HT: 2-2
FT: 5-4 W
Cliffe FC win ERCL Division 5
Cliffe FC travelled to face South Cave Reserves on Tuesday evening (29th Apr) Cliffe sat top of the table and South Cave were 2nd and still had an outside chance at the title but, with a win Cliffe were crowned league champions.
Malcolm Bryce writes…
Cliffe began brightly and had Cave on the back foot and Cliffe had the ball in the net through Chris Walker but was deemed offside. Walker however, did have his goal after cutting in from the left and burying the ball in the goal for 1-nil to the away side. After some nice play between Cliffe forwards, Tom Hogg and Alan Jackson, the score read 2-nil when Hogg squared for Jackson to finish. Cave were given a life-line when a penalty was awarded, for hand-ball from Danny Fisher, it was put away for 2-1. A second Cave penalty soon followed when a bobbling ball in the box hit Andy Moughan on the arm and was deemed deliberate and the resulting penalty was scored for 2-2. 2-2 was the score at half-time.
Cliffe came out second half with a will to win and be crowned champions. The away side soon were ahead after some nice individual play from Jackson enabled him to craft a nice run and finish for 3-2. Time ticked on and the game only became more dramatic, with Cave grabbing a third equaliser. Time was running out and a draw would mean the league contest going down to the end of the season but Cliffe regained the lead through Kev Taylor and many would of thought 4-3 would have been the end of things. Cave however, popped up with a forth equaliser! The ninety minutes was up and the game was into injury time but the dramatics were not over and Cliffe got it back and Hogg scored a fifth for the away side. The final whistle blew and Cliffe won the game 5-4.
With this win Cliffe FC are crowned East Riding County League Div. 5 Champions.
Cliffe Team:
A. Harris, K. Simpson, M. Birch, D. Fisher (Evans), A. Moughan, S. Birch, R. Sowden (Kirkham), K. Taylor, C. Walker (Horner), A. Jackson, T. Hogg
Cliffe Scorers:
A. Jackson (2), C. Walker, K. Taylor, T. Hogg
[...] Arguably Cliffe FC’s most important games in their short history, Cliffe faced South Cave Reserves away on Tuesday evening where a win would see them become league champions. - see the full match report here [...]