Pocklington Sunday 4

LANE RENTAL SERVICES sponsored Pocklington Town Sunday team only just managed to keep their 100% unbeaten league record intact in an entertaining game away against York Nomads last Sunday.

Pock twice let slip a two goal cushion and despite a great effort from Nomads in the final minutes, managed to hang on to claim another three points.

Both sides had early chances but after this spell of pressure, it was Town who opened the scoring on 11 minutes when an inswinging Boneham corner was cleared off the line at the far post only to take a bounce of a defender and go in for an own goal.

As is their habit, Pock made simple defensive mistakes which could have seen Nomads equalise but despite the pressure Town made it 2-0 when Charlie Bond’s long clearance from a corner picked out Boneham’s run past the covering defender for a lovely finish over Waller.

Boneham then missed two more chances to increase Pock’ s lead, before a poorly executed Craig Hargreaves attempt at a header back to Thomas almost allowed Nomads to pull one back.

With Thomas called into action and Nomads dominating the last 15 minutes of the half, they made it 2-1 when Pock failed to close down a passing move and allowed a shot from the edge of the area that took a deflection to wrongfoot Thomas.

Hardy’s timely headed clearance from under his own bar preserved Pock’s slender lead at the interval and with too many players interested in chatting instead of taking advice during the break, it took Nomads only two minutes into the second half to level the game. A free kick was swung in from the right and with defenders static and the keeper rooted to his line, a free header squared the game.

Thomas threw an attempted pass straight to the Nomads right midfielder and was glad to see his chipped return go just over and with the Nomad forwards asking questions of Town’s defenders, Pock had to work hard to get back into the game.

Nomads had a good claim for a penalty turned down following a clumsy tackle by Hardy but thanks in the main to the efforts of Rich Stabler and MoM Bond, Pock regained the lead on 64 minutes following a Ryan Tait interception near the half way line. He played in Horne who dazzled the Nomads defenders with quick footwork before squaring to Boneham for his second of the match and 13th of the season.

Four minutes later, Town thought that they'd sealed the win when a short corner set up Bond for a shot that managed to evade Waller’s grasp and put the visitors 4-2 up with 25 left.