On a mild Lancastrian night, those goliaths of world football Lancaster City and Radcliffe Borough shared the points in a mildly entertaining game of football.
144 attended giving the thumbs down to the Champions league rubbish which clogged up the TV airways last night. Lancaster took the lead in the 12th minute when a glorious cross field pass found McKenna on the right hand side, his cross found Kilfin inside the area and he finished with aplomb. (1-0)
City should have gone further ahead when Wilson was played in, sadly he dawdled on the ball and the chance was lost. It was to prove costly when City keeper McDonald dropped the ball onto the head of Radcliffe’s Karembo and rather by chance the ball dropped into the net. (1-1)
From then until half time the game was dominated by the referee, who blew for everything, he also like to lecture players at length and completely ruined the flow of the game.
Second half started poorly for Lancaster scorer Kilfin limped off injured followed by Marshall whose mistimed tackle brought a second yellow card quickly followed by a red.
As expected Radcliffe were in control though every credit to the 10 City players who worked their socks off keeping the visitors away from the City goal. Borough started to run out of steam although substitute Connor missed a glorious chance to put them into the lead firing over the top from close range.
City were in the ascendancy McKenna wasting a chance, it seemed the 10 men might be on the verge of sneaking a victory but with five minutes to go, Borough broke away following a save by the City keeper Connor slotted home the rebound. (1-2)
City battled on and were rewarded in the 94th minute when some shambolic Radcliffe defending allowed Swarbrick to sneak the ball into the net. (2-2)
There was little time for any more action as the final whistle blew. City deserved their point.
144 attended giving the thumbs down to the Champions league rubbish which clogged up the TV airways last night. Lancaster took the lead in the 12th minute when a glorious cross field pass found McKenna on the right hand side, his cross found Kilfin inside the area and he finished with aplomb. (1-0)
City should have gone further ahead when Wilson was played in, sadly he dawdled on the ball and the chance was lost. It was to prove costly when City keeper McDonald dropped the ball onto the head of Radcliffe’s Karembo and rather by chance the ball dropped into the net. (1-1)
From then until half time the game was dominated by the referee, who blew for everything, he also like to lecture players at length and completely ruined the flow of the game.
Second half started poorly for Lancaster scorer Kilfin limped off injured followed by Marshall whose mistimed tackle brought a second yellow card quickly followed by a red.
As expected Radcliffe were in control though every credit to the 10 City players who worked their socks off keeping the visitors away from the City goal. Borough started to run out of steam although substitute Connor missed a glorious chance to put them into the lead firing over the top from close range.
City were in the ascendancy McKenna wasting a chance, it seemed the 10 men might be on the verge of sneaking a victory but with five minutes to go, Borough broke away following a save by the City keeper Connor slotted home the rebound. (1-2)
City battled on and were rewarded in the 94th minute when some shambolic Radcliffe defending allowed Swarbrick to sneak the ball into the net. (2-2)
There was little time for any more action as the final whistle blew. City deserved their point.
Lancaster City 2 Radcliffe Borough 2 Att 144
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