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How on earth am I even going to start picking the bones out of this one ? Oh well , hold on tight , here goes nothing ... " Even the NCEL website has posted the Retford United goalscorers in the wrong order and added slightly inaccurate time sequence details pertaining to today ' s game . But I guess this kind of thing is inevitable when an hitherto perfectly manageable game of football for all of the anally retentive statisticians present ( don ' t knock it until you ' ve tried it ), suddenly erupts into a goal fest , free for all . " Make no mistake , Jamie Davies and Ben Townsend are both competent , capable and accomplished goalkeepers , but generally speaking they probably prefer not to play when they aren ' t afforded any protection whatsoever by a defence that is about as useful as a chocolate fireguard . It ' s all well and good when defenders charge off up the field to muck in with their attackers , but they need to be astute enough ( or even fit enough ) to track back when their own goal is
under threat . " By half time , Davies must have been wondering if some of his AWOL team mates had decided that he could play against Rainworth on his own this afternoon . " Everybody likes a trier and you couldn ' t fault the Badgers Jack Walters for his effort and non-stop today , but even he made a clumsy start to the game , when he exchanged passes with Jermaine Gordon on the edge of the Rainworth area , but fell over as he went for the return ball . " As the Wrens found their feet , it was mostly one way traffic for the majority of the first half , all towards Davies ' goal . Declan Brewin burst through the middle of the Badgers defence and went to ground , but the referee , Martin Chester , was by @ The66Pow the66pow . blogspot . co . uk
close enough to see that he ' d merely ' fallen over ' as the ball ran away from him and waved away a couple of half hearted but wholly optimistic penalty appeals . " Aaron Moxam played the ball out wide to Jordan Claxton on the left and played the ball back to the Wrens striker , who netted from close range , but
the goal was ruled out for an offside offence . " But Moxam had the ball in the net again less than thirty seconds later , when Owen Heather slipped the ball through to him , as the Retford defence stepped out en masse and left their keeper exposed . 0-1
The home side attacked and Walters crossed to Gordon , who used his frame well to hold off a challenge from Matt Plant , before rolling the ball back to Ward Wisdom-Lockwood , who cracked his shot over Townsend ' s crossbar and into the car park . " Rob Ludlam tracked Walters as he broke down the left wing and as they brushed past each other , the Retford youngster hit the deck . Walters obviously has many attributes and has a good career in the game ahead of him , but conning referee ' s with theatrical falls isn ' t one of his talents ." He should stick to doing what he does best and count himself lucky that he wasn ' t booked for assimilation , in this instance . " As the Badgers started to a resemble a pub team that had been hastily assembled out of players that had never met before , but who all had one
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