Airbus UK Broughton Football Club
The Wingmakers - Match Report 2009/10

Once we'd done with explaining the intricacies of serving bottle-conditioned beer to the lady in the organic cafe/shop, got over the shameful shock of The Buck being turned into a private residence and fighting our way through an extremely ropey pint at the changed-hands Unicorn, it was nice to settle down and witness the 'Bus turn over an extremely poor Caersws side heading inexorably for the Cymru Alliance.

 

Airbus set about the rout straight away and the wonder was that it was only 1-0 at half time. Carl Owen forced Dave Jones to tip over and the goal arrived just after, somewhat bizarrely, as it seemed to bounce off at least one Bluebird & Jiws via the 'keeper before landing in the net; they all count. Airbus then had an appeal for a penalty for handball turned down as the seemingly inevitable second was eagerly awaited. Ashley Williams put one just over and man-of-the -match Danny Desormeaux had Jones pulling off a fantastic one-handed save onto the post, his follow-up being charged down & away.

 

Into the second half and the onslaught continued. Ashley had a fine left-footer saved at the second attempt. A couple of minutes later Carl Owen rode a challenge and ran in, tapped it to Dessie to tap in past a static Jones. Just after and Carl Owen got one himself, racing onto a through ball to tuck in for number three. He nearly got a second ten minutes later, from a Cook cross his shot taking a deflection and dropping just over. Number four arrived courtesy of Desormeaux again, the ball bouncing around, deflecting off Jones and finally falling to Dessie to loop a header into the net. Mark Lloyd-Williams must have felt a bit put out by now, only having got his name on the score sheet once but Jack Abraham gave him a golden chance for another just a couple of yards out with some skillful play, slipping the ball into the dead-eye marksman's path for a tap-in only for it to whizz  under his boot & skip out for a goal kick. Then came Danny Desormeaux's chance of a moment of history; a penalty to become the first Airbus player to score a hat-trick in the Welsh Premier. It wasn't going to be today, however, the giant Jones diving to his right for a good parrying save, leaving Dessie with just a pained expression. Nobody really minded except normal penalty-taker Ryan Edwards' dad and at the final whistle, with little decent beer in the village apart from the excellent Red Lion, it was a quick dash to the station for some happy celebratory boozing in Newtown & Welshpool on the way back.