The story of the blues!

As Pete Wylie sang with the Mighty Wah,this is fast becoming the familiar story of the blues.

Our fellow promotion rivals from last season,and the division champions to boot,show no signs of diminishing their strength and depth of quality squad,and provide a decent standard test for any team in this age group.

Once again,it is such a reflection of the City side that an individual Man of the Match could not be chosen,such was the Herculean effort that is required just to compete at this level.With light rain clearing and a wet,quick surface,Bideford Blues kicked off and quickly settled into a rapid passing game,fast to the ball and with excellent ball control at pace.

The City side held their nerve though and despite Bideford pressure and several attempts on goal including a great effort skewed over the bar,it was over 15 minutes of play that had passed before the City boys fell a goal behind.

The advantage was seized and the away side further pushed home their fortune by adding two further goals to their tally by half time.

With such a squad and making full use of the allowance to use regular,fresh substitutions,there just always seemed to be an extra yellow shirt in midfield for Central to contend with.

Perhaps this contributed to the confusion:As George Jones sings in the Country and Western standard,”blue must be the colour of the blues”....so the blues play in yellow!

Second half,City’s half.Subs,Ewan on,Charlie off due to injury,later to return to once again resiliently ride some elbows and fierce tackles.

Joe on to run the left back time and time again,replacing Tom,who ran the right back first half,time and time again.Bideford score another three but City get two,important,not just confidence boosting goals but deserved reward for tireless running in midfield,shape in the back four and,lets be honest,Will A saving three times as many prospective goals than actually went in.

Joe is alert to a rare Bideford defensive lapse and Dan gets a welcome opportunity.Alfie W runs the blues and this time nets.So 2-6,final score.Pizza Hut replace the prawn sandwiches and we reflect with warmth,just why we will bother to turn up for training on the cold Wednesday evenings that lie ahead.

Jasmine & Andrew