It was a howling gale, and a howler of a performance, writes Scott Ferguson
Started badly, got worse, second half (with the wind) was an improvement but ultimately nothing on the scoreboard. That certainly wasn't the Kenley side which is sitting mid-table in this league.
Losing our central midfield this week made a much stronger impact than expected, with Martin & Reuben both out, we got run around all over the pitch. A faster surface does not mean players should be further apart, it means you run even more, both on and off the ball. Too many gaps between the lines made it harder to find targets on free hits especially.
Bank of England (1) 4 7 Cheam (1)
The Cheam heroes turned up to the final league game before Christmas in a reasonable mid-table position, writes Omar Shibli.
ot quite where we would have liked to be, and possibly we could (and should) have been higher, but for drawing a number of games from winning positions. But all in all, with the number of injuries and absentees in the first half of the season, and considering we had just been promoted, mid-table was not a bad start to build on. Last week Cheam had an abberation against bottom of the pile Barnes 2s, drawing 1-1 after a dismal display, so we were hoping for a good bounce-back performance to take us into Christmas.
Cheam were buoyed early on by the sight of the Gault brothers.
This game showed up Cheam M1s Jekyll and Hyde (or Santa and Grinch?) nature. Periods of the game played extremely well, in which we passed well, played with pace and punished the Bank squad. However, at other times we held the ball too long, tried to play up the same channels and, of course, conceded four goals in bizarre fashion - all from short corners, but none particularly great!
Still, seven goals scored by Cheam secured a reasonably comfortable three points.
The team rose a couple of places in the division with this result to finish the first half of the season in 5th place.