The stars of Starcross

City kept up their winning ways with another convincing victory,this time away from home against St Martins.The well organised home side had delivered a footballing lesson in this fixture last year but on their new pitch,at Starcross,they came up against a City side playing with confidence and conviction following on from last weeks goalfest.

On freshly cut grass and in lovely conditions with just the colder autumn breeze a hint to the time of year,Man of the Match Josh was immediately involved with tenacious left foot play.City were forced to make an early substitution at 4 minutes as Will P was injured (able to return later for trademark corners).Dylan filled in the midfield space,a positive opening spell for City was followed by St Martins beginning to creep back into the game.Hot on the heels of a Cameron freekick that just sailed over the bar,Dylan broke from midfield and dribbled past four players before drilling a low right footer to give the visitors the lead.

St Martins levelled virtually immediately and then settled into their good game finding plenty of midfield to pass and keep the ball.A temporary onslaught followed and Dylan was called upon to head over Noahs goal to repel the danger.The tide then turned Citys way and before halftime their confident play paid real dividends.Will P dropped a corner just in front of the homeside keeper and Dan was there to restore the lead with a great header.City went further ahead when lessons learnt from last week and discussed on the training ground all came to fruition.With Ewan and Joe losing their markers and Charlie getting cover at the back when pressing forward, Will A netted twice,alert first to a rare keeper error,then on the end of an Alfie cross whose run was initially set going by a great ball from Cam.City even “scored" their ubiquitous offside goal.

The second half could not have got off to a better start.An inspired tactical vision prompted John B to call Josh over from defence to curl a blinding left foot shot into the top corner from a freekick:Unbelievable.Not to be missed.Early candidate for goal of the season.(Description needed for Mum as she may have been getting a coffee).To some extent though the game was just warming up.St Martins showed their class to persist with their gameplan and get two goals back in quick succession and it was to some relief that Joe put a great ball through for Alfie to calmly end the scoring at 3-6.Too much rugby had seen an earlier effort clear the trees.Oh,plus a fabulous lob spoilt only by the linesmans offside flag.

So,still unbeaten,lucky thirteen goals scored in the last 2 games,can it get better?.Bideford bus trip looms on a high.