Date: 19/9/10
Location: Margaretting
Result: 1-7
Little Baddow travelled to Margaretting after two straight wins but after poor performances in both games, especially when taking into consideration the potential of the team. LBFC were also without their manager Dean 'Avram Grant' Miller who was official observing Yom Kippur, as well as Dan 'Tal Ben Haim' Frost who was doing the same and Dave Smith, who is also Jewish. However, with Smeeton undertaking the role of caretaker manager, we were hopeful that we could get a decent result. Yet the home team had a surprisingly hopeful start when, after a mixed opening few minutes, Margaretting went 1-0 up thanks to a controversial penalty being given and subsequently slotted away against covering goalkeeper Darren Sawyer. This seemed to invigorate LBFC though and they soon equalised through a Chris Warwick deflected shot. Burty then managed to put two goals past the less-than-agile Margaretting keeper in quick sucession, the second being a beauty of a strike.
We went in 3-1 up at half time, and with the incline in our favour second half, we were confident we could secure victory early on. And we did. Little Baddow's passing and movement was far too much for Margaretting as their heads dropped and the LBFC players got more and more confident. Victory came in the shape of goals from Tom Wreathall, a sublime lob from Charlie Sharp and a brace from Luke Hornsley, the second of which was particularly hard to take for the ageing Margaretting defence who presumed play had been stopped after Chris Melling went down injured and James Taylor appeared to kick the ball out of play. However, ever the opportunist that he is, Hornsley decided to carry on and stopped the ball from leaving the pitch and ran direct to goal, cooly slotting the ball past the confused keeper. The score finished at 7-1 but it could easily have been even more. It was most probably Little Baddow's best performance of the season so far, but arguably against the weakest opposition. Still, three more points on the board and a lot of positives to take from the victory.
Spencer
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