Shrewton defeat
Sunday, April 2nd, 2006Toolstation League division one: Shrewton United 3, Wellington 1
A PAIR of disputed second half goals ended Wellington’s excellent run as Shrewton United gained a quickfire revenge victory in Wiltshire last Saturday.
Ian Jackson’s side had won four of their previous five games – their only blip coming with a narrow defeat away to runaway leaders Dawlish – including a 4-0 thumping of Shrewton at the Playing Field last month.
But they went into the return fixture without three of the players, who had featured in that run, and so were always going to be up against it against a side with one of the best home records in the league.
Yet they could not have got off to a better start, taking the lead inside the first minute with a goal which typified their slick passing of recent weeks.
Simon Ingram played the ball forward to Nick Woon, whose neat pass put in Greg Jackson – playing up front in place of broken hand victim Jon Crowford – and he slotted the ball past keeper Adam Burwell.
But Shrewton hit back to equalise midway through the first half.
And they sealed the points with two more goals after the break – with Wellington defenders appealing in vain for offside on both occasions.
Wellington: Hitchcott, Reader, Jenkins, Bowrah, Tutill, Ingram, Gage, Butler, Norman, Woon, Jackson (G). Substitutes, Elsley and Jackson (I) used; Fitzgerald not used.
