Date	Opponent	Venue	Competition	Season	Result	Goals For	Goals Against
Fri 19th Oct 2007	West Ham	Harrow Road	League	07/08	won	5	1

Match Report

Once again ASB made the beautiful trip across London to leafy (pah!) Leytonstone to take on the Hammers at the usual piece of grass that we've challenged them on in the last few years. We all met at leytonstone station in drips and drabs with thanks to the lovely and unreliable central line. Making our way through the diversity of east london we all started to get our mind on the game and look around ourselves to see our squad. With arrival at our destination we couldnt help but crack jokes once again about the 2 towers of council state class overlooking the pitches. these 2 towers could easily be taken off the postcard from the old soviet union plus the oncoming bopping rudeboy Peewee just added to our laughter. Jokes aside it's not an loctaion or team to play at 10.30 on a saturday morning. With the banter flowing we all got changed in the changing room with signs on the walls warning us about thieves and all sorts of dodgy east london goings on. but with our minds set on the game we all set out even if we were a bit late. we got warmed up in about 5 seconds only due to the fossil like east end cliche ref angrily tell us to hurry up with aggression. i as captain met him at the centre circle to explain our lateness only to be met with a tirade of anti west london abuse and phlem coming from his gob. anyway............. we lined up like this - Woody Weeman - Peewee - Dan (peewee mate)- Task Nick - Alex(PW mate) - Tim - Slouch Tina - Frange (believe it foks ) hahaha we started the game like a house on fire with some good passing and possession from the full backs and midfield. it was only a few minutes old when the first goal was struck and from the unlikeliest source. some fantastic interplay between old friends Task, Slouch and Frange gave slouch the chance to drill a great cross into the box, Tina miss timed his effort diverting it across to Weeman who came out of nowhere to calmly slot home for his first ever goal for ASB. It was soon two nil after 8 minutes when a long throw by Task headed towards the six yard box and Dan got a superb looping header to it and it nestled nicely into the bcak of the hammers net. This was soem real shock and awe football form the super hoops and straight from the kick off some great pressure lead to Tina using his pace to nip in between the full back and centre back and get a penalty from the ref after the West Ham captain who found Tina's pace far too much for him. Nick calmy slotted the spot kick away to make it 3-0 after 10 minutes. Chances kept coming for the R's and the wide men of Nick and Slouch were just too much to handle for the claret and blue men from the wrong side of London. Frange had two chances which he couldnt quite get out of his feet and him and Tina were more useful than most probably expected them to be. HALF TIME. With the half time team talk just stating more of the same ASB went out for the second half looking a little bit different. Tina slotted back into centre midfield with Alex coming off and Rob moving upfront to cause a mess. ASB still had all the ball but a terrible decision from the hitler like ref gave West Ham a way back into the match with a penalty. The ball bounced around and a hammers palyer hit a snap shot, Task was there to block with his back / rib cage but the blew for handball !!!! the penalty was drilled down the middle with Woody nearly getting a paw to it. This goal in the against column didn't deter ASB and their superiority was really starting to tell even with the 12th choice strikers plying their trade in the second half. The one thing that was worrying was the lack of respect from the referee towards all players and one particular incident where a free kick was given and after some the softest of verbals he decided to do a Rob Styles on the super hoops and dish out a yellow or two to our players which was the wrong side of ridiculous. He was also missing the aggressive and incredibly dangerous tackles from one WH midfielder who's mission seemed to be just injure someone. With the R's pushing for a fourth Tina managed to hit the bar form 30 yards then have another long range effort get tipped over. then a breakthrough. Some neat and patient play from the back led to Tim, Tina and Nick playing some neat interchanging football and the through ball to Nick was expertly tucked away his second of the day. It was soon 5 when again some good wokr high up the pitch caused havoc in the west ham rearguard and the ball was looping towards Rob who (whilst praying to god) swung his long left leg at the falling ball and made sweet contact with the ball. It seemed to take an eternity to go in but it really did fly past the goalkeeper and hit the right post and go across the line and into the net, all i can say is well done Rob. For all his running, effort and Amercian football style of physicality he really did deserve a goal and one of that quality was very welcome. ASB saw out the last few minutes with no problems and calmy saw off any threat. A great performance with a makeshift team and you couldnt fault one person from the calm centre backs, faultless full backs, the persistent midfield and tireless strikers. Shout out to Immy who turned up late and only managed 5 minutes, yop work fella. COME ON YOU SUPER HOOPSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !

Player	Position		Goals	Assists
Iain Fraser	Defender: Outside right		1	0
Robert Finn	Forward: Central		1	0
Nick Morris	Forward: Central		2	1