WINGATE & FINCHLEY 0-0 LOWESTOFT Today’s encounter with The Trawlersboy’s wasn’t just an ordinary routine game of football but more akin to a massive weekend celebration of football and of course the anniversary of the birth of everyone’s favourite pea, pallet and teamsheet loving rascal Milky Tom. It was fine well attended gathering and the official crowd was announced at an impressive 56 by Davros. The entertainment on offer was varied and of undoubted quality. The crowd literally lapped up the antics of the Dancing Barrister as they enjoyed their traditionally non league footballing refreshments of cold Bovril and stale Wagon Wheels. The Dancing Barrister was closely followed on the bill of entertainment by a spot quiz with the subject matter being The Podfather himself. The questions were plentiful and I am struggling to recollect many of the posers that were asked mainly due to myself making good use of the free bar, however my hazy memory seems to recall the following question: “True or false, Tom has been recently handed a life ban from The Happy Carrot which is a High Barnet Green Grocers following an unfortunate incident involving a consignment of freshly picked garden peas, a snorkel and a pair of extremely tight speedos?”. This was a question that fooled many of the assembled crowd as although it sounded highly probable it was in fact a trick question, as the actual green grocers in question is to be located in North Finchley and not High Barnet. In the run up to the party there had been a rumour that a high profile player from the club was going to make an appearance at the party, but has the night wore on it became apparent that this rumour was indeed just that. This was until Tom went to cut the cake and who should burst out but everyone’s favourite Blue God Daniel McGonigle, who proceeded to sign Happy Birthday to Tom in the style of Marilyn Munroe to President Kennedy. As I stood at the bar drinking cold Bovril in a room full of people that Tom had touched watching McGonigle covered in cake singing happy birthday I realised that either this club was truly unique or someone had in fact spiked my drink with a hallucinogenic. It was a collection of rather bleary eyed Wingate & Finchley fans that congregated behind the goal in anticipation of the kick off for today’s game against Play Off / Title contenders Lowestoft Town. For some of us it was just lack of sleep, for others it was last night’s Sambuccas. One thing was for sure, we’d all been ruined by Salinger in one way or another. A welcome return to Summers Lane today saw Maurice come shuffling back into our lives, the old ground just isn’t the same without the club longest serving supporters doing laps around the ground often reaching speeds of half a mile an hour. I fully expected Wingate to endure a tough afternoon against The Trawler Boys who boast the second highest average attendance in the league with an impressive 700-800 people frequenting their ground on average match day. However as it transpired the Blue Gods were more than worth their point in what wasn’t a game for the purists but was certainly not without its moments of entertainment and excitement. Even in the early stages it felt like the visitors appeared to have arrived at Summers Lane in a bid to remain solid at the back and nick a point on the road, perhaps with ambitions for all three if they could catch up on the counter attack with their fleet footed forwards. The home side arguably enjoyed the better of the opening exchanges the highlight of which saw Ahmet Rifat find Hector Mackie on the left hand side with a sumptuous pass. The Canada bound winger took on his fullback and delivered a decent cross which leading scorer Leon Smith met with aplomb unfortunately however Smithy’s effort was blocked fortuitously by the trailing leg of the Lowestoft central defender. Fullback Ola Williams and midfielder Spencer McCall also had the Lowestoft custodian scrambling with efforts from distance as the home side upped the pressure. The best chance of the half fell to Leon Smith when he was put through on goal following some sublime skill from David Laird, however Leon’s effort was saved by the goal keeper as the sides went into the interval deadlocked at nil nil. The second half was actually a bit of a non event, I spent the entire forty five minutes anticipating a Lowestoft onslaught that never really materilised. Wingate offered very little themselves going forward in the second period, however we always looked comfortable at the back and even when the visitors started to rack up a few corners and free kicks we still looked relatively secure at the back. The only heart in the mouth moment came when our perennial nemesis Bradley Woods-Garness wriggled free of his marker and hit a powerful drive which Bobby Smith was equal to. As I left the bar after a couple of drinks after the game I asked the birthday boy himself to sum up in a few words what this weekend had meant to him, he simply looked at me with those big blue eyes and said “Oooooooooo Mincing” The Blue Gods (in Blue) 1- Bobby “I’m Drowning” Smith 2- Ola “My Heads Stuck” Williams 3- Paul “Davros’ Control Room” Wright 4- Tommy “Does A Job” Tejan-Sie 5- Ahmet “Ground Chopper” Rifat 6- Marc “Class Act” Weatherstone 7- Daniel “Head Like a S*x Toy” McGonigle 8- Spencer “Up On The Roof” McCall 9- Leon “Drilling For Oil” Smith 10- David “Non League Le Tissier” Laird 11- Hector “I’m The Mountie” Mackie Subs: 12- Farai Hallam 14-John Christian 15-Dean Mason 16-Scott Shulton 17-Josh “Who?” Kennet The Is Number Four Okay? MOTM – Ahmet Rifat. Attendance – 122 (1 Brass, 0 Spikeys, 2 people in spray on replica kits)
Posted on: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 15:34:37 +0000
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