...fairly busy midweek with a lot of our 'local' sides in action (
not just that faux Union Jack wearing mob from Stag Meadow )
Sadly I was no part of it on Tuesday evening thanks to the accident on the M4 nr 8/9 late PM - sat in a queue for 90 mins - eventually turned round at the Maidenhead junction c. 20:40 and came back home. ..... still at least I only missed a football match - for someone it may well have been far worse. National League - National:...already mentioned somewhere else that the Sh!ts were edged out {EIGHT} 8-2 by Chester
- in front of the lowest league crowd (1425) at the Deva since the clubs' reformation.
Woking shared a goal and a red card apiece at Eastleigh but the 'Spitfires' won it deep in stoppage time.
- South:
.. creditable draw for the
Magpies 0-0 at home to leaders Ebbsfleet - they are now up to 7th
-
Oxford City lost at home by the odd goal in five to high flying Maidstone.
In the Hampshire Senior Cup Semi-Finals
Basingstoke went out 0-2 at Havant & W, who will now play
Winchester City in the Final - City prevailing 3-0 at
Fleet Town - I suspect they may play this at St Mary's April/May time - though last years Final early in May was held at Fratton Park?
Southern - Premier:
'Rebels' undone 2-1at relegation threatened Frome, whilst basement club Bideford got a rare win at Dorchester; on Monday evening
Hungerford continued to press for a Play Off spot with a 3-1 win at home to lowly Paulton including two in the first 10', - 'Crusaders' stay 5th.
One Central:
Egham won 4-0 at Hanwell to stay 2nd;
Beaconsfield SYCOB won 2-1 at Petersfield (
who are changing their name for next season and dropping the SYCOB bit, as they no longer have any association with Slough Youth Club. I'm not sure if they've decided upon 'Town' or 'United' - have a feeling it might be 'Town' as there used to be a club with the latter suffix)One South & West:
... goals aplenty in this section this week - Nor Lye's match at home to Wimborne was washed out on Wednesday but elsewhere leaders Banbury were hammered 7-1 at 5th place Taunton.
Burnham's sorry season continues, walloped 0-4 at The Gore by Larkhall; they now sit 7 points adrift of the 'Freds' with only 8 games left.
Wantage unsurprisingly also took a heavy beating at Cinderford, who are back to 2nd and with games in hand over the 'Puritans'.
Marlow picked up three valuable points at Oak Tree Rd with a 2-0 win over Bps Cleeve and whipping boys Bashley let in another 7 without reply at Evesham.
Supermarine stay in touch at the top in 3rd with a 3-2 win over Mangotsfield - Winchester in Cup action (above) are in 4th.
Combined Counties - Premier:
...our favourite much featured lads from SL4
slipped to a 3-1 defeat at Bedfont Sports, who reportedly are really making a lot of effort to upgrade their ground - apparently close to seating on all four sides. Visitor for this match wrote at length on NLM about the ground and particularly the aerial entertainment - as in large metal containers 'falling out of the sky ' on their way into H'row - is quite an overbearing feature there. He also waxed none too lyrically on the away sides stylised kit.
Other matches in this league: -
Cove lost 5-2 at
Westfield,
Knaphill bt Baggy Lea 3-0;
Ashford T slipped up 2-3 at RPV - Horley and
Chertsey drew a blank and Redhill lost 2-3 at home to Spelthorne.
Div One :
Sandhurst lost 0-3 at Bottom Meadow to Bedfont and Feltham;
Ash drew 1-1 with
Sheerwater.
In the Aldersh!t Cup Q-F
Camberley inflicted a rare home defeat on
Hartley Wintney 3-2.
Not sure of the S-F line ups but Alresford and
Farnham are through with
Badshot Lea and
Fleet Town due to play their Q-F tie next Thursday week (17th) at Ash Utd FC.
Hellenic:
,,,with
Flackwell Heath otherwise engaged in the B&B Trophy S-F - got past
Binfield 2-0 and will play Newport Pagnell in the Final venue date tba -
Thatcham and Kidlington took full advantage both securing big wins - Kiddy {NINE} 9-2 over
Milton Utd and the 'Kingfishers' 5-3 at Tuffley - 2 more goals for the prolific Jon Bennett.
Thame who host Thatcham on Saturday beat the other Glawster-based side Longlevens 4-0 at the ASM Stadium.
...and finally - in the Supplementary Cup:
Bracknell won 2-1 vs Nor Lye Ressies and host
Woodley Utd in the 3rd round (last 16)