Match Report v Whitworth Park B

Match Report 28/10/15
History FC 3-1 Whitworth Park B
The men in blue continued their fine early season form this past Wednesday to notch a third win on the bounce. The form team in Division 2 are flying high after a convincing 3-1 victory over the B’s from Whitworth Park. However, the day did not begin well for History as just before kick-off news began to filter through to the Wythenshawe press box that midfielder Tom Glover had failed a late fitness test. Sources close to Glover have confirmed that he had been suffering from a near fatal bout of Essay-crisisitis over the past couple of days and it had left him in no fit state to take part in Wednesday’s game.  Fortunately his absence wasn’t felt too harshly as a new look midfield of Nathan Bennett and Nick Jeyarajah provided a strong platform from which History built an early lead.
History flew out the blocks as Whitworth struggled to deal with the high-pressing 3-5-2 system employed by ‘tinkerman’ Dan Bunter’s team. The counter pressing soon paid dividends for the men in blue as the ball was nicked off a Whitworth foot and Henry Scanlan was sent racing through, Scanlan finished coolly in a manner reminiscent of a young Thierry Henry. History were ahead and it could have and should have been more as the Referee and his imaginary linesmen made several extremely dubious offside calls throughout the half. The lead was eventually doubled just before half time as a trademark Dan Bunter Free-kick was nodded in by a hapless Whitworth defender, leaving History with a deserved two goal lead.
The second half carried on where the first had left off with History dominating the leafy Wythenshawe turf and before long they had their third. Yet another fine Bunter delivery was cleared to the edge of the box where it was met crisply by Nathan Bennett and drilled into the bottom corner, a well-deserved first History goal for the combative midfielder. Whitworth did eventually manage to pull one back as Josh Scott saw his dreams of emulating Neil Davies’ clean sheet the previous week dashed by a neat finish from the Whitworth man. The game soon became fractious and disjointed with a high number of fouls given away by each side. Despite the lapse for the goal the back three were troubled little by a feeble Whitworth attack led by the man who had rejected History’s overtures during the transfer window, Kane Nimblette. This was until centre-back Will Kelly took matters into his own hands after being shoved by Nimblette and aggressively pushed the striker in the chest. Presumably letting him know politely that’s what you get for turning down History FC, the referee took exception to this for some reason and awarded a penalty in the dying seconds of the game. Could the comeback be on? The answer was no as Kane wasn’t Abel and blasted over from 12 yards. Three points secured and a very satisfying win over Whitworth Park B and their captain, who is by all accounts a bit of kn*b. History march on!
Your faithful reporter,
Neil Davies