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Fleet Spurs 2 v 4 Fleet Town

August 4th, 2010 admin

Fleet Spurs welcomed their local neighbours from Calthorpe Park for what was the first meeting between the two teams in a number of years.
With the Spurs very light on numbers due to holiday’s sickness work and injury, the side had quite a youthful look to it.
With senior players such as Ben Edwards, Adam Crittenden and Stuart Tanfield, plus the youth of Ben Clisby, Luke Walsh, Sam Knowles and Jack Chambers unavailable it was always going to be a stern test.
Fleet Town started with a very strong eleven, that included many seasoned non league players.
On a surface that was possibly still a little long, both teams spent the first half trying to get the ball down and play, with half chances coming for both teams.
Spurs were more than matching their senior opponents, and at times were causing Town real problems.
The  Spurs breakthrough came in the 43rd minute when George Short played in Jon Tanfield who got to the ball before his marker, he cut inside past two players and placed it into the bottom left hand corner past Lyall Beazley in the Town goal.
Fleet Town were to get back on level terms two minutes later, when Spurs gave away posession, and Jamie McClurg turned Neil Baker to make the box, and he cut the ball back for Paul Harkness to bury the ball past Phil Boddy on the Spurs line.
With the scores level at half time, Town came out much the stronger in the second half, and with a number of changes made they just looked sharper all over the pitch.
They were quick to take the lead for the first time in the game, when a throughball put in Johnnie Dyer, and despite what seemed valid calls for offside, Dyer placed the ball past Mark Appleby in the Spurs goal.
This quickly turned to 3 -1 when a run down the right wing and excellent ball into the box found Dyer again to head into the bottom corner.
With the Spurs team tiring, the floodgates could have opened, but to the Spurs credit, they reorganized themselves, and started to keep the ball better.
They should have had a penalty with about 20 minutes to go when Tom Chillery was brought down in the box, and despite the protests nothing was given, this led to an early bath for Chillery who the referee asked to be substitued.
Spurs did pull the score back to 3-2 with five minutes to go, when Matt Moore seemed to be tripped in the box, but in hindsight this was less of a penalty than the first claim.
Anyway Moore stepped up to send the keeper the wrong way, and gave Spurs hope of an equaliser.
In all honesty Town deserved their win over the course of 90 minutes, and they made sure of the result with the last kick of the game when a powerful header from Mark Kleboe put in Dyer who duly dispatched his 3rd and his teams 4th goal.
This was to be the last bit of action in the game, and both teams will be pleased with a competitive friendly played in the right spirit.

Fleet Spurs ; Mark Appleby, Pete Hibbert, Phil Boddy (C), Neil Baker, Dan Sleet, George Short, Luke Thorn, Chris Payne, Matt Moore, Jon Tanfield, Tom Chillery (Pat Drage 80 mins) Subs Not Used James Chillery Amartey Armar

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