Boy, Missing

Chesterfield 5 Crewe 5

Well, I'll be honest. I wasn't there. Had planned to go but a family get-together knackered my plans. Possibly could have made it had I had a jet plane or teleporter available in order to get back from Chesterfield in time. Sadly, I can afford neither.
Made do instead with going to watch Nantwich Town at home to Kendal in the Evo-Stik Premier League (the league formerly known as the Northern Premier League). I could at least pretend it was a scouting mission of sorts, as Crewe's Jordan Connerton turned out for his first appearance in a month-long loan spell at Nantwich. It didn't take him long to make an impact, playing the ball into acres of space on the edge of the area for Blackhurst to run on to and smash into the bottom left-hand corner of the net. Minutes later there was a moment of magic from former Crewe winger, Rodney Jack as he took on several defenders before slotting home Nantwich's second. In the meantime news was filtering through from some old Alex boys, glued to their radios, that Crewe were two up at Chesterfield. That soon went to 3, and in some kind of spooky response, Nantwich added a third.themselves as Connerton again laid the ball into space for Carr to lash home. Nantwich added a fourth from a corner, when the keeper flapped at it and Lennon poked home from close range. meantime oer in Chesterfield, the home side had pulled one back before Crewe restored their lead. and Kendal finally got on the score sheet at the Dabberdome.
Both games hit half time with scorelines of 4-1, as if Nantwich and Crewe were competing to see who could score the most. Sadly, that's where the similarities ended. Nantwich soon added a fifth and the game was as good as over. There was still time for a nervy last quarter of an hour after Nantwich's normally reliable keeper, Chapman, misjudged one at the far post and then Tickle slammed a low cross into his own net to make the score 5-3. Over in Chesterfield, Crewe were making a right pig's ear of it and started to crumble under constant Chesterfield pressure. A second Chesterfield goal and then a third from the penalty spot had the alarm bells ringing. Normal service appeared to be resumed when Donaldson notched a fifth for the Alex, but there was still time enough for Chesterfield to get a second penalty and then grab an unlikely equaliser to draw the game five apiece. Unbelievable, Jeff! As someone once said.
Let's hope we're a bit better defensively at home to Torquay this weekend. The Gulls haven't won since storming to the top of the league in August. Shit. Think I might just have jinxed it!