Woodley Sports 3 - 0 Colwyn Bay

As my fingers and all that they're attached to are still frozen from attending the match noted in the title to this post, I'm going to keep this brief.

Like Mossley's game at the weekend against Prescot this was an encounter not overflowing with goalmouth incident. And other than that one of the sides took to the pitch in an all white kit, that's where the comparisons between the two fixtures must end because whereas the aforementioned game was as dull as foam bladed steak knife, this one was genuinely entertaining.

It was fast, relatively furious and both sides were trying their best to play some attractive football. In this respect Colwyn Bay were the better team - stringing together some really impressive attacking moves. Sadly for the Welshmen though they had no cutting edge whatsover and coupled with a back line that can't really be described as a defence because that implies they offered some kind of resistance, it wasn't a recipe for success.

After having a goal ruled out for offside on their first attack in the match, the home side put themselves in front on their second. Almost immediately you could see the heads of some Bay players go down and it took until midway through the second half for them to pick up again - not the kind of thing you expect from a side chasing promotion.

This coincided with a brief rally during which a shot was hacked of the Woodley goal line but the pressure never built into anything more substantial. Instead it was left to the Stockport side to look the side most likely score, which they duly did in the 86th minute as they took advantage of more nonsense defending. They added a third too in injury time after I'd left but it's probably safe to assume that more slip-shod defending played its part in the goal.

On paper it looks a surprise result but in reality it wasn't and for a team with title ambitions Colwyn Bay have got a lot of bucking up to do if they want to achieve those aspirations this year. With this result and the recent victory over Lancaster City, Woodley on the other hand look to be hitting a bit of form that will take them away from the foot of the table which isn't really good news for Mossley. But then is there ever such a thing as good news for Mossley?

Right! I'm off to try defrosting again.