British Steel Cup

17th March 2012
British Steel Cup
Halkyn Vets 0 Denbigh 2


The two teams met in the first round of the British Steel Cup and due to the restriction of only playing players over 35 the home team were missing a few regulars. Despite this Halkyn had the best of the first half and tested the Denbigh keeper on a number of occasions with Andy Beck coming close.


The second half began in the same way with Halkyn striking the cross bar and also missing an open goal (sorry Pete!!!). The match turned in the 60th minute when Andy Walls passed the ball back to the Halkyn keeper who proceeded to perform a rendition of 'dancing on ice' and, having fallen clumsily, failed to prevent the ball from crossing the goal line.


Halkyn appeared to be motivated by this mistake and with a rallying call of 'tosser' continued to put the away team under pressure but to no avail. An impromptu formation change to 1-10 allowed the away team to score another goal on the break in the dying minutes and the game was over.


A big thank you to the ref, Ady Goss ,who thankfully did not have to intervene on too many occasions as the game was played in the right spirit despite the usual banter from the touchlines and Geordie!!!

Halkyn's man of the match was Mike Davies