Willenhall Town strike late

      ⚽West Midlands Regional League  Premier Division⚽

Shifnal Town 1  Willenhall Town 2

Our latest sojourn to The Trio Construction Stadium,home of Shifnal Town witnessed the definitive 'game of two halves'.The visitors,in front after 3 minutes controlled the first half ,being first to the ball,quicker into the tackle and faster to close down any attacking threat from the opposition.Indeed,it was only luck that prevented the hosts being much further in arrears at the interval.

Fair play to Shifnal;whatever was said at half-time had a dramatic effect on their performance.Within minutes of the restart,they were level.Now the roles were reversed with the hosts enjoying the majority of possession and the number of goalbound shots.It seemed only a matter of time before they scored a second.As written in this blog many,many times previously,when on top make sure you score because possession is irrelevant if you don't;and so it proved with the game seemingly heading for a draw a long cross-field ball found was hit first time into the area and tapped home to give the visitors a  winner in the final few minutes.

Willenhall got their just desserts for keeping going while Shifnal paid the price for not making their possession pay.All in all, a very good game for the neutral(us).

Entrance ; £2 concession
Programme ; £1
Drink ; £1
Crowd ; 35 est
Referee ; 7/10
Entertainment value ; 7.5/10

Tipton progress in Div 1 Cup

West Midlands Regional League  Division 1 League Cup

Tipton Town 3 Kington 1

It was quite an unusual day as we made our way to The Tipton Sports Academy,unusual in the sense of it being a lovely sunny day with blue skies and it didn't take long to see the visitors had come to make a game of it as they took the lead after 10 minutes with a superb volley.Game on. Tipton were not slow with their reply;within 5 minutes they were level.The visitors certainly belied their lowly league position with some carefully crafted midfield play,rarely hoofing it while the hosts were content to use their wide men to feed their 'bag of tricks' number 9.

Five minutes into the second half Town took the lead and from there on it was a game of to and fro with the visitors searching for a leveller which ultimately led to the hosts getting a third to wrap up the tie and progress to the next round.

This was a really good game for the neutral spectator with both teams committed to attack.

Entrance ; £3 concession

Programme ; N/a

Drink ; £1

Crowd ; 45 est

Referee ; 8/10

Entertainment value ; 8.5/10