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Friday, December 17, 2004
Soccer: Villa cut loose
By: Adrian Flanagan
Permanent TSB Under 12 League
Villa 4, Ferrybank 0
ON Saturday morning last at Connors Park, Villa and Ferrybank went head to head in the under 12 A League, with both sides still in contention for the league title.
A kick off time of 10.30am and no sign of the appointed referee for the match. Twenty or so minutes passed and there is was still no sign of the man in the middle.
Both sides at the ground a half an hour before the kick off time, togged out, raring to go and the referee never turns up.
A waste of time, both teams turning up and it was nearly a waste of yours truly’s time turning up.
As the clock nearly strikes eleven o clock, thirty minutes after the appointed kick off time, a lonely figure walks into Connors Park and we all thought, here is the referee and the saying better late than never came to mind.
However, hopes are dashed as the person is only collecting his son from the Villa academy and once again things are getting glimmer that a match is going to take place.
As Frank O’Byrne of Villa and also Fixture Secretary of the Schoolboy League frantically makes phone calls to try and get a referee all fails.
Then, another plan comes to light, get someone in the ground who is neutral to referee the match. Now there are no prizes for guessing the only neutral person in the ground, yes yours truly.
So, over comes Frank O’Byrne and suddenly I was going to do something that I have never attempted before, referee and try to report at the same time. But, the most important thing was we now had a match.
In fairness to both sides, they played football and it was the home side that were the better team, but credit Ferrybank, who battled to the final whistle but had to give way to a stronger Villa outfit. They could have taking the lead after seven minutes of play in the first half but they missed a good chance.
A fine pass from Ben Cunningham found Eoin Kinlan. He whipped in an excellent cross from the right but centre forward Jack Gaule headed inches over the crossbar and this nearly gave the home side the ideal start.
VILLA MAKE BREAKTRHOUGH
But, less than two minutes later they did open the scoring with a headed goal from the central defender.
A free kick from the right from Ben Cunningham met the head of the unchallenged Wayne Robinson inside the penalty area and he headed the ball to the back of the Ferrybank net, giving keeper Aidan Sinnott no chance whatsoever.
Ferrybank created a half chance after 13 minutes. Defender Sam Lawless played the ball into the area with a cross from the right. The ball was headed down by Kevin Hurley into the path of Damien Ahearne but he miss kicked his shot and the ball went wide of the target. Adam Potter nearly doubled his side’s advantage after sixteen minutes as he went very close.
A pass from Andrew Baxter picked out Potter making a fine run, he tried his luck with a left-footed shot from the edge of the penalty area but the ball flashed against the face of goal and went wide.
Ten minutes before the break, Sam Lawless made a great block to deny Stephen O’Keefee.
A corner kick from Ben Cunningham was headed down by Jack Gaule into the path of O’Keefee but his goalbound effort was brilliantly blocked by the defender.
The home side doubled their lead 12 minutes into the second period. Kinlan played the ball square to Dean McGarry and he fired a cracking right-footed shot to the back of the net giving keeper Sinnott no chance whatsoever from the edge of the penalty area.
The visitors failed to really threaten the Villa goal and keeper Aaron Fanning had a rather quiet day at the office.
ALL OVER
The home side added two further goals in the second as they lay siege in the Ferrybank half.
After 53 minutes, they scored number three thanks to Ben Cunningham, who got a deserved goal following a cross from Stephen O’Keefee.
Right on the stroke of the final whistle, they scored number four when Jack Gaule netted, this was after Kevin Hurley had fired inches over at the other end.
VILLA:Aaron Fanning, Michael Chan, Wayne Robinson, Adam Potter, Kevin Coughlan, Stephen O’Keefee, Dean McGarry, Owen Kinlan, Jack Gaule, Ben Cunningham, Jonathan McEvoy, Mark Weldon and John Harris
FERRYBANK:Aidan Sinnott, Emmett Fell, Stephen Treacy, Sam Lawless, Neil Wemyss, Luke Harney, Eanna Griffin, Cormac Heffernan, Luke Flynn, Kevin Hurley, Damien Ahearne, Billy Maguire, Tom Lane and Johnny Dunphy.
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