Hopperational details
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Date &
Venue
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Saturday 4
August 2012 at The Rush Green Bowl
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Result
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FC Clacton 2 CRC 2
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Competition
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Eastern
Counties Premier League (Step 5)
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Hopping
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I am here
for ground #466 on the lifetime list and my first of the 2012-13 season,
launching Hopping For Moorfields
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Pre-match preparation
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This is the
first round of matches of the season in this league. CRC are the initials of Cambridge Regional
College and are in effect the reserve and development side for Cambridge
United. FC Clacton are the relaunched Clacton Town, but some bits of evidence of the club's previous incarnation are dotted around ...
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This match in one sentence
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An
entertaining and fair score-draw in a match that improved as time went on.
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So what?
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Much too
early to say – mid-table respectability for both sides at the moment!
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The drama unfolds
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In
tentative early exchanges, CRC forced and then wasted an early corner and
Clacton’s Darren Bethell clipped a shot over after a flick-on from a long
throw. The visitors took the lead from
the penalty spot after 11 minutes, Bobby-Joe Taylor driving his shot low to
the right as Ed Wootten dived the wrong way.
0-1
Here is a
scene-setter clip, with the “Bus Shelter” stand on the right. FC Clacton are in the white-and-blue.
FC Clacton
gradually settled into the game. CRC
keeper Aaron Benstead made a fine save high to his left to deny Bethell and
then a driven low cross from Aaron Condon fizzed straight through the
six-yard box from the left. Nothing
much else happened of note in the first half.
0-1 at half-time
Early
exchanges of the second half were even but uneventful except for a
turned-down penalty appeal for the home side.
However, they got one just after the hour when Benstead flapped at the
ball and was adjudged to have fouled the attacker. From my position in the Bus Shelter at that
moment, it looked a soft one. Bethell
stepped up to tuck away the shot in the left corner. 1-1
Both sides
went for a win and the last 20 minutes were end-to-end and entertaining. Benstead kept the scores level with a
reflex save and then CRC took the lead with 12 minutes to go. Wootten stretched to push away a cross from
the CRC right, but it fell as a tap-in for Ryan Cooper. 1-2
Wonderfully,
straight from the restart, substitute Lee Clowsley played a crossfield ball
for his brother and fellow sub Jake.
Jake’s first-time half-volley clipped finish was the goal of the
day. 2-2
CRC
finished strongly and hit the same post twice in the closing moments, once in
each of the final two clips. The ref
blew to stop the game after the second, mistakenly believing that the ball
had gone out, so there was a confusing restart from a dropped ball out at the
wing. A Question of Sport can have
this for a “What Happened Next?” clip if they wish.
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The programme
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Something
random
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You can soon
find out what happened to FC Clacton in The Fake FA Cup here:
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Hopping for Moorfields Update
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4 goals
scored, no Dutchmen met, no farm animals visible, so £5.60 added to the value
of the pledges. Estimated
end-of-season total stands at £489 so far, but if you wish to make a pledge
email me at headyapp(at)hotmail.com or message me @GrahamYapp on
Twitter. A penny-per-goal pledge will
cost you somewhere between £2 and £3 after around 60 games at the end of the
season. Here’s a link to my son’s blog
which helps to explain why Hopping For Moorfields is happening this season:
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What Next?
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Definitely
Sleaford Town v Holwell Sports next Saturday for an FA Cup tie (see recent
posts to find out why!), but I would not rule out a midweek hop, so follow
@GrahamYapp for details!
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