When Scotland came to York St.

Boston United vs Corby Town


Corby Town are Boston's closest rivals in this league, geographically speaking at least.  It's not surprising then that seventy to eighty noisy Scotsmen in varying stages of inebriation, made their way to join around 1200 Bostonians in a very cold and decidedly damp south-east Lincolnshire.  A United win over the Steelmen would send us back to the top of the league, at least until Alfreton play their next game.  Spencer Weir-Daley came back into the starting line-up as Yates dropped to the bench and Newsham was pushed out wide.  The previous meeting between the clubs finished as a hard fought 0-0 at the Rockingham Triangle.

Boston on the defensive in front of the Town End.

The inclusion of Weir-Daley nearly paid-off immediately when the Corby 'keeper had to be on his toes to block a fine shot on target inside forty seconds and Davidson's shot from the rebound was deflected wide; a lucky escape for Town.  Boston were on top and pressed forward looking for that elusive goal.  Chances were few and far between though, with the only real threat to the away goal coming from some excellent Ryan Semple crosses to the back post.  That said, Corby were looking even less likely to score having only one real effort on goal from a free kick which McKeown saved with ease.

Half-time saw the usual parading of a United legend, this time out was 31 year old Mark Rawle who made 65 appearances for the Pilgrims scoring a total of 33 goals in the process before being transferred to Southend in 2001 for a then record £60,000.  I know for a fact that this guy was responsible for getting a lot of people my age interested in watching United.  LEGEND.

Corby flew out of the blocks in the second half and only some good defending and bodies thrown in the way preserved Boston's chances of extending the amazing run of clean sheets to ten games.  Danny Davidson had been replaced by Mikel Suarez at half time and Suarez was doing a fantastic job of holding the ball up and bringing others into the game, nice to see Mikel fit and back in contention.  The real change for Boston came when Newsham was sacrificed for Miles Hunter.  Weir-Daley slotted back onto the wing and Semple switched sides as Hunter went to play off Suarez.

York St under floodlights: awesome.

The change in personnel immediately gave the team a balance which was previously missing and it allowed Church and Sleath to push up in the middle of the park giving the Pilgrims some much needed creativity.  This change paid off as minutes later Hunter used his blistering pace to get on the end of a Jelleyman cross and loop a header home over the Town 'keeper.  Boston were rampant and could have added one or two more in the last quarter of an hour with Suarez, Weir-Daley and Semple all going close.  As it was it ended 1-0, Boston are top and haven't conceded a goal in 918 minutes of football having played nine away games to only six at home.  Not bad, not bad at all...

Next up: Boston travel to Droylsden in the B.S.B. Conference North.