Kernow Stone St Piran League: Division One West
ST IVES TOWN FC 3 WEST CORNWALL FC 0
From our holiday base, St Ives Town FC is possibly one of the closest, infact it was the closest Id never visited until today. As the weather hasnt been too good this past week, I rang the home secretary Steve to check the match was on and got a positive reply.
The ground is a bit of a funny one to find, as many years ago, you would drive up a little lane to Lelant train station and catch the train to St Ives, now you turn up that lane and are faced with new houses and cul de sacs branching off everywhere and the poor old train station I dont think is in use anymore, through the old station car park and behind a hedge is the car park for St Ives Town FC(the one in Cornwall of course)
AS I went in on my mobility scooter. a lovely lady made me a cuppa and poured it in to my flask and took my admission fee(only a quid to get in)
The ground has a changing room block, then dug outs opposite each other on the halfway line. On the far side is also a stand and the ground is fully railed, a smart ground for those to visited.
Steve came up to greet me and so did the referee who had seen me at another match some years ago in Cornwall and remembered me. The visiting manager then Ash Kemp came over to see me and also give me a photo of his sides teamsheet.
On paper, St Ives were favourites to win this game having been unbeaten in their past 4 games in the league and cup, whilst Ash's team hadnt registered a point as yet.
The game kicked off and St Ives were soon on the front foot going forward and hitting a few waybound shots, as the visitors had two very close changes just go wide and one saved from the left wing.
On 21 minutes though, St Ives got the breakthrough, when ASA DONALDSON beat the offside trap to pounce on to the ball and draw the keeper before coolly slotting it home to the delight of the home supporters including the man in the stand with the wooden rattle.
As the players were heading back to the centre circle, the referee produced a sin bin signal to a visiting player(which now counts as from this season as a yellow card), as the player was going off, he must have said something to the match official which saw him receive a second yellow card, thus his side down to ten men for the rest of the game.
The visitors heads seemed to drop a bit and they seemed upset with the referee, whilst the home side was just keeping the ball knocking it about and trying to tire their opponents out.
Half Time came and I scootered round to the near side of the ground opposite the stand and saw some trains going to and from St Ives during the second half.
In the 46th minute and the first attack of the half, the homesters got a corner on the right hand side, where LEWIS TIDY rose and headed hard in to the net to double his teams advantage..
On 53 minutes, things got worse for the visitors as a Saints shot from 25 yards, saw JEFF ROBINSON in the right place to clip it in to the net to make it 3-0.
A strange last 30 odd minutes, as I expected West Cornwall to fold, but they began to start to play some of their best football in the game and went close a few times with a few efforts, whilst Ives could well have scored more, but it was a very good match.
I know at the end the visitors werent too please with the referee, but to be honest, I felt he had a decent match, letting it flow, bring back if not a advantage, I cant comment on the sin bin/sending off as no idea what was said and of course the referee is a lot closer to the action than me.
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