Bishop Cleeve A sealed a record sixth Junior Charity Cup against Southside Star with a 7-6 win in penalties in the final at Kayte Lane. This win moves them above Andoversford F.C. who hold five
Cleeve A faced off against Southside twice in the league the first meeting ended in a 6-2 win for Cleeve with goals coming from Aaron Singleton, Ciaran Bowden and a brace for Bradley Edwards and Ben Hailwood while Southside’s Ryan Brady and Samuel Ryder-Jones.
The second meeting at home for Southside star ended 1-1 with goals from Ryan Brady for Southside and Bradley Edwards for Cleeve, this result seeming more like the side in the final as joint manager at Cleeve Joe Woolley said “We beat them once.
“We have drawn with them as well and the game we drew against them earlier in the season that’s the Southside Star we faced today, they do not stop, they do not stop plugging away.”
When Cleeve A and South end meet it always produces a spectacle so its no surprise the Junior Charity Cup final followed that recipe with Cleeve thinking they claimed it after Charlie Shore-Nye spotted the Southside keeper off his line and shot from the halfway line and scoring, but not to be out done Southside responded with Jacob Webb who scored a out of this world bicycle kick to send to penalties.
Woolley spoke about Shore-Nye “Charlie is always capable of a goal like that; we were actually talking about subs five minutes and we were talking about bringing Charlie off for someone else.
“We said the problem with Charlie is he has got that one second of quality and there we go, as soon as we saw at half time that they changed their keeper we said take shots and Charlie has just taken that one.”
After super goals it was time for penalties and Cleeve came out on top Woolley spoke about his sides penalties “When it comes to penalties, let the men on the pitch decide.
“We did have our first 8 penalties planned but that did change slightly then when our goalkeeper decided to take one himself but no, as soon as it gets to sudden death, I can’t watch at that point it comes down to a bit of luck, you pick your spot and hope.”
With the cup record passed and now holding the most Junior Charity Cup’s, a long journey from 1935 when the first cup was won as Bishop Cleeve II now today Woolley isn’t satisfied with just winning the cup.
“As lovely as tonight is we know as a group of footballers and coaching staff that we have not done well enough in the league and this team and this club deserves to be promoted.
“We will soak this up and enjoy it but the bottom line is next year we have to go again and we have to be better than last year.”
