Bromsgrove Sporting 5 (1) v (0) 0 FC Glades

Midland Combination Division 1 28 January 2012

Bromsgrove Sporting finally overcame a spirited FC Glades side with 4 second half goals to run out 5-0 victors in this League game.

Sporting debutant James Turk, created the first goal with a great ball across the box to Chris Conway who beat keeper Chris Burkett with a first time shot at his near post in the 109^th minute.

Half-time Sporting 1 v 0 FC Glades

Sporting dominated the second half.  There were a few nerves as Joe Brookes missed a penalty but they only had to wait a couple of minutes before Jon Rogers worked the ball along the bye line before pulling it back for Conway to score his second from 8 yards.

Another pull back substitute Ryan Molesworth, was missed by Glades defenders and Aaron Roberts was able to make it three nil on 73 minutes.  Three became four on 81 minutes as another ball across the area found Mikey Stewart at the back post and the Sporting substitute tapped in.

Joe Brookes did score eventually as his shot on 86 minutes took a wicked deflection off Glades defender Ward which wrong footed keeper Burkett. 

Sporting team: Savage, Fellows, Roberts, Martin (Jones 69), Thurbon, Brookes (Cpt), Draper, Turk, Conway, Rogers Jon (Stewart 69), Banner (Molesworth 60). Unused subs: Harris, Jenvey.

Cards- None

Glades team: Burkett, Struthers, Wilson (Taylor 52), Quigley (Cpt), Ward, Handley (Nunes 52), Savin (Cammock 69), Michael, Best, Homer, Barrett  Unused sub: Williams

Cards:Yellow – Quigley (65 mins), Michael (85 mins).

 Bromsgrove Sporting 2 (1) v (0) 0 Shirley Town

Smedley Crooke Cup Saturday 7 January 2012

Bromsgrove Sporting collected a notable win against Shirley Town in a competitive Cup game. Shirley were lucky that they collected only one red card as they lost their discipline and finished up with the sending off, 7 other players booked and an official sent from the bench.

Rarely will a match official show so many cards and still risk being accused of leniency as the visitors completely lost the plot and spent the last 10 minutes of the game kicking lumps out of the resilient and well disciplined Sporting players.

Two great strikes from Keith Draper meant Sporting move into the last 16 to play the winners of next week’s game between FC Glades and Fairfield Villa.

The game was fairly evenly matched but Sporting took their chances whilst Shirley spurned the few that a parsimonious Sporting defence allowed them. When Shirley broke past the Sporting back four they found keeper Chris Mole in fine form.

Sporting began to dominate the second half and if it hadn’t been for a combination of poor finishing and good goal keeping from Shirley’s Kenny Sanders they might have wrapped the game up before the 85^th minute strike from Draper sealed a great victory.

Despite two goals from Draper, the Society Man of the Match is Jon Rogers who caused endless problems for the Shirley defence in his role as lone striker.

A sad note to the game was that it appears that an injury to Chris Bright sustained in the first half may well turn out to be a broken collar bone and see Chris miss the rest of the season.

Sporting line up: Mole, Fellows, Harris, Martin, Thurbon, Brookes, Draper, Jenvey (Jones),  Rogers Jon, Wilkes, Bright (Molesworth). Subs not used: Rogers Jamie, Rogers G, Shaw

Shirley line up: Sanders, Farrell S, Redden, Keane, Farrell L, Deeley, Dunkley (Smith-Baines), Longthorn, Chapman, Baxter, Reid (Dugmore)  Subs not used: Connelly, Brearley, Ward.

Cards: Bromsgrove – none. Shirley – Yellow: Dunkley, Farrell, S,  Deeley, Sanders, Keane, Farrell L, Baxter.  Shirley – Red:  Farrell S.

 Man of the Match – Sporting Jon Rogers