A Game happened, I think?

Well, where to start?

Royston Men’s 1st XI picked up their first loss of the season against a St Albans team that, on another day (with a fully fit crows’ side), had a relatively lucky victory.

Royston fought bravely through the game with a bare 11 which included many stepping up to help the boys, to which we thank them. Solid play at left back and with 5 forwards on the pitch however, Royston couldn’t hold on to the 1-1 draw as St Albans were the better team on the day, scoring with a textbook deflection goal over the MotM John “BJ” Gourd. Gourd had been busy all game with a variety of attacks from Albans and some self-inflicted damage from Royston’s premiere CB Josh “O’ Captain please don’t pass it to the oppo CF, My Captain” Hughes.

There was little to be praised (bar left back heroics from the forward), but Royston’s goal was a top corner screamer! Well… kind of… Tidy play from the midfield of Royston (including, but not limited to it’s only actual central midfielder Troy “The Body” Troy) led to the breaking the oppo D on the far-right side of the pitch. With a powerful drive across the baseline from Carl “Man Beast” Taylor, that was clearly inside the opposition D much to the confusion of the umpires, the ball found its way into the top corner of St Albans net, off an Albans’ stick! Not Sure if we can let you have that one Carl!

The heat of the unseasonably warm October day was the real undoing of the Royston team, coupled with the humidity from the unfamiliar environment from the water-based pitch. In truth, if you’d seen the warmup a loss would have been a high probability from the get-go.

Not Royston’s day in the end, Props to Albans.

Lyndon didn’t score.