Day: Wrote this match report when he should have been marking books
Well the less said about this game the better. It all looked rosy for the start, Barny could remember waking up and driving to the game, Stu had drank 7 bottles of Lucozade and Vil had already eaten 7 cupcakes as well as Will touching his toes.
A few late withdrawls and injurys left the Albion with only 12 players. Line up was Bill, Duncan, Stu, Barny, Will, Nick E, Jindy, Si, Vil, Don, Steve with Jade on the bench.
The Albion started well with Steve getting clear of their back four and smashing the ball goal wards, it looked like it was flying in (and may have crossed the line) before a retreating Wanderers defender managed to hook it away. This was followed by another great Albion chance, with the ball bouncing around the area but Albion being unable to smash it into the back of the net.
After this the traffic was pretty much one way with some good link play between the Westminster Strikers who cleverly dropped into the midfield numerous times. They were also partial to the long smash up field which Albion usually deal with so well but couldn’t get to grips with. Westminster quickly tucked in three goals before half time, a well worked goal from the front two, an uncharacteristic goal conceded from a corner and a stunning volleyed own goal from Duncan.
Half time came around and Jade laid into the lads for lack of effort, commitment and at times ability, the second half started brightly with Don missing when through on goal and the ball spending much more time in the Westminster half of the field. However Abion quickly received a sucker punch as another long punt down field allowed for the Westminster striker to get down the touchline before centering the ball for the striker to touch it in.
Leslie: Little to do after Barny's towering leap above the world's tallest man
The fifth and final goal being a penalty as Barny clattered into the back of the Westminster striker when facing away from goal and going no where. Just about sums up Albions day. However there was one piece of shining light.
It happened in about the 80th minute and Clapham Common has not seen anything like it. It started with a free kick to Albion close to the touchline about 40 yards out. Jindy hit a speculative cross towards the penalty spot which was going to be cleared easily. However Barny had shrugged off three Westminster defenders who had been grabbing, holding and pulling him knowing that he was the danger man, he sprinted at speed unknown to man and leaped like a black salmon at least 6 feet of the ground, at this point he noticed that he was being challenged by a mammoth of a man with a Westminsted captain arm band on, Barny managed to reposition himself in the air moving his neck and head to get forehead to ball. Rather than just any old header Barny had figured that he needed to get this ball right across the edge of the 6 yard box and with absolute perfection sent it back towards the far post for an easy Steve tap in.
An overall disappointing performance and I think all agree that if we want to win the league we cannot let this happen again.