Six of the best sees Brodick lift the Arran Haulage Cup
League champions Brodick secured their first cup win of the season with a rout of last year’s beaten finalists Lamlash.
In the Arran Haulage Cup final played in Lamlash last Saturday, it was to prove a second final defeat in a row for the home side, who lost to Southend in the inaugural competition last year.
Supported by a large crowd of spectators on one of the hottest days of the year, the old rivals battled it out in a one-sided match, with Brodick barely putting a foot wrong and romping to victory.
Lamlash looked to have drawn first blood when Grant Adamson powered the ball into the Brodick goal only for it to be ruled offside. Two minutes later, it was Brodick who made it 1-0 when Toby Wingham opened the scoring for the blues.
Tony McDowall had made the trip back down from Glasgow for his side and he was on hand to make it 2-0 before half-time.
In the second half, it was one-way traffic as Brodick were playing down the hill and ran riot. New signing Andrew Brisco made it 3-0 in the first minute of the second half after his thunderous strike hit the under-
side of the bar and went in. Toby added his second goal of the match along with Andrew getting a brace as well. Archie McNicol, who had also got off the boat just before kick-off to help his team out, had been provider for most of the goals and finally got on the score sheet himself.
With the score at 6-0, Brodick were just going through the motions. It could have been a lot more if it wasn’t for some brilliant last-ditch defending from Fraser Thomson of Lamlash.
Brodick’s only blip on an otherwise perfect display was when Babbies MacNeil was given his marching orders after picking up two yellow cards for repetitive fouling.
Referee Danny Head gave the man of the match to Tony McDowall for a faultless display in the middle of the park with almost every bit of his play wreaking havoc in the Lamlash ranks.
Willie Anderson of Arran Haulage was on hand to present the trophy to captain Matthew Dobson of Brodick for their first trophy win of the season.
Refreshments
A spokesman for the Isle of Arran Football Association said: ‘Thank you to Struan and Rachel Armitage for their generous sponsorship and support of football on Arran. The refreshments provided to both teams after the game on such a warm day were also very much appreciated.’