Wednesday night was one to forget for Wallingford Town who suffered a heavy 11-0 defeat at Highworth Town in the Floodlit Cup.
Already well know for it’s double decker bus bar at the Hithercroft ground, the Hellenic League Division 1 East side have added ‘twitter banter’ (which if you’ve seen our own tweets you’ll know isn’t as easy as you’d think) to their list of accolades.
Let’s bring in some context: Until the weekend when they lost to Wantage Town, Highworth had won all 13 previous Hellenic Premier Division games scoring 53 goals at an average of 3.78 per game. Wallingford themselves are no slouches, sitting fourth in their first season back in the Division 1 East winning five and drawing three of their 11 league games so far.
It’s obviously a heavy defeat though for Wally Town who will understandably be a bit low this morning and need to lift themselves for Saturday’s trip to Thame Rangers. Thankfully though the clubs twitter account won a few new fans, using the 90 minutes to raise the clubs profile with a series of darkly humorous tweets which were well received on social media.
It didn’t start too well..
A goal conceded every 10 minutes .. very worrying for the final score https://t.co/UlQCrXAxEr
— Wallingford Town AFC (@WallingfordTown) November 1, 2017
Lovely bit of optimism
Does anyone know if it goes straight to extra time should the scores be level in 65 minutes time? https://t.co/kR2z1DZMTP
— Wallingford Town AFC (@WallingfordTown) November 1, 2017
And some more
I think we have the wind behind us in the second half https://t.co/a2eL6pilb3
— Wallingford Town AFC (@WallingfordTown) November 1, 2017
Every cloud..
Longest gap of the night between conceding goals – nearly 20 minutes#improvement #babysteps #strawclutching https://t.co/uflwRTlS8Y
— Wallingford Town AFC (@WallingfordTown) November 1, 2017
Call it off ref!
Is that fog I see coming over the clubhouse? https://t.co/GVlBqmiABF
— Wallingford Town AFC (@WallingfordTown) November 1, 2017
It was going so well until this point
Sending off probably means we won't get back into the game now https://t.co/qc57hketmp
— Wallingford Town AFC (@WallingfordTown) November 1, 2017
The full time whistle
A night to forget for Wally Town, going down 11-0 at Highworth Town in Floodlit Cup.
Only positive – we didn't concede when down to 10 men!
— Wallingford Town AFC (@WallingfordTown) November 2, 2017
And just to rub it in..
That's my lunchtime sorted then https://t.co/zei7lpbRrc
— Wallingford Town AFC (@WallingfordTown) November 2, 2017
They did earn a few fans though
Hard luck to @WallingfordTown last night beaten heavily by a good Highworth side. Worth checking out their tweets from last night though 👏 https://t.co/kZ20ssruvD
— Berks & Bucks FA (@BerksandBucksFA) November 2, 2017
Loved the Wallingford tweets last night great sense of humour on a difficult night for their team. Well done
— Highworth Town FC (@HighworthTownFC) November 2, 2017
Love it when Sports Clubs retain a sense of humour in adversity – 👏👏👏@WallingfordTown https://t.co/H7gI65g4xw
— Ian Davidson (@IanDavidsonStat) November 1, 2017
Don’t think this fella got it though..
https://twitter.com/_Paulio/status/925848272186564608
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Main image: Wallingford Town’s double decker by Laurence Reade.
