how proud we are of you all, what a team and like I said, next year we will have 3 more players, great players too; Chloe B, Rebbecca and Georgia who have had a miserable time with injuries, I know how gutted they must of been because I know how much they love their football, and want to play every game, so I cant wait to see them kicking a ball again in the colours of Denton (more like Brazil lol - Nigel), what I can say though, next year will be more difficult but, we will rise to that challenge again and, we will be even better I'm sure of that. Yesterday's game 5-1 looks convincing and if I just spoke about the second half I would say well deserved, because we played some great football, passing movement, tackling we played great, and I thought we controlled the game but, when i talk about the first half as well then I'm sorry, we was poor, Deans played great the first half, they were first to everything. They played the ball about and deserved their lead because of the simple fact, they were better than us, we were lucky, very lucky to be level at half time and, I was happy to get you off so we could basically give you blasting and remind you that you don't just turn up at games and expect to win them. I believe too many of you thought oh, we are champions, Deans are struggling we will obviously win this easy, its going to be easy. Well at half time I reminded you that Deans won this league and last year they were in the league cup final and, they got there by knocking us out in the semi. They have struggled a little this year not because of ability but, because of lack of numbers and think they deserve a lot of credit for turning up to play their games and like yesterday, play to win. 5-1 overall was flattering to us, we did deserve to win ladies but, only because of us deciding to play second half and credit to Deans, they never stopped trying. I went over to them and congratulated them for their effort and told them I hope they can get a few extra players in their team, because they will be a force to reckoned with next year so good luck Deans, we will see you next year. I'd just like to mention Lauren, yesterday apparently she had been sick all night and was constantly going to the toilet being sick but, she still managed to turn up, wanting to play and, in her words "just to be there in case we were struggling" well Lauren, a great attitude and one we should all take on board in the future because, when you play for and think for each other like we do, you can achieve anything in football anything. Once again girls, well done you are the best team in the league, the table never lies and we have beaten some truly great teams this year to achieve it.
ALAN.
Go on YouTube for the little video as mentioned above, and enjoy some of the photos shown below.
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