Tuesday 17th November 2009. Northern Counties East League Division OneAt Oxford Street, Rossington
Rossington Main (2) 3 (Jason Stokes 2, Jake Vernon)Barton Town Old Boys (0)
Admission £4, Programme £1, Attendance 80
It's a Non League tradition to stand in front of people who arrived in plenty of time to get a decent seat and good vantage point,. GRR!!!
What a difference a week makes. Just 7 days ago I saw 'Rosso' start and finish a game playing very well, but they leaked 7 goals in the interim.
Tonight they kept it much tighter at the back and though Barton sprayed the ball around in midfield well at times, they were restricted to just a handful of half decent chances.
Lee Appleby pulled off a string of good saves for 'Main' last Tuesday in spite of conceding so many goals, but tonight he kept a clean sheet for doing a fraction of the work.
Jason Stokes fired Rossington ahead on 22 minutes from the edge of the box. Tom Nicholson appeared to go down to make the save in slow motion and only managed to get his fingertips to it on the way in.
"Blimey!" shouted out an enthusiastic local "Even Arsenal are stood back marvelling at that one touch build up play"
Four minutes later Rossington were on the attack again, down the left flank where most of their 'one touch build up play' was coming from, but Barton's right back Lee Markham cut out the danger, turned, and played a square ball across the edge of his own penalty area ... err, straight to Jake Vernon who just happens to be Rossington Main's centre forward and he wasn't going to miss from there. Half time 2-0
Jason Stokes scored again on 64 minutes. His first goal was sweetly struck, his second crawled in apologetically at the post when it looked to be going wide. They both count equally.
Barton were out of sorts tonight and Rossington weren't giving them any width to play in at all.
In fact, the home side were containing the visitors so well, a few of those who had travelled over from Barton tonight decided to leave with ten minutes still remaining - not the hardy souls who travel everywhere and congregate behind the goal though. They made themselves heard when the referee turned down a late penalty claim and then some, but it wouldn't have changed the course of this game anyway. Rossington were streets ahead of their opponents tonight and well worth their three goal margin of victory.
Me, I got away right on the final whistle and got to work on time too (phew!).
It was good to see Frickley John at Oxford Street to chew the fat and banter with, we'd put the world to rights if we were entrusted with the responsibility of running it.
Come the revolution comrades!
Ah, Rossington level crossing. 20 minutes to reach Rosso, 25 minutes to
get across the ECML. Some things never bloody change!!!
What a difference a week makes. Just 7 days ago I saw 'Rosso' start and finish a game playing very well, but they leaked 7 goals in the interim.
Tonight they kept it much tighter at the back and though Barton sprayed the ball around in midfield well at times, they were restricted to just a handful of half decent chances.
Lee Appleby pulled off a string of good saves for 'Main' last Tuesday in spite of conceding so many goals, but tonight he kept a clean sheet for doing a fraction of the work.
Jason Stokes fired Rossington ahead on 22 minutes from the edge of the box. Tom Nicholson appeared to go down to make the save in slow motion and only managed to get his fingertips to it on the way in."Blimey!" shouted out an enthusiastic local "Even Arsenal are stood back marvelling at that one touch build up play"
Four minutes later Rossington were on the attack again, down the left flank where most of their 'one touch build up play' was coming from, but Barton's right back Lee Markham cut out the danger, turned, and played a square ball across the edge of his own penalty area ... err, straight to Jake Vernon who just happens to be Rossington Main's centre forward and he wasn't going to miss from there. Half time 2-0
Jason Stokes scored again on 64 minutes. His first goal was sweetly struck, his second crawled in apologetically at the post when it looked to be going wide. They both count equally.Barton were out of sorts tonight and Rossington weren't giving them any width to play in at all.
In fact, the home side were containing the visitors so well, a few of those who had travelled over from Barton tonight decided to leave with ten minutes still remaining - not the hardy souls who travel everywhere and congregate behind the goal though. They made themselves heard when the referee turned down a late penalty claim and then some, but it wouldn't have changed the course of this game anyway. Rossington were streets ahead of their opponents tonight and well worth their three goal margin of victory.
Me, I got away right on the final whistle and got to work on time too (phew!).
It was good to see Frickley John at Oxford Street to chew the fat and banter with, we'd put the world to rights if we were entrusted with the responsibility of running it.
Come the revolution comrades!
Ah, Rossington level crossing. 20 minutes to reach Rosso, 25 minutes toget across the ECML. Some things never bloody change!!!
