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> The new year at Chiswick sports ground London's
finest venue for the Canaries to get '08 going, with
high expectations after a fine ’07. Weather
> was mild, pitch slightly heavy, opposition even
> heavier, it seemed that the 11
> on show took the festive season very seriously â€"
> more so than their football.
>
> Youthful exuberance formed the backbone of the
> Canaries team. Guile and
> experience from a couple of un-named players (both
> playing centre half) on
> display to guide a side who otherwise only just
> broke into the early 20’s on
> average age. The Gaffer warmed up the lads with a
> talk demanding urgency from
> the start, and that’s exactly what he got. Slick
> passing through Barney in
> midfield was the theme of the first half hour with
> Perrett and Rutt easing
> past the pedestrians in the Bristol defence to
> create a hatful of chances for
> the front men, which graciously, they declined to
> take. Finally the deadlock
> was broken â€" after a small melee in the box the
> Patterson right boot connected
> with a rebound and he meaningfully threaded the ball
> through the legs to open
> the scoring, 1-0 yellows. The second came from a
> corner, Barney was at the
> back stick to deal with a flick on, he headed the
> ball back across the box and
> a Bristolian was on hand to nod it in â€" a nice
> chap. The Canaries were on the
> rampage, next chance came from a quick break from
> Evs down the left, a square
> ball and somehow Tett missed from 8 yrds with two
> other yellows in the queue
> to knock it home. This became the norm for a while
> â€" the front men got in
> behind the mince pie laden back line but didn’t
> convert. There was time for
> one more before half time, Revs whipped in a good
> ball from the right and
> another Bristol defender was in POMO to nod it home.
> 3-0 at half time, could
> have been 10.
>
> All that needed to be said at the break was for the
> lads to hit the target!
> The football played was sharp â€" the back 3 solid
> in the air and playing some
> nice keep-ball along the ground, wide men providing
> good outlets and Revs
> commanding anything short in midfield. Second half
> got off to a good start, a
> flowing move down the right involving Barney and
> Perrett resulted in the ball
> coming to Tett 10 yrds from goal and this time no
> mistake â€" roof of net â€" a
> real purists strike. Next one was a Barney solo,
> picked the ball up 30yrds
> from goal, cut in onto his left and hit a
> speculative goal-ward shot/cross
> which sneaked in the bottom corner â€" a touch
> fortunate! All the play was
> yellow at this stage â€" Sarge stepped up with a
> couple of nice through balls
> from the back, Revs continuing his first half master
> class in switching the
> ball into space and Keeps dealt brilliantly with
> anything stray going in the
> wrong direction! The lads were in behind the defence
> at every opportunity
> showing great appetite for goals, and as such Evs
> got the next two - tidy
> right-place-right-time finishes, capping an
energetic
> performance, 7-0. On came
> the subs â€" Barrett for Perrett, Stubbsy for Rutt
and 5
> mins later Jelly for Evs â€"
> the 5 mins required to complete his warm up. The
> injection of potency was
> compelling. Patterson missed a couple more
> one-on-ones, Sarge and Dave aimed a
> couple of headers into the bowling green (i.e. not
> on target) and Jelly struck
> the bar with an uncharacteristic on goal strike! The
> crowd were loving it - or
> were they watching the Rangers game - hard to tell.
>
> After 43 second half minutes the ref had enough and
> blew up, 7-0 it finished,
> clean sheet, and TOP OF THE TABLE…
> Roll on Exeter!
>
>
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