Kentish Football 
Lordswood 1-5 Pagham - Lillis looking for a response after FA Cup exit
Saturday 14th August 2010
LORDSWOOD 1-5 PAGHAM
FA Cup (Sponsored by E.ON) Extra Preliminary Round
Saturday 14th August 2010
Mike Green reports from Martyn Grove
LORDSWOOD’S FA Cup dream ended in a miserable fashion as a dire defensive display saw them ship five goals after taking the lead and a performance that left Lords boss Jason Lillis visibly clearly shell shocked after the game.
LORDSWOOD’S FA Cup dream ended in a miserable fashion as a dire defensive display saw them ship five goals after taking the lead and a performance that left Lords boss Jason Lillis visibly clearly shell shocked after the game.
Lillis, when asked by www.kentishfootball.co.uk for his thoughts on the game simply shrugged his shoulders and asked, ”where do I start after a display like that? Before we scored we could have had a couple of others and anyone who saw the first half will ask how we went in 3-1 down. We should have been 3-1 up!!!” He added in total disbelief!
“Second half was a different story and we really didn’t get going, but one of the real disappointing things as far as I’m concerned is that we warned the boys about their little striker – John (Guest) and I had seen just how good he was and we laid it on the line for our boys, but was he was simply too good for us, or did we lay off him too much. I just don’t know – all I do know is that I hate losing like that especially in the FA Cup, and now I’ll really be looking for a response.”
The game stared with Pagham having the first chance when in the first minute a corner to the back post saw Steven Boston head just over the bar but after that Lordswood dominated for the next 20 minutes.
A fourth minute corner to the back post saw Chris Eather head back across goal which was headed just past the post by a Pagham defender James Misslebrook.
Two minutes later another corner to the back post saw Wes Hammond’s header back across goal flicked just past the post by Danny Cook, before in the 15th minute Lordswood took a deserved lead when Jamie Humphris on the left saw his low cross evade everyone except Matt McHugh on the far post and he stroked the ball home.
Suddenly the game changed as Lordswood seemed to “stop” playing and Pagham got back into the game and it was no surprise when they equalised in the 24th minute when a cross into the area was met by George Gaskin’s bullet header beating former Sevenoaks Town goalkeeper Sean Funnell.
In the 33rd minute Pagham took the lead when a ball forward saw Michael Fangou fire past Funnell at his near post from 20 yards for a goal that the keeper will surely think he should have done better.
Worse though was to follow for Funnell but before that the keeper denied Misslebrook from making it three one with a shot from the edge of the box.
That was as good as it got for the Lords keeper however as on 39 minutes, Pagham scored their third in bizarre fashion as first Dexley Fidyk inexplicably lost possession only for Chris Eather to come sliding in only to see Funnell’s clearance from the back pass cannon into the Lordswood net off the onrushing Scott Murfin and into the net.
At half time the Lordswood players received the hairdryer approach from messers Lillis and Guest as they were now playing for pride, but in the 51st minute a Darren Pearce free kick into Fangou 15 yards out saw the lively striker fouled by Eather and Fangou brushed himself down to shoot straight down the middle beating Funnell all ends up.
In the 57th minute Lordswood nearly got a goal back when the hardworking Peter Huggins saw his back post header cleared off the line and the rebound straight into the arms of a grateful keeper.
Huggins was then denied again by a second goal line clearance before a quarter of an hour from time, more dreadful defending presented Fangou his hat trick.
A routine corner caused mayhem in the Lords box, and the Pagham number ten turned and shot through the corwd past an unsighted Funnell and into the bottom corner.
Pagham return to Kent in a fortnight for the next round, and somehow I think that Justin Luchford’s Faversham Town will cause them a few more problems than Lordswood did. For messers Lillis and Guest, it’s back to the drawing board.
Lordswood: Sean Funnell, Dex Fidyk, Adam Hooper, Chris Eather, Wes Hammond, Danny Cook, Matt McHugh (Martin Taylor 70), Peter Huggins, Dominic Elmes, Sam Morrison (Rob Norman 46), Jamie Humphris.
Subs: Imran Englefield, Andy Forster, Marc Morrison, Luke Wallond, Matt Byott.
Goal: Matt McHugh 15
Pagham: Wesley Hallett, James Misslebrook, Andy Weir, Darren Pearce, Steve Boston, Joe Booker, George Gaskin, Neil Murfin (Ruben Francis 68), Scott Murfin, Michael Frangou (Lee Bradshaw 78), Alex Kew (Greg Robbin 71).
Subs: Dan Simmonds, Jack Williamson, Michael Rudway.
Goals: George Gaskin 24, Michael Frangou 33, 51, 75, Scott Murfin 40
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