League: Bristol Corinthians League

Russell Athletic 50s vs Reclinosaurs

A terrific game between two well matched sides at BAWA finished with honors even. Reclinosaurs had the better of the first half, but calamitous defending allowed Russell to twice take the lead. New boy Simon and Kenty both slotted good finishes to take it into HT at 2-2. After the break the Saurs again started brightly and took the lead when Kenty nodded in Justini’s cross, but after that Russell took full control, getting in behind the defence time and again. It looked as though a couple of missed open goals might allow the Saurs to escape with a cheeky win, but with the last action of the game a perfect corner was nodded home for the equalizer. This game was a great advert for vets football, plenty of endeavor, plenty of action, some good football played by both sides and some terrible errors at both ends, but plenty of smiles all round at the conclusion. Good luck to Russell for the run in.

Pucklechurch FC Vets vs Retainers FC

Retainers produced their best performance of the season in a cracking game against a very good Puckle team. A double from Helmi secured the win, keeper Dan produced an incredible quadruple save without which things could have been completely different.

 

We had a difficult morning against a hard working Retainers side. We had a few missing but that’s vets football! We applied some second half pressure but ultimately Retainers missed a hatful of chances and ran out well deserved winners and had the best player on the pitch by a country mile.