ASHTON TOWN (Edge Green Street)

Tuesday 8th February 2011
North West Counties League Division 1
Ashton Town 5-2 Daisy Hill
Attendance: 40

Due to some work related shenanigans I was afforded the chance to work 9 to 5 like normal human beings do. This created the opportunity to get in some rare midweek action, what a treat!

It was a short trip up the M6/A58 to the town of Ashton-in-Makerfield and Edge Green Street, the home of Ashton Town. It was their first home game since December 11th due to the bad weather and tonight they were up against perennial strugglers Daisy Hill, but both teams are at the wrong end of the table.

The first half of the game was a pretty even affair with both teams as bad as each other. Ashton Town started like a train and were at Daisy Hill from the off. The Daisy Hill goalie was wearing tracksuit bottoms and I then told my groundhopping mate about my theory on goalkeepers who wear trackie bottoms and how, 9 times out of 10, they are dodgy to say the least.

After 4 minutes Ashton got a corner on the right and Paul Cliff proceeded to score direct from it. Point proved me thinks. The 'keeper then provided a couple more comedy moments but these were the highlights of a generally poor first half.

The second wasn't that much better, still very scrappy and bad tempered,  but at least there was a goal fest to compensate for the lack of any half-decent football. Lewis Coyle (58) made it 2-0 before Gregory (60) halved the deficit. Two goals in four minutes through David Ojapah (75) and a Michael Sykes penalty (79) gave the homesters an unassailable advantage. An own goal on 89 minutes proved to be too little too late for Daisy Hill, not that it mattered as Adam Howard fired home deep into stoppage time to give Ashton a 5-2 win.