Ramsbury FC produce a devastating first half performance to blow away Premiership side Spectrum FC First in the Cup!
Team: Oscar
Euan Adam Chris (C) James W
Byron Skips Leigh
Zac Seany RB Rob
Subs: Ash, Ash B, Sam
I arrived late after watching Nottingham Forrest dispatch Liverpool 1-0 and send Klopp off to seek therapy after what has been a dismal start to the Premiership; and I was delighted to find Ramsbury 2-0 up after 20 minutes….and then I was informed….but in reality lied to……that the goals were absolute gems and worthy of goals of the season! And that Ramsbury had found their zen and like some insane Buddhist martial arts monks….had produced fast flowing intricate movement that bewildered the opposition and made them look like they were playing in slow time; and made them contemplate that they should all take up hockey or some other lesser sport where they might actually be able to compete! It was a Ramsbury master class and Spectrum were being taught a lesson….it was boys against aging bald men…..poets versus the illiterate…..ballet dancers compared to fat men in cloggs…..you get the picture. The boys were on fire!!!!!
Allegedly, the first goal scored by Zac had a touch of Zidane flair and Henry finesse as he out-foxed the cumbersome Spectrum defence and weaved majestically to calmly slot in an inch-perfect worldy into the top right corner of the goal to make it 1-0. The are variations on this theme….but the reality was Zac scored within 5 minutes!
Spectrum were still reeling from the brilliance of the Ramsbury play and were further perplexed as Seany red boots sent the opposition defence this way and then that way and popped a worldy of a pass to Rob who, with a magnetic like touch, controlled the ball and then rifled a Vardyesque shot that threatened to break the Spectrum goal….sheer brilliance….as Rob will tell you…. and Ramsbury were now 2-0 up!
The reality is that Ramsbury scored two quick fire goals by Zac and Rob with Seany RB getting an assist against an over- confident opposition who had obviously over-tired themselves the previous evening by polishing their bald heads and manicuring their cultivated goaties to understand they were in a proper football match. Hmmmm
However, Spectrum did get back into the game when Ramsbury did not deal with a decent cross and the opposition scored a soft goal to make it 2-1. This was against the run of play as Adam, playing at centre back, and not being the tallest, managed to win most headers and set about the opposition forwards like a possessed Man Utd Martinez ….and along with Captain Chris…. was very much in the middle of every tussle and tough challenge with the opposition’s very physical forwards and was having a blinder! Euan and James W were great support acts at left and right back and the Ramsbury defence were awesome with the ball on the ground and were giving the opposition no quarter.
Equally so, Leigh, who was likened by an onlooker to be a demonic Chielini, was a force to be reckoned with in midfield along with a very measured and composed Skips and a terrier like Byron, and were running the opposition midfield ragged. Ramsbury used the width well with Zac and Rob taking the Spectrum defence to the cleaners and using Seany RB as a really useful target man.
At 2-1 down it took only 5 minutes for Ramsbury to respond with another great assist by Seany RB to Rob who gave the keeper no chance and slotted home another worldy to make it 3-1. The opposition were all over the place and Ramsbury were rampant with both Seany RB and Zac missing two great chances to completely finish the game. Ramsbury were like a well-oiled machine….ok….a recently fuelled farmyard tractor….and kept ploughing forward with the opposition in full on panic mode. It was a delight to watch and the opposition were getting more and more aggravated.
Ramsbury added more pressure and a superb corner saw the ball bounce down on the edge of the area and Skips using perfect technic volleyed the ball into the top right corner to make it 4-1 and see the opposition start to lose the plot. The referee sought to even things up by sending Chris to the sin bin after swearing at himself for a poor touch…..the usual seizure of footballing tourets which we all understand…..but was obviously lost on the match official. It was a first for me…. and every other player on the pitch….even the opposition were equally bemused…..and which saw Ramsbury play out the last 4 minutes with 10 men as leigh dropped in as centre half alongside Adam….it was fine and Adam was heard to say Chris Roberts who? and Leigh respond that this centre half lark is a piece of piss….or words to that effect….maybe!
The half ended 4-1 to Ramsbury who were far the better team. 
A GAME OF TWO HALVES…….
The second half was poor and does not even merit any real mention. Ramsbury played less well after playing the first 6 minutes with 10 men really well; the opposition got more and more frustrated and more and more aggy and accused the linesman of cheating for giving offsides and the Referee struggled to keep a grip on the game.
Spectrum scored another soft goal from a corner (we have to be better at defending from set pieces) to make it 4-2 and then finally upped their game…to just sub-standard and unfortunately Ramsbury lowered their game to the oppositions level. Both Ash B and Ash came on for Euan and Byron and Ash B going up front put himself about well as usual and Ash in defence got stuck in and put some good physicality into the right back position. There was a lot of whinging and a lot of non-sense from the opposition and what had been a great game in the first half degenerated into near farce in the second half as the opposition were resorting to whining about everything…it was a real shame!
Ramsbury produced some good chances in the second half and could have gone further ahead, but sensibly played the game out with the 2-goal lead. There was no shirt of shame (other than the opposition no8 for his constant whinging) awarded by Sean and man of the match went deservedly to Adam for a superb centre half display that shows you don’t need to be 6 foot to prove you can defend like a legend. Well done Adam!
In sum, first half was awesome and showed that we can play ..second half was dreadful and showed how we play when we drop our standards. Great 4-2 Cup win with great goals by Zac Rob (2) and Skips. League game up next!
Cheers
Jon
