PURE JOY AS TEVERSAL GRAB SECOND WIN OF THE SEASON

TEVERSAL 2 GLASSHOUGHTON 1

NCEFL 1 AT CARNARVON ST

13 MARCH 2022 --- 3PM

CAMERON PINNICK AND TEVERSAL CELEBRATE HIS STOPPAGE TIME WINNER

A remarkable finish to a game that looked like it would be settled by a first half wonder goal from Jordon Chippendale for the visitors but the Tevie boys did not know when they were beaten in this game and an equaliser on eighty nine minutes and then a superb winner in the fifth minute of stoppage time secured the home side only their second win of a very tough season.  The celebrations were ecstatically wild, you may have thought they had won the league and why not this had been a full on determined performance.

TROLLY AND TROLLY PARK IT MUST BE A TEVERSAL VISIT

As the 'walk to the match' season continues after last weeks break once again for the wet stuff putting off a lot of the local grassroots games I couldn't resist a revisit to Teversal as many know my comfort club.  With the dark afternoons pulling out it could now be worked I believed relatively safely on a section of road with no pavement before the light had gone on return from the game.  A fair selection of the walk of just over eight miles and taking outbound 2 hours 20 minutes would be accompanied by the whiff created by our now 'spreading' farmers.  Much of the manure now seems to be of a liquid type which is not pleasant and for the up hill section into Pilsley there must have been so much breathed in that I'm now more full of the stuff than normal.

Previous trips this season have seen a couple of routes via the edge of Hardwick Hall and also via the busy Hardstoft road to Tibshelf with no pavement for a large portion of this section of around ten minutes or so.  Having taken the latter route today the intention was to get a snap shot of the massive shopping trolleys on the approach to the industrial estate where the company making supermarket varieties is based.  Anyway I didn't climb into one and can comfortably say 'I'm off my trolly' now, it would though produce a nice link with of course the much photographed trolly park stands at Tesco and meant the need to photograph them again.

NEED NO INTRODUCTION BUT COULD I PARK MY TROLLY IN THEM

The last visit to Carnarvon Street was for the FC Humber game on 18 September when a crazy game saw Teversal run out 7-4 winners and this would prove to be their last victory.  I did give some consideration to the chance of me seeing another victory today but for a side rooted to the bottom of the table and seemingly unable to gain three points at the end of ninety minutes I soon put the idea to bed.

HANDS UP AS TEVIE ATTACK IN THE FIRST HALF

As usual a nice greeting from a few of the people I now at the club and some spectators at todays encounter and with a position taken up to avoid some of the once again strong wind we were underway.  The opening exchanges were very even with Teversal looking to break through but as so often happens when you are struggling the opposition take their first chance.  Mind you what a goal it was good enough to win any game when Chippendale lashed home an eighteen yard effort across the goal rising high into the left top corner of the net after seventeen minutes.

MATCH WINNER CAMERON PINNICK

Just over the half hour mark the visitors failed to clear their lines and Jack Hutchinson put in a goal bound shot only for it to be cleared as it was nearing the goal line.  But just after there was danger at the other end a sliced clearance by Teversal keeper Leon Turton spun back on goal for Jack Appleyard to race through somehow the number one got back to fling himself at the ball and it was enough to put off the visitors striker who fired wide.

CONNER EYES CLOSELY WATCHED BY THE TEVERSAL DEFENCE

The second half was seeing a determined football effort and Teversal were gradually pushing Glasshoughton back and you could see the belief that they could get something out of this game.  Visiting keeper Calum Gladding gathered Chris Heathcote's deflective header before Jak lightly found himself in a good position at the back post, he lobbed the keeper well but the ball landed on the roof of the net and so still the goal would not come.

There was though definitely a feeling that the home side deserved something from this game and it arrived on eighty nine minutes when Kamau Leverock was put in he raced through and coolly slotted past the keeper to level the scores.

JAK LIGHTLY CHIPS THE KEEPER BUT FINDS THE ROOF OF THE NET

Entering the fifth minute of stoppage time Teversal were awarded a corner off the right and after pestering for the last five minutes Teversal keeper Turton was finally allowed to go forward for the kick.  He got nowhere near it but his six foot presence may have distracted the Glasshoughton defensive operation.  They failed to clear the excellently floated corner and when it fell to Cameron Pinnick fourteen yards out he fired the ball low across goal into the far left corner to start scenes of wild celebrations.  Could Teversal hang on?  Well referee Kier Wishart made sure of that and proved what a late, late show this was when he blew for time straight from the re start.

A richly deserved win for the Tevie boys and good to see them get some good success for a change this season.

It was a very sharp dash to get beyond the road only stages of this route back and having arrived in Pilsey before dark the pace was kept up with the support of the enjoyment of that last few minutes for Teversal with base arrived at in one minute under the two hours for the return journey

THE CORNER THAT DID THE DAMAGE WITH KEEPER TURTON FORWARD FOR TEVERSAL