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I shall give you a quick run down of how the first 12 games went for the newly formed Carshalton FC Under 15 team. We headed off to your first ever away game as a team to a strong Merton Youth side who had previously came from the Premier division last year. After quickly learning within the first 5 minutes of how much of a change this will be from Little League we was 1-0 down with Connor Romo with a suspected Broken Shin, which resulted to the classic Sunday League football and putting the tallest defender in goal. Without beating around the bush the final score was 9-0 and we took away with us a big learning curve.
So moving onto our second game and we was away once again this time round we played Stoneleigh Athletic Bravo, with a fairly early kick off at 10am. We wasn't very impressed with the referee before the game as he was pitch side getting his last fag in before had to "run" for 40 minutes in the centre circle! Besides all that we couldn't get our first goal, we pressured and pressured so much it left out defence vulnerable as some fatal errors led to some silly goals. We did manage to score 1 through a penalty kick after Hamzah was tripped inside the box, only for Peter Maddock to take and what a penalty it was, two keepers wouldn't of saved it! The game finished 6-1 to Stoneleigh and we went home with a frown upon are faces.
29th September 2013 the boys finally made a mark with a emphatic 5-2 win over Nork Park Rangers Athletic, we played our first game at home and we got the win. Although we did go down 0-2 we clawed back and got it back to 2-2 for only to knock in another 3 goals with ease as Nork Park's confidence had completely gone.
Can Carshalton make it back to back wins? Yes they can this time round we play Nork Park Rangers Colts who are considered to be the better side out of the two Nork Park sides in our league. This game had it ups and it downs. At half time we was winning 4-1 with Gideon Eluwa running rings around his opponents but this only led to Nork Park getting very frustrated and very early on led to some well lets say "dirty" challenges on Gideon only to see Gideon react and receive a red card. Carshalton FC had 30 minutes to hold onto the 4-1 lead with only ten men. This wasn't something they seemed keen on but nevertheless they did defend superb and held to win 4-3. A very tense game but it shows the boys have some fight in them!
Moving onto the Cup game and this was against Nork Park Youth this side was in the Premier League and if I am honest we didn't stand a chance and I won't make excuses about lack of players but we did lose 17-0, a game we will put behind us and let's just say "we was concentrating on the league"
After a rather embarrassing cup defeat I think the morale was down and it showed when we played Mickleham Marvels, a team we really should be beating but it wasn't to be. They beat us at home 5-1 which left myself speechless at the end and I wasn't sure if the boys wanted to play or had any heart left.
The next game went down as a "walkover" as we didn't have enough players to field, which worried me did the boys want to play for me? But we did play a friendly and from what I saw I do think this is a team we should be able to beat when they come over to our ground.
We play top of the league St Helier and if the game ended at half time we would of been extremely happy! Half time was 1-1 and we very much deserved this score we played our hearts out but perhaps we played to strong in the first half and not leaving enough energy for the second half. You could see who the fitter team was on the day as St Helier came out flying and knocking in a further 9 goals to make it 1-10!
03rd November 2013 was were we made our mark once again! After a agonizing 4 weeks of losses we got back on track we a great win again against Nork Park Rangers Athletic. We welcomed two new players to the squad for this game, Callum Foley (Striker) and Eric Chaiyaphanto (Centre Back) and it made a difference as Callum Foley knocked in 2 goals and Eric Chaiyaphanto made some incredible tackles at the back along with some great challenges in the air. We went onto win the game 4-2 and kick started our season once again!
This time round we play Stoneleigh Athletic Bravo a team who has beat us before 6-1 early on in the season. Carshalton want revenge and revenge is what we got! After going down 2-0 which we didn't deserve at all, half time came and I said what I wanted to say and I suppose it worked as we thought back and had a fantastic come back to win 3-2! Gideon Eluwa scored a great freekick to kick start the come back which made it 3-1, substitute Charlie Chapman is always in the right place at the right time to score a tap in to grab the equaliser only for club captain Gerard Bryne to score from a corner. A great win easily the best of my career.
We finally get to meet Queens Park Gunners who are sitting bottom of the league the boys were confident about getting the 3 points and that's exactly what they done. They won 5-0 but it should of been 10-0 we wasn't finishing our chances but we will take a win how ever it comes!
Our latest game was against Nork Park Rangers Athletic, we played them before and won 5-2 and this time round we won 3-0 a good game to watch but once again we should of been more prolific in front of goal. We needed these goals to gain our goal difference back but if I am honest the referee was terrible after playing 5 minutes less than he should have first half, counting 9 steps instead of 9 yards, giving fouls when they clearly wasn't. The game was very stop and start as he blew up for the slightest of touches. Nonetheless we got the win again to put us on 18 points.
That was how our first 12 games panned out very up and down as you can see but a learning curve for everyone, specially myself and I hope to carry on learning and brining this team forward.
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