15th August 2016 - Maine
Road 1 v 2 Hanley Town - Monday night football is something I
like. It never clashes with anything and starts the week off on a
positive note. Luckily for me it is the night Maine Road play some of
their matches and I always enjoy a potter down to this tucked away ground in
Chorlton. Tonight I arrived early, watched the warm-up and read a bit of
my recently acquired book on Beachcombing - all good stuff. The match
kicked off and in truth Maine Road were the dominant force for the first 45
minutes with their 1 - 0 lead not truly reflecting their efforts. The
team are an industrious crew who have some tidy players in theri midst with the
No 2 (Joel Senior) at the back playing a stormer and continuing to do
so in the second half. But, as these things go in non-league football,
the tide turned and suddenly, despite the general flow, Hanley were 2 - 1 ahead
and making the home side work hard at getting back on level terms.
It wasn't to be Maine Road's night and despite a
last blast salvo and some good fluid movement Hanley stayed on top and kept the
home side down to one goal. One hindrance to the Roads desire to get back
on an equal footing was the stand-out player of the night,
Hanley's No 5 (Josh Thorpe) who put in a flawless performance and read
every play just about perfectly. I came away from the game wondering
how Maine Road managed to lose, seeing is all not what it appears to be.
FINAL THOUGHT - One of those nights like the hair of Bruce Forsyth - all is not as it appears! You get the feeling of one thing and yet it is something else after all!
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