The Hearts heroes tried to fool Holmesfield before
the last game of the season by moving the pitch to the HSBC sports ground, but to no avail. Indeed the Hearts didn’t
even manage to fool the bumper crowd that turned up to watch the match. The game had added spice which saw Holmesfield needing
all 3 points to secure promotion, with the Chapleltown team on the sidelines waiting for Holmesfield to slip up, there was
extra pressure on the Hearts to perform.
Taylor
was almost late for kick-off taking 16 attempts to park the smallest car in the world in a space the size of an international
swimming pool with turning circles that could have been mastered by Stace in the 18 yard box.
Again
for the 17th billion time this season there were sweeping changes to the Hearts line-up, seeing Big Nev back in
goal, Manager Linnell fancied a run at full back in place of the delayed Danny Wooffinden who over ran his shower time. Thompson
replaced the N64 who turned up at Aurora (late). Ryan Taylor got a start in midfield for the absent Danny Connelly, while
Micky Kay started up front with Cartridge after Bum announced he was still too busy with his election (erection) campaign.
Hearts
got off to a flyer with 2 quick goals from their forwards, Mick K from an acute angle after rounding the keeper and Cartridge
lifted the ball over the advancing keeper from a Taylor through ball for his 32nd of the season. By now the crowd
were in raptures singing Cartridge’s name time and time again, the ‘Anfield-like’ support obviously got
to the Hearts players who began showing signs of lacking composure whilst in possession, by half time the visitors had got
a grip on the game and took a 3-2 lead aided by some sloppy (seconds for Wes) Hearts defending.
Half
time: Hearts 2 HWR 3
Only
Holmesfield and Mark Thompson turned up for the second half and they scored 2 more goals .Thompson finding the bottom corner
with a fine diving header, it was only after his Lua-Lua goal celebration that someone pointed out to the ‘Playa’
that he’d scored at the wrong end. The result secured promotion for the visitors and Hearts just missed out on a European
place by 11 league tables and the fact they play on Sundays didn’t help their chances much either.
Full
Time : Hearts 2 Holmesfield 5
Sacred Heart : Stacey, Linnell (Wooffinden), Slocombe,
Thompson, Hilton, Belk, White, Oliver, Taylor Cartridge (Cutts), Kay All Subs used and Abused.
Sacred Heart team missing: Whitby, Yosemite Sam, Ntiedu,
Dearns, Johnson, Connelly, Merrill, France, Wylie, Andresson, Bum, Aspinall
Holmesfield : No team sheet
handed into Goals on Monday Team
Hearts
2004-05 Season’s Interesting Facts
4
Managers took charge at certain times through the season, Linnell, Stacey, Cartridge and Taylor. Only Cartridge maintained
a 100% record, albeit for only 2 games.
The
Hearts only did the league double over 2 teams in the season, Southey Social and York Hotel.
Hearts
used 7 different keepers during the season, Bailey, Stacey, Cutts, Whitby, Cartridge, Thompson and Belk.
Hearts
used 29 different players during the season, 12 of whom made their debuts, 2 people have left (but only 1 of them knows about
it)
3
Ex-hearts players played against their old team this season – all 3 scored goals against the Hearts, Brooksbank, Simpson
(Boo-hiss) and O’Leary.
