Wednesday 16 May 2012

Summer Football update

Tues 22nd - Dome 6.30-8pm

Next Thurs 24th May vs Effra Academicals -  (squad of 14)

Mon 28th May Southside Red v Southside Yellow ( Squad of 26)

Tues 5th June  - No dome today  - Bank Holiday

Tues 12th, 19th and 26th June - Dome 6.30-8pm.

There will also be one more summer match v Effra. June or early July on astro at Dulwich.

July/Aug - Southside FC will take a break until football resumes late Aug/early Sept.

Southside FC 2, Arriva FC 9 (at least!)

Losing always hurts and losing by a cricket score hurts double.
That said , there were positives to take out of the game.
2 of Arriva's best players were  Southside players, loaned to them for the night.
Congratulations to Courtney and Michael for excellent perfermances. If you play that well FOR us next time, all will be forgiven.
Amazingly, we actually finished the game much more strongly than Arriva. Danny White scored two excellent goals in the last 5 minutes.
Arriva converted their first chance of the game on 20 minutes to break the deadlock. Before then Southside had carved out at least four good goalscoring opportunities.
For 65 mins in the middle of the match too many Southside players let the pressure get to them.
When we go behind we have to dig deep and pull together. Next time we'll do that.
Despite the loss , there was plenty to celebrate. We had a squad of 20! Great to see so many people turn out. In fact the only 2 people who dropped out were our 2 keepers. Unfortunate that!
3  people made their debuts. It was great to welcome Herbert, Darren and Gianluca to the team.
Man of the match was Montel. The youngest player on the pitch showed more composure and maturity than anyone else with another excellent 90minutes at left back.
Effra have just challenged us to a match on the Stadium pitch next Thurs, so we'll have a good chance to put this result behind us.
I've just taken delivery of some new yellow kit too we could give it a first outing in the Effra match.