Haringey enjoy biggest-ever winning margin (From Haringey Independent)

Haringey enjoy biggest-ever winning margin

10:03am Wednesday 10th March 2010 in

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by John Bacon

Haringey Borough 8
Hillingdon Borough 0
Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division

BOROUGH ran up their highest winning margin since joining the Spartan League in 1989 and there was no special circumstances leading to such a score.

Both sides started and finished with eleven players on the field and all the goals were scored in open play.

It would be unfair to mention only the scorers for this was a fine performance with every Haringey player putting in a wholehearted 90 minutes effort.

Keeper Brian Sealey had what was doubtless his easiest game for some while but did everything required.

Full backs Charles Douse and Andreas Loizou allowed very few crosses to be sent over and in the middle, Diatomba Denteli and Bosun Adebaki also providing a barrier which the visitors never looked like breaching.

Craig Scotcher stamped his authority at the heart of the midfield while David Boal, Jose Espinoza and Mario Georgiou moved the ball around purposefully and showed excellent positioning off the ball too.

Lloyd Opara’s tricky footwork gave the visitors no end of problems while Adam Scotcher led the line energetically and threatened danger whenever he got the sniff of a chance.

Mario Georgiou opened the scoring in the 14th minute when he pounced on a mis-cued clearance of a cross from the right to drive the ball high into the net from the edge of the goal area.

Adam Scotcher added the second in the 22nd minute as he held off his challenging defender as he tore in from the left to finish with a precise low cross shot.

Opara and Espinoza missed easier chances before the interval although Scotcher had put Borough three up with another fine finish in the 32nd minute.

After the break, Borough took complete control although it was not until the 62nd minute that Scotcher finished another flowing move to notch up a hat-trick and shortly afterwards he made way for Tolu Popoola whose muscular presence offered the hard pressed visiting defence no easier life.

Lloyd Opara quickly added the fifth as he finally found the target with an accurate low cross shot at the end of another sweeping move.

Theo Charalambos and Andrew Julius were then brought into the proceedings and immediately slotted in well. Craig Scotcher’s first effort from a corner was blocked but the ball came back to him on the edge of the area and he fired it low into the far corner through a mass of players to record his first goal for the club.

In the 82nd minute Georgiou unleashed a powerful shot from the edge of the area which took a deflection as it arrowed home just inside the keepers right hand post.

Opara finished the scoring three minutes from time when he chased a long ball down the right which had looked certain to go out for a throw but just stayed in enabling him to take it right up to the goal line and screw in a shot from what had seemed an impossible angle.