St Silas vs Burnside

Good news for all St Silas supporters: The game on Saturday 3rd March finished 3-2 to St Silas and the match report is only a day late!!!

The game was played on a dodgy astro turf pitch in Easterhouse, Glasgow. St Silas took an early lead through John Wood. Quickly afterwards Frank Brodie finished superbly after a trade mark Alan Dock cross, giving Silas a second. Much to Burnside's credit they started to come back into the game more and more with good passing and moving from the defence through to the strikers which St Silas couldn't deal with. Their good pressure should have been rewarded when a header crossed the line but the woeful ref didn't give it.

The second half started like the first ended, with St Silas on the back foot to Burnside's good passing play. Slightly against the run of play John escaped from the ref's strange offside decision to slot the third past the goal keeper. Burnside kept the pressure up forcing MOM Derick to pull off an number of fantastic saves! Frank then got himself sent off for two yellow cards which gave Burnside even more chance to test Derick. Towards the end of the game the ref gave a penalty which was rather ludicrous: 3-1. Then a Burnside cross found the head of an attacker: 3-2, which was no less than Burnside deserved for their performance.

Over all it Silas where lucky to go away with all three points, all credit to Burnside. In the last two weeks we have been shown up defensibly (as a team) when playing against teams who can keep the ball well. Though, to steal an over used football saying, "Its the sign of champions when you win when you don't play well"......Next week Silas take on CEC2 in the first round of the Cup!