Page 9 - Raynes Park Vale vs Beckenham Town 18-04-22

Match Report

RAYNES PARK VALE 0

BALHAM 4

CCL • Saturday 2nd of April 2022 • Grand Drive, Raynes Park SW20

players and bench when, having capably snuffed out Vale’s Plan A as if
it were a candle on a 6 year-old’s birthday cake Raynes Park responded
with...nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Rien. If there was a Plan B then clearly
No, do not adjust your sets. That someone had forgotten to pass on the news to the team, because as
really was the scoreline in a match Balham feasted, wide-eyed like kids in an unattended sweet-shop at
that can only be expained by the goodies just waiting to be pinched from the Vale Pick ‘n' Mix the
some kind of collective meltdown home team looked lost and bewildered by the sudden requirement to
in SW20. RPV have played some play football. For a match like this the blow-by-blow account is almost
sublime football this season and irrelevant when it can be summed up as: Balham came, they saw, they
have had some remarkable results damn well conquered and they are probably still grinning at just how
and have played with agusto and easy this win was for them. Let’s be honest Vale's romp up the table
style that few would recognize has been wonderful and we all knew that dreams of promotion were
from a few seasons ago. However, wishful thinking but, as the season rolled on it started to look like it
this was a game devoid of flair, of could be done and we know that in 22/23 we won’t be just dreaming of
ambition, of imagination. One can promotion we will be fighting for it with every game but, when we look
only wonder at what was going back at this season this match against Balham will stand out as a stark
through the minds of the Balham reminder of why we will be enjoying another season in the CCL...
Continued...