Colne v AFC Liverpool, 22nd November 2014


This post looks back to a league trip to Colne in 2014, which was the weekend after a special Liverpool Senior Cup fixture against Everton.

Along with the rest of the AFC congregation, I was on a high following our midweek victory over Everton in the Liverpool Senior Cup. 
I hadn't had much time over the previous few days to read the Everton matchday programme.  I had planned to use the hour long train journey between Preston and Colne to catch up on that reading.  Unfortunately, I had not reckoned on Blackburn v Leeds in the Championship.  That meant there were fans of both teams on the train for the first 25 minutes of that journey, especially the Lancashire side.
This was the second occasion in which I had personally done the trip to Colne, and I was shall we say overconfident of finding my way to the ground from my recollection of my previous visit.  Subsequently, I got lost a bit, and the internet on my phone was not helping to get me back on track towards the right direction. 
After asking a few locals, I did belatedly find my way to the Holt House Stadium, with the match about 5 minutes old. As I entered the ground, the fella on the gate appeared to be telling another latecomer that Colne should have been in the lead. 
It was a first half in which we hardly got out of our own half.  That said, Colne didn't exactly create too much either.  That was until the home side took the lead in first half injury time. 
After speaking to a few of our fans during the interval who were stood by the opposite side of the pitch to myself, one of their players was apparently clearly offside in the build up to the goal.  Manager Paul Moore was especially unhappy with that decision.
Our best first half move had seen Carl Peers turn a man about 20 yards out, before getting caught.  The perpetrator (who I think was their skipper) went into the book.  The resulting freekick was skied. 
After the break, we were playing downhill, and were showing more purpose in attacking the Colne goal, with their keeper being worked a bit.  A good move resulted in a Franny Barry shot being cleared off the line. Franny was Skipper for the day, to mark his 100th appearance.
We were on top, and more likely to score the crucial second goal of the game when Jack Sinnott lost the ball in midfield.  They broke to make it 2-0, and the stuffing was knocked out of us.  Subsequently, we went down to what I believe was our first defeat at Holt House. 

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