COLLIERY MAINTAIN 100% RECORD

East Midlands Counties League

Premier Division

SHERWOOD COLLIERY FC 3 TEVERSAL FC 1

Admission £5/£3

Programme £1

Att: 161

Sherwood Colliery head the East Midlands Counties table after maintaining their 100% league record after their fifth straight league win.

With Sherwood;s Debdale Lane ground being the closest ground to my house, I strolled down in the blistering heat and soon met up inside the ground with Blidworth's Scott Ward after being greeted by several members of the home committee. Teveral's stand in Secretary Keith Parnill let me photo the teamsheets, as we all wish Kev Newton's wife the very best as she was taken in to hospital last night.

The game kicked off and it was the Colliery that took the lead after just 6 minutes, when a corner from the left side was headed home by GARETH CURTIS. Moving round the ground to get some shade out of the sun, I bumped in to Staveley MW FC man Brett Marshall and his wife enjoying the game before going in to a shaded area behind the far wooded area at the top end of the ground to join a chap from Tevvie and his friend Chris a groundhopper from Leicester.

Teversal tried to push forward but this left gaps at the back and Sherwood were guilty of missing quite a few chances to add to their total, plus they were finding Rio Alberry in the visiting net in fine form.

The Second Half saw Teversal giving it a right go, but it was Josh Turton's time to shine in the Sherwood net to keep the visitors from drawing level on several occasions.

On the hour though, the home side went down to nine men as Charlie Tayloe saw red and then Ethan Wiesztort was sent to the sin bin for ten minutes for dissent.

Teveral kept pressing and it looked like they were sure to find a way through for a equaliser, but this wasnt to be the case as the sin bin man ETHAN WIESZTORT who had returned back on to the pitch within 6 minutes had doubled his sides lead to 2-0 in the 78th minute.

Teversal pulled themselves back in to the game with a penalty on 89 minutes that was converted by DANNY FULLWOOD to reduce the arrears and on their next attack they thought they had strong claims for another penalty but the match referee who was up close, waved the play on, to which Sherwood broke and LEWIS WEAVER rolled the ball home in to a empty net to make it 3-1.

148 photos from the match can be seen on this LINK