Houghton & Wyton res 1, Eaton Socon A 2

22nd February 2020 :: John Ablett Cup

After narrowly losing 2-1 to league leaders the week before trying out a new 4-5-1 formation, but really more of a 4-3-3, we decided to play the same this week against Houghton & Wyton in the John ablett cup quarter final. With the wind going straight down the pitch Eaton were against it in the first half and was troubling the miniature midfield against their 6 footers. Unfortunately Eaton were undone about 5 minutes before half time from a free kick from the left, which had the Eaton defensive line back peddling and leaving the opposition with an easy tap in.

Second half and with the wind behind Eaton, we started to play a bit more football and the injection of Jamie vale (aka drunkered) on the left had impact straight away. With the addition of James tubby Taylor and josh kane in the middle the ball was won back and played down the middle towards dexter only for their centre back not to realise vale creeping on the other side, where he snatched the ball of the centre back and reluctantly beat the keeper one on one. Youngster Sammy came on the left with fifteen to go and made a great debut, giving their right back all sorts of problems, this pressure led to their keeper coming out to clear the ball only to pass directly to the drunkered, with enough alcohol in his body he calmly passed the ball into the goal from 30 yards. 2-1 Eaton.

But this was not the end, with 5 minutes to go Tommy the haymaker Collins thought he would give boxing a go after their number 11 came through the back of him when shielding the ball out of play. What ensued was a mellay of windmilling between Tommy and their player. (If it went to points I think Tommy would have won) after all of this surprising not a single card was shown, (don't think the ref wanted to do the paper work as two or three players would have got sent off) the ref was clearly keen get the game done and Eaton held on to see the victory through.

Mom goes to the tireless Micky Banbury.

Eaton play Cherry Hinton A's in the semi final next Saturday.