Stevenage 2 York City 0

May 10 2009 by Steve Brown, Sunday Sun

THE MINSTERMEN must be sick of the sight of Steve Morison, and wish he’d joined Millwall sooner.

The Stevenage striker is set to join the Lions this summer, and bowed out of the Borough with his 31st goal of the season, his fourth against York this term and fifth in total at City’s expense.

Not only that, but having scored the decisive goal in a Trophy final for the second time (he got the winner when Stevenage won in 2007), he even had time at the death to set up Lee Boylan for the final nail in York’s coffin.

Not bad for a guy chucked out of Northampton by Colin Calderwood, and there was nothing York could do to stop him easing Stevenage’s pain at missing out on promotion to the Football League last week.

Even with Archbishop John Sentamu watching over them, City barely had a prayer.

In their first Trophy final to the Borough’s third, it showed, and though they enjoyed more than the odd decent chance – not to mention a penalty appeal turned down by referee Michael Jones – overawed York were never quite at the races.

“They worked hard and did everything we asked of them,” said manager Martin Foyle.

“Unfortunately, we’re just not good enough to beat a side like Stevenage. We had chances to build as a team, and the back four worked very hard, but unfortunately a set-piece gave them the lead.

“At the moment we’re a little bit down but there’s lots to take out of this.”

In truth, it wasn’t great. Incidents aplenty, but not great. The 40th Trophy final at least got the Wembley pitch – 10 days old, the seventh in two years – it deserved, but there was no such even playing field between the two sides.

How different it might have been, however, had York taken a great chances inside 30 seconds.