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Cobham Clawed Back At CB Hounslow

Cobham Clawed Back At CB Hounslow

User 146276618 Nov 2015 - 11:35
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Cobhams failure to hold on to a 2-0 lead against Title challenging CB Hounslow takes the edge off an exhilarating game .

Of course I am gutted that we did not quite pull of the result we deserved. So I want my boys to take out their frustration in our next game.
- Barry Wilde, Manager

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a 19th Century Amercian Poet said in his "There was a little Girl" poem:

And when she was good, she was very, very good, But when she was bad she was horrid.

That poem summed up the Cobham Performance at CB Hounslow at the weekend ( Oh I see where that was going now -Ed). With another one of Barry's Babes, Daniel Boateng making his debuts in defence, with Gary Abisogun threatening to run riot whenever he wanted and the returning in goal, Lee Norman pulling of a couple of vital saves, Cobham for the most part were very very good. CB Hounslow prior to this game had conceded just 5 goals all season to support their free scoring forwards. So to be 2 down in just 11 minutes to Cobham with goals from Kieran Bolt and Gary Abisogun, they were shell shocked to say the least. Any idea that the goals were flukes were dispatched by solid defensive displays by the Cobham defence and in particular Daniel Boateng who continued to do that football name proud.

Cobham expected a CB second half storm to come to match the awful actual rain and soggy conditions on the ground. And come it did with a CB cross being deflected into the goal by King just 2 minutes into the second half. Normal service to be resumed by CB Hounslow ? Hell no as Cobham showed grit, determination and continued flair to set up chances of their own and to withstand the pressure of the title chasing CB'ers. Horridly at times too many gaping holes were left and too many poor choices and wrong passes were made to undo much of the great work. Yet Hounslow huffed and they puffed and but they could not blow the Cobham house down....until the 88th minute -when A Plummer sorted out the blockage in the Cobham defence after a mercurial run to leave Cobham with that sinking feeling and to grasp a 2-2 draw from the claws of defeat.

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