The boys were back in league action following their tour of London town last week. Team spirit was high and the make-up of the team was spot on for this blustery Sunday.
 
We started off the game with a minutes applause to mark a poignant date for new signing Ross Coniam and his angel Norah Faith.
 
Then it was down to action, the tangerine army were flying with the wind behind them, playing some beautiful football, putting the colts under enormous pressure for the first 10 minutes of the game, creating some half chances but never really testing the keeper.
At about 10 minutes gone a free kick was awarded to the brewery colts, very harshly, a free kick so soft it would probably make the nicest bed to snuggle up in. The freekick was expertly dispatched into the top right-hand corner. Unjust and undeserved but a great finish.
 
From then on it was all Sands United as we set about tearing the defence of the colts apart for the duration of the first half, We caused them so many problems from set pieces and crosses in from wide areas.
Our first big chance fell to Big Chris from a corner he leapt like a giant salmon with muscles but his header was sadly straight at the keeper.
 
Next up another corner found Hilliker who smashed his header onto the bar and over. Perhaps it was because he started the game in midfield, it added to vertigo he must have been suffering from to miss this big chance.
 
Not to be outdone, another of our Marvel superhero musclemen Dent found himself unmarked in the centre and also headed over the bar. Allen's beard was turning from ginger to grey as his chance of being top assister was disappearing each minute.
 
Despite this we really did play some great football, Best was a lovely outlet on the wings as Allen, Gavin, Dent and Littlemore tried to use his strength to create attacks. 
 
Another fine move saw Gavin cross in for the clinical Allen but he was just unable to beat the defender to the ball.
 
Towards the end of the half, the Colts attacked a bit more as they switched to a 4-5-1 but they found big Chris in imperious form on his return from exile alongside the hatcher man there was no way through. 
 
Halftime 1-0 its not a lie to say this game could have been 6-1 we just were not clinical enough.
 
The second half with the wind against us was a much tougher affair, it's quite hard when the wind decides to be a magician and change the round object we kick into a feather that will go whatever way it wants and it's not the way you aim it either.
 
What we got was a sound defensive performance with new signing Pierre slotting in at right-back seamlessly. Again Hales was a maestro in this half providing a great outlet and looking to get the ball forward as well as carrying out his defensive duties. The team battled hard and ultimately restricted Colts to a couple of half chances which didn't cause Barker any issues, which is a good job because he dropped everything today so much so he had to resort to flicking the ball over an attackers head before claiming calmly.
The rest of the half went by without any major chances for either team and we fell to a 1-0 loss.
 
The last 3 games have seen our team who are bottom of the league so far take on 2 unbeaten sides and in all 3 games we could have or should have come away with the win. It's only a matter of time before we get that first magic 3 points. Stay tuned to see what next week brings. 

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