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When the season kicked off, the Angels went straight down the other end, won a corner and Lewis powered it into the net. This season things were going to be different. They sure were. The team only lost 6-2, as Wilkie opened his account in vain. The new captains were distraught but sure that things were going to improve.
The next week Angels lost 11-0, the first time they had ever failed to score in a match, but a match marked by two points. The debut of Carsley and the real start of hatred towards the fat ref.
So things were looking bleak but still the lads kept turning up. The next week, Angels scored four goals against Sociodad again, including the famous half way line effort from Marrs, and Mike Steel scoring on his debut. Sadly, Real Ale put seven away. After three games, the record stood:
P: 3 W: 0 D: 0 L: 3 F: 6 A: 24 Pts: 0
Even the Saint was slagging off the Angels and when the L'Esprit de l'Escalier game came round and a 9-2 defeat including this season's hospitalisation of Yarrow, morale was low. By the Raisin Weekend match, things were looking good after 20 minutes. Angels were leading 2-0. Then a Judge own goal among the other 4 for Sven One, meant that even the return of Chris Thomas couldn't get the Angels their first points of the season. With the poor weather at the end of 2002, it meant matches were postponed, giving the Angels a few weeks off followed by the Christmas period to try and regroup.
2003 - a new start?
My Face were the first opponents and confidence was once again quite high. But the result was all too similar. A 6-0 defeat for the Angels including a highly contentious penalty meant that they trudged dejectedly off the pitch.
So to the DRP match. Surely this was to be the first win at last. All season long, the Angels had said the league table lied. However the DRP had just one week previously broken their duck with a 2-1 victory over Real Ale. But this was the chance. A 3-0 lead at half time led to nervous confidence, but with ten minutes to go, and the score at 6-0, Hutch and Tonkin opening their Angels accounts including a Wilkie hat trick, the songs were being belted out across the pitches and everyone was shooting at the DRP goal. A seventh followed and the Angels finally had some points to their name as well as a clean sheet.
The postponed Graham Speirs match was to follow and despite taking the lead early on, Angels were back to their losing ways and still adrift at the foot of the table. In atrocious conditions the next week, Angels came back from 2-0 down, including a dodgy penalty, to get a 2-2 draw against Weeds Utd, a corner in the last few minutes from Tonkin sealing the result. Despite having Wilkie's last minute penalty claim turned down Angels were off the bottom of Division Two and smiling.
League business was interrupted for a day with a Friday afternoon Cup fixture against Premiership outfit Lethargy. After losing an early goal, Angels withheld the pressure and equalised to go into the break at 1-1 after Wilkie latched onto a great pass from Huddart. In the second half, despite Yarrow's self-concussion inducing foul they even took the lead with just a few minutes to go as Wilkie doubled his tally for the afternoon. As Lethargy poured into the Angels box, looking for an equaliser, a blatant dive gifted them an undeserved chance to equalise. The chance was duly taken and penalties followed. Marrs, Harris, Tonkin and Wilkie all put the ball in the net as Angels won through 4-2 on penalties to claim a Premiership scalp and also grabbed the chance of a rematch against Graham Speirs FC.
The final league game of the season was against Emporio Ranmani. After losing Jesper to refereeing business on another pitch the Angels were fired up, despite most of the team carrying painful hangovers, made worse by the sunny March Sunday afternoon. However, embodying the spirit of the Angels that had taken over since the DRP game, the Angels won again, an incredible 4 goal haul by Wilkie taking his tally to 12 in the league and in true Dundonian fashion, he stole the match ball. Despite late efforts from Matt's Ball and Yarrow among others, Angels couldn't add to their tally, and conceded a late goal as the entire defence was up front trying to score.
The final league record stood at:
P: 10 W: 2 D: 1 L: 7 F: 27 A: 53 Pts: 7
And a record finish of 9th in Division Two.
Up for the Cup
But the season was far from over. Graham Speirs FC saw the Angels as their warm up before the DR Hole game, the quarterfinal tie awaiting the winners. The game had been postponed until Tuesday April 15th due to the Easter Holidays. From kick off, both teams were fired up and the Angels took an early lead again, with a one-yard screamer from Mike Steel. When GSFC equalised, for once the Angels heads did not go down and the lead was restored not long after the break by Harris. GSFC were rattled, even more so when Wilkie added the third and Marrs the fourth. In the last minute Angels continued to attack and Yarrow seized his chance. The second time. After fluffing a ball in from Marrs, Hutch laid it back off to Yarrow for a magnificent left footed half volley into the net and Goal of the Season winner. Revenge had never tasted so sweet. Among wild celebrations, the referee blew for full time and the Angels were in the last 8, against the Premiership champions.
Hangovers resulting from the New Hall Ball were cast aside as the Angels went all out to try and cause the biggest shock in the history of the Cup. Could they knock out the favourites? For the first half hour, Angels held firm, holding onto the 0-0 score-line and even going close to breaking the deadlock. When DRH took the lead, and Wilkie's header crashed off the bar, it was not to be Angels' day. When the Crap Ref gave away two ridiculous penalties, the Angels dream was over, but a season that had started so poorly gave way to high hopes for next season.
Performances in the KK sixes and the Raisin sixes both resulted in first round exits, although Jesper added his name to the list of those injured for the Angels cause, in losing his toenail against Organic Melstadt. Ominously, hopes are high for 2003/04 as Hutchison and Wilkie take the helm...
Angels With Dirty Faces All Time League Record (Season Ending 2002/2003):
P: 18 W: 4 D: 2 L: 12 F: 46 A: 98 GD: -52 Pts: 14
Angels With Dirty Faces All Time Cup Record (Season Ending 2002/2003):
P: 4 W: 2 D: 0 L: 2 F: 10 A: 14
2001/2002: Preliminary Round
2002/2003: Quarter Finals