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Hopperational details
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Date & Venue
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Saturday 29
August at Westwood Park
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Result
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Cowes Sports 0 Wimborne Town 5
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Competition
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FA Cup
Preliminary Round
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Hopping
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All is
explained in the previous blogpost, but this visit was randomly selected by
horseracing results last Wednesday. In
turn that was inspired by my first trip to the races on Tuesday. I am here because of this specific
combination of events: Omotesando lived up to his status at 7/4 favourite in
the eighth race of the day at Lingfield (the 5.25) AND then Landwade Lad came
home at 11/2 in the 8.25 at Kempton Park having been drawn in position eight. No other sequence of events could have
brought me here. The 8.25 favourite
was unplaced – had it won, I’d have been at Abbey Hey v Warrington at the
other end of the country. It’s random,
and beats making your own decisions.
Westwood Park goes in at number 577 on my lifetime list. It is NOT the first time that I have taken
to the water to get to an English game if you count the Woolwich ferry en
route to Thamesmead Town. It’s not my
first time on the IoW either, but it is the first time in over 40 years. Wonder if Southern Vectis buses still
exist? (Answer: Yes!)
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Pre-match Preparation
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Step 5 versus
Step 4. Cowes Sports were promoted
from Step 6 last season into the Wessex Premier League. They beat Melksham Town of the Western
League Premier 3-1 in a replay to earn this tie. The third goal was knocked in from the
half-way line in the closing minutes.
They were well-beaten in their only away league game this season but
are unbeaten at home including a comeback from 0-2 down in their last
game. Results suggest a resilient team
whose best chance of winning this tie is to do so at home.
Looking at
Wimborne Town’s results raises more questions than answers. They enter the FA Cup at this stage but
only picked up their first league points of the season last Saturday after a
couple of thumpings, a narrow defeat and a crazy 5-6 home defeat to
Winchester City. They play in the
Southern League Division One South & West.
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Pre-match Entertainment
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The Sir Max
Aitken Museum houses one of the craziest, eccentric and random collections of
memorabilia that I have ever seen. It
deserves more visitors. Wonderful
Englishness at its best.
 
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This Match in One Sentence
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A comfortable
win for the visitors who gave the hosts a lesson in finishing.
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Wimborne will
be at home to Witheridge of the Step 6 SW Peninsula League in the First
Qualifying Round.
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The Drama Unfolds
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It started to
rain steadily and the chances of an upset faded very quickly as Wimborne’s
number 9, James Stokoe, for whom the word burly was invented, beat the keeper
Ed Hatt to a cross for an easy header.
0-1 after 4 mins
Hatt made a
good block to prevent further damage before Wimborne missed another good
chance. A headed backpass fell too
short but Hatt was fortunate to be able to shepherd Mark Gamble away from
goal. Wimborne were very, very
comfortable. Occasionally Cowes would
show glimpses of slick passing and triangles against their stronger more
physical opponents, but they could not really get the Wimborne keeper working
hard.
The second
goal was rolled in by Franklyn Clarke when the offside line was breached, to
the annoyance of the home faithful in the splendid wooden main stand who were
not happy with the lino. A real
defensive calamity, but no more damage in the first 45. 0-2
at half-time
The “if only”
moment came five minutes into the second half. If only Charlie Smeeton had poked the ball
home instead of wide when it fell to him on the six-yard line. Wimborne struck immediately and a through
ball went to Gamble who made no mistake.
0-3 after 51 mins
The impressive
Stokoe scored his second of the game by dropping deep to receive a pass then
placing a low shot into the bottom right corner. 0-4
after 59 mins
Cowes gamely
sought a consolation and Jason Harvell saved well from Jordan Browne before
Wimborne scored again. A sweeping move
in numerical order by numbers 9 Stokoe (great pass), 10 Gamble (square across
the box) and 11 led to a tap-in for the latter, Carl Preston, 0-5
after 67 mins
Harvell
denied Cowes a consolation again but diving to push away a shot by Keelan
Sainsbury which would otherwise have gone into the top corner, and at the
other end Hatt saved a sixth with an acrobatic save to push away a shot from
Clarke. Wimborne will be very happy
with this as a job completed clinically.
If you have been following them this year you may well have seen more
goals in total than anyone else. Final score 0-5
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Ground Pix
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A very well-equipped clubhouse alongside the wooden stand. Altogether a very pleasant experience even
in the rain.
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Cowes Sports are in the blue-and-white.
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Public Information Service
A field guide to Recognition of Isle of Wight Ferries
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Updated Goalkeeper Top Colour Stats
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A win and a
clean sheet for green over bottom-of-the-table pink.
The story so
far:
3pts for win, 1pt for draw, -1pt for
goal against and +5pts for a clean sheet
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The new
school term is about to start and my hopping decisions tend to be last-minute
at this time of year. Watch
@GrahamYapp on Twitter for details!
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