Middlesex County League

Premier Division

Saturday 16th October 2021

Kick Off 14.30 Actual 14.40

Larkspur Rovers 4 Pitshanger Dynamo 2, attendance 12

5’ 1-0

9’ 1-1

11’ 1-2

48’ 2-2

63’ 3-2

87’ 4-2 (pen)

@ Lord Halsbury Memorial Playing Fields

Priors Farm Lane

Northolt

UB5 5FE

No Admission or Programme.

Second game of the day saw 5th place in the league table host 7th. It was a match that was in the balance throughout and could have gone either way. The game actually kicked off ten minutes late, as neither team, nor the Referee, seemed interested in getting the game started and we also had a minutes silence before kick off as well.

Larkspur went in front within five minutes of the start, but it was 1-1 just four minutes later. The blistering start continued and two minutes later Pitshanger edged in front, with what turned out to be the goal of the game. A diagonal cross field ball was chested down on the corner of the 18 yard box and hammered high into the top corner of the net, giving the ‘keeper no chance at his near post. It was a goal worthy of a far higher standard of football than Step 7. It was quite surprising that there were no more goals in the first half, as both teams attacked at every opportunity.

Larkspur were out of the blocks quickly in the second half as well, levelling it up at 2-2 within three minutes, with a clever lob from just inside the box. Just after the hour mark it was 3-2, when an angled shot found the far corner of the net and the game was finally killed off when a penalty made it 4-2 in the dying minutes. I thought Pitshanger were well worth a draw.