Courtesy of:- Ray Lo, and the Spurs List

	FA Premier Academy League South
	Spurs Lodge, Chigwell, Essex
	Saturday 30th October 2004, ko 11.40

	SPURS		V	BRISTOL CITY
        (White/Blue)		(Red/White)
	4-4-2			   4-4-2

           3(2)			   3(0)

	 Tommy Forecast	1 Sam Pearce
	  John Kyriacou 2 Griff Jones
	    Mark Wright	3 Ollie Barnes
	   Stuart Lewis	4 Jack Allward(C)
	    Charlie Lee	5 Callum Hart
	  Nathan Peprah	6 Scott Goldbourne
      Kieran McKenna(C)	7 Cole Skuse
	   Andy Barcham	8 Shaun Lamp
	    Scott Thyer	9 Ludovic Cadina
	  Jack Maghoma 10 Elliot Benyon
       Charlie Daniels 11 Jennison Williams

		       12 Unknown (11) 67Mins.
	   Leigh Mills	  ?
         Simon Dawkins 15 Sean Rivers
          (9) 72Mins.
            Joe Martin 16
          (11) 72Mins.
	Richard Heller 17
         (2)85Mins.

Scorers - Lee 35, McKenna 43, Williams 53, Rivers 70, Barcham 88, Skuse 90

Booked - Lee 42, Hart (trip) 73, Jones (2 footed) 90+

It was a lovely warm sunny morning at The Lodge with the kick off delayed by the late arrival of the visitors coach. The offical site had the kick off at 11am whereas it was 11.30 on other sites. The teams stood for a minute's silence in memory of Sir Bill which was observed perfectly by the crowd of around 50.

The team lined up with Lee and Peprah at the back flanked by Kyriacou on the right and Wright at left back. Lewis and Maghoma played in central midfield with McKenna on the right side and Daniels on the left supporting Thyer and Barcham up front. Apologies for any mistakes.

Spurs attacked the South Goal and soon had the goal under threat with Barcham, Daniels and Lewis all going close as the midfield had most of the play. After Pearce had pushed a shot from Daniels around the post, Charlie curled the ball from the corner onto the other Charlie's head in the middle of the box for the opener.

It was an eventful start for Lee as he had to go off inside the first five minutes after a clash of heads and was off the pitch for 15 minutes as he was patched up and finally returned in the number 18 shirt as his own had blood on it. Having scored the goal he was booked later for something I did not see. (No jokes please)

The home side went further ahead when the keeper failed to clear a free kick and McKenna drove the ball low into the net from just outside the box. It looked like there was only going to be one winner as despite a couple of good efforts the Robins looked out of it.

The visitors coach kept the team out for a good talking to which really got them motivated for the second half with a more determined approach which knocked the home side out of their stride. They scored early in the half which spurred them on with a fluky goal from Williams who hit a low centre from the left wing which when through a forest of legs into the far side of the goal with Lamp making sure.

Bristol brought on Rivers to add height to their attack and he produced more openings up front which led to their second as in a crowded area the ref gave a penalty for holding. Forecast dived to his left to block Benyon's kick but was unable to do anything to stop Rivers follow up. They had deserved their goal as they had had the ball in the net before as well as having an effort cleared off the line.

Holland responded immediately by bringing on Dawkins and Martin and credit to Spurs they went for the visitors. Dawkins was played in by McKenna and brought down on the edge of the City area with the ref deciding that it was outside the box as he booked Hart. Maghoma, Barcham, Lee and Dawkins all had chances before Holland sent on Heller for Kyriacou pushing the extra man into the attack. Heller forced a corner which the visitors failed to clear and Maghoma fired it low towards goal. Andy Barcham latched onto it and hit it on the turn into the bottom right corner with two minutes left. Bristol did not give give in and came back at spurs and when Rivers laid the ball off Skuse was on hand to volley it past Forecast for a last minute equaliser.

A fair result in the end with both sides playing their part in a game that swung both ways. It was not our strongest side but then the visitors were also playing a weakened side, according to one of their supporters. They played well and promise even better with some of the lads not on show today. The next match is also at the Lodge against Birmingham whom Bristol beat last week on the 6th November. Before that there is the Reserves game at Stevenage on Monday when Chelsea are the visitors.

Ray

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