Annnnnnd relax! What a brilliant day and has to be up their with my favourite away days so far.
It all started at 9am walking up to Sandy Lane for a Sausage Sarnie, at first it was just Picko and his little ones (and not trying to flog fidget spinners this time ;) ). The clubhouse began to fill up and before we knew it we was boarding the coach, 99% of us were ready to set off for 11am, the other percent was Big Jason Alexander who was late. The coach took us to the fire station to pick the rest of the players up, almost leaving JT behind who also got his seat taken by Derek, and then two coach’s full of the Tigers faithful were on their way Shrewsbury bound. The fans enjoyed a few cans and a sing song on the coach there, it was pretty much the same on the return leg of the journey.
The Tigers lineup consisted of Fielding; Hodder, Liversidge, Phillips, Bishop; Barnett, Hill, Jepson; Currie, Denton, Jordan. The Tigers opened the chances when Denton played the ball to Jake Currie who returned the favour but Alec could only shoot wide.
Currie, who was starting his first game since he dislocated his shoulder, skipped past two defenders and played the ball to Jordan
who was on the edge of the box however KJ curled his effort over the bar.Haughmond had their best chance of the half when their number 7 ran down the left flank, cut in and saw his shot deflect off Liversidge and then Phillips cleared off the line.
Worksop opened the scoring right on half time when Turner was played through on goal by Currie, his first initial shot was blocked by the legs of The Mond centre-back. Turner jumped back up and slotted the ball between the keeper and defender into the back of the net.Worksop had a goal ruled out for a foul on the keeper ten minutes into the second half when Jordan chased the ball down to the byline where the Haughmond number one tried to shield the ball for it to go out for a goalkick. Jordan who the ball and bent it into the corner of the net from the tight angle but the linesman deemed that Kyle had pushed the keeper.
Shortly after Jordan should have doubled the lead when he went one on one with the keeper. KJ slipped the ball under the keeper but the ball rolled agonisingly wide of the post.
This seemed costly at the time as Haughmond got a slice of luck and equalised due to an own goal from Phillips. The number seven outwitted Hodder and beat him to the by-line to cross. Jed attempted to clear the cross but unfortunately slid the ball into his own net.
The Tigers found their winner six minutes from time as Kyle Jordan bagged his deserved goal. Jepson played a perfectly weighted ball over the top of the home side defence and Kyle ran on to it and dinked the ball over the goalkeeper and sent Worksop into the next round.
Turner was wrongly denied the third goal of the game as he won the ball off the keeper on halfway and raced towards and open goal but the ref blew the fulltime whistle and sent the Worksop faithful into raptures.
Everyone then headed back to the boozer up the road and everyone including the players were all chanting and bouncing. The atmosphere was electric. The last leg of the trip was the bus home. Everyone on the bus chanting the songs of the players on the bus, ‘weeveee got Woolleyyyyyy’ for example as a clean one for the blog (keeping it PG ;) , won’t include the thoughts of Posh spice and Currie XD). We even belted out bohemian rhapsody! It was a great laugh
Overall it was a brilliant day out, one of my personal favourites. It was a beautiful thing to see, the camaraderie around the club is high and everyone is happy. Dem Tigers
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