One Love v Bell Inn preview

The Bell Inn travel to One Love this weekend in a top of the table clash.

The two rivals come face to face for the first time this season in a fixture that the Bell Inn have never won.

However, debutant managers Tom Brown and Neil Anderson hope to change this.

One Love have 10 points out of a possible 12, after drawing at home to SDC United earlier in the season.

The Bell Inn have maximum points and will be looking to make it 5 out of 5 on Sunday.

This is everyone at the clubs favourite game and this Sunday should be the best battle yet.

Also, team and individual photo’s will be taken this week so try and look your best.

I will also be managing in a suit.

Team news…

Luke Appleton has signed and will make his debut whilst Joe Pattison, Danny Moore and Reece Ashman return to the squad. unfortunately work commitments means Paul Munday misses out. As do injured trio James Olsson, Tom Collishaw and Liam Ward and house-wife Ian Babb.

Squad.

Chris Richmond

Richard Donovan (Captain)

Joe Pattison

Danny Moore

Adam Brown

Simon Freemantle

Neil Anderson

Robbie Stone

Will Farrow

Josh Farrow

Danny Bland

Dale Simpson

Jack Tarrant

James Hyde

Luke Appleton

Reece Ashman

Bell Inn keep up 100% record

The Bell Inn made it 7 wins out of 7 in the ‘Brown-Bean’ management reign with a good win against SDC United.

Playing at Thorpe St Andrews High School on the 3G pitch, SDU have had a great start to the season including a 4-4 draw against One Love United.

After a heavy night out at the LCR for many of the Bell Inn squad, in which they drunkenly signed ***** ****** at 2am, most players were on time.

That was apart from Joe Pattison, who disgraced himself and the club by over-sleeping.

Pattison, 23, publicly mocked joint-manager Tom Brown in the press last week after he failed to show up for the game after his birthday due to a hangover.

However just days later, and without a hangover, Pattison followed suit.

For the boys that did turn up, despite a tough start, the Bell Inn took the league with a goal which can only be described as ‘Arsenal-like’.

Simon Freemantle picked up the ball on the left and floated a perfect pass through to Adam Brown, who coolly lifted it over the keeper into the top corner.

The goal seemed to lift the Bell Inn and for the rest of the game they never put a foot wrong.

A second goal for Adam Brown added to be Will Farrow, Josh Farrow, Dale Simpson and Simon Freemantle opened the eyes of the rest of the league as the Bell Inn sit top of the table with an 100% record after four games.

There was still time to concede though, but this comes hand in hand as the Bell Inn are about as likely to keep a clean sheet as Dale Simpson is to pass the ball.

Solid performances all round.

Being hung over myself I didn’t really fancy turning up Sunday morning but it was a joy to watch. If we play like that all season we will not lose a game.

Another plus was the support we had on the touch-line, as we outnumbered their fans easily.

A deal is also being done this week to bring in our final piece of the jigsaw. Luke Appleton is heavily rumoured to be joining after watching the game Sunday and confirmed that the Bell Inn are a better side (and have better management) than Mulbarton Wanderers First Team.

Final Score : SDC United 1 v 6 Bell Inn

(A.Brown 2, W.Farrow, J.Farrow, Simpson, Freemantle)

PLAYER RATINGS

Chris Richmond – 8 – Surprisingly didn’t have a lot to do. When called along, did his job. No chance for the goal.

James Hyde – 8 – Didn’t know he could play football 3 months ago. Good player.

Richard Donovan – 8 – Didn’t moan once. If he did, I didn’t hear him.

Robbie Stone – 8 – After week’s of going AWOL, came back into the team and proved he is just about good enough still.

Danny Bland – 8 – Excessive drink problems currently.

Neil Anderson – 8 – Played a whole half. For someone who goes to the gym, eats healthy and doesn’t smoke, his fitness is very worrying.

Adam Brown – 9 – MAN OF MATCH – Simply brilliant.

Jack Tarrant – 9 – Didn’t put a foot wrong. Lucky to avoid a straight red towards the end of the match.

Josh Farrow – 8 – To be fair to him, his missus is good-looking. No idea why she is going out with him.

Dale Simpson – 9 – Kills teams with his pace and work rate.

Simon Freemantle – 9 – More skills than Messi.

SUBS

Will Farrow – 8 – His best performance for a while. Great goal.

***** ******- 8 – Hopefully will keep Pattison out of the team for the rest of the season.

Tom Brown – 10 – Self confessed god.

Best performance I have seen from the Bell Inn, ever. SDU were a quality side and 6-1 was probably a bit harsh on them.

However, the big game is Sunday.

One Love United away. We have never beat them. We don’t like them. They don’t like us.

But this season I think we are better than them.

Regards

Tom ‘#pattyout’ Brown

Joe Pattison’s blog.

Bell Inn Maintain 100 Percent Record

The Bell inn retained their 100 Percent record thanks to a 4-2 win at home to Briston. The Goals came from Adam ‘Saggy’ Brown, Joe Pattison and a brace for newcomer Simon Freemantle.

Despite the absence of the master tactician Tom ‘Lineo’ Brown, and a few key players – Bell inn saw off the visitors, a team that will finish near the top of the table.

The Start of the game saw us start with Bean on the left wing in replacement of Will Farrow who somehow managed to get lost to a home game. How he managed this I do not know.

The Bell inn started the game slowly, this largely down to the fact half the team had been out the night before to celebrate Tom Brown’s birthday, Tom a professional linesman in the Crown and Fire South Norfolk League subsequently didn’t turn up for the game, aggravating the entire team and the mutual consensus being this is the last chance saloon for Brown, if this type of behaviour occurs again Donovan will be promoted to caretaker manager, Not much of an improvement, but an improvement all the same.

Bell Inn’s first goal came from Pattison came when Josh ‘Fattow’ Farrow played a through ball to the striker who coolly despatched into the near corner. He was however deemed to be offside by the opposition Linesman. Only for the referee to over rule the decision and rightly so, the Linesman had a terrible game and quite simply didn’t have a clue.

Half time 1-0

The second half started with Bell inn Dominating the play and got their rewards when a delightful dummy goal was scored by Adam Brown after starting the move in the centre of the park he burst into the box and finished the move he started.

The Bell inn then spurned several clear cut chances, and Josh Farrow had a shot that went out for a throw, he was terrible all game and quite frankly I think it’s because he has an over proportionate size head compared to the rest of his body.

Bell inn shortly after adding to their lead conceded the typical wonder goal from 20 yards, and leaves most of the squad wondering whether we will keep a clean sheet all season.

Bell inn then extended their lead when Simon Freemantle was fouled in the box and finished the resulting penalty.

Briston then scored a scrappy goal with 5 minutes remaining to make way for an edgy last few minutes, until Simon Freemantle wrapped up the game with a glorious 25 yard free kick that curled into the top corner..

Final Score Bell inn 4-2 Briston

Credit must go to Bean for actually turning up unlike his counterpart and proving he is the Brains of the partnership.

Match Ratings

Richmond – 8 – Good Performance, Pulled off some important saves in the second half.

Munday – 7 – Solid.

Donovan – 8 –God.

Bland – 8-Played very well, despite his severe hangover.

James Hyde –7-Put in another good display.

Reece – 9 – Star man, Put in another good performance. Player of the season so far.

Saggy – 8- Scored a Brilliant goal and ran the midfield despite playing cente midfield by himself.

Fattow – 2- Why any club would pay him to play football I do not know.

Will Farrow – 5- Got lost to a home game.

Joe Pattison – 7 -Scored again.

Simon Freemantle – 8- Too good for the league.

Bean – 10 Has a bright future in management, plays well in his 15 minute cameos. Should play longer.

Danny Moore 8 – Made his Competitive Debut, didn’t put a foot wrong, has a very bright future at the club.

Arrogant Farrow set for move to One Love

Josh Farrow has angered Bell Inn management and players today with an outrageous text to joint-manager Tom Brown.

Farrow, 22, has hit the headlines after predicting the Bell Inn would struggle without him on Sunday. They won 7-1.

Whilst on his lunch break sorting out his new studio he is set to move into next month, Brown’s phone went off and he read in amazement:

“I am unhappy with recent comments made on the most recent update on the managers blog page.

You posted saying that I said the Bell Inn would struggle without me. And that penalties would now be decided on a coin toss after Pattison scored his first penalty of the new season.

I think to say something like this without me saying it is ridiculous. It makes me look like a fool.

We have a great squad this year. We will not lose a game. Not once did I say they would struggle.

Also the rock paper scissors for penalties is silly. It shows no respect to other teams. Pre season I was told I was on penalties until I missed. And for the manager to come out in public about our new policy is a joke.

Once again, close rivals One Love are favourites to sign me. One Love would pay lots of dollar for me.

One Love’s manager has previously hailed TB as the worst manager in the Sunday league. It is a good job he has good players to make up for his poor managerial decisions.

I want to stay but if the right offer came I would seriously think about my future.

#alliwantispenaltiesback!”

This outburst was immediately seen by joint-manager Neil Anderson who responded with:

“We have a great set of players and for one to publicly question our ability is upsetting. Since we have come in the team has gone from strength to strength. Josh needs to show his commitment to the club by turning up on a Sunday and putting the performance in on the pitch. On another note rock, paper, scissors works; we had a situation where neither Will or James wanted to run the line so I called rock paper scissors, the players respected my decision, played the game and the loser, Will, got on with it. Maybe his older brother needs to look at his younger, more mature, brother at accepting management decisions.”
Richard Donovan, club captain, also got in on the act:

“This is concerning after such a great start to the season. Whilst I appreciates Josh’s comments I feel the manner in which he has questioned the management team to be highly inappropriate and he should show a greater degree of respect. I can only hope that this is a heat of the moment reaction and a public apology will be issued in due course. Josh has shown this behaviour before when he stormed off when named as sub and I don’t think we can tolerate too many more outbursts. I’m not angry at Josh just very disappointed and just hope his football will do the talking in the coming weeks.”

Farrow’s future is now highly in doubt.

Brown, a life-long friend of Farrow, is reported to be very disappointed, upset, emotional and gutted that one of his favourite players has caused such chaos at the club.

Farrow has arranged to come round Brown’s house to apologise. As part of his apology, he will clean the bath tub, polish the window sills, hoover the whole house and do Brown’s and housemate Kris Lane’s washing for the week.

And just to confirm, when Brown spoke to One Love earlier about Farrow, they said they had never heard of him.

Can Farrow clean up his act and make a return to the Bell Inn next week? Or is this the end of his career at the Barnham Broom club?

Regards

Tom ‘Farrow is better than Pattison’ Brown.

Finally, a little treat for our female fans. Farrow himself, posing with his boyfriend Dale Simpson whilst on holiday last summer.

Bell Inn stay top with 7-1 win.

The Bell Inn made it 2 out of 2 with an outstanding second half display against Unicorns Reserves.

In a scorching heat of 30 degrees, the Bell Inn provided a bench and deck chairs for the players and fans in their first home game of the season.

With a few key players missing, including Josh Farrow who had earlier said ‘you will struggle without me today’, the Bell Inn started slow but gradually found their stride and brushed aside a strong Unicorns team.

Striker Joe Pattison opened the scoring with a tidy finish after a good through ball from Adam ‘Saggy’ Brown.

Pattison made it two from the penalty spot after Simon Freemantle was bundled over in the box.

Farrow, the club’s usual penalty taker, will now have to play rock, paper, scissors with Pattison when the Bell Inn next get a penalty.

Half time : Bell Inn 2 v 0 Unicorns Reserves.

With the Bell Inn looking a bit shaky, managers Tom Brown and Neil Anderson changed the team around at the break, with ex-manager/chairman Ian Babb coming on up top, hoping to exploit a slow Unicorns defence.

Freemantle played deeper, with Saggy dropping into defence.

Anderson also came on himself, which was obviously a very risky decision.

Despite conceding early on in the half from a 30 yard unstoppable free-kick, the Bell Inn totally took control of the game and went on to win 7-1.

Babb, who was playing ‘out of position’ up front scored a decent hat-trick, Pattison completed his hat-trick and Freemantle scored a deserved 90 minute header.

Reece Ashman was superb on the right-wing, providing chance after chance with his pace and his improved ability to actually be able to cross the ball.

However, there was still time for comedy as Pattison collided with the post when heading home his hat-trick.

At first, many thought he was dead but he recovered to celebrate in front of the oppositions defenders.

Liam Ward was also keen to get his name on the score sheet and attempted a 40 yard volley, which he scuffed into the Bell Inn’s own half.

Anderson, whose fitness is worse than Tom Brown’s, managed 30 minutes of the second half and had to be dragged off. However, he put in a top performance and has promised to go jogging next week.

Final score : Bell Inn 7 v 1 Unicorns Reserves.

(Pattison 3, Babb 3, Freemantle)

PLAYER RATINGS

Tom Collishaw – 8 – Big, important presence at the back. Should have saved the free kick though, didn’t even dive.

Liam Ward – 7 – In a game of many bookings, it was a surprise he didn’t get involved in them.

Richard Donovan – 8 – Had a five-minute spell of moaning but calmed down and admitted that the manager’s made the correct half time subs.

Danny Bland – 7 – Filled in at centre back, solid. Back to left back in second half, solid.

James Hyde – 7 – Despite a run in with an ABC taxi driver last night, sobered up in time to put in a good display.

Reece Ashman – 9 – Brilliant again, added more to his game this season.

Jack Tarrant – 8 – Crucial to the team in the holding role, will be sorely missed next weekend.

Adam Brown – 8 – Ran the midfield first half, held the defence together second half.

Will Farrow – 7 – Currently above his brother Josh in the pecking order.

Joe Pattison – 7 – Not stoned.

Simon Freemantle – 9 – Started slow but dominated the second half when playing a bit deeper.

SUBS

Neil Anderson – 8 – Has improved. May actually get in the team soon on merit rather than sympathy vote.

Ian Babb – 9 – MAN OF THE MATCH – His pace changed the game second half, defenders couldn’t handle him. Just want to publicly apologise to him now for not playing him in his favoured ‘right wing’ position.

First real test of the season and we came through it well. Unicorns are not a bad side and will finish high up the table.

Last season we could have crumbled and lost that game. But everyone wanted it, worked hard and got the result they deserved in the end.

It has to be said that managers Brown and Anderson made their first real big decision this season at half time, moving players around and changing things. Although questioned by a few it was a thing of beauty, tactical genius and with these two in charge, the future looks bright.

Great to have some of the strong fan base pitch side, including Mulbarton legend Kristian Carter.

Carter may be injured, and rubbish at football, but having him at games is very good banter. Hopefully we will attend more often.

Finally, we would like to thank John Farrow who has provided the club with 16 pairs of Adidas socks and reels of black tape.

Financially it is not easy running a Sunday club and John did this off his own back which is a real help and everyone is grateful.

The only downside to this is that we now feel we have to pick his boys Josh and Will every week.

Also, One Love United drew 4-4. They are already 2 points behind us. The title is ours.

Well done everyone and Freemantle, stop being sick.

Regards

Tom ‘subbed in Crown and Fire Division 4 yesterday’ Brown.

Here is a treat for our fans, the best looking football squad in Norfolk.

We have grown as a club big time. Just under a year ago this is what we had playing for us.

Bell Inn go top as Pattison becomes famous

The Bell Inn started life in Division 2B in impressive style, beating Hillside 14-3 in their own back yard.

Despite several injuries and call offs, the strength and depth of the squad was used to good affect as the Bell Inn dominated from start to finish and became the talking point of Sunday football in Norfolk.

However, in the last 24 hours, striker Joe Pattison went one step further and is now the talking point of the country.

Pattison, who has impressed so far this season with 11 goals in 4 games, became a Twitter hate figure after sending an abusive Tweet to ex-footballer, now pundit Rodney Marsh.

Marsh, who has almost 30,000 followers on the social network site, retweeted Pattison’s post, which read;

“@RodneyMarsh10 you old ****, **** off and do the world a favour and crawl up into a ball and die…”

This has lead to hundreds of football fans, especially Manchester City fans, abusing Pattison online.

Whether Pattison gets arrested or not is still to be seen. But one thing is for sure. The Bell Inn must watched their back at their next few games.

People are after Pattison, they want him dead. He tweets about the Bell Inn a lot and these people may see a Bell Inn game as the ideal opportunity to find him.

Therefore, we are giving a massive shout out to the Bell Inn firm. We need Rob Bingham and his boys at Sundays game.

As for last Sunday’s match, manager Tom Brown was worried as striker Simon Freemantle pulled out with an illness.

He added to the casualty list which already included Reece Ashman, Adam Brown, Danny Moore, Robbie Stone, Neil Anderson and Tom Collishaw.

On top of this, current goalkeeper Chris Richmond announced his retirement during the week with an on-going Achilles injury.

However, numbers are good and the Bell Inn still fielded a very strong team, even though an injured Brown had to go in goal.

It took a while to score the first, which was tapped in by the in-form Jack Tarrant, but once that went in the goals were flowing.

Dale Simpson was causing absolute havoc down the left flank as was Will Farrow down the right.

It was Will Farrow who scored the pick of the first half goals after an unselfish lay back from Richard Donovan was unleashed into the back of the net from 25 yards by Farrow.

The second half saw more of the same, as substitutes were made every 10 minutes giving everyone a good run out.

The goals kept flowing but some comical defending did allow the home team to somehow score 3 goals.

Firstly, Brown was lobbed from 40 yards.

Secondly, Donovan failed to clear the ball, was done by their striker and was too slow to chase him back as he scored at the near post.

Thirdly, another Brown mistake. This time he dribbled past the Hillside striker on the left hand side of the pitch and instead to squaring it to Bell Inn right back Liam Ward, passed straight to their other striker to tap into an empty net from 18 yards.

There was still time for slight controversy at the end, as joint-manager Neil ‘Bean’ Anderson argued with the referee on the sidelines.

The referee, who clearly wanted to get home in time for his Sunday roast, claimed their was 6 minutes left when there was in fact 18.

After Bean nearly losing his rag on the touchline, the referee ended up playing the full 90 minutes.

Luckily, on this occasion, these mistakes didn’t matter. Other days they could be crucial.

Final Score: Hillside 3 v 14 Bell Inn.

(Simpson 4, Tarrant 3, J. Farrow 3, Pattison, W. Farrow, Hyde, Olsson)

PLAYER RATINGS

TOM BROWN – 6 – Solid but silly mistakes made due to boredom.

PAUL MUNDAY – 7 – First game of the season, after a shaky start he settled well.

RICHARD DONOVAN – 7 – Terrible mistake for 2nd goal.

BEN SPALDING – 8 – Good to have him back.

DANNY BLAND – 6 – Missed three one on ones.

WILL FARROW – 9 – MAN OF MATCH – Best I have seen him play.

JACK TARRANT – 9 – Second hat trick in two games.

JOSH FARROW – 8 – Owes me a fiver after I dinky chipped him up Powerleague on Monday night.

DALE SIMPSON – 9 – Simply unplayable.

JOE PATTISON – 8 – Stoned.

“JAMES OLSSON ” – 8 – Subbed at half time due to the standard being too good for him.

SUBS

JAMES HYDE – 8 – Worked hard and scored a decent goal.

LIAM WARD – 7 – Won a header during the second half which was ridiculously good.

The Bell Inn host Unicorns Reserves on Sunday and need to keep the 100% record going.

A few of the absent players will be back making the team even stronger. We must just hope Pattison isn’t sent to jail.

Either way, their could be trouble.

Well done everyone, you are all brilliant.

Tom ‘ manager of the month for August’ Brown.