The Non - League thread

[Four Of Clubs]

Hungerford vs Maidenhead gone to extra time.

Magpies win 5-4 on pens aet. - (Probably) Host holders Chesham in next round. (last 4)
- other semi-final Marlow v Aylesbury Utd - ties due to be played 3rd week of the New Year.

Burnham bow out of the FA Trophy: H v Weymouth 0-0 aet Terras win 5-4 on pens

CCL - Windsors' match at Molesey postponed late PM; Hartley Wintney share 4 goals at Baddy Lea.

HELLENIC - Ascot scrape past Milton 3-2 and just about hang on to Highmoor's coat tails
- I watched the Palmer Pk outfit easing to a 2-1 win over in form Holyport on Monday evening - in truth they had plenty in reserve and won without too much fuss or bother and for once kept 11 men on the field! I'm yet to get a programme there this term - my fault for turning up round about KO time - well it is only 5' away!

Thame continue their great run - now 8 wins in a row - with a 3-0 romp at Ab Utd
- I got here just after KO by which time the Us were already 2 in arrears (ph$(&ing Caversham Rd & Bridge + slow vehicles nr Ipsden and again nr Culham )

Ardley won 1-0 at Highworth - 'Robins' picked up a 2-0 win at Newbury to climb up to 7th - but there's a sizeable gap to 6th.

...and finally my initial first choice tonight, that I opted against for no particular reason but am delighted I did - Thatcham v Cheltenham Saracens - was called off not long before KO with Sarries stranded in traffic some considerable distance away.

Oh and for those not glued to BBC Baaarks - for live commentary on tonight's 'other' Big Match - Basingstoke exited the FA Cup going down 1-2 in their replay at AFC Telford.

[Four Of Clubs]

Tomorrow's NL matches - weather permitting:-

Results Friday 21st Nov
FA Vase 2nd Round
29 Peterborough Sports 3-4 Peterborough NS
59 Chippenham Park 1-2 Bradford Town aet FT 1-1

Sat 22nd Nov
FA Vase 2nd Round
26 Sun Sports v Stanway Rovers
27 London Colney v Northampton Spencer
28 St Margaretsbury v Ipswich Wanderers
30 Hullbridge Sports v AFC Rushden & Diamonds
31 Holbeach United v Huntingdon Town
32 Norwich United v AFC Kempston Rovers
33 Yaxley v Fakenham Town
34 Deeping Rangers v Oxhey Jets
36 Saffron Walden Town v Kings Langley
37 Ampthill Town v Tring Athletic
38 Wembley v Brantham Athletic
39 Great Yarmouth Town v Hadleigh United
40 Erith Town v Phoenix Sports
41 Lingfield v Chessington & Hook United
42 Horndean v Ascot United
43 Hassocks v Ashford United
44 Hanworth Villa v Knaphill
45 Eastbourne United v Horley Town
46 Horsham YMCA v Erith & Belvedere
47 Abingdon United v Littlehampton Town
48 East Preston v Flackwell Heath
49 Westfield v Tunbridge Wells
50 Pagham v Colliers Wood United
51 United Services Portsmouth v AFC Portchester
52 Crawley Down Gatwick v Greenwich Borough
53 Newport (IW) v Loxwood
54 Alresford Town v Thame United
55 Odd Down v Hallen
56 Verwood Town v Plymouth Parkway
57 Folland Sports v AFC St Austell
58 Buckland Athletic v Bristol Manor Farm
60 Blackfield & Langley v Bemerton Heath Harlequins
61 Melksham Town v Slimbridge
62 Bodmin Town v St Blazey
63 Highworth Town v Bridport
64 Shepton Mallet v Welton Rovers

Playing Sunday 23rd Nov
35 14:00 AFC Dunstable v Kirkley & Pakefield
CONFP
Aldershot Town v Eastleigh
Woking v Barnet - Cards welcome league leaders
CONFS
Boreham Wood v Gosport Borough
Bromley v Sutton United
Chelmsford City v Bath City
Eastbourne Borough v Ebbsfleet United
Farnborough v Hayes & Yeading Utd
Hemel Hempstead Town v Basingstoke Town
St Albans City v Havant & Waterlooville
Staines Town v Bishops Stortford
Wealdstone v Concord Rangers
Weston-Super-Mare v Whitehawk
... no game for Magpies

SOUTHP
Biggleswade Town v Hungerford Town
Burnham v Weymouth
Chippenham Town v Chesham United
Slough Town v Hitchin Town
SOUTH1C
Barton Rovers v Beaconsfield SYCOB
Egham Town v Hanwell Town
Godalming Town v North Greenford United
Northwood v Chalfont St Peter
St Ives Town v Marlow
Uxbridge v Bedworth United
SOUTH1S&W
Clevedon Town v Wantage Town
Didcot Town v Wimborne Town
North Leigh v Bashley
Yate Town v Fleet Town

CCLP
Epsom & Ewell v Molesey
Farnham Town v Chertsey Town
Frimley Green v Mole Valley SCR
Hartley Wintney v Cove
Raynes Park Vale v Ashford Town (Middx)
Spelthorne Sports v Guildford City
Windsor v Camberley Town
CCL1
14:00 AFC Croydon Athletic v Ash United
Bedfont & Feltham v Banstead Athletic
Epsom Athletic v Dorking
14:00 Farleigh Rovers v CB Hounslow United
Sandhurst Town v Alton Town
Staines Lammas v Worcester Park

HELLP
Highmoor Ibis v Thatcham Town
Kidlington v Binfield
Shrivenham v Bracknell Town
...saw an understrength Binfield ease to 3--0 win here on Wednesday - though Dickens came on as a late sub and the CBs were more or less first squad options if not perhaps first choice.
HELL1E
Finchampstead v Brackley Town 'Dev'
Old Woodstock Town v Wokingham & Emmbrook
Penn & Tylers Green v Didcot Town
HELLENIC Challenge R2
Ardley United v Chinnor
Brimscombe & Thrupp v North Leigh United
Clanfield v Woodley Town
13:45 Easington Sports v Newbury
Henley Town v Wootton Bassett Town
Holyport v Burnham Res
Longlevens AFC v Lydney Town
Rayners Lane v Chalfont Wasps
Milton United v Letcombe
Tuffley Rovers v Oxford City Nomads

WESSP
Andover Town v Christchurch
Lymington Town v Whitchurch United
Winchester City v Fawley
WESS1
Andover New Street v Hythe & Dibden
Laverstock & Ford v Tadley Calleva
Team Solent v Fleet Spurs

[Royal Rother]

Windsor 1-2 Camberley

88th and 95th minute goals did for us yesterday.

No complaints but I thought it was a slightly unfortunate loss for Windsor in the end.

Unless Kirby's head injury is nothing more than superficial we are likely to go into Tuesday's game with zero central defenders. When Camberley scored their 2 goals late on Kirby was sporting a head bandage and Leonetti could hardly walk, let alone run. Ellis' main injury came after the winning goal but that looked quite serious. (And Jeffrey is suspended.)

Searching for a late late late equaliser we had a great effort brilliantly saved by their 'keeper.

Our young 'keeper has done nothing less than could be expected of a teenager but he does have a tendency to fumble under pressure and one such fumble gifted Camberley the winner. The sooner Dennison is fit enough to play the better.

The ref was pretty poor making many daft decisions - the one that really got me (on behalf of Camberley) was when their guy went down in the centre circle (it was an odd one as he seemed to be holding his stomach rather than his leg but I hadn't seen any contact) and the ref played on... he even looked around at him a couple of times as Camberley's attack developed and then, just as they were about to cross, fully 10 seconds after the injury and just as the bloke was showing signs of life, he blew up. Absolutely inexplicable.

Anyway, we do play some lovely stuff at times (not much evident in the 2nd half yesterday) but it looks like the big physical teams are always going to be a problem for us.

Top 4 will be a good finish for us.

[Four Of Clubs]

Results from yesterday PM


Sat 22nd Nov
FA Vase 2nd Round
26 Sun Sports 0-1 Stanway Rovers
27 London Colney 3-1 Northampton Spencer
28 St Margaretsbury 3-0 Ipswich Wanderers
34 Deeping Rangers 2-0 Oxhey Jets
36 Saffron Walden Town 6-5 Kings Langley aet
37 Ampthill Town 1-4 Tring Athletic
38 Wembley 3-4 Brantham Athletic aet
41 Lingfield 5-1 Chessington & Hook United
42 Horndean 0-1 Ascot United
44 Hanworth Villa 1-0 Knaphill
45 Eastbourne United 1-3 Horley Town
47 Abingdon United 4-4 Littlehampton Town aet
48 East Preston 0-8 {EIGHT} Flackwell Heath
49 Westfield 1-5 Tunbridge Wells
50 Pagham 1-2 Colliers Wood United
51 United Services Portsmouth 1-3 AFC Portchester
53 Newport (IW) 3-2 Loxwood
54 Alresford Town 3-1 Thame United
- I ended up here – was en route to a ‘new tick’ at Totton & Eling v Fareham. T&E play at relatively new ground build at the same time as/adjacent to AFC Totton’s Testwood Park. I’d seen them once long ago, in their old guise of BAT Sports, (British and American Tobacco ) at Southern Gardens down in the town itself - think their old ground is still in place and presumably used by someone in the Southampton Leagues.
- During a brief stop at Winchester Services, I discovered it had been called off, so diverted east along A31 to here.
- I had been to Alresford's Arlebury Park once before .... on that fateful day back very late 2007 - when we’d gone down 4-6 @ Spuds. Nice set-up, home side hung on to a vastly superior Thame for about an hour – somehow only one goal in arrears – then, as their visitors tired, ran in three goals – horrible slippery drizzly conditions – the Wessex league side proved to have more stamina and Thame had no response once their dominance faded late on.
55 Odd Down 3-2 Hallen
56 Verwood Town 5-4 Plymouth Parkway
57 Folland Sports 2-3 AFC St Austell
58 Buckland Athletic PP Bristol Manor Farm
60 Blackfield & Langley 3-0 Bemerton Heath Harlequins
61 Melksham Town 2-2 Slimbridge aet
62 Bodmin Town 5-2 St Blazey
63 Highworth Town 3-0 Bridport
64 Shepton Mallet 1-0 Welton Rovers

So the remaining clubs from 'our leagues' rack up as follows in the last 64 - draw tomorrow :-
Combined Counties 3 (and not one's you'd first expect - Colliers Wood, Horley and Hanworth Villa)
HELLENIC 3 (1 in a replay # - Flackwell, Ascot, Highworth & Abingdon Utd #. )
Spartan South Mids 4 (Tring Ath, London Colney, St Margaretsbury & AFC Dunstable)
WESSEX 5 (AFC Portchester, Alresford Town, Blackfield & Langley, Newport (IOW) and Verwood Town)
WESTERN 4 (Bradford Town, Melksham or Slimbridge, Odd Down, Shepton Mallet (+ 1 postponement Bristol Manor Farm)

.....others in the south by comparison:

Eastern Counties (Norfolk/Suffolk etc) 5
Southern Counties East (Kent) 5 (1 in a replay)
Sussex 0 (1 in a replay)
SW Peninsula (Devon & Cornwall) 2

CONFP
Aldershot Town 0-2 Eastleigh
Woking 1-1 Barnet – att 2617
CONFS
Boreham Wood 1-1 Gosport Borough
Bromley 2-1 Sutton United
Chelmsford City 2-1 Bath City
Eastbourne Borough 1-1 Ebbsfleet United
Farnborough 1-0 Hayes & Yeading Utd
Hemel Hempstead Town 4-3 Basingstoke Town
St Albans City 1-1 Havant & Waterlooville
Staines Town 1-0 Bishops Stortford
Wealdstone 1-0 Concord Rangers
Weston-Super-Mare PP Whitehawk
CONFN
Stalybridge 0-2 Oxford City

SOUTHP
Biggleswade Town 1-1 Hungerford Town
Burnham 1-2 Weymouth
Chippenham Town 1-1 Chesham United - Chipp’num level on 92’
Slough Town 2-1 Hitchin Town – Rebels score though Ed Smith and Jeffires on 82’ – crowd 273 now sit tidily in 8th.
SOUTH1C
Barton Rovers 3-0 Beaconsfield SYCOB
Egham Town 0-0 Hanwell Town
Godalming Town 3-3 North Greenford United
Northwood 0-2 Chalfont St Peter
St Ives Town PP Marlow
Uxbridge 1-2 Bedworth United
SOUTH1S&W
Clevedon Town PP Wantage Town
Didcot Town 5-1 Wimborne Town – hat-trick for Mills and another for Haysham on 2’ – Clark got the 5th on 88’
North Leigh {ELEVEN} 11-0 Bashley
Yate Town 6-3 Fleet Town
… bit of a goal flood 40 scored in half of the matches in this division yesterday as Merthyr and Bridgwater also knocked in 5.

CCLP
Epsom & Ewell 1-3 Molesey
Farnham Town 3-3 Chertsey Town
Frimley Green 2-3 Mole Valley SCR
Hartley Wintney 0-4 Cove – gaps opening at the top now – Cove 7 points clear of the 'Ashtrees' who went down at RPV. A further 5 points back are Molesey and Camberley – followed by Winsor and Spelly who also have daylight back to Hartley W. in 7th

Raynes Park Vale 3-1 Ashford Town (Middx)
Spelthorne Sports 6-1 Guildford City
Windsor 1-2 Camberley Town
CCL1
AFC Croydon Athletic 1-2 Ash United
Bedfont & Feltham 2-2 Banstead Athletic
Epsom Athletic PP Dorking
Farleigh Rovers 3-2 CB Hounslow United
Sandhurst Town 2-1 Alton Town - welcome three points for the Fizzers after a dozen straight league defeats - sadly though they are still 3 points adrift at the bottom behind the Chicks (Dorking) who have 6 games in hand, then two points further clear are Chess ‘n Hook who have played a whopping NINE games less than Sandhurst! (Well their ground is called Bottom Meadow )

Staines Lammas 2-2 Worcester Park

HELLP
Highmoor Ibis 0-0 Thatcham Town - ‘moor stay top but Kiddy are only one point behind with a game in hand – good result for the ‘Kingfishers’ considering their recent poor run of form.

Kidlington 2-0 Binfield - ‘Moles’ submerged by two late goals – low crowd for Kiddy (43 official) – indeed their crowds generally are considerably down in 14/15 – yet conversely they are maintaining a decent challenge near the top

Shrivenham PP Bracknell Town
HELL1E
Finchampstead 1-1 Brackley Town 'Dev'
Old Woodstock Town 2-0 Wokingham & Emmbrook
Penn & Tylers Green 3-2 Didcot Town Res
HELLENIC Challenge R2
Ardley United 6-1 Chinnor
Brimscombe & Thrupp 2-4 North Leigh United
Clanfield 1-3 Woodley Town
Easington Sports 1-2 Newbury
Henley Town 2-3 Wootton Bassett Town
Holyport 3-1 Burnham Res
Longlevens AFC PP Lydney Town
Rayners Lane 2-0 Chalfont Wasps
Milton United 0-1 Letcombe – bit of a shock here as perennial Div One ‘wooden-spoonists’ grab a win at a Premier club.
Tuffley Rovers 1-3 Oxford City Nomads

WESSP
Andover Town 4-0 Christchurch
Lymington Town 1-1 Whitchurch United
Winchester City 5-0 Fawley
WESS1
Andover New Street PP Hythe & Dibden
Laverstock & Ford 1-2 Tadley Calleva
Team Solent {EIGHT} 8-3 Fleet Spurs – ‘Spurs’ faltering badly now – three very heavy league defeats in the last four – having been unbeaten in their first 9 matches!

Played Sunday 23rd Nov
35 AFC Dunstable 3-2 Kirkley & Pakefield

[Four Of Clubs]

Next Round of the FA Vase ties scheduled for w/e 6th December:

Clubs from CCL, Hellenic & Wessex in bold:-

1 Whitley Bay v Dunston UTS
2 1874 Northwich v Glossop North End
3 Shaw Lane Aquaforce v Shildon
4 AFC Darwen or Chadderton v Newcastle Benfield
5 Seaham Red Star v North Shields
6 St Helens Town v Tadcaster Albion
7 Consett v Marske United
8 Worksop Town v Westfields
9 Thurnby Nirvana v Borrowash Victoria or Bromsgrove Sporting
10 Bolehall Swifts v Brocton
11 Mickleover Royals or Willenhall Town v AFC Mansfield
12 Wisbech Town v Walsall Wood
13 Deeping Rangers v Heanor Town
14 Saffron Walden Town v AFC Dunstable
15 Hullbridge Sports v Great Yarmouth Town
16 St Margaretsbury v Stanway Rovers
17 Peterborough Northern Star v Flackwell Heath
18 Tring Athletic v Norwich United
19 London Colney v Holbeach United
20 Brantham Athletic v Yaxley
21 Hanworth Villa v Erith & Belvedere
22 Alresford Town v Phoenix Sports
23 Horley Town v Greenwich Borough
24 AFC Portchester v Tunbridge Wells
25 Colliers Wood United v Lingfield
26 Ascot United v Newport (IW)
27 Abingdon United or Littlehampton v Hassocks v Ashford United
28 Melksham Town or Slimbridge v Shepton Mallet
29 Blackfield & Langley v Highworth Town
30 AFC St Austell v Verwood Town
31 Buckland Athletic or Bristol Manor Farm v Bodmin Town
32 Bradford Town v Odd Down

[Royal Rother]

Fantastic win for Windsor tonight at Ashford Town.

2-0 down at HT with the familiar failings at the back (despite equal possession and chances) looking like they would cost us dear once more.

Then we go 4-4-2 and come out with a real purpose in the 2nd half get 2 quick goals and and end up winning 3-2 with a late 3rd.

A very wet night but a terrific game of football in the circumstances and the most enjoyable turnaround I can remember for ages.

[Four Of Clubs]

... high jinks amid the downpours this evening in NL -

- result of the evening (covered above as I typed this drivel ) : Windsor come back from 0-2 down to win 3-2 at Ashford Town and move up to 3rd in the table.

I think the only other fixture to survive in that division was at Bedfont & Feltham who bt Southall 1-0 in a Middx County Cup game.

In the Conference Premier the Sh!ts win 3-1 at Southport whilst Woking lose by the same score at Grimsby.

Leaders Barnet succumb 2-1 conceding a very late goal at Brizzle Rovers.

In the Southern section I paddled down to the Soccer AM Stadium for 'stoke v Brommers - arrived to find the ground in darkness - Ref called it off just after 19:00 - whilst I was well underway.

Tried a mad dash up the A339 for Newbury v OC Nomads - but all in vain ..... that had succumbed late on to the earlier downpours too - league site didn't post up that it was waterlogged until much later. Got home in time to watch most of 2nd half of Blue Mancs v Bayern and the late late 'Kun' show.

Haven't checked all the other scheduled fixtures for tonight yet but I do know Sluff drew 2-2 with Chipp'num in the Southern Premier.
Chesham bt Hereford 3-0 in the same section. In Div One Central Chalfont St P continued a good recent run with a 2-1 win over Royston Town.
In 1 S&W the 'Freds' match with Cinderford was also flooded off - was high on my list too, along with similarly washed out Henley in the Hellenic. The Southern League Cup ties tonight ended with away wins: Shortwood overcoming Hungerford on pens after a 3-3 draw; Burnham trouncing Marlow 3-0.

Scours was similarly swamped so RTFC have to go again with Frimley Green in the Aldershot Senior Cup.

Two other matches were completed in the Hellenic - in Premier Flackwell bt Bracknell 3-1 whilst in the Floodlit Cup Ascot bt Shortwood's 2nd String 6-0.

The WESSEX fared the worse with only the League Cup tie taking place Andover Town losing 2-3 to Bemerton HH.

...hope its drier tomorrow eve - though there aren't too many decent games on round here anyway - unless I fancy trekking over to Supermarine for New College v Lydney or Cirencester for WBT v Thatcham

[Royalist]

Windsor 'caught up' in a tapping up row over Dan Hicks. But to be honest in non league football every 7 day approach is pretty much off the back of a word between player and club trying to sign him anyway. Not sure how they can police it but at least it gives some warning to the side losing a player

[Four Of Clubs]

Here's tomorrow's NL matches:

Sat 29th Nov
FA Trophy 3rd Qualifying Rnd

16 Banbury United v Ramsbottom United
17 Sholing v Farnborough
18 Concord Rangers v Boreham Wood
19 Weymouth v Cray Wanderers
20 Merthyr Town v Didcot Town
21 Bedford Town v Weston Super Mare
23 Oxford City v Lewes
24 Truro City v Hemel Hempstead Town
25 Tonbridge Angels v Bromley
26 Bishop’s Stortford v Chelmsford City
27 Eastbourne Borough v Lowestoft Town
28 St Neots Town v AFC Sudbury
29 Ebbsfleet United v Hendon
30 Maidenhead United v Metropolitan Police
31 Basingstoke Town v Whitehawk
32 Havant & Waterlooville v East Thurrock United
33 Peacehaven & Telscombe v Gosport Borough
34 Wimborne Town v AFC Hornchurch
35 St Albans City v Wealdstone
37 Staines Town v Poole Town
38 Burgess Hill Town v Leatherhead
39 Hereford United v Sutton United

Playing Sunday 30th Nov
Gloucester City v Bath City
Hayes & Yeading v Horsham @ York Rd

CONFP
Woking v Braintree
Wrexham v Aldershot

SOUTHP
Burnham v Chippenham Town
Chesham United v Dunstable Town
Hungerford Town v Arlesey Town
SOUTH1C
Beaconsfield SYCOB v Aylesbury United
Bedworth United v Egham Town
Daventry Town v Godalming Town
Kettering Town v Chalfont St Peter
Marlow v Barton Rovers
Uxbridge v Rugby Town
SOUTH1S&W
Cinderford Town v Fleet Town
Wantage Town v Bridgwater Town

CCLP R2
13:30 Worcester Park v Chessington & Hook United
CCLP
Camberley Town v Hartley Wintney
Chertsey Town v Westfield
Colliers Wood United v Frimley Green
Cove v Spelthorne Sports
Guildford City v Epsom & Ewell
Hanworth Villa v Farnham Town
Knaphill v Horley Town
Mole Valley SCR v Windsor
Molesey v Bedfont Sports
Raynes Park Vale v Badshot Lea
CCL1
14:00 Alton Town v Eversley & California
14:00 Ash United v Epsom Athletic
Banstead Athletic v Farleigh Rovers
CB Hounslow United v Bedfont & Feltham
14:00 Sheerwater v AFC Croydon Athletic
Staines Lammas v Sandhurst Town

HELLP
Abingdon United v Ascot United
Ardley United v Bracknell Town
Highmoor Ibis v Kidlington
Highworth Town v Oxford City Nomads
Milton United v Flackwell Heath
Shrivenham v Brimscombe & Thrupp
Thame United v Newbury
Thatcham Town v Reading Town
HELL1W
Lydney Town v Letcombe
HELL1E
Didcot Town Res v Rayners Lane
14:15 Finchampstead v Easington Sports
14:15 Headington Amateurs v Henley Town
14:15 Old Woodstock Town v Chalfont Wasps
14:15 Penn & Tylers Green v Chinnor
14:15 Wokingham & Emmbrook v Woodley Town

WESSP
Bournemouth v Andover Town
Whitchurch United v Moneyfields
Winchester City v Horndean
WESS1
Andover New Street v Ringwood Town
15:30 Fleet Spurs v Cowes Sports
Pewsey Vale v Hythe & Dibden
Tadley Calleva v Team Solent

[Royal Rother]

Windsor 'caught up' in a tapping up row over Dan Hicks. But to be honest in non league football every 7 day approach is pretty much off the back of a word between player and club trying to sign him anyway. Not sure how they can police it but at least it gives some warning to the side losing a player

Despite being on good money at Marlow he wants away and approached Windsor to play for nothing with his mates.

Our manager advised him to stay at Marlow and make it work but he insisted he wanted to come back to Windsor.

No tapping up there.

[Royalist]

No tapping up in terms of money but it does seem it was all in place before the 7 day approach but then nearly every deal is. I guess the same goes on in the pro game but with agents before bids are made they get asked would the player be interested and for this amount ( In Windsor's case playing with your pals)

Not a perfect system but like i said at least the 7 day approach gives advanced warning.

[Four Of Clubs]

Results from this PM

Sat 29th Nov

FA Trophy 3rd Qualifying Rnd

Gainsborough 2-1 Brackley Town
16 Banbury United 0-3 Ramsbottom United
17 Sholing 1-2 Farnborough
18 Concord Rangers 4-0 Boreham Wood
19 Weymouth 3-1 Cray Wanderers
20 Merthyr Town 3-3 Didcot Town - Railwaymen led 3-1 with 15' left but Martyrs pulled one back and levelled deep into stoppapge time
21 Bedford Town 0-0 Weston Super Mare
23 Oxford City 6-1 Lewes
24 Truro City 1-2 Hemel Hempstead Town
25 Tonbridge Angels 0-0 Bromley
26 Bishop’s Stortford 4-3 Chelmsford City
27 Eastbourne Borough v Lowestoft Town
28 St Neots Town 1-1 AFC Sudbury
29 Ebbsfleet United 1-0 Hendon
30 Maidenhead United 2-1 Metropolitan Police
31 Basingstoke Town 1-0 Whitehawk
32 Havant & Waterlooville 2-1 East Thurrock United
33 Peacehaven & Telscombe 0-4 Gosport Borough
34 Wimborne Town 4-2 AFC Hornchurch
35 St Albans City 1-1 Wealdstone
37 Staines Town 3-3 Poole Town
38 Burgess Hill Town 3-2 Leatherhead
39 Hereford United 1-2 Sutton United

CONFP
Woking 1-0 Braintree
Wrexham 3-1 Aldershot

SOUTHP
Burnham 0-0 Chippenham Town
Chesham United 1-3 Dunstable Town
Hungerford Town 2-0 Arlesey Town
SOUTH1C
Beaconsfield SYCOB 4-0 Aylesbury United - vital 2nd win in a row at home for SYCOB over Ducks - 2 goals for Couch gets them out of the bottom 2 for the first time this season.
Bedworth United 1-0 Egham Town
Daventry Town 1-3 Godalming Town
Kettering Town 2-0 Chalfont St Peter
Marlow Ab Barton Rovers - Floodlight failure on 45'
Uxbridge 3-3 Rugby Town
SOUTH1S&W
Cinderford Town 3-0 Fleet Town
Wantage Town 0-1 Bridgwater Town - Freds go down to a 5' goal

CCLP R2
Worcester Park 1-0 Chessington & Hook United
CCLP
Camberley Town 3-1 Hartley Wintney
Chertsey Town 3-0 Westfield
Colliers Wood United 4-1 Frimley Green
Cove 4-3 Spelthorne Sports - leaders still plugging away picking up important wins - gap still 10 points.
Guildford City PP Epsom & Ewell
Hanworth Villa 2-3 Farnham Town
Knaphill 3-1 Horley Town
Mole Valley SCR 0-4 Windsor - good to see no slip ups here against an admittedly inconsistent MVSCR - Windsor now level on points with 2nd place Ashford (Mx) who were not in action this PM
Molesey 0-1 Bedfont Sports
Raynes Park Vale 1-2 Badshot Lea
CCL1
Alton Town 1-2 Eversley & California
Ash United 1-0 Epsom Athletic
Banstead Athletic 0-3 Farleigh Rovers
CB Hounslow United 2-0 Bedfont & Feltham
Sheerwater 1-2 AFC Croydon Athletic
Staines Lammas 1-1 Sandhurst Town

HELLP
Abingdon United 4-1 Ascot United 2 for big Jimmy Deabill against 10 man Yellamen - see 3rd bottom bt 3rd.
Ardley United 2-3 Bracknell Town
Highmoor Ibis PP Kidlington
Highworth Town 4-2 Oxford City Nomads
Milton United 0-6 Flackwell Heath
Shrivenham 3-3 Brimscombe & Thrupp
Thame United 3-1 Newbury
Thatcham Town 1-3 Reading Town att 100
HELL1W
Lydney Town 5-0 Letcombe
HELL1E
Didcot Town Res 2-3 Rayners Lane
Finchampstead 5-2 Easington Sports
Headington Amateurs 1-4 Henley Town
Old Woodstock Town 4-2 Chalfont Wasps
Penn & Tylers Green 2-1 Chinnor
Wokingham & Emmbrook 2-1 Woodley Town
Challenge Cup Round 2
Brackley Town 'Dev' 0-1 Binfield

WESSP
Bournemouth 1-2 Andover Town
Whitchurch United 0-4 Moneyfields - 'Jam Boys' humbled by the league leaders.
Winchester City 2-3 Horndean
WESS1
Andover New Street 0-3 Ringwood Town
Fleet Spurs 1-1 Cowes Sports
- ended up here - easiest option after youngests' football finished late at Kings Meadow. We had time to go home - have a quiet sit/hot drink - he got cleaned up/dried off/warmed up etc - trundled down to Fleet for a 15:30 KO - evidently put back for the Ferry times to/from IoW. Cowes still unbeaten but Spurs stopped a run of poor results with a battling draw - indeed could have won with their fast direct running style but the Islanders held on : hosts equalised mid-way thorugh 2nd half. Bacon/Sausage Baps done to order - very good, though the set up here is fairly basic.
Pewsey Vale 0-1 Hythe & Dibden
Tadley Calleva 0-4 Team Solent - Tadley's brief spell at the top comes to a shuddering halt - Students take over in some style.

[Cureton's Volley]

Great away wins for Henley & Reading Towns

[Royal Rother]

And Windsor.

Pretty dominant display really. Should have been several goals clear at HT but only netted in the 45th.

Seemed to settle us and we scored 3 more in the 2nd half.

We are just about getting through an injury mini-crisis; 3 players on the bench who were really there to make up the numbers with no real intention of them being brought on.

[Four Of Clubs]

...any chance to escape the 'domestic bliss' - I managed to nip up to jn 8/9 for this PM's FA Trophy 3Q clash betwixt

Hayes & Yeading v Horsham @ York Rd- finished 6-0 to the 'home' side. Free parking in Maiders for the Xmas duration too - which is a nice touch. Then again, I think the Stafferton Way Long Stay is free on Sundays anyhow?
- trouble is; with it only being the 'lodgers' playing, the Bell St entrance wasn't open - didn't notice this until I'd trekked all the way up there - so had to back-track round into York Rd. Didn't mind that much - though could have been iffy as the Ref started the match at about 14:57 - just as I was squeezing though the narrowest turnstiles in local NL - and I'm not a particularly Fat B@st@rd - is all Coat I assure you!!

Remarked to the operater there about the other entrance - she confessed that H&Y didn't know there was a 2nd entrance until very recently!

Also worked out later that they were charging £2 more for the Trophy than their hosts do for league games???

Match was no contest - huge gulf in class between mid-table STEP02 and lower reaches of STEP04. H&Y looked very good, even accounting for the standard of the opposition.

Horsham fans as usual highly entertaining - big repertoire of 'Lard-based' songs -

.."All you need is Lard"

.."With Lard in my Heart"

.. "No Surrender, No Surrender, No Surrender to the Low Fat Spread"

[dizzynewheights]

Maaaate, even I can get through that turnstyle no problem

My mate Donuts has to walk round though

Was there Saturday for the MUFC game. We were by far the better team in the first half and well deserving of our 2-0 lead until the last 20 minutes or so when we faded badly. In all honesty we were lucky to scrape past them.

We were absolutely delighted when they scored though as it gave us the opportunity to sing ITS JUST LIKE SHOOTING BRAZIL

Metropolitan Police also have NO FANS.

[Royalist]

Hayes and Yeading got the begging bowl out

http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/sport/fo ... ld-8191129

2 perfectly fine football clubs ruined by over ambition it seems? What a travesty.

Still i'm sure somebody made a lot of money by selling the old ground for housing!!

[Royal Rother]

Nice little 8-1 win for Windsor against Ash Utd in the CCL Cup last night with Robert Lazarczuk netting 5 times to make it 8 goals for him in 2 games and he's not even a striker.

Bit of a prat in that he irritates the fcuk out of the fans with his general demeanour and indiscipline (regularly getting booked for stupidity, dissent, kicking the ball away, standing in front of a free kick to the oppo and not moving back - all that sort of crap) but he's OUR prat.

[Alan Partridge]

magnificent result for Diddy last night, 2-1 winners over Merthyr in the Trophy replay which means the mighty Did are heading to FGR next.

Was scrappy, nervy and tough last night against the best side in the league who will win it by 10 points minimum. Haysham gave Diddy the lead inside 2 minutes and then it was backs to the walls stuff, Merthyr levelled just shy of 70minutes with a free header from a corner and it looked like only one winner at that stage but credit to Didcot they stuck in there raised their game and went and nicked it 5 minutes later. Bit of last ditch defending and a slice of luck and they got through. Scenes.

[Four Of Clubs]

... soz later with preview than usual - manic dashing about mode - here's today's NL fixtures incl FACup 2R cos there's still a few sides left in.
Beware of frost though .... if you aren't MadStad bound ... and considering one of these.... e.g. youngest's Rugby at Ascot this AM and then Football at Kings Meadow at lunchtime both called off due to frozen ground.

SATURDAY 6th DECEMBER 2014
The FA Cup – 2nd Rd Proper
1 Oxford United v Tranmere Rovers
2 Bury v Luton Town
3 17:30 Wrexham v Maidstone United
(Live on BBC Wales)
7 Accrington Stanley v Yeovil Town
9 Milton Keynes Dons v Chesterfield
12 Oldham Athletic v Doncaster Rovers
13 Preston North End v Shrewsbury Town
16 Sheffield United v Plymouth Argyle
18 Cambridge United v Mansfield Town

The FA Vase – 3rd Rd Proper
1 Whitley Bay v Dunston UTS
2 1874 Northwich v Glossop North End
3 Shaw Lane Aquaforce v Shildon
4 Chadderton v Newcastle Benfield
5 Seaham Red Star v North Shields
6 St Helens Town v Tadcaster Albion
7 Consett v Marske United
8 Worksop Town v Westfields
9 Thurnby Nirvana v Bromsgrove Sporting
10 Bolehall Swifts v Brocton
12 Wisbech Town v Walsall Wood
13 Deeping Rangers v Heanor Town
14 Saffron Walden Town v AFC Dunstable
15 Hullbridge Sports v Great Yarmouth Town
16 St Margaretsbury v Stanway Rovers
17 Peterborough Northern Star v Flackwell Heath
18 Tring Athletic v Norwich United
19 London Colney v Holbeach United
20 Brantham Athletic v Yaxley
21 Hanworth Villa v Erith & Belvedere
22 Alresford Town v Phoenix Sports
23 Horley Town v Greenwich Borough
24 AFC Portchester v Tunbridge Wells
25 Colliers Wood United v Lingfield
26 Ascot United v Newport (IW)
27 Littlehampton Town v Ashford United
28 Melksham Town v Shepton Mallet
29 Blackfield & Langley v Highworth Town
30 AFC St Austell v Verwood Town
31 Buckland Athletic v Bodmin Town
32 Bradford Town v Odd Down

SUNDAY 7 DECEMBER 2014
The FA Cup – 2nd Rd Proper
4 14:00 Scunthorpe United v Worcester City
5 16:30 Colchester United v Peterborough United
(Live on BT Sport)
6 14:00 Wycombe Wanderers v AFC Wimbledon
10 14:00 Southport v Eastleigh
11 12:00 Gateshead v Warrington Town
(Live on BT Sport)
14 14:00 Barnsley v Chester
15 14:00 Bradford City v Dartford
17 14:00 Cheltenham Town v Dover Athletic
19 14:00 Bristol City v AFC Telford United
20 14:00 Aldershot Town v Rochdale

The FA Vase – 3rd Rd Proper
11 Mickleover Royals v AFC Mansfield

CONFS
Basingstoke Town v Sutton United
Boreham Wood v Hayes & Yeading Utd
Chelmsford City v Hemel Hempstead Town
Concord Rangers v Farnborough
Havant & Waterlooville v Eastbourne Borough
Maidenhead United v Ebbsfleet United
St Albans City v Bath City
Wealdstone v Staines Town
Weston-Super-Mare v Bromley
Whitehawk v Gosport Borough

SOUTHP
Chesham United v Hungerford Town
Redditch United v Burnham
Slough Town v Dunstable Town
SOUTH1C
Aylesbury v Beaconsfield SYCOB
Chalfont St Peter v Bedford Town
Egham Town v St Ives Town
Hanwell Town v Kettering Town
Marlow v Uxbridge
Royston Town v Godalming Town
SOUTH1S&W
Didcot Town v Wantage Town
Fleet Town v Shortwood United
Swindon Supermarine v North Leigh

CCLP
Ashford Town (Middx) v Molesey
Farnham Town v Knaphill
Frimley Green v Spelthorne Sports
Guildford City v Mole Valley SCR
Hartley Wintney v Raynes Park Vale
Westfield v Cove
Windsor v Bedfont Sports
CCL1
14:00 Alton Town v Sheerwater
Ash United v Dorking
Bedfont & Feltham v Eversley & California
Epsom Athletic v Staines Lammas
14:00 Farleigh Rovers v Chessington & Hook United
14:00 Worcester Park v Sandhurst Town

HELLP
Abingdon United v Shrivenham
Binfield v Thame United
Bracknell Town v Thatcham Town
Cheltenham Saracens v Ardley United
Highmoor Ibis v Wootton Bassett Town
Holyport v Reading Town
Kidlington v Brimscombe & Thrupp
Oxford City Nomads v Milton United
HELL1W
Shortwood United Res v Letcombe
HELL1E
Brackley Town 'Dev' v Penn & Tylers Green
Burnham Res v Headington Amateurs
14:00 Chalfont Wasps v Easington Sports
Chinnor v Henley Town
Rayners Lane v Old Woodstock Town
14:00 Wokingham & Emmbrook v Didcot Town Res
Woodley Town v Finchampstead

WESSP
Andover Town v Totton & Eling
Fawley v Whitchurch United
Winchester City v Hamworthy United
WESS1
Downton v Fleet Spurs
Team Solent v Andover New Street
- Tadley’s match at Hythe & Dibden’s brand new ground at Clayfields postponed – facilities not got a Safety certificate yet.

...will try and mark and p'ponenments that I find out about later - dashing out again now!