SATURDAY
26th January 2008
LEAGUE
DAVENTRY UNITED 2 v 1
IRCHESTER UNITED
Daventry: Roger Leeson, Rob Steele, Leigh Roberts (Aidy
Pestell), Ross Irvine, Allan Haynes, Wayne Richardson, Michael Parkes,
Jamie Jollands (Matt Higgins), Tommy Waldock, Liam Hynes (Richard
Price), Joel Young.
Irchester: Warren Courtney, Chris
Gell, Dave Maguire, Neil Garrett, Gary Evans (Simon Henry), Ben Hyams,
Craig Sturgess (Wayne Johnson), Michael Betts, Jason Vaughan,
This was never going to be the
same walkover as the previous encounter! If you look into the table and
results of late you will see that although they still have not won many
games, Irchester are proving to be a very difficult side to beat. United
were looking to finish January unbeaten to sustain their promotion bid
and started well when Tommy Waldock went through twice on goal only to
be denied by the heroics of Warren Courtney in the Irchester goal. It
wasn’t until the 25th minute that United went ahead through
an Alan Haynes spot kick awarded after Micheal Parkes had his piercing
run into the box abruptly ended in the Irchester penalty area.
Irchester are definitely built of sterner stuff these days and levelled the scores through Gary Evans seven minutes into the second period. United continued to press for the winner with Wayne Richardson and Tommy Waldock denied goals by the impressive Courtney, but there was nothing he could do about the 60th minute winner from Richardson who found himself all alone in the box and smashed the ball into the net to give United all three points.