QE A Team Football match report v Hartlepool Sixth Form

The day started with everyone in the team very downhearted mood as a result of manager Mark Scott taking money off us (minors). So after scotty giving it the 'big un' in the away day quiz I was honoured to be allowed the privilege of coach DJ; playing suitable tunes to get the boys prepared.

Its safe to say the pitch at hartlepool wasn't the most baller-friendly being an little kids pitch, which suited the likes of niall and josh but restricted the play of us normal sized adolescents. The game started how it carried on; a battle with occasional flashes of good play from us. Marshy issued several rousing, tailormade, individual speeches throughout the game to our players. However, this seemed to adversely affect paul new as he spent the open exchanges chasing his first touch as opposed to his usual shoulder barging every moving object. This allowed Ready to step up to the plate and he displayed some class full back play driving us forward. Tbf to the lad he may be the sleaziest, cringiest man in QE but he is ok at football. Something that wasn't ok were his 'pants'  which defo need at least 2 pairs of socks stuffed down there to be anywhere close to acceptable. Our first and only goal was scored by the baldest person with long hair ever to grace a football pitch. Dylan chased down a loose pass before firing a shot via his sneid right boot. 8/10 finish. 

They then equalised from a defensive mishap involving the skipper and niall, to be fair to niall he was in the process of by what can only be described as 'deathgripped'. This was pretty much the last event of note to occur in the 1st half. The ref blew the half-time whistle and the ever-inspirational Mark got the lads in and rallied his troops; with an overall theme of just keep going. The second half began and we pushed on well and I think we created the better chances out of the two sides with bushy and josh clarke coming close. However, despite our spells of pressure and good play hartlepool scored against the run of play.

Desperate times called for desperate measures and I was flung up front but even with my physical presence up top ("great feet for a big man") we couldnt get that elusive equaliser. Then then scored another spawny goal and that was the game done, but we still battled away admirably. In conclusion, this wasnt a game we deserved to lose at all, we maybe lacked a cutting edge at times and we are bit naive in defence but thats being mega critical. Fortunately this was a cup game and there is defo 6 points to be taking from those in the league!! #QESteamroller had a day off but were are still proper class and that so its sound......



(sorry for lateness of this btw; Im a busy lad)