[Albion] Albion v Palace, MATCH REPORT

[Exile]

Quite the evening, eh?

Re-live it here, if you want: https://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/content.php?768-Albion-3-1-Crystal-Palace-04-12-2018

Into four added minutes at the end of a breathless first half. Feels a big moment – reach the break with the two-goal lead, and this looks doable. Attack repelled. And another. Come on ref FFS. Blow your whistle. It’s in the box again. Ball is loose. Crap! Get it away. Bernardo hacks clear as Townsend swings a boot – the ball is sailing over halfway, to safety. Tomkins is jogging after it, to take the throw. Andone isn’t jogging. Andone is tearing after it. Tomkins reacts too late – the Albion number 10 gets there a split second before it goes out of play – flicks it down the line, and hares after it, leaving the Palace carthorse and his stable-mate Sakho wheezing behind him.

Hennessy could have easily averted the danger by coming to meet it, but is frozen to his line. As Andone reaches the corner of the six-yard box, Tomkins finally catches up, gets a weak toe to the ball, setting it nicely, for the Romanian to side foot calmly into the far corner. Utterly amazing. Absolute scenes! Amex is bouncing. I’m hugging everyone. Florin Andone you bloody HERO.

Whistle goes.

And breathe…

 

[Simster]

So you're "too busy" to keep up to date with match reports, yet we thump Palace at home and it's all done and dusted on the very next day.

Funny that. Not that I'm complaining, mind.

 

[Exile]

So you're "too busy" to keep up to date with match reports, yet we thump Palace at home and it's all done and dusted on the very next day.

Funny that. Not that I'm complaining, mind.

Yes.

And now, I'm even BUSIER playing catch up. Ho hum

 

[Badger]

Brilliant as always. DOUBLE artwork too!

 

[Exile]

Brilliant as always. DOUBLE artwork too!

sort of!

 

[The Large One]

Your best yet.

Well played, Sir.

 

[B-right-on]

What a pleasure to read in many ways

 

[Petee]

Magical

 

[Goldstone1976]

Fantastic as usual. Bloody love, LOVE, the flowchart

 

[Ecosse Exile]

Excellent as always, loved Warren Christmas reply to Andy Naylor's team news, "Palace unchanged - yep, still twats"

 

[Exile]

Excellent as always, loved Warren Christmas reply to Andy Naylor's team news, "Palace unchanged - yep, still twats"

Agreed - a concise work of genius. As I told him at the game (I sit next to him!)

 

[pasty]

Top notch stuff there

 

[Richy_Seagull]

Superb


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[Wozza]

Good stuff, as always.

Until watching highlights I didn't notice that Murray was still off the pitch when we scored our second, so we were down to nine men at the time.

And we had four players in box, to their ten... and they still left Balogun unmarked. Amazing.

 

[Dolph Ins]

IMHO your best yet. Thanks.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

You've done yourself and the rest of us proud – bloody brilliant. Possibly your best effort yet – for the Palace flowchart alone!

 

[Thunder Bolt]

In that four minutes of added time, and Palace attacks being repelled, I was bellowing at the ref to blow his whistle. I'm really glad he didn't.

Great match report!

 

[Jack Straw]

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! Best ARTWORK to date, plus a bonus flow-chart. I can't see us having a better night at the Amex for a long time, or another report as good as this. Both as good as it gets. Well done Exile, match reporting legend in waiting, thanks.

 

[LlcoolJ]

Great stuff! The advertising boards were a touch of class. [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

 

[jakarta]

Come on chaps, this was the best Game Report I have read and needs to be back at the top of the page - Flowchart was both accurate and hilarious.