Kingston Freeze

It was cold. Very cold. It was windy too and snowing. Not ideal footballing conditions but the boys put a pretty convincing performance in against an always feisty Kingston.

Playing with a force 9 gail in the first-half saw Cumnor create a number of good chances. Adam and Will linked especially well on the flank and both fired in crosses that just seemed to evade Jack, Doddie and Fyn. It felt comfortable with the defensive four of Rory, Harry, Josh and Toby providing a solid platform for the others. However, going in 0-0 meant we had a fight on our hands for the second-half.

The wind was devilish and for 10 minutes every clearance came flying back towards our area, luckily Henry was alert to the troublesome trajectory. Like Henry, Doddie is in a rich vein of form and his flicks and switches kept opening up the Kingston defence. Fyn was working his channels and Ben enjoying a right old tussle in the middle.

It took a while but Cumnor eventually got their foot on the ball and tried to take the wind factor away. Adam was instructed to get back and do his defensive work but he ignored Tim's instruction and found himself in the shooting zone. Bang: 1-0. Minutes later we doubled our score through Ben's excellent strike. Job done. Or so we thought.

Kingston never give in and decided to go all out, using the wind and the pace out wide. They got on the scoresheet after Henry's superb save wasn't cleared. Instead of panicking, Cumnor continued to play football with James holding the ball nicely. Will threatened all day and scored a superb solo goal 3-1. He then went on another mazy run setting up James to score who was deemed off-side.

So the match finished 3-1 with Cumnor extending their recent League run and talking us to 22 points with only Ducklington to play in mid-April. Can we get to 25 points? Yes we can.

Player of the Week: special mention to Toby, Adam, Josh and Doddie but POW goes to our Welsh (okay, he's half Scottish too) wizard, Will.