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Division Three
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Attendance: 11,735
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Jevons 83
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DT92 Members at this game: (you can click here to load your profile picture) |
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Dan82
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IsaacWoodwardYTFC
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KristofShrimper
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Southend
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DanG82
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gtomlin
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BlueWes
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Phil goddam Jevons beat us in this one. It's looking like play offs now.
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tannis
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Dirk P
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longbottomd
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Cricketom
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Johnners8
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eddiecurry
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Southend 0
Yeovil Town 1
Jevons 83
Stuart Barnes at Roots Hall
The Observer,
Sunday 1 May 2005 01.22 BST
Article history
Chelsea have been Premiership
winners-elect for a greater part of the season, Sunderland's
superiority in the Championship was confirmed on Friday night and Luton
are already top hatters of League One. But an invigorating
title race in League Two will go the full distance with four teams in
with a chance as they approach the final programme of matches on
Saturday. It has been a season full of twists and turns, with
Scunthorpe forcing the pace until the New Year, Yeovil taking over as
favourites amid a flood of goals and Southend then mounting a sustained
challenged. The latter two sides went head to head at Roots
Hall yesterday and it was Yeovil who prevailed thanks to a late goal by
their leading marksman, Phil Jevons. It leaves them very much
in poll position with a home game against Lincoln to come, but don't be
surprised if there is a final twist to come. For long spells here, a
goalless draw looked inevitable, with chances at a premium and neither
team able to take a grip on proceedings. Jevons, however, was
in the right place at the right time to take advantage of a deflection
and it was good enough to punish an indifferent display by Southend. A
sell-out crowd on a warm, still afternoon made for an excellent
atmosphere. Games such as this, with so much at stake, can often be
tight, tense affairs and certainly for the first half-hour here that
was the case. Yeovil manager Gary Johnson restored Polish
striker Bartozs Tarachulski up front alongside Jevons and it was his
team who showed up better in the early stages. The manager's
son, Lee Johnson, was prominent in midfield areas without managing to
release either Jevons or Tarachulski in any threatening positions. Southend
took a while to develop any sort of passing game. When they did,
skipper Kevin Maher tried hard to get his team rolling, and there was a
half-chance for the home team's top scorer Freddy Eastwood,, who
carried the ball across the 18-yard line, but his shot, hit slightly
off balance was high, wide and not particularly handsome. Yeovil
suffered a blow when Tarachulski limped out of the action. Marcus
Richardson replaced him and almost immediately had the ball in the net,
albeit from an offside position. With conditions as well as the
game beginning to heat up, a break for drinks was the prelude to a
brief spell of goalmouth activity at the Southend end. Richardson,
receiving a pass from Johnson, played a high, hanging cross to the far
post where Aaron Davies connected with a firm header that Darryl
Flahavan turned around his left-hand upright. A second blow for
Yeovil came just before half-time when Richardson had to be replaced by
former Fulham winger Andrejs Stolcers. Another case of a move
flattering to deceive came after the break with full-back Kevin
Amankwaah striding forward 60 yards deep into the Yeovil half, then
hesitating and
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