01 May 2006

Come From Behind Heroes

Goal scoring legend Colin McIntosh was the toast of the Land Rovers Football club this afternoon when he knocked in a winner with time almost up on the clock. Land Rovers miraculously pulled back a two goal deficit in the last two minutes to beat AMP 7- 6 at the Shed of Dreams. "I took myself off with four minutes to go to assess our tactical options, and we swapped Charlie for Colin in goal, and for the last two minutes brought myself and Colin back on. The opposition wilted and we knocked in three to take it out with thirty seconds or so to spare". Rovers had led 3 -1 early on but faded in the middle part of the game to see four unanswered goals fly in for a 5 - 3 deficit. "We lacked discipline there for a while" said Hall "but to their credit the boys rallied and got back into it".

Chairman Rossiter was pleased but had mixed emotions "AMP are my old club so whilst I'm elated to beat them, I can empathise with how they must be feeling this afternoon". Goal scorer, hero and jolly good bloke Colin McIntosh had no such feelings "It's a 24 minute game and you have to go right to the end" said McIntosh "so I think our superior fitness showed through at the end". McIntosh went to say that Rovers had a lot of old wise heads on the pitch and had learnt from the draw a week earlier how to close out a game.

"We'll give the boys a day off training for that" said Hall "and then we'll be back to analyse some video in preparation for the next match".

MOTM Colin McIntosh

Final Score: ROVERS 7 AMP 6

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