A famine on Monday but a feast on Tuesday, decided to take in the Squires Gate v Darwen game after deciding not to bother watching Pakistan attempt to chase 444.
So it was off to the south side of Blackpool to see the Gate who at time of kick off were 10th whilst their visitors were rock bottom with zero points, having let in 15 oals in their previous three games.
The programme which cost £2 had a visiting fans feature asked for a player to look out for the Darwen fan listed their keeper Danny Jackson, it said really decent keeper you may struggle to beat him.
Within 15 seconds of the kick off Danny had indeed been beaten, the visitors kicked off and the ball ended up being passed back to Jackson, he completely missed his kick and with the ball racing towards the net, the custodian scrambled back and cleared the ball only to Gate forward Rick Seer who scored easily. Within a minute Darwen were level an attack down the right and the ball was fed through to Hepple who beat Fletcher on his near post.
Gate retook the lead after 3 minutes more chaotic defending by Darwen and Tanser made it two one. (Darwen had kicked off three time in four minutes. There were no further goals for 5 minutes until Turner equalised again from the right hand side of teh box with a shot that went in off the post.
Turner was the stand out player for Darwen apart from the man bob in his hair, (it's non league football no need for this!!!!)
After four goals in the first eight minutes the football settled down, Gate were prominent and against the non too sure visiting back line lookmore likely of the two to score. Fair play to Darwen though played passing football from the back even the slightly haphazard Jackson, even header the ball clear at one time. Darwen began to dominate but could not get any efforts at goal although they did force several corners although as is common footballers these days cannot take corners.
Gate started better in the second half although the now better organised visiting defence was coping with any thing the home side threw at them. On the hour Darwen took the lead for the first time a cross from the right found left back Morris whose shot took a couple of deflections before finding the back of the net, probably deserved to lead. They grew in confidence and went close a couple of more time, Gate's only real effort came from for once a well delivered corner Seers headed the ball into the danger area but it was cleared without too much fuss.
Gate could not get through, did not test Jackson and in the end the visitors ran out deserved winners 3-2.
Squires Gate 2 Darwen 3 Att 105
So it was off to the south side of Blackpool to see the Gate who at time of kick off were 10th whilst their visitors were rock bottom with zero points, having let in 15 oals in their previous three games.
The programme which cost £2 had a visiting fans feature asked for a player to look out for the Darwen fan listed their keeper Danny Jackson, it said really decent keeper you may struggle to beat him.
Within 15 seconds of the kick off Danny had indeed been beaten, the visitors kicked off and the ball ended up being passed back to Jackson, he completely missed his kick and with the ball racing towards the net, the custodian scrambled back and cleared the ball only to Gate forward Rick Seer who scored easily. Within a minute Darwen were level an attack down the right and the ball was fed through to Hepple who beat Fletcher on his near post.
Gate retook the lead after 3 minutes more chaotic defending by Darwen and Tanser made it two one. (Darwen had kicked off three time in four minutes. There were no further goals for 5 minutes until Turner equalised again from the right hand side of teh box with a shot that went in off the post.
Turner was the stand out player for Darwen apart from the man bob in his hair, (it's non league football no need for this!!!!)
After four goals in the first eight minutes the football settled down, Gate were prominent and against the non too sure visiting back line lookmore likely of the two to score. Fair play to Darwen though played passing football from the back even the slightly haphazard Jackson, even header the ball clear at one time. Darwen began to dominate but could not get any efforts at goal although they did force several corners although as is common footballers these days cannot take corners.
Gate started better in the second half although the now better organised visiting defence was coping with any thing the home side threw at them. On the hour Darwen took the lead for the first time a cross from the right found left back Morris whose shot took a couple of deflections before finding the back of the net, probably deserved to lead. They grew in confidence and went close a couple of more time, Gate's only real effort came from for once a well delivered corner Seers headed the ball into the danger area but it was cleared without too much fuss.
Gate could not get through, did not test Jackson and in the end the visitors ran out deserved winners 3-2.
Squires Gate 2 Darwen 3 Att 105
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