UNITY PUT COTGRAVE TO THE SWORD

Notts Senior League

Premier Division

UNITY FC 8 COTGRAVE FC 0

My plan for today altered as the week went on, as Shawn was supposed to be doing a 10 mile walk with the Scouts over the weekend and we needed to drop him off at 6pm at Walesby Scout Camp, but on Thursday evening it was cancelled, so I decided to keep Calverton MW on hold in case it rained and it had cover there. My first choice then became Aspley Park v Ruddington Village Reserves in the Quarter Final of the Notts FA Intermediate Cup with a 1.30pm kick off. On arrival at the ground there was a puddle of ice and a couple of people had said the ground was hard. The ref arrived and took a walk on to the pitch and shook his head, so to plan C and I knew it would def be on and that was Unity FC as they play on 3g.

Un ity FC have been doing very well in their first season in the Notts Senior League, whilst sadly Cotgrave are going through a bit of a bad time at the moment.

The first 20 minutes of the game was quite even but neither side really had their goalkeepers tested, though Cotgrave at this stage looked the better of the two teams, but on 24 minutes REECE FYFE broke the deadlock to put Unity in front to which they didnt look back. On 38 minutes, REECE FYFE doubled his tally and just before half time JOURDAN BLAIR ht a screamer to make it 3-0.

At half time, Unity's top striker Errol, Campbell was replaced and his replacement took no time in settlin g in to the game when with his first touch on 47 minutes TYRELL SHANNON-LEWIS put the ball in the back of the net, two minutes later and with his second touch of the game, he made it 5-0.

On the hour JOURDAN BLAIR scored his second and Unity's sixth and on 63 minutes CONNOR CROFT made it 7-0, in the 72nd minute, TYRELL SHANNON-LEWIS completed his hat-trick and ended the scoring.

After the match I had a groundhop meeting with the UNITY FC committee as they are the away side at Real United FC, all information can be found on this LINK about the hop.

I would like to thank Steve Clifford for kindly making a £10 donation towards the Blogs charity which now takes the total up to £552.25p

Photos from the match can be found on this LINK