Burgh 2 Good For RGU

Edinburgh University 2s football team showed once again why they are indisputably the best university second team throughout the whole of Scotland. A three hour trip awaited the men before they could get off the coach to face their opponents, the RGU 1st team, on their 3G pitch up in Aberdeen. However, the travelling did not affect the visitor’s legs as they cruised to a comfortable 2-0 victory over their northeast hosts.
Burgh kicked off on an unusually warm day in their customary green, whereas RGU donned a rather horrible purple outfit, with the only thing more disgusting on the pitch being the RGU keeper. Yet, Burgh were not put off by either eye-sore as they settled down into their competent passing game, aided by the excellent match surface. The away side dominated their more cumbersome opposition and it felt like only a matter of time before they converted a chance into a goal.
A matter of time later and Jordan Roberts found himself with the ball at his feet just over the halfway line on the right. Calum Erskine, who had felt the abuse of the keeper’s incomprehensible rants the most, pulled a couple of yards off the back of the centre-back whom was attempting to mark him. Roberts provided an exquisite cross that looped over the head of the stranded defender to find the chest of Erskine, who brought the ball down and placed the ball, on the bounce, into the top right-hand corner of the net. The close control and finish was simply beautiful.
15 minutes later and the well-tempered game turned nasty. Burgh knocked the ball forward to an offside Scott Macfarlane, who left the ball, continuing his walk back towards his own goal. The RGU defence stopped waiting for the whistle which never came, and a quick thinking, onside Mario Velez capitalised on their combined loss of concentration to latch onto the ball, beating the out-rushing keeper. Velez controlled the ball but found himself with his back to goal, with the RGU keeper marshalling him away. However, the keeper then saw it necessary to trip the striker up, before proceeding to stamp, deliberately, two-footed onto the fallen striker’s back, in an incident with as much brutality as Michael Ball when he stamped on Ronaldo. Velez then got up, and in an image that mirrored Floyd Mayweather v Ricky Hatton, hooked the keeper in the face. The American did later regret his actions and it was a scene that should never appear on a football pitch, however the RGU keeper’s action was equally ugly and totally unprovoked. Despite all this the referee saw fit only to give yellow cards, both being lucky to remain on the pitch.
Edinburgh came out fighting in the second half and Alex Maxwell went on a Paulo Wanchope like run, with his long legs galloping away from the RGU midfield, passing the ball to himself around the defence before rounding the keeper, only to be tackled by a back-tracking RGU player with the goal at his mercy.
Yet, it was not long before Maxwell turned provider as his running capabilities allowed him to torment the defence, providing gaps which he duly exploited with a cutting pass to Macfarlane. The winger showed great composure to once again round the keeper, but this time no defender could prevent the inevitable as he calmly placed the ball into the net to put the away side 2-0 up.
Kyle O’Neill and Benji Antoni came on, but neither could finish the game off completely and Jamie Sime replaced Dave Meehan to sure things up in midfield. However, with Tom Archer and Darren Leslie both on top form RGU never stood a chance. The pair had formed an excellent defensive partnership and was more than equal to whatever the home side could throw at them. Archer produced some fine last-second challenges to keep RGU at bay, whilst both players attacked anything in the air with both great accuracy and venom.
So, Edinburgh left the field with a comprehensive 2-0 victory which leaves them top of the table once again. With the players leaving Aberdeen with the knowledge that they had gained a valuable 3 points, were all in fancy dress, full to the brim with McDonalds, ready for an epic club social that evening and that next Wednesday’s fixture list showed that they were to play RGU 2’s in Aberdeen next week…