Sunday 3rd October 2010
Chesterfield FC v Crewe Alexandra, B2Net Staidum, 02/10/10
Saturday's match was equal to something, well something that Saltergate would have thrown at us - the Home side getting battered in the first half and then coming out all guns blazing in the second.
It was a game Hollywood would be interested in or at least some low budget football movie that could go straight to DVD. In that flick, we would have a hit - there was no need for a winner, football and lovely passing football were the winners.
The downside of it all was that both defences seemed to have just one of those days. Chesterfield were forced into a tactical change midway through the first half when Ian Breckin was replaced by young 18 year old, Nottingham born, midfielder Craig Clay. Clay was captain of the Youth Team last season and had won the Championship with Dave Bentley's charges the season before. What a game Clay was to have.
Chesterfield coming from 3 down managed to force a goal back through Jack Lester but then gave the schoolboy error of conceding almost immediately to cap off a miserable first half. Words must have been spoken in both dressing rooms at half time, some pleasant some not.
The amazing thing about this match was that the Spireites only started their recovery midway through the second half by grabbing two goals back. Most supporters would have been thinking the worst, as the time wasn’t on their sides. Jack Lester and Danny Whitaker grabbed goals back that gave the Chesterfield supporters hope and encouragement.
The drama nearly reached an end though when Crewe pulled a goal back moments after Chesterfield had made it 4-3. You noticed a tinge of sadness around the ground that that may have been the end of the fight back. Not this side though, they rolled their sleeves up and gave it one last shot (well several actually but you get my point).
It was Clay though who won all the plaudits, his bustling run won the second penalty that was taken and scored by Whitaker and it was Clay's goal deep into stoppage time which saw the B2net celebrate it's first Spireite comeback.
People couldn't believe it! Saltergate never had a 5-5 draw, the B2net has had its first.
By Paul Fisher
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