Herts Senior County League
Division 4
Thursday 11th May 2023
Kick Off 18.45 On Time!
Global A.F.C. 0 Letchworth Garden City Eagles U21 4, attendance 17
55’ 0-1
66’ 0-2
69’ 0-3
80’ 0-4 (pen)
@ Morris Playing Fields
White Horse Lane
London Colney
AL2 1JR
No Admission or Programme.
The Herts Senior County League hasn’t got the best reputation, especially as you drop down the divisions, as far as games not taking place towards the end of the season goes. Or even midweek matches that are played with 2 x 35 minute halves! Global had failed to play four of their home games during the season, as well as scratching from two away games, and they were on Saturdays! I didn’t have high expectations that this would go ahead, but Letchworth had tweeted about the game, including venue and actually replied on Twitter to confirm that as far as they were concerned , it was game on.
I left home early, to give myself the best chance of negotiating the nightmare of the M25 between J10 and J16, which was slow, but constantly moving. Subsequently I arrived far too early. An hour and a half before kick off! However, within fifteen minutes, the entire away team were here, kitted out in club tracksuits. The home players arrived in dribs and drabs over the course of the next half hour. It looked like we’d got a game!
Global looked a bit of a rag bag outfit. They played in white shirts, but there were six outfield players in black shorts and four in red. They had red socks, all bar one, who wore black. We later had a substitute in navy blue shorts and during the second half, one player even wore a shirt with no number on the back! So typical of this league.
The match itself had nothing riding on it, as far as promotion or relegation matters went, as 10th hosted 6th, but it was a decent contest, between two evenly matched sides. It was certainly not played as an end of season ‘nothing’ match. It took until ten minutes into the second half for Letchworth to break the deadlock, cutting in from the left, before firing a shot into the far corner from the angle of the 18 yard box. A left footed shot from the edge of the box, followed by a one on one finish saw them go 0-3 up, before a late penalty rounded off the scoring.
The game started in pleasant sunshine, which soon turned to rain. It finally let up about ten minutes before the end of the match. The consensus amongst the four ‘hoppers present was that the Referee blew for full time about five minutes early, but the game was done and dusted by then.
