Old Bolts A 5 Little Lever SC B 1

Unfortunately, a couple of sleeps have passed since this game, so the
following report may or may not be entirely accurate. In truth, the key
points to take from this game are simple from the A team's perspective.
Based on the first half showing or indeed lack of it, Old Bolts need to
remember that to win football games you need to put the effort in. Opposing
teams, no matter how poor, will not just lie down expecting to be beat. It
took Old Bolts 45 minutes to remember this but once this sunk in the 3
points were pocketed with absolute ease.

The first half saw Old Bolts attempt to drift through the game without
exerting any effort. Reluctance to fight for the second ball and a general
malaise sweeping through most of the team, left Old Bolts trailing by a goal
to nil. Fortunately, the extremely talented Rob Davies (formerly known as
Left Winger Rob), drifted away from his left wing position to expertly win a
penalty for Old Bolts over on the right hand edge of the box. The returning
goal machine Chris Mitchell took responsibility in Hughes' absence and
despatched the penalty with ease. 1-1 at half time and after clarification
was sought over the Man United v Liverpool final score, hopefully what will
become known as the real Old Bolts turned up for the second half. Rosie,
incapacitated by the wrath of an Edgworth wasp in the first half, brought on
Old Bolts stalwart Jon Wright and used what remaining strength he had to
galvanise the team towards victory using the power of his now legendary
managerial motivational speech.

From the start of the second half, Old Bolts were first in to the tackle and
first to pick up the second ball. In truth, this was not a huge ask against
a wilting Little Lever side, but still the increase in effort across the
pitch was great to see. The defence, marshalled superbly by Davids, were
never in trouble and the midfield dynamism of Edmo and Henman (nickname
Sheeney) ran the game completely.

Old Bolts then progressed to destroy Little Lever's offside trap on numerous
occasions, using our pace down the flanks with Davies and Kemp, and rattled
in 4 more goals without reply. Mitchell bagged another and Edmo, Davies and
Ellis also managed to get on to the score sheet.

A great win in the end but we will face much tougher challenges in the next
few weeks. Man of the match would have to go to Rob Davies, who was involved
in everything that was good about our performance. We wish Rob well for the
coming months of hardship he will face at University. We hope that he will
use his winning experience with the Old Bolts A team (4 wins out of 4
anyone!) to guide him through the hard times of cheap booze, long lie-ins
and loose women (apparently).