Monday night football in the Blue Square Conference North for me!
The Poppies have adopted an interesting philosophy this season by deciding to play their midweek games on a Monday evening. The theory being that people don't do much on Monday evenings so may turn out in larger numbers (1027 attended which is about the same as last season when they played on Tuesdays). The other theory is that as Kettering are full time and most of the other teams are part time they should recover more speedily from the exertions of Saturday games and therefore should become the stronger team as the game progresses!
I am a fan of this for purely personal reasons. This week it meant I was able to watch live football on Monday and Tuesday evening!
Anyway how Kettering didn't win this really easily is beyond me. After dominating for the best part of half an hourthey found themselves 1-0 down due to a horrendous defensive mix up between the centre back and keeper which resulted in an own goal.
Some form of sense was restored to the game before half time when Jon Brady crashed in a 30 yard free kick - The quality of execution would not have been out of place in the Premiership!
After half time more inept defending allowed Hucknall to take the lead with pretty much their first shot of the game. But kettering came back scoring from a wicked cross from another set play and Mark Rawle classily curling the winner from the edge of the box.
All in all a thoroughly entertaining evening of which I shall repeat as often as fixtures allow!
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