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Hopperational details
Date & Venue	Thursday 22 August 2013 at the Maple Tree Cars Stadium
Result	Wivenhoe Town 0 Ipswich Wanderers 1
Competition	FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round Replay.  Wivenhoe play in step 5 and Wanderers in step 6, in the respective divisions of the Eastern Counties League.
Hopping	Number 519 on the lifetime list, and an FA Cup midweek hattrick for me in the only game being played this evening.
Pre-match preparation
It finished 0-0 between these two sides last Saturday, and to be honest, that’s about all I had time for today due to GCSE result declaration duties!
This match in one sentence
The result was in doubt right to the end, but Wanderers took and kept an early one goal advantage and had more and better chances overall on the night.
So what?
Ipswich Wanderers progress to play AFC Sudbury in the next round at the end of the month.
The drama unfolds
The game’s only goal arrived very quickly and unexpectedly.  What appeared to be a routine cross from the right seemed to deceive the home keeper Glen Morrison – maybe the bounce (I was at the other end) – and the ball crept in at the near post to the surprise and delight of scorer Ross Myhill.  0-1 after 3 minutes Wivenhoe responded after 14 minutes as Kevin Bugg had to tip a shot from Marley Spindler over the bar but Wanderers were also creating chances and a second for them looked on the cards.  My scene-setting clip starts 23 minutes into the game – Wivenhoe are in blue. After this I joined local footy guru @essexfootie at the top of the main stand.  Wanderers had another great chance just after that as Morrison missed a corner but the header went wide, but he made a good save just before the interval to keep the margin at one.  0-1 at half-time Morrison made two superb saves early in the second half and was kept very busy as Wanderers continued to look the better side.  One finger-tip stop was exceptional.  He needed treatment, though, after colliding with the post when keeping out another effort.  Wanderers could not yet count themselves safe.  Wivenhoe’s big chance came after 65 minutes, but Josh Grimes’ effort was narrowly over. The game entered a very entertaining (for the neutral) period of end-to-end play.  Wanderers’ Dan Tredray made a magnificent headed clearance off his own line, and with only a few minutes left a Wivenhoe header was pushed onto the bar in a goalmouth melee.  Morrison came up to join the attack on a couple of occasions, as shown in this final clip. Wanderers headed for the corner flag as often as they could in stoppage time as the home challenge petered out.  It wasn’t Wivenhoe’s night but they can’t really have too many complaints about the final score.  Final score 0-1
Ground Pix
Match Pix
Something Random
Here’s a link to @essexfootie’s highlights channel: http://www.youtube.com/EssexNonLeague
Huddle Stats
Ipswich Wanderers huddled and went on to win the game in defiance of the season's trend thus far. The winning huddle 2013-14 Summary so far: P W D L GF GA Pts Pts per Game Non-Huddlers 9 4 2 3 12 10 14 1.75 Huddlers 5 2 0 3 4 6 6 1.20
Goalkeeper Top Colour Stats
Today’s winning goalkeeper was in grey, and the clean sheet sends this colour into second place.  The losing (and much busier) one was in green, which drops to third. A clean sheet for the man in grey, Kevin Bugg 2013-14 Summary so far: P W D L CS(5pts) GA(-1 each) Pts Pts per Game Yellow 3 2 1 0 2 3 7 2.33 Grey 2 1 0 1 1 1 4 2.00 Green 4 2 0 3 1 7 -2 -0.50 Orange 1 0 0 0 0 1 -1 -1.00 Radioactive Bile 1 0 0 2 0 2 -2 -2.00 Pink 2 0 1 1 0 5 -5 -2.50
Hopping for Moorfields Update
Cheques totalling £819.30 are winging their way to Moorfields imminently.  When an element of Gift Aid is added to part of this, the final total for the charity will be £933.11.  This will go to help fund leading-edge research into a variety of eye conditions.  Well done, everyone, and thank you again.  I will publish the acknowledgement in due course.
What Next?
Follow @GrahamYapp on Twitter for announcements!  Could be one of my Step 3 priority grounds on Saturday.