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Sport

FOOTBALL
Four goal salvo for SRT

Thumping win is

perfect end to IS

Staff Reporter
Shrewsbury

SENIOR MEN’S football head
coach Sgt Kev Barry was rightly
proud of his charges as they
thumped the Royal Navy 4-1 in
their final Inter-Service clash of
2019.
Barry said: “My decision to go
with youth over experience really
did pay off. I asked the lads to buy
into a game plan and above all
outwork the Navy.
“Although we conceded after
seven minutes you could already
see that the work rate was of
the highest order and it got
stronger after the equalising goal.
“It was a pleasure and an honour
to see the group respond after the
Army defeat in such an emphatic
manner, to say I was proud when
the final whistle went would be a
real understatement.”
Determined to finish on a high
Barry’s changes saw Cpl Michael
Campbell given the captain’s Moxon. SAC Dan Gorman, recalled curling effort that nestled into 88th minute some great work on AIR POWER: Above, action from the
armband, and he was called upon to the starting line-up, then made a the bottom corner for 3-1. The the left from Cpl Campbell saw 4-1 win in the final Inter-Service clash
to lift the side after AB Mike one-handed save to deny the Navy play was now all RAF, with the him find SAC Barber who lobbed aganst the Navy, below, Barry talks to
Smith struck to put the visitors on the half-hour mark, a feat he wingers linking up well with the keeper from an acute angle his substitute

ahead. There was great play from repeated just before the break to Campbell and Cullan and in the for 4-1 to win the Casser Cup. PHOTOS: SBS
SAC Gareth Barber, whose cross deny Navy forward Smith.
flashed across the box, SAC Moxon The second half started quietly,
returning the ball for Cpl David with most of the play confined to
Webb to level after seven minutes. the middle of the park. Cpl David
Barber continued to make it Webb then saw his cross narrowly
hard for the Navy right back, with miss the head of SAC Cullan,
Campbell going close, before SAC before the hosts won a 67th minute
Cullan found the net in the 23rd free-kick. Webb spotted a gap in
minute after good work from the four-man wall and sent in a

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