League One Results 21st August 2010 Part 1

Carlisle United 4-1 Milton Keynes Dons
Both these teams have a Welsh striker who used to play for Millwall on the books – and both seem to be continuing where they left off at the end of last season. Carlisle are on good form, getting lots of wins and because it’s the beginning of the season, that kind of form has put them right at the top of the table. MK Dons on the other hand are a bit hit-and-miss.
Carlisle were actually without their Welsh ex-Millwall striker as Jason Price has a thigh injury but Jermaine Easter was playing for MK Dons which was quite unlucky really as it was an incident between Jermaine and Carlisle’s Ian Harte – for which Harte should arguably have got a red - which spurred Carlisle on to win the match. Jermaine is also on his longest run without a goal in MK Dons colours – 854 minutes according to Vital MK Dons.

Exeter City 2-2 Bristol Rovers
This was a great game in terms of entertainment and incident but wasn’t a great match for the Welshmen - although at least none of them actually lost.
Daniel Nardiello started well, giving Exeter the goal he’d wanted to score for team-mate Adam Stansfield, who died of cancer last week. Adam wore the No 9 shirt and Daniel’s goal came in the ninth minute. Thirteen minutes later, he left the field injured.
Team-mate Richard Duffy didn’t have a great day either - he was sent off just after half-time. He was so sure he was was getting a red card, he was off down the tunnel before the referee had got his card out. Rob Edwards on the other hand got his first start of the season and managed to stay on the pitch for the full match with only a yellow card to his name. No sign of Andy Marriott, at least not in the squad.
For the away saide, Byron Anthony was hoping for more goals after s very late winner last week but instead he ended up conceding a penalty – though it was perhaps wrongly awarded, it was maybe more of a player sandwich than a penalty. Ben Swallow was on the bench, alongside another young Welshmen who is called either Eliot Richard or Eliot Richards, depending on what you read. BBC Sport calls him Richard although they once spelled Danny Coyne’s name JONES (mistaking him for Middlesbrough’s other goalkeeper Brad, now a Liverpool player) that probably isn’t conclusive. The Bristol Rovers site and Wikipedia says Richards so I’ll go with Eliot Richards for now.

Notts County 1-0 Dagenham & Redbridge
Notts County finally lifted themselves off the bottom of the table – and all the way up to 16th – when they beat one of the sides promoted with them.
It was no surprise to see that the player who got the assist for County’s goal was Ben Davies, who made a great pass to goalscorer Craig Westcarr.
Dagenham played well but didn’t take their chances – that’s always a danger when the only Welshman in your team is a goalkeeper, in this case Tony Roberts.