Waders away to Royston 1 – 1

6th October 2020

Alcoholic Units – None its a school night!

MoM – Scott Davies

Absolutely ran the midfield, his tackles and distribution were 1st class 👊

“Who’s gonna be the 1st to say, this has nil all written all over it?”

I’m not a massive fan of Royston after previous visits 😏 everyone knows I’m not keen on Tuesday night football – so I even amazed myself when I decided to get a ticket for tonight’s match; to be honest rain is forecast and who else is going to hold the brolly for twatterboy 🤭

Our last outing to their place, back in February saw us lose 3 -0; the only thing that made it bearable was that myself BigAl and Chelseaboy were ‘watching it’ from a bar in Sunny Lanzarote! ☀️☀️🍻

I was very surprised that the match went ahead, because the heavens opened in Biggleswade an hour or so before leading to lots of localised flooding… I suppose Rose lane carpark no longer counts as flooding as despite the councils best efforts, it spends a good portion of the year underwater… We headed off to Royston and found the free parking suggested by them. Getting in was pretty easy… well for everyone except for Bunnyman who had mislaid his QR code…

There was a good turn out for the Green Army tonight with me BigAl, Bunnyman, Rodney, Uncle Albert, JT & Sam, SuperScoop and Em & M.

The match kicked off at 7:30pm, a much better time in my humble opinion. This was never going to be an easy match, Royston are a tough side with some strong signings this season.

Royston came at us straight away and within minutes had a free kick, they played this into the box which was luckily cleared. Fabio was looking dangerous early on, Scott Davies took a great free kick that went close!  Royston were still coming at us and there was a good cross into the box which Farrell managed to clear 😮

Skipper, Bushey, who’s playing centre half at the moment, managed to block a close range shot from Royston 30 minutes into the match… but still no goals 😬😬

Joe Neal had a shot from the edge of the box but unfortunately it went way over, then a Sam Squires shot from outside the area going wide… Our efforts eventually paid off following a super cross from Scott Davies in front of the goal that found their no. 6  who kindly slotted it home for us 0 – 1 😃

Out for the 2nd half, and Royston were after blood – The referee didn’t seem over keen on us either and it wasn’t long before he yellow carded Sam Squires for a late challenge 🤦‍♀️ Johnny Giles was making some great runs; him and Joe Neal are working so well together, being fed by the ever observant Scott Davies 💚⚽️💚⚽️

With 20 minutes to go we were holding on – just! Fabio went close from a corner, but was starting to slow up.. The ref rather keen on his yellow card, decided to book Joe Neal for what looked to be nothing 😡 Waders were really being pushed back now, the Crows were coming at us from every angle… Surely it was 90 minutes 😰 Johnny Giles was booked for time wasting – much to his travelling fan clubs disgust – yes he has his very own entourage🥳

Kyle made a superb save in the latter minutes 🙌 Royston kept the pressure on and were rewarded with an equaliser, that had been coming the whole of 2nd half.

Waders were now desperately trying to hang and right in the 11th hour we had a free kick and Scott Davis decided to go for it….It was so close, but  thundered against the post the thud reverberating through the whole of the ground! 😱

Oh my gosh, we came close to nicking it! 😬

In the end I think the score line was the fair one, as much as I would of loved to have snatched it.

#InnNunnyWeTrust #GreenArmy #Waders