Metro Prove Too Strong For Co-Leaders by Jeremy Ruane

 
Feltonmix Metro flexed their formidable Bluebird Premier League muscles at Albie Turner Field on April 24, disposing of the league's co-leaders, Glenfield Rovers, 3-1 in front of a 200-strong crowd.
The home team were deserved winners, and, in all honesty, never looked like recording anything other than a victory from as early as the sixth minute. It was then that Danny McHenery was brought down from behind as he pursued the ball after Rob Read, Rovers' 'keeper, had parried Aaron Beckham's shot.
No penalty was forthcoming however, and Metro's frustrations were further compounded when Carl Jorgensen fired home through the crowd following the resulting scramble, only for referee Craig Borland to disallow the strike for an infringement by one of the home team's attackers.
Read saved from McHenery in the tenth minute, but was left to pick the ball out of the net seconds later, and what a gem of a strike it was! Jorgensen's forward surge saw him beat three opponents before feeding Willie Thompson on the right. His cross was tailor-made for McHenery, who dived full-length to head home a beauty.
It was fast and furious stuff as the two sides settled down to battle, with Read saving from Hoani Edwards, Willie Thompson and McHenery before the interval, while Simon Eaddy was kept active by the efforts of Rovers' Peter Fox and Mike Bolger. Stuart Mair, who had a super game at the heart of Metro's defence, pulled off a timely tackle to foil Ian Fearns in the 27th minute.
The second spell was barely two minutes old when Metro made it 2-0. Beckham's teasing cross, following a quickly taken free-kick, completely deceived Read, leaving Sean Armstrong to bundle the ball home from close range.
Twice soon after, McHenery was foiled by Read, while Armstrong suffered the same fate after McHenery had done all the hard work.
Glenfield looked to get back into the game, with Fox firing their best chance past the post in the 56th minute. Later, Chris Flanagan was foiled by Eaddy, while Read turned a diving header by Geoff Gray around the post just three minutes after the substitute had entered the fray.
Gray made quite an impression in his ten minutes on the park, with Brian Ogg clearing his header off the line in the 84th minute, then playing a key role in Metro's third goal sixty seconds later, flicking Jason Thompson's cross down for Jorgensen, who thumped home a beauty.
This inspired a late rally by Glenfield, with Nick Hackett and Fox both going close before Peter Bolger's glancing header in stoppage time - Fearns supplied the cross, found its way past Eaddy. But Metro were too strong overall, and emerged deserved 3-1 winners.

Metro:  Eaddy; Lawler (Hird, 84), O'Mara (Curties, 75), Mair, J. Thompson; W. Thompson, Edwards (booked, 49), Jorgensen (booked, 80), Beckham; McHenery, Armstrong (Gray, 80).

Rovers: Read; Finlay, Ogg (booked, 62), Feck; Flanagan, Collett, M. Bolger (booked, 46) (Hackett, 70), Fields (Scott, 70); Fox, P. Bolger, Fearns.

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