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Saturday 3rd February - Grantham Town 0-0 Frickley Athletic
While the Blues ended their fruitless run in the
UniBond Premier Division, this was one game which they would dearly have loved
to have won but had to be satisfied with sharing the spoils with Grantham a
second time.
The home side had six former Frickley players in
their starting 11 and another on the subs bench, while the visitors kept the
same side which was so unlucky against Marine in the previous game, Steve
Kennedy maintaining his midfield role.
Perhaps it was because so many from both teams had
experience of playing with one another that the game took time to generate any
excitement and simmered rather than ever reaching boiling point.
A fine header from Dean Jones sent Paul Palmer
clear in the 38th minute and he appeared to be pulled back by a Town
defender, denying him a shooting opportunity, but appeals for a penalty were
ignored.
Two minutes later, Scott Turner and Ben Eastwood
combined fluently for Turner to put Palmer away again, only for him to shoot
tamely at Gary Ingham from the edge of the penalty area.
It was not until after the interval that the Town
attack showed any threat, Kevin Ward getting away on the right and rattling
the bar with an angled 18 yard shot in the 56th minute.
The Blues responded, Eastwood, Lee Morris and
Turner, creating a flowing attack down the right after 62 minutes and Turner
whipping in a cross which proved just too high for the incoming Danny Walsh.
Steve Heath headed just over the bar after a
corner kick by Morris from the right three minutes later, but Frickley was
unable to stamp any real authority on exchanges, and it needed a slick save
from Jon Hood to prevent Rhys Powell snatching the honours with a low drive
from the edge of the penalty area after 77 minutes.
Report by Peter Jordan
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