St Margaretsbury v Sun Sports        29th October 2016      SSML Premier

A trip to bottom dwelling St Magaretsbury looked like an easy three points on paper for the Sun on Saturday, especially as the village team haven’t managed to win a game in the league all season.
However this was certainly not the case as the Saints, despite chasing the ball from the kick off for a full minute as the Sun players knocked the ball around, sailed into the lead with barely a minute and a half gone on the clock as a long ball from the St Mags defence found …………., who hit the ball from around 35 yards fooling everyone in the ground, including Matty Evans in the Sun goal, who assumed that the shot was going wide.
It didn’t and the home crowd roared their approval to see their side go one up.
Once again the Sun players would have to roll up their short sleeves and get chase the game.
Sun seemed to follow the flow of play that St Margaretsbury were initiating as high long balls were pumped from end to end.
Everyone seemed to be suffering from neck ache from watching the high flying ball but the Sun won the battle for air supremacy with Liam James, Joe Horwood and Deji Ikusemori getting their heads up well.
And it was a well aimed downward placed header from a corner by Liam James that got the Sun level after 35 minutes.
James certainly seems to have more success in front of goal when he comes up from the back rather than being played up front!
The Sun controlled the game with relative ease from there on and continued to dominate into the second half with Chrissie Blunden scoring a wonderful goal which dipped and swerved giving the St Mags keeper nothing but air to grab hold of.
As time went on it looked like the Sun could score a couple more and Blunden nearly doubled his tally for the day when his shot smacked against the post.
But then the curse of the red card flared again when Ryan McMahon kicked out at an opponent after being fouled, leaving the referee no alternative but to show the card and leave Sun Sports with ten men in the final few minutes – again.
Last month Sun Sports were bottom of the disciplinary table and with another two sending’s off this month it looks like the Sun will stay there.
St Margaretsbury tried hard to get a point out of the game but the Sun defence stayed solid to earn another three points to secure 9^th place.