Crane Sports 4 - 5 Achilles 9/11/13

How do you describe a match that has everything? All action from start to nail-biting finish - nine goals, fingertip saves, a sending off and at one stage in the second half 5 goals in ten minutes. With both sides in excellent form, something special was expected and the larger than normal crowd was sent home buzzing with excitement.

Honours were even at a goal apiece in the first period, but Crane Sports were reduced to ten men in the 40^th minute when Clarke was dismissed for an off the ball incident.

It looked like Achilles would win comfortably when they took a 3-1 lead but the 10 men of Crane Sports came back with 3 goals in a frantic 8 minutes that turned the match on its head and the impossible now seemed possible.

Achilles reorganised, substituting a full back and the replacement's first touch was a chip that came off the crossbar to present Achilles with an equaliser. At 4-4 with 5 minutes left a draw seemed a suitable and fair scoreline, but the final twist came from a corner and a diving header from Chris Leys. Goalscorers for Achilles were Andy Coote 2, Leys 2 and Kieran Donovan: for Cranes Sports Tye Webb 2, Nathan Woolard and Ben Miller.