Despite the heavy rain the pitch was in excellent condition, unfortunately the Huddersfield team was weakened on the Friday night and they only turned out a squad of eight players. Luckily we had 13 available so we decided to play a ten a side game with two Rotherham players joining the Huddersfield team to try and make a game of it. Jebu kindly agreed to referee the majority of the game as the Huddersfield team also failed to supply a referee.
The additions to the Huddersfield team helped their adopted team very early in the game. Mr Dependable Denti misplaced a pass to the Huddersfield ringer Duds who fed the other ringer Burnsy to run through on goal. The striker made no mistake firing past his team mate to make it 1-0 to Huddersfield with a goal made in Rotherham, in fact not one Huddersfield player was involved in the goal.
There were a few worried looks on faces as we struggled to get any sort of rhythm going. Eventually Adis managed to fire in from close range after good work on the left wing to bring the scores level. Gaz, Jammer and Lee added further goals to bring the score to 5-2 at half time after another goal Burnsy brought about some consolation for Huddersfield.
The second half was played out in excellent spirits between the sides and the Millers continued their dominance, Gaz and Jammer both completed their hat tricks and new boy Sharpy scored his first goal for the team on his fourth appearance bringing the score to 10-2. This is the second time we have registered that score line this season and on the previous occasion, both goals were also scored by our own players!!
Huddersfield kindly donated all of the money collected from their players to the Save The Millers fund and we added the money that we had collected from our lads and £70 was dropped in a bucket at the afternoon match.
This game was always going to be a banker really and it was our 14th win out of 15 games. Sitting just three points behind the leaders Preston, with five games in hand, in the distance I can hear the fat lady singing and it sounds something like “Internet Millers 2005-2006 IFA League Champions”.