"Mango's Mouth"

Enjoyable FA Vase game at Ironmould Lane today, rain one minute & sun the next, but as the score suggests, it was a comfortable home win for Brizz.

The goals came on 6, 21, 30, 47, 70, 75, 77 & 78 minutes, but fortunately for Cornish side Porthleven, from the SW Peninsula league, there were no further goals afterwards when it seemed highly likely that there might be! Brizz played some nice stuff at times, with some good approach play and some of the goals were from well-worked moves, as well as one which came from a very high right-wing cross/drop kick which somehow eluded the Porthleven keeper to bounce into the net over his head!

Brizz, pretty much, were always in command though. Porthleven rarely troubled the home goal, especially in the first half, but at 4-0 down, they came into the game more, both sides hitting the bar at one stage, but the 5th goal wrapped up the win and quickly opened the flood gates for another 3 goals in quick succession.

The visitors had a number of supporters with them on the team bus, who will have gone home very disappointed tonight, but they can feel proud of their boys in the yellow and black, even though from about 2-0 onwards, it always looked like a home win. At all times during the game, Porthleven continued to try & play some decent football. They never resorted to any rough stuff, never did any bad tackles, never argued with the officials and they played the game in the right spirit for all the 90 minutes - unlike that rabble we had at Cossham Street the other night (and I see they got stuffed 6-1 today at Wimborne Town as well, in another Vase tie. What a shame.)

So well done Brislington, a very good performance indeed and some great goals. Hope they get a decent draw in the next round of the Vase - and well done Porthleven, for never giving up and for continuing to play in the right spririt even when it was clear they were going to lose heavily. Hope they do well for the rest of their season.