Our free Saturday - April 7th
Next Saturday we have a free date due to the re-scheduling of our away fixture at Lincoln City. As a result you might like to take in one of the following "localish" games (all 3pm kick-offs):
NATIONAL LEAGUE SOUTH:
Hemel Hempstead T v Chippenham T
Oxford City v Eastbourne Borough
St Albans City v Whitehawk
Wealdstone v Bath City
SOUTHERN LEAGUE PREM DIV:
Banbury Utd v Biggleswade Town
Dunstable Town v Kettering Town
Kings Langley v St Neots Town
SOUTHERN LEAGUE DIVISION ONE EAST:
Aylesbury United v Hayes & Yeading
(at Chesham United FC)
Beaconsfield Town v Arlesey Town
Uxbridge v Thame United
HELLENIC LEAGUE PREMIER DIV:
Burnham v Thatcham Town
Windsor v Tuffley Rovers
HELLENIC LEAGUE DIV ONE EAST:
Penn & Tylers Green v Chalfont Wasps
Thame Rangers v Chinnor
SPARTAN SOUTH MIDLANDS LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION:
Leighton Town v Leverstock Green
I'm sure given their recent troubles Penn & Tylers Green would appreciate a few extra faces for their local derby with Chalfont Wasps. Hopefully I'll be at the League Two 6-pointer between Barnet & Forest Green Rovers at the Hive.
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Add on: Spartan League Division One:
Risborough Rangers v Enfield Borough
Risborough Rangers 4-2 Enfield Borough.
The teams started the day 7th and 9th respectively, well off the two promotion places. After a brilliant save by the Rangers keeper to tip a shot onto the post, the home side raced to a four goal half-time lead. Two were from Martin Griggs, one a 20 yard free kick, taking him to 34 for the season. It wasn’t as one sided as it sounds, Borough had a lot of the ball but their painstaking, short passing build-ups were not really suited to the dry but bobbly surface.
After the break Rangers sat back a bit and Borough got two back mid-half. The second one, an o.g. after a shot hit the post and bounced in off the keeper, then saw the keeper bizarrely determined not to give the ball back and, after an age, a tussle ensued in the net as keeper and striker rolled on the ground grappling for the ball. Yellow card for the keeper, followed two minutes later by a second yellow for an Enfield player, for a bad tackle. Overall Rangers were more a little more direct, and stronger and more forceful. Borough will be disappointed to have conceded three from dead balls. Enfield were only formed in 2016, promoted in their first season, and share the Queen Elizabeth II Stadium with Enfield Town. The attendance was 66 and I enjoyed sitting with @Kimble_Blue!
Enjoyable afternoon with my old friend @Steve_Peart talking all things lower league and non-league football and of course the mighty Chairboys not too far away.
Barwell v Sutton Coldfield Town
A fairly even contest in the Northern Premier League Premier Division that ended in a 2-1 victory to Barwell and relegation for Sutton Coldfield.
The Sutton Coldfield team included a strike pairing of experienced journeymen Justin Richards and Karl Hawley. Barwell went in front when a whipped cross across goal was turned in at the near post by an unfortunate Sutton defender for an own goal, but Hawley tapped in just before half-time to level the scores. A nice goal from Matt Stenson put Barwell back in front on the hour. Stenson beat a couple of defenders to a high ball forward, brought it down, lifted it over a defender and stroked it on the half-volley past the keeper and into the net.
The visitors had two good chances to get back level - Richards failed to make proper contact with the ball when allowed a free header on the six yard line, meaning it bounced tamely to the Barwell keeper, and midfielder Checkaine Steele failed to beat the keeper when through one-on-one - but ended the game 10 points adrift at the bottom of the league with only 3matches left to play.
An entertaining and enjoyable afternoon, watched by a crowd of 145.
Some impressive performances by our local Southern League teams today. Beaconsfield continued their promotion push with a 7-0 demolition of bottom team Arlesey Town at home, including five goals in the last 17 minutes, and a hat-trick for Lee Barney in 15 minutes.
Thame United bounced back from their 7-2 drubbing at Aylesbury United last weekend with a 5-1 win at Uxbridge, with three goals in 10 minutes for Dan West. ‘Westy Junior’ now has 27 league goals this season, many of those from a midfield position. He clearly has goal scoring in his genes!
Aylesbury United had an impressive 1-0 win over second placed Hayes & Yeading, unbeaten in the previous seven. Scott Donnelly was in their line-up. The Ducks are in good form, 18 points out of 24, 28 out of 42.
Barnet 1 Forest Green Rovers 0
The Martin Allen revival continues with Barnet making a real fist of trying to avoid the drop. A 45th minute shot by Tom Nicholls was enough to separate the teams. A real basement scrap - not one for the purists by any means.
2 points to note. Barnet have re-opened their South Terrace in order to improve the ground atmosphere. About 400 people now use it: £10 for adults & £1 for kids.
Both my daughters are vegetarian & the food offering for them at Adams Park is very poor. Compare that to bottom-of-the-table Barnet. 3-courses for lunch: garlic bread & green salad to start, grilled halloumi burger with fried rice & chips to followed & a Baskin & Robbins ice cream to finish. £12.50. If Barnet can do that, why can't Wycombe?
Had they laid that on just for the visit of FGR?
What a good question @drcongo, sir. Low bow, scrape scrape.
Don't think the pudding would pass the vegan test...
We're not going to be selling Baskin and Robbins ice cream any time soon, are we?
@hcblue You’d have to be a pretty relaxed vegan to go for the garlic bread or the halloumi burger
POTD
Oh yeah: halloumi's cheese, isn't it! And garlic butter...
Thank you all for the collective comedy genius