Sunday, August 13, 2006

Game 5 Salisbury City 1.1 Lewes 12.08.06 (NCS)


First league game of the season and a trip to the Ray Mac to see Salisbury take on pre-season title favourites Lewes. Met up with Chris, Elaine and Gary in town for the second Salisbury Safari and discovered a brand of Swedish cider which went down very well. The drinks and conversation was flowing so freely that I almost didn’t manage to drag everyone along to the football with me, a last minute hop in to a taxi saved the day. Having watched the Whites play and beat some Conference teams in Cup competitions last year, I was looking forward to seeing how they would cope against a higher level of opposition in a league situation and the team started really brightly.



It wasn’t until the second half that the Salisbury pressure produced it’s due reward, Matt Tubbs converting a penalty after being taken out by the Lewes goalkeeper when he tried to round him. Despite the physical presence of the Lewes backline, the forwards didn’t give Ryan Clarke too much to do until a well worked cross allowed former French u21 international Sigere to scramble the ball in from close range. Salisbury had a goal disallowed for offside and right at the end, Wayne Turk hit an almost unstoppable shot in the only place the keeper could have saved it – directly at him. Still a point was a good start at this level for Salisbury and they certainly showed they could do well at this level.

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