BRIDPORT RES. 5 HAMWORTHY UNITED RES. 3
Dorset Premier League (Saturday 12-09-09)
The Hammers thee match unbeaten run came to an end against a much improved Bridport Reserve Team. Several players were unavailable for selection due to First Team call ups, and other reasons, so Kevin Jackson had to make changes to the line up. United’s cause was not helped in the first half by a Bridport player who acted as a Referees Assistant due to the shortage of officials. Unfortunately for the Hammers the stand in linesman took his own forward line, and failed to keep up with play. This meant that he was in no position to rule out two goals that were in many people’s opinion clearly offside. This proved to be a major factor in Hamworthy finding themselves three goals down in the first ten minutes, and their confidence shattered.
United could not have got away to a worse start to the game. Although they may have had grounds for complaint about two of the early goals, the other was just bad defending. Bridport were using the long ball to good effect, and managed to increase their lead still further before the end of the first half.
HT 4-0
To their credit the Hammers did not give up as they might have done last year, and gone on and lost by double that score. Instead they pulled a goal back nine minutes into the second half through Jason Thomas. They still did not give up even after Bridport had scored again with the goal of the game. Two goals from the ever dependable Matt White gave the final score line a much fairer indication of the game, and left the Hamworthy camp wondering what might have been if they had got away to a better start to the match
FT 5-3
Team: B. Gould, N. Hall, J. Thomas, D. Rose, A. Jackson G. Rose (C. Horwood)
S. Davidson (A. Dolton), S. Williams, M. White, G. Clark, L. Pidgley