| Strathclyde Saturday Morning AFL:Division 1 | |
| 28th May 2005 Barlia Sports Complex |
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| Windlaw AFC | 1 |
| K.McCann | |
| Greenhills Dynamo | 2 |
Team: Lunny, McCabe, Thornton, Z.Dougall, McInally, Kearney, W.Wilson (Taylor), Neeson, K.McCann (Tierney), Murphy, Carey (McCaig) |
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Windlaw lost their unbeaten home league record in our final league game as a Greenhills side still chasing Vale for the title got the win they needed to give them a possible but unlikely chance of overhauling Vale Utd for the title on goal difference. Having won at Barlia in the Strathclyde Cup some weeks ago, this victory completed a memorable double for the East Kilbride side at Barlia this season.
After Tuesday's heartbreak against Vale rendered this fixture pretty meaningless in terms of their league position, Windlaw unlike other sides, kept the spirit of fair challenge intact and produced a competitive performance nevertheless.
From Tuesday's game, Benny Carey and debutant Stephen Murphy replaced Eck McCaig and Scott Williamson upfront and on the bench Thomas Taylor and Bruce Tierney replaced Martin Docherty and Jim Currie. Like Tuesday Windlaw began well and opened the scoring early with a Kevin McCann penalty after Murphy was brought down in the box by Greenhills last defender. The challenge merited a red card but inexplicably referee Dougie Anderson produced a yellow. McCann fired to the keeper's left and made himself joint top goalscorer for the season on 17 with Scott Williamson. Greenhills responded well and their slick one touch passing from midfield proved too much for Windlaw at times. The equaliser came after around 25 minutes when a cutback to the edge of the Windlaw box was gleefully rammed home by one of a queue of Greenhills players.
Half Time: Windlaw 1 Greenhills Dynamo 1
Windlaw began to take control after the break. Taylor's introduction sparked a livelier passing performance and Kevin McCann forced Greenhills keeper Whyte into a wonder save when he touched over McCann's fizzing shot while for Greenhills, Cullie hit the post with a header when he should have scored. With five minutes to go, Greenhills got the winner. The goal was a carbon copy of their opener with Donnelly's cross being converted from the edge of the box. The game ended a couple of minutes earlier than scheduled in controversy. A Greenhills substitutes' atrocious high challenge on John Lunny resulted in a melee that apparently shouldn't have happened, as the boy was still in nappies!
Nappies was probably a good way to describe this pretty s**tty Windlaw performance in the end though.
