CNSL game of Sunday October 13, 1996.

Here are the results of the CNSL game of Sunday October 13, 1996 between North York Talons and London City played at Esther Shiner Stadium in North York at 3:00pm. This was considered a League game.

North York Talons (white socks, shorts and numbers, black shirts, green sleeves, black and white striped bibs).

...............................................00 Patrick Osunduba
..................18 Ike Davis.....16 Rashid Yousef...14 Donovan Gordon
12 Hugh Foster...6 Devon Armstrong...9 Michael Fairclough (cpt)...15 Patrick Laineus...4 Richard Tyndall
......................................10 Paul Kitson.......5 Karl Grant

Subs:...20 Kevin Aldred (gk)...17 Lincoln Williams...11 Anthony Dominique...7 Rohan 'Charlie Chaplin' Thomas...8 Trevor Dennis (player/coach)

London City (white socks and numbers, red shirts, black shorts)

.................................................1 Hollis Fyfe
12 Nick Berry...29 Sean Mulheron...7 Marty Debruyn...25 Gerald Gallacher
11 Xavier Paturel...14 Tony Peters...10 Marshall Spense...8 Gavin Maddock
.....................................15 Rafik Salama.....9 Luan Jonuzi

Subs:...17 Brian Cloney...22 Matt Hoogenboom...27 Steve Roney (player coach)

Officials:...Referee Michael Lanbeet, Linesmen Glenn Sharkey and 'a man from the street'. There were only two officials that showed up. They found some guy in a grey sweater to be a linesman.

1st half:(Talons defend west end in 1st half, weather warm 20C(!) and sunny, breeze from the west).
9 min...Talons Gordon runs 50 yards down left sideline and crosses to charging Kitson and his 7 yard redirection is tipped over net by goalie.
12 min...Talons Yousuf's 35 yard freekick is booted over net.
22 min...Talons Foster turns and fires 20 yard shot that goalie tips wide of net. Resulting corner is headed wide of net. 2nd corner cross is caught by goalie.
27 min...City Paturel crosses from 20 yards ahead to Jonuzi who directs ball wide left.
29 min...Talons Gordon down with leg injury.
30 min...Talons sub...Dominique replaces Grant. I can see that strategy. Grant wouldn't be able to play the whole game so have him as a starter and sub in fresh legs of one of the best players later. Of course Grant owns the team...
39 min...Talons Dominique takes hard 20 yard shot that goalie catches.
42 min...Talons Armstrong blasts 15 yard shot straight to goalie's arms.
46:35 Half stopped.

2nd Half:
Halftime sub:...Talons Dennis replaces Armstrong.
54 min...City Paturel cuts in tough angle shot from right side that goalie pushes wide right.
56 min...Talons Laineus and City Jonuzi crash together. Jonuzi down with forearm in the mouth. Just after a City shot goes off crossbar.
58 min...Talons header just wide of net.
60 min...City Peters shot from right side about 15 yards out stopped by goalie.
62 min...City Spense's 30 yard blast just wide.
62 min...Talons sub...'Chaplin' replaces Dennis.
67 min...Talons Kitson puts 35 yard freekick over net.
70 min...Talons Williams kicks ball wide from 25 yards (when did he come in?) he replaced Fairclough.
75 min...Talons Yellow card...Tyndall for knocking down Paturel preventing a breakaway along the sidelines.
81 min...Talons Dominique blasts shot high after long cross.
82 min...City GOAL...Jonuzi scores as he's being knocked over between two defenders and goalie. Clips ball over fallen goalie and from 25 yards ball rolls into net.
87 min...City sub...Cloney replaces Jonuzi.
91 min...City Cloney kicks ball over net.
92:20 game ends.

Final Score:...........North York Talons..........0.........London City.........1..........

Attendance was about 35. The team hasn't drawn well all season. The weather was perfect but the CNSL Italia-Astros and Supra-Oakville game was going on at the same time as was the Canadian National team on television playing a World Cup 1998 qualifying game against Cuba. I was taping it!

The crowd lined up in the last row of seats so they could look over the open field and see the end of a game with two Asian teams that went to a shootout. The game heated up while it was our halftime and continued for the first 10 minutes of the second half. The blue team beat the yellow team.

The man-from-the-street linesman was terrible. He was sometimes 15 yards behind the play and never did more than walk down the sidelines so some offsides were missed. He let the Talons get away with a throw-in from the football sidelines which are about a yard inside the soccer lines. He was better than nothing but not much.

I thought the Talons could have won this game. London had lost 8-1 last week (and I found out later 8-0 on Wednesday) and had a lot of new names in their lineup. Talons had been improving their defense in the last month but still can't score. There seemed to be a record number of corner kicks. Talons must have had at least 12 alone.

Talons finish the season without a win in 24 games. The talk in the pressbox was good in that it appears like the team will be back next year.

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