ST MONANS SPURS Y.F.C: SPURS FALL TO CUPAR; SPURS 4 CUPAR 7

SPURS WINNING RUN CAME TO AN END ON SUNDAY 25TH MARCH TO A FAST MOVING & PHYSICAL CUPAR TEAM.
THE FIRST PERIOD ALL BELONGED TO CUPAR, WHO RACED TO A THREE GOAL LEAD & MISSED OTHER GOALSCORING OPPORTUNITIES.
THE SECOND PERIOD SPURS RAISED THEIR GAME & STARTED TO PLAY, CREATING SOME GOOD OPENINGS. SPURS DID PULL A GOAL BACK FROM BAND AFTER HIS SHOT TOOK A DEFLECTION & SPUN INTO THE CORNER OF THE NET.
CUPARS FORWARD LINE WERE CAUSING SPURS DEFENCE ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS WITH THEIR PACE & MOVEMENT & SCORED THEIR FOURTH GOAL WITH SPURS DEFENDERS CLAIMING OFFSIDE. BAND SCORED AGAIN FOR THE SPURS, A J LEITCH PASS & BANDS LONG RANGE EFFORT SQUIRMED FROM THE KEEPERS HANDS & LANDED IN THE NET. CUPAR REGAINED THEIR THREE GOAL ADVANTAGE, WITH ANOTHER QUICK BREAK & GOAL THAT AGAIN LOOKED SUSPICIOUSLY OFFSIDE.
WITH SPURS NOW DOWN 5 - 2 THEY SHOWED REMARKABLE RESILIENCE & TEAM SPIRIT BY REFUSING TO LIE DOWN & STARTED TO COME BACK AT CUPAR, A CROSS ON THE RIGHT BY R LEITCH WAS CLEVERLY DUMMIED AT THE NEAR POST BY MURRAY LEAVING RUTHERFORD TO SLAM THE BALL IN THE NET. LESS THAN 5 MINUTES LATER RUTHERFORD SCORED AGAIN, BAND PLAYED IN A PASS & RUTHERFORD MANAGED TO SQUEEZE THE BALL HOME DESPITE THE CLOSE ATTENTION OF THE CUPAR KEEPER & A DEFENDER.
WITH SPURS NOW JUST ONE GOAL BEHIND THEY WENT ALL OUT FOR AN EQUALISER, HERD HAD A POWERFUL DRIVE SAVED FROM THE KEEPER. CUPAR THEN SCORED THEIR SIXTH, A QUICK BREAK UP THE PARK & CUPARS NO 9 FOUND THE NET WITH A POWERFUL SHOT. WITH ONLY A FEW MINUTES LEFT CUPAR MADE IT SEVEN, AFTER A GOOD SAVE FROM BARCLAY THE BALL FELL TO A CUPAR FORWARD WHO FINISHED FROM AN OFFSIDE POSITION, & TO THE AMAZEMENT OF THE SPURS PLAYERS THE GOAL WAS ALLOWED TO STAND.
MAN OF THE MATCH; BANDS POWERFUL DISPLAY THROUGHOUT THE GAME & TWO GOALS MADE HIM THE REFS MAN OF THE MATCH.