Match Report
Ryman League: Division One South
 Walton Casuals 0 |  Horsham YMCA 3 Dodd x 2 Huckett |
| Source: West Sussex County Times |
FRESH from a three game un-beaten run, Horsham YMCA produced arguably their best performance of the campaign with a first half blitz against Walton.
Mike Huckett and a Terry Dodd brace finished the hosts off before half time, while goalkeeper Tony Di Bernardo, who made two penalty saves against Croydon at the weekend, was at it again to keep out a spot kick from Martin Grant.
The display was so impressive by Chris White's men that former West Ham striker Tony Gale, now the director of football at the Waterside Stadium, was left purring by the movement of front two Dodd and Shaheen Sadough.
White said: "We were excellent, we thoroughly deserved that.
"The first half was the best football we have played this season.
"That's three clean sheets we have kept in the last four. It was always going to take a bit of time to settle into a new division, but I think the lads are getting used to it now and they realise there is nothing to fear from anyone, and they just go out and play."
YM almost fell behind early on, Anthony Gale struck the bar after five minutes, but that aside it was the Gorngs Mead outfit who made all the running.
Midfielder Huckett was first on the scorehseet, converting Sadough's cross at the near post on 20 minutes.
Further chances fell to Sadough and Dodd, before YM effectively killed the game off with two goals in five min-utes.
Dodd claimed them both - the first saw the youngster ghost past his man in the box and slam a shot into the top corner, and the second came when he controlled his own flick from a throw and volleyed home in style. Sandwiching those strikes was a fierce Tom Lawley shot, and a neat move which almost put John Westcott in.
At the break, White warned his team against protecting the lead. "I wanted them to continue playing football," he said. "We tore them apart in the first half."
YM did have to revise their thinking in the second half though, when Tony Timms was given his marching orders for a second time in four games.
What made it all the more galling was that Timms' first of his two bookings on the night was for throwing the ball away.
As Walton pressed, they won a penalty as Nigel Brake was adjudged to have committed a foul on the edge of the box - but Di Bernardo continued his perfect start with a good stop.
YMCA(4-4-2) :Di Bernardo; Watts, Coon-ey, Timms, Brake; Westcott (Metcalf 80), Huckett, Gedling, Lawley (Wanton 70); Dodd (Cooke 70), Sadough.
