Anglian Combination League

Division 2

Friday 16th August 2019

Kick Off 18.30 Actual 18.29

Freethorpe 1 Martham 0, attendance 28

18’ 1-0

@ School Road

Freethorpe

NR13 3NZ

No Admission or Programme.

A trip to Norfolk on a Friday evening is not the best idea. A tedious journey, which took four and a half hours, is something that makes you wonder why you bother with midweek matches, as the roads are so clogged up nowadays that even local journeys are a pain. At least it only took 2 hours 35 minutes to get home!

Thankfully, the seven hours of heavy rain from lunchtime onwards, that was forecast for this area by the BBC Weather team, was inaccurate. It did rain a bit, but it was windy enough to move it on swiftly. The pitch certainly wasn’t troubled by the rain and was in superb condition.

Despite kicking off a minute ahead of schedule, the Referee decided to play 2 x 40 minute halves, due to it being a poor night weather wise, which didn’t impress the visitors Manager too much and they were still arguing about it at halftime. He played an additional minute in the first half and then three more at the end of the second and there was still plenty of light when the game finished at 20.04.

The game itself never really hit any heights. Plenty of effort, but not that many chances created. Freethorpe won it with the only goal of the game after 18 minutes, when their No.9 was played through and he slipped the ball into the corner of the net past the onrushing ‘keeper.