Glapwell 4 Belper Town 0
The final Saturday before Christmas and a trip to Glapwell. The kick off was moved to 1pm due to Glapwell having their Christmas party scheduled for later today. It was scribblers turn to drive and as his car was in dock following what is commonly termed a ‘coming together’ with another vehicle, we had the luxury (?) of a Renault Clio no less. We realised on the way home that the Clio was fitted with a ‘state of the art’ cassette player. As a 57’ plate – who on earth uses a cassette player in this MP3 age?
Glapwell is a short drive up the A38, 1 junction up the M1 and turn left at the Young Vanish public house. What sort of name is that for a pub ? This was turning into one weird sort of day, cassette players and pubs with strange names, whatever next? Ant Wilson getting sent off? Surely not !
We arrived about 5 past 12 – again a strange feeling for a Saturday game but at least it meant that the light should still be with us come the final whistle at about 15:50. First news of the day was that Pets was not in the side, fuelling the rumours that he was about to sign for Matlock Town. This meant that Oggy was back between the posts for the Nailers.
After a quick cup of tea and a mince pie (well it is almost Christmas) we heard the second news of the day. Despite the fact that Rush was named in the 11 he wasn’t at the ground as he’d forgotten it was an early kick off and was still in bed when the call went through to see where he was. This meant a team change which was to affect the whole performance.
A spare looking crowd (128) seemed to be made up of about 50% Belper fans and officials – sadly the black and white half were to go home happiest. The officials in the form of the ref and one linesman were very poor. Shirt pulling was rife but went virtually unpunished. A blatant pull on Ants shirt was ‘missed’ by the linesman standing a few feet infront of us in the stand on the far side. To add insult to injury Glapwell played the ball forward to their forward (in an offside position according to the nailers fans watching from the other side) who then beat Oggy for 2-0 with just 20 minutes gone.
The incompetence was qualified by the sending off of Ant Wilson in the second half. I didn’t see the actual offence although fellow Nailers say that he did catch Kendo with his elbow. Kendo, playing
the professional footballer went down and stayed down holding his head to ensure maximum effect. The referee came to the linesman infront of us (the same one form the other side on the first half) and asked what had happened. After a quick talk the ref said ‘straight red’? to which the liner agreed. The official then walked back to the players and produced a yellow card, realised his mistake and fumbled for his red card. After saying that the smell of sour grapes was in the air at Gresley it will sound the same when I say we had poor officials for this game. Having said that we were beaten by the better side fair and square
The final Saturday before Christmas and a trip to Glapwell. The kick off was moved to 1pm due to Glapwell having their Christmas party scheduled for later today. It was scribblers turn to drive and as his car was in dock following what is commonly termed a ‘coming together’ with another vehicle, we had the luxury (?) of a Renault Clio no less. We realised on the way home that the Clio was fitted with a ‘state of the art’ cassette player. As a 57’ plate – who on earth uses a cassette player in this MP3 age?
Glapwell is a short drive up the A38, 1 junction up the M1 and turn left at the Young Vanish public house. What sort of name is that for a pub ? This was turning into one weird sort of day, cassette players and pubs with strange names, whatever next? Ant Wilson getting sent off? Surely not !
We arrived about 5 past 12 – again a strange feeling for a Saturday game but at least it meant that the light should still be with us come the final whistle at about 15:50. First news of the day was that Pets was not in the side, fuelling the rumours that he was about to sign for Matlock Town. This meant that Oggy was back between the posts for the Nailers.
After a quick cup of tea and a mince pie (well it is almost Christmas) we heard the second news of the day. Despite the fact that Rush was named in the 11 he wasn’t at the ground as he’d forgotten it was an early kick off and was still in bed when the call went through to see where he was. This meant a team change which was to affect the whole performance.A spare looking crowd (128) seemed to be made up of about 50% Belper fans and officials – sadly the black and white half were to go home happiest. The officials in the form of the ref and one linesman were very poor. Shirt pulling was rife but went virtually unpunished. A blatant pull on Ants shirt was ‘missed’ by the linesman standing a few feet infront of us in the stand on the far side. To add insult to injury Glapwell played the ball forward to their forward (in an offside position according to the nailers fans watching from the other side) who then beat Oggy for 2-0 with just 20 minutes gone.
The incompetence was qualified by the sending off of Ant Wilson in the second half. I didn’t see the actual offence although fellow Nailers say that he did catch Kendo with his elbow. Kendo, playing
the professional footballer went down and stayed down holding his head to ensure maximum effect. The referee came to the linesman infront of us (the same one form the other side on the first half) and asked what had happened. After a quick talk the ref said ‘straight red’? to which the liner agreed. The official then walked back to the players and produced a yellow card, realised his mistake and fumbled for his red card. After saying that the smell of sour grapes was in the air at Gresley it will sound the same when I say we had poor officials for this game. Having said that we were beaten by the better side fair and squareTwo more second half headers from the home side made it a comfortable 4-0 win and ensured a happy Christmas party was ensured for the men of Glapwell. For Belper it was their second league defeat of the season, both away from home, both to teams wearing black and white stripes.
Next Up – Kidsgrove Athletic UniBond Division 1 South
Next Up – Kidsgrove Athletic UniBond Division 1 South
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