Results 14/10/06

[stretfordendling©]

Hayes 1 -3 Bromley

There is no match report because our team didn't turn up.

[Giggy of Telford]

FA CUP

Worcester City 1 v 1 Hemel Hempstead Town
Whitley Bay 2 v 2 Blyth Spartans
Havant & Waterlooville 2 v 0 Carshalton
Hayes 1 v 3 Bromley
Witton Albion1 v 1 Farsley Celtic
Kettering Town 2 v 1 Rocester
Bedford Town 0 v 2 Moor Green
Nuneaton Borough 0 v 1 Hucknall
Eastleigh 0 v 1 Salisbury City


Nationwide Conference

Aldershot Town 4 v 2 Kidderminster Harriers
Burton Albion 0 v 1 Gravesend & Northfleet
Cambridge United 1 v 2 Crawley Town
Grays Athletic 1 v 1 Forest Green Rovers
Halifax Town 3 v 1 Tamworth
Morecambe 2 v 2 Exeter City
Northwich Victoria 4 v 1 Rushden & Diamonds
Oxford United 1 v 1 Altrincham
St Albans City 4 v 2 York City
Stafford Rangers 1 v 0 Woking
Stevenage Borough 1 v 2 Dagenham & Redbridge
Weymouth 2 v 0 Southport


Nationwide Conference North

Workington A v A Redditch United
Worksop Town 3 v 1 Hyde United


Nationwide Conference South
Bognor Regis Town 3 v 1 Weston-super-Mare
Eastbourne Borough 3 v 1 Thurrock FC


Unibond Premier Division

North Ferriby United 4 v 1 Kendal Town
Mossley 1 v 1 Hednesford Town
Lincoln United 1 v 0 Whitby Town
Ashton United 1 v 0 Frickley Athletic
Gateshead 2 v 1 Ilkeston Town
Grantham Town 0 v 3 Burscough
Leek Town 0 v 0 Radcliffe Borough
Prescot Cables 0 v 1 AFC Telford United


(Arngrove Northern League Results up when I find them.)

[coops]

Okay, so I cheated a bit but seing as hardly any of you voted anyway:

BNJS Mann 7-0 Littleton Reserves

The Timothy Taylor Landlord was spot on in the Rising Sun before the match, I missed the first two goals!

Littleton apparently had to ring round to raise a team and it showed, they were awful, BNJS Mann had two decent players, the attacking midfielder (known as Smudger, so I assume his name was Smith!) who grabbed a hat-trick and a f*ckin' HUGE centre-half who only had to growl at the Littleton attackers for them to run away.

Attendance? I counted nine in the first half but then a salsa class must have finished in the arts centre because there were about 25 more in the second half, all of whom were wearing incredibly flamboyant shirts.

Finally, to cap off a great day, The Port 'n' Ale had Sarah Hughes Ruby Mild........bliss.

[samd]

Whitley Bay 2-2 Blyth Spartans

About 800 Spartans amongst the 2023 crowd........probably about 900 neutrals aswell which is nice.

We started brighter and took the lead from the spot, Whitley equalised 10 minutes later from a header. Whitley took the lead in the second half from another header and we equalised deep into injury time to rescue a replay.

[medibot]

Coops Sir, you must indulge in some south coast tinpottery so i can indulge in the marvellous tour of tinpotness you are on at the moment

[coops]

medibot said:

Coops Sir, you must indulge in some south coast tinpottery so i can indulge in the marvellous tour of tinpotness you are on at the moment

You provide the Tinpot recommendations and I'll try to persuade the wife that we really need a break!

[amberaleman]

I was at the Conference match with the biggest margin of victory, Northwich 4 Rushden & D 1.

I hadn't been to Vics' new ground, which still isn't quite complete! Decent stand along one side and covered terracing opposite - but only a flat expanse of concrete behind each goal. I had to negotiate a marsh to get there by the back route from the station - this way also took me round the back of Witton Albion's ground, behind which was a collection of vintage buses!

A good game of football, with the result flattering Vics a little, but they deserved the three points for taking their chances. Diamonds began with an aggressive 4-3-3 formation, and the dangerous runs of Tyrone Berry unsettled the home defence. But once Vics got into their rhythm and began to spread the ball about, they were able to exert pressure of their own. Their three first-half goals all came from set pieces, the first from beanpole defender Gareth Griffiths after a corner ball had been returned into the area and the next two from free kicks. Diamonds got one back early in the second half, Simeon Jackson pouncing after Phil Senior had spilled a Berry cross. But within a minute Vics' new signing Louis Dodds took advantage of some hesitancy in the visiting defence to float a beautiful lob over Nicky Eyre.

A small group of home fans mustered an occasional chorus of "One Mike Connett, there's only one Mike Connett", following reports that the FA is to investigate the Chairman's string of liquidated businesses and the absence of club accounts.

I managed a few beers in Stockport - including one in the fabulous Arden Arms, which is on CAMRA's National Inventory of historic interiors. The only downside to the day was the engineering work outside Euston which meant my inter-city journey starting and finishing at bleedin' Harrow & Wealdstone. Don't ask!

[amberaleman]

coops said:

The Timothy Taylor Landlord was spot on in the Rising Sun before the match,


Finally, to cap off a great day, The Port 'n' Ale had Sarah Hughes Ruby Mild........bliss.

I can also vouch for those two tip-top Tipton establishments!

[ojiveojive]

Bedford Town 0 Moor Green 2

This game kicked off three times! First time Bedford kicked off and one of our players was quick enough to intercept the ball played back towards their midfield, ref blew for encroachment! Second kick off was similar but the ball reached the Bedford midfielder who tried to pass it forward but it went straight to one of Moor Green's midfielders - ref blew up again, God knows what for, he insisted on the kick-off being taken for a third time. These were probably the only bad decisions the ref made as he tried to keep the game flowing. Moor Green cut Bedford to pieces and opened the scoring on four minutes following a corner, which Bedford cleared to our right wing, with a wonderfully flighted ball from Bridgewater being met by a fantastic flying header from centre back Lee Ayres, invoking chants of 'Where's your centre half, where's your centre half?' to the tune of Where's your momma gone? Moor Green continued to cut Bedford to pieces with some excellent attacking, passing, one touch football and the second came after, missing several chances, on 27 minutes when a rasping Jason Moore shot from the edge of the area took a slight deflection on its way into the top corner. Bedford's centre half and captain was having a total mare being pulled out of position every time Moor Green attacked and went awol for both Moor Green goals. Moor Green should easily have been three or four to the good when the half time whistle came. At least the Bedford fans were gracious in that they realised that they had been pole axed in the first half by Moor Green's free flowing attacking football.

The second half brought two immediate substitutions and a change in tactics from Bedford but although they had more of the ball and created a few opportunities their finishing was woeful and they never really threatened to score with the exception of one attempt cleared off the line. Moor Green continued to play their one touch attacking football and controlled the game without adding to their first half tally. Praise to the Moor Green faithful that made the journey and also to the Bedford supporters who wished us well in the next round, they must be one of the friendliest bunches of supporters in the country, considering they'd been played off the park for most of the game their disappointment could have turned into aggressive resentment but they offered us only congratulations and best wishes, plus a word for Bedford's keeper, Ian Brown, who kept the banter with the Moor Green supporters behind his goal lighthearted throughout, despite the usual keeper taunts. One or two in the Conf North could take a leaf out of his book, now who could I possibly mean?

[ambersalamander]

coops said:

Finally, to cap off a great day, The Port 'n' Ale had Sarah Hughes Ruby Mild........bliss.

Now that, sir, is what I call a damn fine beer

[coops]

ambersalamander said:

coops said:

Finally, to cap off a great day, The Port 'n' Ale had Sarah Hughes Ruby Mild........bliss.

Now that, sir, is what I call a damn fine beer

Tell my head about it!

[DazaB_WCFC]

ojiveojive said:

Bedford Town 0 Moor Green 2

This game kicked off three times!

You'd think it kicked off 4 times, one for each half and one for each goal

Worcester City 1-1 Hemel Hempstead Town

Fabio Valenti poked Hemel Hempstead Town back into the hat for Monday's fourth round qualifying draw 13 minutes from time after Worcester took the lead midway through the first half when Traore was pushed in the back and George Clegg confidently slotted home the spot kick. Both sides had chances to score, with Traore missing a chance he should have buried just before half time and Justin Thompson making a goal line clearance not long after the break, Danny McDonnell saved City with a sprawling save before Valenti poked in a cross which City failed to deal with, before Chris Cornes fired over in the dying embers of the game which means Andy Preece's and Steve Bateman's troops will lock horns at The Vauxhall Ground in Tuesday night's replay. Anthony Thomas was sent off after the final whistle after hitting the referee as proceedings threatened to boil over after what seemed a calm game. The significance of this result can only be shown by the huge celebration from the travelling support at full time. City should have won, lessons should have been learnt after the Romulus game lets hope we are safely through to the 4th Qualifying Round come Wednesday morning.

[Giggy of Telford]

Prescot 0-1 Telford

Not a pretty game of football, we took a strong start but and good football was soon stopped by a poor pitch and a very physical home side. Prescot were not the most skilled side we'd came accross but were a strong side, you could see while watching that it was not going to be like our last visit to the ground to play Runcorn, where we rode out the 7-0 winners.

Though we were the better team for most of the game there were a few first half scares, centre-back Andy Jones headed back to keeper Stuart Brock but misdirected his head leaving Brock at full stretch to avoid what would have been a disasterous own goal, shortly afterward brock made a slip up of his own (literally) when he went for the ball, slipped over and dropped it just outside the area, luckily he let go of it before it got outside of area. As he's usually one of the best keepers in the Unibond we let him off.

The only goal of the game came on 55 minutes when some hard graft by both Andy Jones and Scott Willis led to a shot for Lee Moore he took this well and after going one behind Prescot never really looked like scoring.

Final Score PCFC 0-1 AFCTU
MotM: 10) Lee Moore

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And last night:

AFC Telford Reserves 2-4 Kiddeminster Reserves

I made my first visit to a reserve game, both teams fielded a fairly strong squad and Kiddeminster had 3 former Bucks in it, Playoff hero Steve Taylor in the goal, All-round Telford legend Neil Howarth in the heart of defence and last season's top scorer who then left in suspicious circumstances Luke Reynolds. We gave runouts to several players returning from injury, for the first time this season we almost have a full squad to choose from.

The visiors took the lead from a penalty given away by regular first-teamer Richard Beale, keeper Damien Stevens went the right way but missed the powerful shot. Kiddy went two up shortly after, we had two shots on goal cleared off the line but pulled one back ourselves courtesy of Lee Moore.

After half time we equalised after Justin Marsden, a would be first-teamer who has recently came back from a pre-season injury scored from a very difficult angle. Kiddeminster then went on to win after we conceeded two soft goals.

What surprised me most was that our attendance, despite only being 135 still beat two Unibond fixtures played on the same day. Most of the first team were in the stands though I think they had a training session before the match.

Final Score: AFCTUR 2-4 KHFCR
MotM: 10) Justin Marsden