Friday 1 March 2019

Attaquons ... la perfide Albion




My groundhopping destination for tomorrow will be decided randomishly by events at Elland Road this evening.  Hopefully, my hometown team WBA will score at least one goal.

Possible scorers of WBA’s final goal of the evening can be linked to the twelve games on my shortlist if I allow one link for the possibility of a Leeds clean sheet.

The first ten games are linked in alphabetical order of home team to the ten starting outfield players, also in alphabetical order.  Game 11 is linked to the no-goal-for-WBA outcome (or an own goal) and Game 12 to the possibility that WBA’s final goal is scored by any one of their substitutes (or the goalkeeper).

It’s randomish.

Here are the links:
Game
WBA Last-Scorer Link
Atherton Collieries v Colne
Adarabioyo
Blackfield & Langley v Mangotsfield Utd
Barry
Carlton Town v Lincoln Utd
Dawson
Clitheroe v Chasetown
Gayle
AFC Mansfield v Pontefract Collieries
Harper
Melksham Town v Thatcham Town
Hegazi
Pickering Town v Cleethorpes Town
Holgate
Ramsgate v Three Bridges
Livermore
Street v Evesham Utd
Robson-Kanu
Radcliffe v Droylsden
Rodriguez
Ramsbottom Utd v Widnes
No WBA scorer or
any Leeds player scoring an own goal
Whyteleafe v Ashford Utd
Any WBA substitute
or Johnstone (GK)

I think we can all agree that this will liven up the occasion.

UPDATE:

Leeds scored a sensational goal in the first minute, and another before half-time, but neither of those changed the starting position of a trip to Ramsbottom United v Widnes.  In the second half, Leeds added a third but the substitutions of Gareth Barry and Rekeem Harper meant that I would not under any circumstances be headed for either Blackfield & Langley or AFC Mansfield.  Street was soon closed down too, as Hal Robson-Kanu also went off.  Albion's abject performance meant that the Ramsbottom game looked more and more likely as the game entered the final ten minutes.  In fact, the only other goal was a fourth for Leeds, in stoppage time.  Therefore, I will head north-west in the morning for the second successive Saturday.  (I'll be up there for the NW Counties hop the following weekend too!)


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