Saturday 5th September 2015 @3pm
Kent Invicta League
GLEBE 1-2 CROCKENHILL
Foxbury Avenue, Chislehurst, Kent.
Admission: £5 including Programme (A5, 16pp)
Attendance: 85
Refreshments: Guinness £3.50. Kit Kat 60p.
Stayed local due to family commitments this weekend. Despite Glebe being chucked out of the FA
Vase on ground issues, they were still at home in a rearranged league fixture
in what was their first Saturday home match at the spruced up ground at the
bottom of Foxbury Avenue. Just a 10 minute bus ride on the 160 from Sidcup Rail
Station or about a mile walk to Chislehurst Rail Station, although it’s a steep
hill from that Station.
As you enter the Sports Ground there is a pitch in front of
you where the vets were playing then you see beyond it, the club building and
the newly erected fencing surrounding the main pitch. The clubhouse has a main room and a function
room. It also has the bar and a food kiosk behind on the way to the
toilets. The England rugby was on the
several TV screens and as I arrived at 2.40pm the gateman was just inside
taking admission, before opening the admission gate 15 minutes before kick-off. The ground is fenced off on 3 sides and has
trees behind the far goal completing the enclosure. The pitch is in good condition and is railed
with dugouts on one touchline and a 100 seater stand on the nearer touchline, of
which 50 seats was delivered only 2 days beforehand. Still floodlights and a covered standing area
to complete this season and a protected walkway from dressing room to ground to
be constructed to progress higher I imagine among other things. But perfectly
acceptable for Step 6 apart from the aforementioned list.
Glebe started the match in dominant mood and should have
been a goal up after 15 minutes but the referee and assistant didn’t spot the
ball hitting the wheel on the bottom station half a yard inside the goal before
bouncing back into play. Both teams thought it had been awarded only for the
referee to point for a goal kick! This
decision galvanised the away side into action and they had the better chances
before, on 36 mins a corner wasn’t cleared properly by the Glebe defence and
the 2nd cross to the far post was directed across the goal into the
far corner by Dalrymple.
Early in the second half and Glebe didn’t learn from their
first half mistakes by again failing to completely clear the lines in defence
and the return was stabbed home from close range by Johnson, So Glebe found themselves 2 goals down
against the run of play. They did
bombard the visitors for the last half hour, with bookings escalating, language
on the field deteriorating as Glebe reduced the arrears with a ¼ of the game
left when a free kick was headed in.
Despite the pressure and about 5 minutes stoppage time, Crocks stole the
3 points against a good Glebe side who should be up there about at the end of
the season.
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