The Bootiful Game Issue 2 The Bootiful Game Issue 2 | Page 53

Maltby, however, with the
visitors knowing a two-goal
winning margin would secure
them a move to the summit of
the league table by the end of
the evening.
And in front of a crowd of 95
people, the majority of whom
housed themselves in either
the 150-seater main stand or
it’s accompanying covered
terrace down one side of the
ground, it was the away side
who opened the scoring early
on courtesy of Joe Walton’s
glancing header.
The next twenty minutes or so
were evenly fought, but on the
half hour mark the home side’s
task was made increasingly
difficult.
A duo of Liversedge attackers
charged forward on the counter,
only for the man on the ball to
be sliced down by a lunging last-
ditch challenge from the
defender. There was little doubt
that it was a sending off and the
referee immediately sent the
Maltby player off to reduce the
side to ten men.
minute when he beat the
defender to a low cross before
stabbing the ball home off the
inside of the post.
They had a third fifteen minutes
later, as Steve Wales charged
into the area and cut inside –
poking the ball past the
Despite
goalkeeper at the near post to
being a man seemingly put the outcome
down, the
beyond any doubt.
hosts kept
the deficit to But they weren’t finished yet.
a single goal Seven minutes from time, a low
until the
driven effort from Vaughan
break. It still Redford rounded off a
remained
comfortable evening for
1-0 as the
Liversedge.
hour mark
The 4-0 scoreline meant the
passed, but away side ended the
from this
opening month of the season in
point on
first position and also continued
Liversedge
our 100% record of seeing the
were clearly home sides concede four goals
the more
on our football travels with Bill
dominant of so far!
the two and
looked like
scoring at
every
opportunity.
Rhys Davies
made it 2-0
in the 63rd
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