Westmorland Football - Champions Ambleside firing on all cylinders (From The Westmorland Gazette)

Westmorland Football - Champions Ambleside firing on all cylinders

9:52am Saturday 14th February 2009 in

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THE GOALS keep coming for defending Westmorland League champions Ambleside United, who staged the only first division fixture to beat the freeze-up when cruising to a 6-0 victory over Lunesdale United on Saturday.

Rising temperatures thanks to the winter sunshine that arrived by mid-morning allowed the match to go ahead and Ambleside maintained their current purple patch to go with wins of 5-0 and 5-1 over Greystoke and Windermere during January.

Saturday’s victory means the side have scored 16 goals in three outings - nine of them from striker David Cooper.

Ambleside are third in the table behind Wetheriggs United and Carvetii United, eight points off the leaders but with three matches in hand.

Joint manager Steve Edmondson said: “Cooper’s on fire and he’s getting good service from the team-mates around him.

“ We have changed things around slightly without revealing too much and it seems to be working well.”

Ambleside had Kendal Town second-choice goalkeeper Tom Bush in goal, but there was little threat that Ambleside would not win.

Cooper bagged another hat-trick, his first goal arriving when he diverted in Chris Barton’s shot in the six-yard box following Dave Ramsay’s corner kick.

The pick of the goals came from Tom Routledge, who justified his call-up to midfield, when he received the bal l30 yards out and struck a powerful left-foot shot into the top corner that left the Lunesdale keeper standing.

After half time Ambleside built on their two-goal cushion when Matt Parkinson picked out Cooper, who scored at the second attempt after the keeper saved his initial shot.

Dan Fox put Cooper through to add his third and hard-working Jamie Parkinson headed home Matt Parkinson’s cross to get a deserved goal.

Matt got on the scoresheet himself when Dan Nevinson put him away to lob the advancing keeper from 20 yards to crown another fluent display from the team.