Inter_Blades
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Evening all,
After a lengthy absence from action for the Sheffield United Supporters team the Inter Blades, due to the Christmas period and the weather, we commenced the new year with a penalty victory over Burnley in the IFA Cup (at least one Blades team can beat Burnley!).
A big thanks from myself to all that attended the entertaining/interesting/controversial match on Saturday morning in Halifax (long story). The 10:00 a.m. kick off went slightly pear shaped as our man with the kit had a slight problem with the snooze button on his alarm
We ended up with a squad of 13 plus myself including debutant Ollie Cooper (thanks Ollie!), the majority of which were defenders, so obviously brawn rather than finesse was the order of the day…and that showed throughout the first half. We started reasonably well for the first ten minutes or so, but struggled to find the right service for the front men, the few chances we did create were saved magnificently by the Burnley Keeper. As the half wore on Burnley's pacey young lads started to find space down the flanks and hit us on the counter attack. Burnley grabbed the first goal from one such attack after about 20 minutes and after that we fell to pieces to be honest. To say we had so many defenders on the pitch, the defending as a team was atrocious and Burnley should possibly have scored more than the further goal they managed before half time.
So 2-0 down at half time and after a few minutes of shouting/moaning at each other we managed to talk a bit of sense and we went back out to try to retrieve the game. We started much better and managed to create a couple of half chances before Inter Blades top scorer Andy Wood worked his magic, beating a couple of men along the goal line before firing home from an acute angle. The heads were back up now but with a minute or so of the restart Burnley had stretched their lead back to two goals. For some reason the ref chose to ignore the linesman who was flagging for offside (despite the player in question being at least 2 yards offside), and the player ran through and beat the keeper. This incensed us somewhat after all our hard work to get back into the game had been just been wiped out with one error by the ref. Once we regained our composure we grafted our way back into the game again and were rewarded after a great diagonal ball into the box was taken on the chest and then stabbed home by Drew Brown to pull the score back to 3-2. We threw an extra man forward and got the ball forward as much as possible, then with just seconds remaining we got a lucky break. A ball was crossed into the box by Liam Wasden and a Burnley defender stuck a leg out in an attempt to clear the ball, fortunately for us his outstretched leg deflected the ball past the wrong footed keeper and into the bottom corner. There was barely time to restart the game so it ended 3-3.
So straight to penalties it was, the first penalty taker from either side hit the cross bar, Robbie Hume claimed his bounced down over the line, but the ref was having none of it. Adi Brown took the 2nd penalty, the keeper got his hands to it and deflected it up high in the air, but it some how came down and ended up in the net. Burnley levelled the scores at 1-1 before we then took a 2-1 lead (Chris Quinn) after we scored and Burnley hit the post with their next penalty. We scored our next penalty (Andy Wood) as did Burnley to make it 3-2. Our final penalty taker (Liam) had his penalty palmed over the bar by the keeper so Burnley had a chance to take it to sudden death, but fortunately for us he hit the post, so we progress through to the ¼ finals.
Inter Blades Squad: Ash Hurst, Ash Cowley, Lee North, Adi Brown, Mark Ashton, Chris Beckett, Drew Brown, Robbie Hume, Liam Wasden, Chris Quinn, Andy Wood, Rob Brown, Ollie Cooper, Danny Brown
Inter Blades Goalscorers:
Andy Wood
Drew Brown
Own Goal
cheers,
Danny Brown
Inter Blades F.C
w: http://www.interbladesfc.co.uk
After a lengthy absence from action for the Sheffield United Supporters team the Inter Blades, due to the Christmas period and the weather, we commenced the new year with a penalty victory over Burnley in the IFA Cup (at least one Blades team can beat Burnley!).
A big thanks from myself to all that attended the entertaining/interesting/controversial match on Saturday morning in Halifax (long story). The 10:00 a.m. kick off went slightly pear shaped as our man with the kit had a slight problem with the snooze button on his alarm
We ended up with a squad of 13 plus myself including debutant Ollie Cooper (thanks Ollie!), the majority of which were defenders, so obviously brawn rather than finesse was the order of the day…and that showed throughout the first half. We started reasonably well for the first ten minutes or so, but struggled to find the right service for the front men, the few chances we did create were saved magnificently by the Burnley Keeper. As the half wore on Burnley's pacey young lads started to find space down the flanks and hit us on the counter attack. Burnley grabbed the first goal from one such attack after about 20 minutes and after that we fell to pieces to be honest. To say we had so many defenders on the pitch, the defending as a team was atrocious and Burnley should possibly have scored more than the further goal they managed before half time.
So 2-0 down at half time and after a few minutes of shouting/moaning at each other we managed to talk a bit of sense and we went back out to try to retrieve the game. We started much better and managed to create a couple of half chances before Inter Blades top scorer Andy Wood worked his magic, beating a couple of men along the goal line before firing home from an acute angle. The heads were back up now but with a minute or so of the restart Burnley had stretched their lead back to two goals. For some reason the ref chose to ignore the linesman who was flagging for offside (despite the player in question being at least 2 yards offside), and the player ran through and beat the keeper. This incensed us somewhat after all our hard work to get back into the game had been just been wiped out with one error by the ref. Once we regained our composure we grafted our way back into the game again and were rewarded after a great diagonal ball into the box was taken on the chest and then stabbed home by Drew Brown to pull the score back to 3-2. We threw an extra man forward and got the ball forward as much as possible, then with just seconds remaining we got a lucky break. A ball was crossed into the box by Liam Wasden and a Burnley defender stuck a leg out in an attempt to clear the ball, fortunately for us his outstretched leg deflected the ball past the wrong footed keeper and into the bottom corner. There was barely time to restart the game so it ended 3-3.
So straight to penalties it was, the first penalty taker from either side hit the cross bar, Robbie Hume claimed his bounced down over the line, but the ref was having none of it. Adi Brown took the 2nd penalty, the keeper got his hands to it and deflected it up high in the air, but it some how came down and ended up in the net. Burnley levelled the scores at 1-1 before we then took a 2-1 lead (Chris Quinn) after we scored and Burnley hit the post with their next penalty. We scored our next penalty (Andy Wood) as did Burnley to make it 3-2. Our final penalty taker (Liam) had his penalty palmed over the bar by the keeper so Burnley had a chance to take it to sudden death, but fortunately for us he hit the post, so we progress through to the ¼ finals.
Inter Blades Squad: Ash Hurst, Ash Cowley, Lee North, Adi Brown, Mark Ashton, Chris Beckett, Drew Brown, Robbie Hume, Liam Wasden, Chris Quinn, Andy Wood, Rob Brown, Ollie Cooper, Danny Brown
Inter Blades Goalscorers:
Andy Wood
Drew Brown
Own Goal
cheers,
Danny Brown
Inter Blades F.C
w: http://www.interbladesfc.co.uk
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