Saturday 16th October 1982
Midland Combination Challenge Cup
Mile Oak Rovers 3 v 0 Coleshill Town
Team: Burrows, Russell, Hemming. Confirmed. From: Collins, P. Garnell, Mark Bishop, Keith Shrimpton, John Gardner, R.Gordon, Bob Dyer, Brian Jordan, Barry Tempest, Steve Polack, A.Hanson, A. McGuire.
Manager Colin Holder.
TAMWORTH HERALD WROTE
Unsettled Oak Take Their Time - But They're Safe
Mile Oak Rovers manager Bob Batt found himself in the unusual position of substitute for Saturday's Challenge Cup game against local rivals Coleshill Town. This situation arose due to the very late arrival of one player and the departure for home a half hour from kick off for full back Graham Shirley due to a family crisis. The changes had an unsettling effect on the Oak team in the early stages and were lucky not to go behind when first striker Burrows and then Russell found holes in the home defence and fired in good shots that keeper Mobley had to be at his best to keep out. After 25 minutes Mile Oak started to get into their stride and Colin Robinson had a good long range shot go just the wrong side of the post. Two minutes later Oak took the lead, Colin Robinson lost his marker and raced down the right flank, his cross eluded the goalkeeper and fell to defender Hemming who tried to clear the ball, but Roger Taylor raced in to fire in a low drive in to the corner of the net. The strong swirling wind made good football very difficult with the ball bouncing about in a midfield battle with few goalscoring chances, but what chances were available Oak made the best of them increasing their lead midway through the second half when Roger Taylor ran on to a poor back pass, dummied the ball past the keeper and drove the ball into an empty net for a fine opportunist goal. Mile Oak had the ball in the net five minutes later following good work by Selwyn Brewster, Robinson hammered the ball home only to have it disallowed for a player on the wing standing in an off side position. Not to be daunted Colin Robinson down the left flank beat the full back before firing in a low hard centre, Roger Taylor stepped over the ball wrong footing the defence for John Birkenhead to shoot into the top corner of the goal, to give Mile Oak a comfortable passage into the next round of the Challenge Cup.
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