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Lakenheath Old Boys
We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!
Friday, May 08, 2015
Lakenheath Old Boys
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Here are the teams out on the pitch at Brentford now:
Brentford: Button; Odubajo, Dean, Tarkowski, Bidwell; Judge, Douglas, Diagouraga, Pritchard, Jota; Gray. Subs: MacLeod, Craig, McCormack, Dallas, Bonham, Toral, Smith.
Middlesbrough: Konstantanopoulos; Whitehead, Ayala, Gibson, Friend; Adomah, Clayton, Leadbitter, Tomlin; Bamford, Vossen. Subs: Ripley, Forshaw, Amorebietta, Nsue, Omeruo, Reach, Kike.
Referee: Jon Moss.
Brentford are looking for back-to-back promotions today. I'm still not sure whether Brenford are legal in the Prem with their ground. We'll soon see.
Brentford manager Mark Warburton has already decided to resign his position regardless of the outcome of this playoff. Surely that will be a factor today.
I've got a great link up for BEin in the office this afternoon, thanks to Gooner and Dad.
Boro will still be choked that they didn't get automatic promotion. They just about threw it all away with a poor run in. Brentford will surely have the momentum.
We're about to get going at Griffin Park with the home side getting us started.
Brentford have one of the poorest home records in the league, which might make this match today even tenser than usual.
Albert Adomah already threatening the Brentford back four. He'll be a danger man tonight, for sure.
Brentford now have a chance to loft a free kick into the Boro area for the first time.
Now - Pritchard tried an ambitious effort from nearly forty yards and it trickled into the keeper's arms.
Jose Mourinho in the stands tonight, checking in on his mate Karanka.
Now it's Bamford who gets clear on the left but his cross is purely speculative. He's the rising star for Boro.
Tomlin picks up a yellow for persistent fouling - only 14 minutes in. He's got a long match left to watch himself.
Now it's George Friend with an "unfriendly" tackle - into the book. Boro thugging it up early doors. here.
Oh - first real strike in anger there from Andre Gray. Keeper did well.
Free kick to Boro now, with Leadbitter over it. Drills it into his own man. Poor.
GOAL! Vossen with a free header in the box, into the corner past Button.
0-1!
Kyala upends Pritchard and the home side have a free kick in a dangerous position now.
Oh - Boro nearly had a second there. Surely a need for goal-line technology.
Adomah now into the book for a chippy one.
Corner to Brentford now - they have to make the most of it. Oh - just over the bar by Tarkowski.
Into stoppage time now.
Half-time: It's advantage Boro as the half-time whistle goes. With Newcastle and Sunderland both relegation, this will be a tonic for Northeast footer fans.
We're back on at Griffin Park for the second half. What do the B's have in their locker to respond to that first half goal?
Oh - big chance for Andre Gray - blown over the top. He'll rue that one.
GOAL! Gray has finally come good!
1-1!
A real striker's opportunist moment there and a real howler for the Boro keeper Konstantinopoulos, who came rushing out of goal but was tackled by Gray who coolly slotted home from an acute angle.
Oh - Gray was onto one again and jinked inside but then fire over. Should have hit the target there once he'd done all the hard work.
Bamford went over Dean's leg in the box. Great tackle. This Bamford bloke is a cheating little bastard. He should have been booked a couple of times for simulation.
Twenty minutes left to sort all of this out tonight.
Lee Tomlin is wisely being withdrawn at this point - he was pushing the ref's buttons.
Forshaw on now for the goalscorer Vossen. Both sides seem rather pleased with a draw at this point.
And Forshaw is immediately into the book, the 6th Boro player into the book.
Brentford free kick now - could be useful for Pritchard. But no - straight into the wall. Deserved better.
Kike on for Bamford, who has been disappointing tonight. If he thinks he's going to get a big money move out of this season, he's got another thing coming.
One last corner for Boro now.
GOAL! Boro finish with a final flourish! Amorebietta, the second half sub, lashes one in with his left peg.
1-2 Boro!
That should just about do it for Boro - I can't imagine Brentford coming back from this scoreline in the second leg at the Riverside next week.
Oh - a ball whipped across the face of the Boro goal. No one there to touch it home.
That's it - advantage Boro going into the second leg now.
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