Arrived back home a short while ago. What a brilliant afternoon!!
An excellent display by the players out on the pitch, and fantastic noisy support from the supporters on the terraces and in the stand. The away end terracing was much more populated than the home end that's for sure.
We played with the wind in the first half, and often our forward balls were sailing off the pitch. Fylde probably shaded that first half, but goodness me, we dominated the second.
Everyone was just simply superb – although Marcus Dewhurst had hardly anything to do in the entire second half. Connor Dimaio slotted straight back into the team and ran his socks off – as they all did. We were so much on top that the AFC Fylde Man-Of-The-Match was their goalkeeper!! Well-deserved as he did make two particularly fine saves at 0-0, and none of their outfield players shone out as they simply weren’t allowed to.
And AFC Fylde showed their sportsmanship (not) at the final whistle with their matchday announcer. No congratulating us on the win, just ‘We’ll be back’ and then coming out with ‘It's time you all went home’ as our supporters and players celebrated together on the pitch!! He was duly ignored!! LOL!!