Walsham-le-Willows

As the season gathers pace we have two matches to report on with a visit to Mundford Road, Thetford on Tuesday night, we slipped to a 2-1 defeat after having a lot of possession in both periods and probably played better than in our opening match at Ely. Thetford led 1-0 at the break through a goal from Sam Bryant, we equalised through Charlie Robinson and expected to go on and win the match but a couple of errors allowed Ryan Pearson to nip in and take the points late on for Thetford. The magic of the F A Cup arrived on Saturday and we set off on a coach to Boston, I take my hat off to teams playing at higher levels like Lowestoft who spend hours and hours on coaches, they deserve every reward they receive as the commitment to do that every two weeks is enormous. We started off brightly and Luke Austin just failed to connect to a cross that would have given us an early lead which was about as good as it got for us in the first half as Boston totally dominated possession. A rash challenge after 15 minutes resulted in a penalty and Lee Pacey dived low to his right to make an outstanding save from Boston forward Matt Kennedy. Even this save failed to spark us into life and we went 1-0 down after 33 minutes when Lee Borbley slotted home unmarked in the penalty area. Keeper Pacey kept us in the match and the half time whistle blew to allow us to reach the safety of the dressing room. Something obviously happened in that dressing room as we came out like a different side and took the match to Boston with a determination that was missing in the first half. Luke Austin brought us level after 70 minutes with a blistering shot from outside the area and further chances went begging for both sides as they went for the winner with Boston not fancying a midweek trip to rural Suffolk. No further scoring resulted and the replay is on Wednesday night with a 7.45 kick off at Walsham, why not come on down and savour the floodlit F A Cup atmosphere and try the burgers and fine ales on offer. With the population of Boston at 64,000 and Walsham about 1100 it should be an interesting encounter. I have to go now as we have to put up the floodlight, pitch surrounds and goals for Wednesday night. We hope to see you there!