Saturday 18 April

St Anns Chapel 5-2 Grampound

(Duchy League Div 2)
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This was another scrappy game played on a difficult steep slope but Grampound dominated the opening 20 minutes, creating good chances, missed by Roseveare and Glyn Ford, and did manage to take the lead when Glyn Ford stabbed home at a corner. Another good chance was missed before the team committed suicide with 4 awful goals (one being a very harsh penalty) won the game in a 20 minute period. Buoyed by their generous visitors, the home team had the game won byhalf-time.

Grampound played no better in the second period, with the back 4 looking frquently exposed and under pressure. Although Weeks should have pulled one back on 50 minutes, Grampound's inability to pass to another in a sky blue shirt really began to show as the teams tired. Chapel scored a fifth goal following a goalmouth scramble. Chapel shouild have been down to 10 men when the referee showed a yellow rather than a red for violent behaviour (even though he dressed this up with clever words when politely asked about it at full time - a red card was deserved and the ref bottled it in favour of the home team, compounding his errors of the first half in which he gave the harshest penalty for handball anyone can remember and then wrongly gave offside with a little help from the home manager on the line when everyone knew the pass to Glyn Ford was made by a defender). Scott Roseveare reduced the arrears when the home keeper missed his cross, one of numerous mistakes that he made but this was the only one taken advantage of.

This was a poor performance from Grampound overall, made worse by the very positive opening they made.

Squad

1. Hicks
2. Woodman
3. Leaney G
4. Webb
5. Dunn J (sub Ridd, 60)
6. Dunn D
7. Roseveare
8. Fletcher
9. Dunn G (sub Budge, 70)
10. Ford G (sub Ford T, 85)
11. Weeks

Goals

Ford G (10), Roseveare (80)

Man of the Match

Sean Hicks

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