Alsager Town 6-0 Cheadle Town

Cheadle Town's FA Cup run came to a halt today as they were unceremoniously thrippled 6-0 at the hands of their Unibond 1 opponents.

As they had done against Runcorn the previous Tuesday night, CTFC went behind to an early goal, thus meaning they were chasing the game early doors. Peter Mellor was the busier of the two 'keepers, making three or four superb saves in the first half to keep the score at 1-0 to Alsager Town. To be honest, Cheadle didn't really create any clear-cut chances in the first 45 minutes but the score was still only 1-0, meaning Cheadle were still very much in the game.

Or so we thought. Cheadle were much, much better in the second half but their increased efforts meant they left themselves a bit open at the back. It all went a bit 'breasts skywards' as Alsager ran in five more goals without reply.

During the match Polardin got talking to a couple of Alsager fans and I overheard them being impressed with Cheadle's continued spirit despite facing obvious defeat. One of them even gave a quick cheer for Cheadle Town! I'll keep his identity a secret.

Never mind. There's still four cup competitions to aim for....

All of the pictures from the day can be seen by clicking here.

Tomorrow's Opponents: Alsager Town

Our next opponents are 'The Bullets' of Alsager Town who currently live in the Unibond First Division, putting them some two divisions above Cheadle Town.

They were formed under the name of Alsager FC in 1965 from the merger of Alsager Institute and Alsager United, and the current ground was acquired in 1967.

In 2001 the club name was changed to Alsager Town, a move which also coincided with the addition of floodlights to The Town Ground. They then finished in 2nd place in the Second Division of the NWCFL, thus earning them promotion to the 1st Division. They climed even further in 2006 when a 3rd place finish earned them promotion into the Northern Premier League.

Famous Alsager Residents
Ex-Manchester United player Jimmy Greenhoff lives on Caldy Road. And his son lives in Grig Place. Supposedly Steve Coogan was born here. Gordon Banks, ex-England and Stoke 'keeper lived by the Mere in the village on Sandbach Rd. Robbie Williams never bought a house in Alsager, he just looked at one!

Check out some live footage of Alsager recently playing Leek in a friendly by clicking here.

We're looking for music for our team to come out to. In honour of our striker Dean Martin we were thinking of 'Let It Snow'. Alsager has to be a Stone Roses classic as they famously did a gig there once! Apparently the Linnets are thinking about the old 'Hit Man & Her' theme tune: sounds good to me! "Rofos Theme (old Canal Street tune)"

As a benchmark to the game on Saturday we have a quote to the report from Runcorn's official site: "Cheadle Town probably proved to be the strongest opposition faced so far"