Last night saw the Mutual lose their unbeaten start to 2011 with a below bar performance against York Allstars.
The evening got off to a bad start when playmaker Neil Sanderson was struck with a late and unexpected yet severe bout of Arsenalvsleedsisontheteleitis, which led him to miss out. Moments later, goalkeeper Tristan Fayers, rang to report that his car was failing to start and that he was going to be late. Luckily, the goalkeeping younger brother of Sam Outing, Tommy, had come down to take match and profile pictures for the website and was quite literally on hand to don the gloves stand between the sticks.
NFUM again started slowley, and struggled to get much posses ion. Dave Roberts and Mark Brooks though gave little away at the back and the tie soon became a scrappy affair with little fluency to either side's play. A quick kick-in from Tom Hudson enabled Sam to get a shot away but although powerful it was straight at the opposition goalkeeper, and failed to trouble him. An otherwise uneventful first half came to an end with Tristan running from the Huntington car park and straight into the goal, he was called into action almost immediately when he was forced to make a save down to his left from the Allstars striker. Unfortunately his next task was to pick the ball out the net, as some uncharacteristic sloppy defending gifted the Allstars the games opening goal. The Mutual, whilst working hard, were short of any creative spark and failed to test the goalkeeper. Tom Hudson had a half chance to equalise, but after rounding the 'keeper he could only find the side netting from a near impossible angle. The opponents rallied, and were gifted a second goal moments later when they broke to seal the victory with 2 minutes remaining.
Thankfully the referee soon brought an end to a fairly miserable evening by ending the game.
Next up is Clifton FC, who remain unbeaten and are currently second in the table.
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