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East Stirlingshire v Cowdenbeath |
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Its not many games you see at this
level where someone playing on the field has nearly 50 International
caps. But that was exactly the case as Guinean international
goalkeeper Kemoko Camara arrived at the club to help ease the Falkirk
clubs goalkeeping situation. The 33 year old will take
over between the sticks for two games while Shire and Falkirk sort
out the future of Jamie Barclay. Vastly experienced Kemoko
play in the African Cup of Nations for his country in all four of the
games. He was powerless though to stop Guinea going out
of the competition to Ghana in the quarter finals.
Its
a long way from the African Cup of Nations to Ochilview Park and a
game against the mighty Cowdenbeath but Kemoko is simply a journeyman
despite the International keeper tag. Playing for 'Shire is a
world away from facing Drogba, Muntari and Essian but for a man used
to plying his stuff for sides such as KRC Zuid West Vlaanderen, Bnei
Sakhnin and AmaZulu FC, clubs such as East Stirling are famous in
comparison. Kemoko was in good company though as also in his
East Stirlingshire side up front was Colin Cramb who has played for
18 clubs across Holland, England and Scotland.
East
Stirlingshire are currently playing home games at nearby Ochilview as
there home ground Firs Park is being used for training and
administrative purposes only. The club are said to be
looking at a new stadium being built but housing developments have
also been muted for the ground site.
Cowdenbeath fans were located in the traditional away end at
Ochilview with 'Shire fans in the traditional Stenhousemuir home
stand. Around 100 Cowdenbeath fans made the trip to
Stenhousemuir with the overall crowd being around 490.
As it
was, despite having the chance to see an International goalkeeper
play for them, Shire fans left the ground unhappy as the Guinean
goalkeeper completed an error strewn performance with a number of
blunders and simply did not look match fit. Despite experience
of top level competition he looked rusty and shaky at crosses and was
easily beaten at his near post by a 40 yard speculative shot.
Understanding with his defenders seemed to lack effective
communication and it was no surprise that Shire lost 4-1.
Cowdenbeath
has earned the knickname the 'Blue Brazil' over recent years will a
number of high profile media figures in the UK particularly in radio
taking them on board as a second team for novalty reasons.
Certainly the Cowdenbeah team would appear to be far from a second
rate side at the level they compete at and seem to have a number of
accomplished players. It would be no surprise to see
Cowdenbeath winning promotion to the Second Division come the season
end.
By
Editor
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