East Thurrock United v Carshalton Athletic – LIVE

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East Thurrock United  1-1  Carshalton Athletic

Canvey Island  3-2  Lowestoft Town

Hastings United  0-0  Billericay Town

Kingstonian  0-1  Concord Rangers

 

Tilbury  2-1  Grays Athletic

 

Thurrock  0-0  Havant & Waterlooville

 

Crewe Alexandra  4-1  Dagenham & Redbridge

Shrewsbury Town  2-1  Southend United

 

Barking  2-1  Bowers & Pitsea

Stansted  1-2  Basildon United

 

Rugby

Diss  3-10  Thurrock 

Woodford  15-20  Basildon 

 

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FULL TIME:  Great, great fun.  A travesty of justice but oh so entertaining.  Possession, territory, chances on and off target, the Rocks were dominant.  Carshalton get a somewhat lucky break.  That’s how it goes.  A really great spectacle for the punters though.

Next up, both live and for the Rocks, is the FA Trophy replay at Hampton & Richmond Borough.  Until then, enjoy the weekend, and your football.

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90th min - You have to laugh or you’d cry.  A stinging East Thurrock shot finally beats the keeper but cannons off the right hand post!

88th min – Still the Rocks lay siege to the Carshalton goal, with Matt Hall replacing Kye Ruel.  Crosses and centres are flying in but no final touch.

83rd min - Continuous Rocks pressure.  Higgins tries to get his head to a centre on the right but the keeper gets there first.  Completely one-sided, this game.  Carshalton have literally had just one chance.  Ridiculous!

78th min – They get spoilt here.  In the teeth of a gale, with Carshalton kicking what they can long-ish, a couple of home supporters gently chide the Rocks for not playing football on the deck.  Hmmmmm, perhaps they mistook Rookery Hill for New Lodge …..

Attendance – 161 supporters are freezing themselves to the bone watching this entertaining encounter.  Credit for staying.  It really is freezing.

72nd min – Back on pitch, Ryan Sammons puts in a last ditch tackle on a rare Carshalton break.  The Rocks go upfield and keeper Hamman again saves brilliantly, this time from Sam Collins, his low shot from 10 yards looking a dead cert.

69th min – Not too much going on, but some spectators behind us were making far too much noise and kicking seats.   Dire warnings were issued as to what would happen if they didn’t stop.  And …… well, it’s not my fault.  I didn’t think seven year olds would cry and run away scared.  Still, chortle.

66th min – Oh, what a save!  East Thurrock pile forward, Kris Newby is in the clear, his shot from 15 yards looks bound for the top right hand corner of the Manorway End net, but Carshalton keeper Nick Hamann somehow gets a hand to it.  Liquid football all round.

61st min – GOAL! ….. EAST THURROCK UNITED 1,  Carshalton Athletic 1  And that patience finally starts to pay off.  Lovely play from Reiss Gilbey, he finds Kye Ruel on the right hand edge of the area, and from his cross SAM HIGGINS heads home unmarked from six yards.  Get.  In.  There.

59th min - And still East Thurrock come forward, efforts from Sam Collins and Kye Ruel coming in.  Still no goal but at least the natives aren’t getting restless.  It’s too cold to be anything except popsicles really.

56th min – Nice shot from the edge of the area by Sam Collins, which was smartly saved low down by the Careshalton custodian.   Nice stuff from the Rocks.  Patience.

54th min – Great cross, almost from the left hand corner, by Greg Cohen, and Sam Higgins header from the edge of the six yard box at the far post goes just wide.

49th min – A dangerous Kris Newby centre on the ref, almost from the bye-line, causes momentary panic before the danger is cleared.  Ooh, it’s getting nippy here.

4.05pm – KICK OFF!  Again.  That’s twice, you know.

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HALF TIME:  And so it’s proven that this could go either way.  The Rocks have had much the better of things, and it could be argued that the visitors goal was a little fortuitous, but it matters not.  Carshalton have battled well and are ahead.  Special mention to Basildon United, though, amazingly 2-0 up at Stansted.  Something amazing would be nice here, too, but at the moment I’ll settle for a pie and Bovril.  Laters.

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44th min – Reiss Gilbey has what in football terms is known as ‘copped a bad ‘un’, after the Carshalton defender went in late.  To everyone’s bemusement, though, the ref has given a drop ball.

38th min – Lovely build-up play across the pitch from Reiss Gilbey, Sam Higgins and Kris Newby, which ends with the latter’s volley just inside the right hand edge of the area missing by about an inch.  Patience, gentlemen, patience.

34th min – I’m not say it’s ridiculously windy here.  But it is.  A Sam Collins shot from 25 yards would in normal conditions have just gone past the post.  Today, though, it’s been cleared by air traffic controllers en route to Copenhagen.

31st min – Kye Ruel plays a 1-2 off a Carshalton player’s knees and then with Kris Newby, and is then hacked down on the edge of the area.  Although it’s a free kick, Jimmy Hill would call it a ‘moral penalty’.  The ‘reality free kick’, though, goes just wide of the Bus Stops End left hand post.

24th min – Another home attack down the right, the cross goes in, and Sam Higgins half bicycle kicks it, leaving one foot on the ground and whacking it at mid-riff height from about 8 yards.  It smacks off the keeper.  Bah.

20th min – Lucky escape for Kris Newby.  He kicks out at goalscorer Vines.  Neither the ref or lino spotted it but it was clearly seen by the rest of us.  Birthday boy Kris would definitely had been given a stright red for that if the ref had a view of it.

17th min – GOAL! ….. East Thurrock United 0,  CARSHALTON ATHLETIC 1  Bother.  From absolutely nothing Carshalton take the lead.  A shot at goal evaded everyone, including the goal and corner flag.  Such was the Rocks luck, though, that it found an attacker on the right in half a yard of space, and from his cross PAUL VINES headed into Manorway End net.  Totally undeserved but it’s goals that count.

12th min – The Rocks are given a free kick, after Kye Ruel is tackled without the Carshalton player touching him, and without Kye hitting the deck.  I suspect the ref gave it because he doesn’t like the Carshalton kit.  I do.  Why, it could almost be as if Fiorentina are visiting.  Without the bribery of course.

8th min – Again the Rocks come forward.  The corner on the right isn’t cleared and the resultant shot from about 15 yards isn’t so much as blocked as rebounded off unknowing defenders who just happened to be in the way.  A very bright start by East Thurrock.

5th min – My goodness, how did that not go in!  The Rocks break on the right, Sam Higgins wriggles clear of his marker inside the area, his shot from 10 yards has the keeper beaten all ends up, but it rebounds off the inside of the post and back into play.  So, so unlucky.

3rd min – Nice early shot from Kye Ruel, about 20 yards out on the left hand edge of the area, tests the visitors keeper, who parries clear.

 3.03pm – KICK OFF!  Oh yes!

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2.58pm – The teams come out to polite and wind chilled applause.  I do like Carshalton’s purple kit.

2.55pm – Mick has read the teams out over the tannoy.  Sorry, but that was just a noise.

2.50pm – My, but it’s a windy one here.  And that’s before tonight’s curry.  Lovely and mild getting here, but as soon as we took our seats in the  press box a gale started blowing through.  So pleased I didn’t bring a jacket.  Harumph.  Is it time for the final whistle yet?

2.40pm – Team News  East Thurrock United’s team is in.  There’s no team sheet but I saw Jenny type it into their official twitter account so it’s almost exclusive.  They go with:  Wray Sammons Stephens Wood Peddie Gilbey Newby Collins Higgins Ruel Cohen.  Subs – Elbi Hall Hewitt Gorbell Riley

2.30pm – FULL TIME:  TILBURY 2,  GRAYS ATHLETIC 1 – There was an early kick-off at Chadfields between Tilbury and Grays, fuelled by last season’s mini-riot, no doubt.  Two teams that needed the points in a big derby clash.  It looked early on as if the nomadic Athletic would grab them with an early Louis Dennis but the Dockers came storming back to take a deserved win.  A cracking game by all accounts.

2.25pm – Good afternoon from a blustery but surprisingly mild Rookery Hill, although people describe me as that too.  The Rocks return to league action, and could, might, maybe, perhaps be in with a shout of the Ryman Premier play-offs should they carry on their winning run.

Standing in their way today are perennially difficult opponents in Carshalton.  The Rocks beat them last month with the only goal of the game, but it could have gone either way, and today’s clash will be no different.  A decent side, Carshalton.  So are East Thurrock United, though.  This could be a great one.

As ever, keep refreshing the page every few minutes, and the thrills and spills of a thrilling, spilling afternoon of footballing jolly japery will come your way.

Game on!