The trip to Ossett began in the "Commercial" around 1130 - now only keg available, so I took advantage of my new-found love for Guinness !! A train to Huddersfield, a train to Dewsbury, and into the "West Riding Refreshment Rooms" where Anglo-Dutch Best Bitter was the order of the day. Met the York Branch, now fourteen of us, so we commandeered three taxis for the short hop to Ossett.
All thoughts of a third consecutive win went out of the window very early on as Mossley were put under a lot of pressure - some good work by 'keeper Trueman and some abysmal finishing from the Ossett front-line kept the score at 0-0 for all of 23 minutes when (same old story) an attack down the Ossett right saw the ball put across for Fothergill to make it 1-0. More sitters were missed, before Ryan made it 2-0 just before half-time. And that was Mossley playing downhill, with the wind !
Atmosphere in club at half-time - grim.
Not much different in the second half until - a lifeline - Ossett's Kirk Wheeler was sent off. Mossley finally found that missing gear, and it was attack, attack, attack.
Some "synchronised crawling" in the Ossett penalty box.
On 72 minutes a cross from Lee Shillito was met by James Turley to make it 2-1 and soon afterwards Craig Furnival got up in the box to volley home an undeserved equaliser.
Turley makes it 2-1.
Furnival makes it 2-2 and Topsy "goes wild" (far right)
"Can I take this throw ?" says Pilks - "Niet" says the ref...
That'll do we thought - snatch something from nothing. But then with just a few minutes remaining, left-back Rob Edwards went "walkabout" in the centre circle - Chris Ward covering back put in a well-timed tackle - the Roger Dilkes "lookalike" referee gave a penalty - which Fothergill converted to make it 3-2. The players and fans were not best pleased.....and at full-time all hell was let loose with the Mossley players surrounding referee Wilson - and not to enquire about his cat ! In the ensuing melee, with whistle blazing, he brandished two more red cards for Melford Knight and Chris Ward - Ok it was the one red card used twice, but the damage had already been done. Osset should have been out of sight by half-time anyway.
Atmosphere in club at full-time - unprintable.
Hey bloody ho - back to Dewsbury for a snifter, train to Huddersfield, just under an hour in the "Head of Steam" before returning to Mossley and more beer in the "Britannia" - then home to sulk and sleep.
"Win or lose...." Mossley take over the bar at the "Head of Steam" on Huddersfield station !
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