IT WAS THE FIRST TIME BOTH
SIDES HAD EVER MET AND WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT AS DROITWICH
SPA TOOK THE HONOURS IN A WOEFUL DROITWICH DERBY THANKS TO
A FIRST HALF PENALTY FROM STEVE PITT.
IN WHAT WAS BILLED AS A
BLOOD AND THUNDER LOCAL DERBY SOMEONE HAD FORGOTTEN TO
INFORM BOTH SIDES IN A TAME FIRST HALF IN WHICH STEVE
PITTS PENALTY WAS THE DIFFERENCE AFTER RICHARD TREDWELL
HAD PULLED DOWN JUSTIN ELVINS.
IT WAS MUCH THE SAME STORY
IN THE SECOND PERIOD UNTIL THE INTRODUCTION OF ADAM ELLIS
WHICH SPARKED CELTIC INTO LIFE AS HE FIRST SET UP
PARKINSON WHO'S WEAK EFFORT WAS CLEARED OFF THE LINE BY
BILLINGTON BEFORE WESTBURY THOUGHT THEY HAD DREW LEVEL
WHEN MACABES LOOPING CROSS WAS HEADED IN BY PARKINSON ONLY
FOR THE LINESMANS FLAG TO GO UP WITH THE BALL ADJUDGED TO
OF GONE OUT OF PLAY,
SPA COULD OF SEWN THE
GAME UP WHEN THEY TWICE BROKE AWAY LATE ON BUT DEBUTANT
ADY SOMMERS TWICE DENIED PITT AND BROWN BEFORE THE HOME
SIDE SO NEARLY SNATCHED A SHARE OF THE POINTS IN THE DYING
MOMENTS WHEN ELLIS BROKE AWAY ONE ON ONE ONLY TO BE DENIED
BY A SUPERB SAVE FROM DENBY
