Lindum Men’s 1s make their return to the Lindum Sports Association for their second game of the 2025/26 season.
Despite playing a well thought, technical game, the Yellow Submarines were unable to secure the win against Neston 1s and lost 3-2.
This follows their demotion to the Conference North League last season, which was described as a ‘wakeup call’ for the team by Vice captain Ross Booth.
The team is also under new management this season after the departure of Stuart Cunnington, with team captain Louie Sadler taking on the role of head coach within the team.
The first half
A Sam Dixon masterclass saw the long-time Lindum player score 2 goals for the team, both from short corners awarded to them.
Despite a goal slipping through from Neston’s Thomas Jones, the team played well to lead the game 2-1 by the end of the first half.
A frustrating second half
Neston responded to the 2 goals from Sam Dixon as the whistle for the second half was blown.
Thomas Jones was quick to receive the ball and rush the goal to make it his second of the game, levelling the score to 2-2 between the top of the table sitters.
After a green card was given to Ben Read, Neston took advantage of the 10 men side and Thomas Jones made it 3 for the visitors.
Harry Antill made it 3 for Lindum in the 62nd minute but the goal was disallowed by the umpire as just moments prior the whistle had been blown for a short, unlucky for the Lincoln-based side.
With Lindum being unable to score from the short this time, play continued until the final whistle, leaving the score at a disappointing 2-3 for the home team.
The Reaction
Vice-captain Ross Booth reflected on the team’s play after the game: “I think the team did play well in spells, but the trick is to play well for the whole 70 minutes.
I think with a disrupted pre-season we’re probably not quite fully up to speed yet so I would say when we put our game together it will look really good.
Having come down from the division above, I think it’s a wakeup call that the standard is still very good in the national leagues and that we cannot be complacent. We need to make sure we create the intensity without relying on the opposition to create it first.”
Next week the team will face Newcastle University at the LSA, 5th October, 2pm kick off.