We’re Wide Awake..................

Who would have thought that a midday kick off would see 10 boys still half asleep dreaming of the X-Factor and Strictly Come Dancing glory instead of the game.

With the visit of Cockerham to the Villa, the boys decided that they would keep Coach, Rafa and the Reporter guessing as to whom they’d actually selected to play today, 10 sleepy heads that need Timmy Mallets “Mr Mallet!” to wake them up.

The pace should have been set from the get-go with a blistering sequence of passes from the kick off which saw Oliver clear on goal only to miss queue what should have been goal number one.  The frustration should have been eased with an early goal to calm those nerves on the sidelines from some spirited work from the midfield to see Kallan slot home 1 nil.

Cockerham showed some good touches and kept the pressure on the Oranges for most of the first half, with mistake after mistake creeping in to the match from the Villa end.  Without their usual fluid play Villa where making this a hard day’s game, but the pressure was eased somewhat when Oliver managed to take his chance and slot number two in.  Half time could not come soon enough and Coach laid down the law in his usual vocal self and didn’t give any quarter to all 10 players    

Into the second half and although it started bright enough, Cockerham had the first key break with an own goal by Villa to bring to game to 2-1, this was the ALARM Call which woke all 10 up.

From the restart it was like they’d realised they were playing football and the fluidity of passing and moving started to return, they were finding the spaces and peppering the keeper with attempt after attempt on goal.

Within the space of the remaining minutes the Oranges had changed the shape of the game and had progressed to a more realistic score-line of 6-1 to bring home the win and remain on top of the league with a game in hand on their nearest rivals.

Today’s scorers:  Kallan, Oliver (2), Connor (3)