The Non - League thread

[Hoop Blah]

My son’s Sunday League team played a cup Qtr Final yesterday - the opposition are a newly formed team who have been put in Div 3 and beat us 11-1. They are on an entirely different level which is not surprising considering they have 4 players who play for Hayes and Yeading who, as you all know, are walking away with the Boston South Central League, Some 14 points ahead of Bracknell. (Don’t know whether they are 1st teamers tbh but they were plenty good enough to tonk us into next week.)

What? Players at that level don't play Sunday League do they? Who'd have thought it?

[Royal Rother]

Windsor players don’t.

Well, one or two might do these days.

[Four Of Clubs]

FA Vase S-F draw

W/E 16th March

Northwich Victoria v Chertsey

Cray Valley PM v Canterbury City
- note co-hosts Greenwich Borough scheduled to play Horsham that Sat .... but there is some indication that a Vase S-F may trump an Isthmian League game and Greenwich will move their game to the Sunday
2nd Legs W/E 23rd March

..... ensuring there will be a team from Kent in the Final in May

.... Also there is a chance that both Northwich AND AFC Fylde may become the first clubs to have won both NL National competitions - maybe even within hours of one another!

[The Enfield Royal71]

Cray Valley have a certain Kevin Lisbie upfront for them! 42 years old and scoring loads.

[Royal Rother]

Hellenic Floodlit Cup - Windsor 1-4 Binfield

Complete turnaround from Saturday’s game between these 2 when Windsor won 2-0 away. Binfield looked like a different team and played well. Overall a pretty decent game of football to both teams credit (especially considering it’s their 3rd meeting in 2 weeks).

[Four Of Clubs]

Hellenic Floodlit Cup - Windsor 1-4 Binfield

Complete turnaround from Saturday’s game between these 2 when Windsor won 2-0 away. Binfield looked like a different team and played well. Overall a pretty decent game of football to both teams credit (especially considering it’s their 3rd meeting in 2 weeks).

... not sure if the 'Moles' had Idris Kamara available - new signing from Marlow - he'd have tightened things up in Central Defence. Lots of doom 'n gloom around articles in the local (Wokkers) press about Roger considering his future at Binfield.

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here's tomorrow's NL games

Saturday 3rd March

NAT
AFC Fylde v Maidenhead United
Aldershot Town v Gateshead
NATN
Blyth Spartans v Brackley Town
NATS
Bath City v Truro City
Chelmsford City v Concord Rangers
Chippenham Town v Oxford City
Dulwich Hamlet v Dartford
East Thurrock United v Billericay Town
Gloucester City v Wealdstone
Hampton & Richmond Borough v Eastbourne Borough
Hungerford Town v Woking – 'Cards' won at Truro 0-1 on Tue but Torquay stay top due to a 1-2 win at East Thurrock.
Slough Town v Hemel Hempstead Town
Torquay United v Weston-super-Mare
Welling United v St Albans City

ILP
Dorking Wanderers v Burgess Hill Town
IL1-SC
Bracknell Town v Chalfont St Peter
Marlow v Egham Town - Blues battered Cheshunt 4-0 midweek but stay 4th behind Bracknell & Westfield - the latter edging past Ashford 2-1
Northwood v Bedfont Sports
Uxbridge v Chipstead
Waltham Abbey v Ashford Town (Middx)
Westfield v Hayes & Yeading United – leaders H&Y back amongst the goals midweek, thumping lowly South Park 5-2 and their lead remains 17 points over the 'Robins'. This could be a contest of sorts as 'field are 3rd.

SLP-C
Banbury United v Needham Market
SLP-S
Hartley Wintney v Staines Town – HW picked up a vital 3 pointer on Tue, with a 3-0 win over Wimborne
Hendon v Basingstoke Town
Poole Town v Beaconsfield Town
Swindon Supermarine v Chesham United – ‘Generals’ picked up another win midweek, 1-0 at Amy Lane vs Gosport
Walton Casuals v Farnborough
SL1-C
AFC Dunstable v Thame United
Aylesbury United v Dunstable Town
Bromsgrove Sporting v North Leigh
Didcot Town v Aylesbury
Kidlington v Coleshill Town
SL1-S
Bideford v Winchester City
- Watched Winch overpower Highworth 1-4 at the Elms on Wednesday night. Hosts had no answer to City’s strength from set-pieces. Opened the scoring themselves from a great free-kick, swerved over the wall and into the top corner. Had half an eye on the proceedings from Grenada

Fleet Town v Larkhall Athletic – Fleet grabbed a rare and very surprise win over 2nd placed Yate 2-1 - prevented their visitors from topping the table.
Highworth Town v Paulton Rovers
Melksham Town v Thatcham Town

CCLP
Abbey Rangers v Banstead Athletic
AFC Hayes v Sutton Common Rovers
Badshot Lea v Hanworth Villa @ Camberley
CB Hounslow United v Knaphill
Chertsey Town v Balham
Colliers Wood United v Redhill
Horley Town v Raynes Park Vale
Southall v Camberley Town @ Ashford Town
Spelthorne Sports v Guildford City
CCL1
Ash United v Fleet Spurs
Bedfont & Feltham v Godalming Town
Cove v British Airways
FC Deportivo Galicia v Farnham Town @ Bedfont Sports
Sandhurst Town v Frimley Green
Sheerwater v Eversley & California @ Woking
Tooting Bec v Bagshot @ Raynes Park Vale

HELLP
Ascot United v Royal Wootton Bassett Town - ‘Yellamen’ on a woeful run of form in the New Year - last win in the league was on 29th Dec and that was against bottom side Longlevens
– beaten again at the Racecourse by vastly improved Shrivenham. Have slipped to 5th and played more games than all around them - indeed only have half-a-doz. league games left now.

Brackley Town Saints v Wantage Town
Brimscombe & Thrupp v Virginia Water
Fairford Town v Lydney Town
Flackwell Heath v Binfield
Holmer Green v Reading City - reverse fixture comes around soon here too - City beaten 1-3 at Scours only last Monday
Longlevens v Shrivenham
Tuffley Rovers v Bishops Cleeve
Windsor v Ardley United
HELL1E
AFC Aldermaston v Wallingford Town
- Nipped up to the Hithercroft on Tue night to watch Ab T put in a much improved performance – nearly grabbed an unexpected win at Wallingford too – they led on merit going into the latter stages 0-2 but shipped a couple of late goals including an injury time pen to share the points.

Abingdon Town v Thame Rangers
Burnham v Penn & Tylers Green
Woodley United v Chalvey Sports @ Scours Lane

WESSP

Alresford Town v Bournemouth
Andover New Street v Hamworthy United
Tadley Calleva v Lymington Town

WESS1
Andover Town v Romsey Town – ATFC got an eye-opening 1-4 victory on the 3G at Alton – a result that lifts them off the foot of the table. They have played 2 games more than Totton & Eling who were beaten at Little Testwood in an odd goal in 9 thriller by Laverstock the same night.

Petersfield Town v Newport (IOW)
Ringwood Town v Alton

-- Our Plan A is ISTHMIAN ONE Norf - Basildon v AFC Sudbury

[Four Of Clubs]

NL Results:

Saturday 3rd March

NAT
AFC Fylde 2-1 Maidenhead United
Aldershot Town 0-2 Gateshead – Sh!ts now 7 points from safety and 8 behind the 'Magpies'
NATN
Blyth Spartans 1-3 Brackley Town – all the goals in the first half – Saints stay 4th
NATS
Bath City 1-1 Truro City
Chelmsford City 2-2 Concord Rangers
Chippenham Town 0-1 Oxford City
Dulwich Hamlet 2-0 Dartford
East Thurrock United 2-1 Billericay Town
Gloucester City 0-0 Wealdstone
Hampton & Richmond Borough 0-0 Eastbourne Borough
Hungerford Town 1-1 Woking - Crusaders stay in the bottom three 4pts behind Gloucester, who've played a game less and 8 behind Truro
Slough Town 1-0 Hemel Hempstead Town – Lee Togwell with winner on 71’
Torquay United 1-2 Weston-super-Mare –att 2682 bottom club W-S-M led inside the first 10’ -held on until the last 20, then grabbed a surprise winner on 84’. Gulls stay top on GD from Woking who were held at 2nd bottom Hungerford
Welling United 2-2 St Albans City

ILP
Dorking Wanderers {SIX} 6-0 Burgess Hill Town
IL1-SC
Bracknell Town 2-0 Chalfont St Peter – att 242 1st half goals from Hancock and Cornell, enough to beat lowly Chalfont – ‘Robins’ host Uxbridge this Tuesday
Marlow 2-0 Egham Town -att 174
Northwood 3-2 Bedfont Sports
Uxbridge 1-2 Chipstead
Waltham Abbey 2-1 Ashford Town (Middx)
Westfield 0-4 Hayes & Yeading United – att 185 scoreless at half-time HandY blitzed the Woking-based side in the 2nd half

SLP-C
Banbury United 2-1 Needham Market
SLP-S
Harrow Borough 1-0 Taunton Town – leaders beaten at 6th placed Borough
Hartley Wintney (SEVEN} 7-0 Staines Town –att 232 - hat-trick for Mitch Parker
- Staines one of the first of the major Pyramid sides to be relegated – don’t keep much of an eye on the midland/northern leagues – but I doubt there’s anyone in the top four steps, with as miserable a record to date. P33 W3 D0 L30 F-A 35-115 Pts 9
- 'The Row' put some daylight between themselves and the bottom three – up to 12th but just 5 points above Dorchester in 20th who are only behind Basingstoke on GD
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Hendon 1-0 Basingstoke Town
Poole Town 2-1 Beaconsfield Town
Swindon Supermarine 0-0 Chesham United – visitors also clawing themselves clear of danger – up to 13th
Walton Casuals 2-1 Farnborough
SL1-C
AFC Dunstable 3-0 Thame United – poor result for Thame; they occupy the last PO spot which is being jostled for by half-a-doz. clubs
Aylesbury United 3-0 Dunstable Town
Bromsgrove Sporting 5-0 North Leigh –att 1003 - bottom placed Nor Lye expectedly undone at free-scoring leaders
Didcot Town 1-1 Aylesbury – att 180 Diddy held by the lowly ’Moles’ but they are relatively comfortable in 4th place – 5pts ahead of Thame but well behind 3rd placed Corby who were beaten by 2nd places Peterboro Sports in front of 900 plus

Kidlington 0-1 Coleshill Town – att 40 – and in stark contrast to the crowds involving the top three above - there are some very poorly supported clubs in this division.
SL1-S
Bideford 1-0 Winchester City – City’s winning run (5 in a row) comes to a halt – they are still 2nd in the recent form table (even over 8 games) behind leaders Blackfield who have 22 points from 24. Winch stay in 6th just outside the POs but with 2 games in hand on Evesham in 5th

Fleet Town 1-2 Larkhall Athletic
Highworth Town 1-0 Paulton Rovers - good 'bounceback' win for Worthians after their midweek mauling by Winch.
Melksham Town 1-2 Thatcham Town att 431 – measure of revenge for the humbling at Waterside a month or so back – Kingfishers are ‘hovering’ safely in mid-table just behind their hosts

CCLP
Abbey Rangers 1-0 Banstead Athletic – somewhat unnoticed Abbey are now up to 3rd but still double-figures in points behind 2nd placed Chertsey
– Banstead who went unbeaten in the league a long way into the season (to mid-Nov) but were held back by the high number of draws, have dropped off the pace badly in the New Year - 5 of their 7 defeats have been since Xmas

AFC Hayes 5-4 Sutton Common Rovers – shock defeat for current leaders at a side that had been bottom for quite sometime but have leaped up to 16th with three wins in a row.
Badshot Lea 1-0 Hanworth Villa
CB Hounslow United 3-1 Knaphill – welcome win for the current last-placed side – they host Chertsey on Tuesday – might try for that one as they fairly recently moved into a new ground, having lodged at one of the Bedfonts for a spell.

Chertsey Town 4-1 Balham – ‘Curfews’ close to within a point of SCR and have 5 games in hand – that may increase as they have 2 Vase semi-finals to fit in this month (16th & 23rd)
Colliers Wood United 3-3 Redhill
Horley Town 2-2 Raynes Park Vale
Southall 4-3 Camberley Town
Spelthorne Sports 3-1 Guildford City
CCL1
Ash United 2-1 Fleet Spurs
Bedfont & Feltham 5-0 Godalming Town
Cove 1-4 British Airways
FC Deportivo Galicia 1-3 Farnham Town
Sandhurst Town 0-2 Frimley Green
Sheerwater 5-0 Eversley & California
Tooting Bec 3-0 Bagshot

HELLP
Ascot United 1-1 Royal Wootton Bassett Town
Brackley Town Saints 2-3 Wantage Town – important win for the ‘Freds’ – keeps them in 2nd, 6 pts behind Brimscomb with three games in hand.
– Wantage are at Scours tomorrow night – might try a mad dash back there, having dropped daughter off at her clinic session nr Windsor – be more likely to get there if it wasn’t for that &^%$ing Smart Motorway nonsense back to jn10 keeping everyone down to 50

Brimscombe & Thrupp 2-1 Virginia Water
Fairford Town 2-0 Lydney Town
Flackwell Heath 1-2 Binfield
Holmer Green 2-0 Reading City - not sure why yet but City have been given a walk-over in the next round of the Reading Senior Cup – were due to play Wrightchoice/Unity from the Thames Valley league
Longlevens 1-2 Shrivenham
Tuffley Rovers 1-1 Bishops Cleeve
Windsor 2-1 Ardley United - 83rd minute winner from a certain B.Hayles?
- Windsor host Flackwell on Tuesday
- Ardley travel to Binfield tomorrow night – might divert round there if held up, coming back down the M4 – bit 50/50 which is easier to get to in a hurry
HELL1E
AFC Aldermaston {SIX} 6-1 Wallingford Town
Abingdon Town P-P Thame Rangers -postponed – surface water at Culham Rd ground
Burnham 3-0 Penn & Tylers Green
Woodley United 2-3 Chalvey Sports

WESSP
Alresford Town 2-3 Bournemouth
Andover New Street 1-0 Hamworthy United - impressive win for ANS over 5th placed Hamworthy – they remain bottom but are now only 2 points adrift of Salisbury-based Bemerton. They host 6th placed Portsea-club Baffins on Wednesday

Tadley Calleva 4-1 Lymington Town
- Sholing (I always find myself saying that in a comedy Chinese accent! ) still tear away into the distance at the top - 12 points clear and only 2 points dropped all season (a game I attended last December at Tadley ) – they have no further Vase distractions either, having bowed out last w/e
- They (Sholing) visit Fleet Town at Calthorpe this Tuesday in a Cup competition.

WESS1
Andover Town 0-1 Romsey Town
Petersfield Town 0-3 Newport (IOW)
Ringwood Town 3-2 Alton

...got to the sometime self-styled 'Capital of Essex' - (well they are only in competition with Chelmsford ) without any alarms and (hopefully) no 'M25 stealth speeding tickets )
Saw Isthmian One - North Basildon Utd 0-4 AFC Sudbury - hosts manager immediately parted ways with the club, after this defeat and in truth they were dreadful. This is their first season back up at this level in recent years (had a 10 yr stay in the Isthmian back in the 80's) and they are only relatively safe due to the woeful performances of a couple of clubs below them.
Lots of extra-timber on show among the locals - big flabby arms covered in vast tattoos - and the men were pretty grim too (boom! boom!)
Ground fairly non-descript in an industrial area just south of the A127 nr a KFC drive-thru - under the shadow of the 'Basildon Onion'



FOOTNOTE: ...... and finally - only spotted this later when checking other leagues:
- WESTERN Premier Westbury 0-1 Shortwood Utd - visitors first win of the season - think they may be last remaining STEP06 side to register a win. All the more impressive is that their hosts were sat in 2nd place at start of play!

[KC Royal]

NL Results from this W/E:

Saturday 23rd February

FA Vase Quarter Finals
West Auckland Town 0-2 Chertsey Town - great result for the last remaining 'featured' club - put out the surviving 'Geordie Mafia' too - who were also the Bookies pre-round favourites.
- The 'Curfews' have now been installed as current favourites
{Today Sun 24th} Canterbury City 2-1 Biggleswade
3 Willand Rovers 1-3 Cray Valley (PM)
4 Northwich Victoria 3-1 Sholing aet - 1-1 FT - the Wessex club's exit ensures there'll be a new name on the Vase this year.

- So a county (Kent) with somewhat scant representation in previous Finals, now has two Semi-Finalists this year. They’ve actually had one winner in 99-00 (Deal) and a runner-up about 6 years ago (Tunbridge Wells)

New Odds:
Chertsey [11/10] ahead of Northwich [5/2] - with the two Kent clubs seemingly 'making up the numbers' [Cray Valley 7-2 & Canterbury [10/1 outsiders] .
- Semi-Finals are over two legs on successive Saturdays next month (16th & 23rd)
- unless Canterbury and/or Cray Valley get drawn with home ties for the 16th - when both of their 'landlords/co-hosts' respectively - Faversham/Greenwich - are scheduled be at home in the Isthmian League. In that event there's usually some negotiation regarding who plays on the Friday or more likely Sunday

Went to Canterbury City 2-1 Biggleswade in the Vase 6th Round. Played at Faversham Town. Crowd of 602 must have been split 50/50, 3 coach loads from Bigleswade.

Amazingly all 4 clubs still in started in the 1st Qualifying Round. Thats 8 ties to get this far. To put that in perspetive, a National League club would take that many ties to get to the FA Cup Final.

Also, 3 of the 4 semi finalists groundshare. So Sunday ties look likely.

I had a few quid on Chertsey after the 4th Round. Unfortunately, thats literally all I could get on. The odds are merely for show to anyone that doesnt have a new or losing account.

That crowd of 602 was the biggest since Canterbury reformed, and also first time they've reached the semis. The run has come at the perfect time for them as there are concerns over the club's future (I hadn't realised things were quite as bad) after plans for a new ground were overwhelmingly rejected recently and having explored 26 potential sites with no other options under consideration.
I do think of them as a bit like Slough, there's definitely potential there if they can ever get their own ground. The chairman in the last week has said he thinks they can do what Maidstone have done, and whilst I think that's optimistic as IMO Maidstone are the biggest Kent non-league club, i'd definitely expect them to be in the Isthmian League.

It reminds me of when Herne Bay got to the semis in 2012 (although that was different as HB won the title that season, Canterbury are only mid-table). I was disappointed not to be able to go to the home leg as it clashed with a Reading game I was going to, and the attendance was almost 2000 Not surprisingly for a ground that normally gets around 200, even then at a lower level than they play at now, they couldn't cope with that amount of people and there was trouble.

[Tony Le Mesmer]

NL Results:

Saturday 3rd March

Bedfont & Feltham[/b] 5-0 [b]Godalming Town

Made the short journey to watch this.

Its a great venue for spotting planes. Right by the perimitter to Heathrow.

It must also be the closest 2 separate football grounds come together. You could literally kick a ball to Bedfont Sports, must be less than 50 meters apart. I did consider switching games at HT for the double ground score, but that would have been filth?

Game marked the 30th anniversary of 5 Feltham players being involved in a serious car accident after a game with 3 being killed and 2 with life changing injuries. They were supposed to be playing in the old Feltham kit from 1989, made a big deal of it. Then at the last minute said they had to play in their away kit. Not sure what happened but slightly embarrassing.

[Four Of Clubs]

NL Fixtures for this w/e

Saturday 9th March

NAT
Barrow v Aldershot Town
Maidenhead United v Sutton United - 'Magpies' shared the spoils with the 'Daggers' at York Rd on Tuesday - visitors took what looked like the decisive lead on 85' but the home side levelled in stoppage time through Alfie Kilgour

NATN
Brackley Town v Stockport County
NATS
Billericay Town v Torquay United
Concord Rangers v Slough Town
Dartford v Gloucester City
Eastbourne Borough v Chelmsford City
Hemel Hempstead Town v Bath City
Oxford City v Hampton & Richmond Borough
St Albans City v Dulwich Hamlet
Truro City v East Thurrock United
Wealdstone v Welling United
Weston-super-Mare v Hungerford Town
Woking v Chippenham Town

ILP
Wingate & Finchley v Dorking Wanderers
IL1-SC
Ashford Town (Middx) v Ware
Bedfont Sports v South Park
Chalfont St Peter v Waltham Abbey
Egham Town v Uxbridge
Hanwell Town v Bracknell Town - att 165 Robins had a comfortable 4-0 win over Uxbridge on Tue - Ferdinand and Cornell amongst the scorers
Hayes & Yeading United v Marlow - possible test for HandY's 100% home record - Blues currently 3rd but a whopping 18 pts behind their hosts.
Tooting & Mitcham United v Westfield

SLP-C
Kettering Town v Banbury United
SLP-S
Basingstoke Town v Swindon Supermarine
Beaconsfield Town v Walton Casuals
Chesham United v Poole Town
Farnborough v Dorchester Town
Staines Town v Frome Town
Taunton Town v Hartley Wintney
SL1-C
Dunstable Town v Didcot Town
North Leigh v Aylesbury United
Thame United v Corby Town
Yaxley v Kidlington
SL1-S
Evesham United v Fleet Town
Moneyfields v Highworth Town
Thatcham Town v Bideford
Winchester City v Street

CCLP
Badshot Lea v AFC Hayes
Banstead Athletic v Chertsey Town - Chertsey re-took the lead in the division from SCR with a big 0-4 win at basement side CB Hounslow on Tue. They head the league by 2 points with 4 games in hand

Colliers Wood United v Cobham
Guildford City v CB Hounslow United
Hanworth Villa v Abbey Rangers
Horley Town v Spelthorne Sports
Knaphill v Redhill
Raynes Park Vale v Balham
Sutton Common Rovers v Southall
Walton & Hersham v Camberley Town
CCL1
British Airways v Ash United @ Bedfont & Fetlham
Chessington & Hook United v Cove
Dorking Wanderers Res v Sandhurst Town
Farnham Town v Eversley & California
- watched Farnham frustrate Sheerwater on Tue night in steady drizzle at Babbs Mead.
Sheers would have gone top with a win but were 2nd best for most of the match and were beaten 2-1.
- visitors didn't like the slick surface. Two of the three goals looked like the keepers were wrong footed by snap shots from the edge of the box. Farnham led 2-0 at the break their 2nd a penalty tucked in on the rebound.

Fleet Spurs v Tooting Bec
Frimley Green v Bedfont & Feltham
Godalming Town v Sheerwater
Kensington Borough v Epsom & Ewell @ Leatherhead FC

HELLP
Binfield v Abingdon United
- watched 'Moles' struggle to overcome a stubborn but quite youthful Ardley, 2-1 at Stubbs on Monday.
Bishops Cleeve v Flackwell Heath - 'Heathens' cup game at Windsor only lasted 7 min before the floodlights failed - someone's forgotten where that big bag of 50ps has gone again?
Longlevens v Royal Wootton Bassett Town
Lydney Town v Shrivenham
Reading City v Brackley Town Saints - Saints back in some form bt Ab Utd 2-0 on Wednesday - City lost at home on Monday 1-3 to Wantage
Tuffley Rovers v Brimscombe & Thrupp
Virginia Water v Ardley United
HELL1E
Abingdon Town v Burnham - having fought out a creditable draw at Wallingford last week the Abbots were back to normality this, with a thumping 0-7 reverse at bottom club Chinnor

Didcot Town Development v Penn & Tylers Green
Wallingford Town v Chinnor
HELLENIC Challenge Cup Semi-Finals
Almondsbury v Windsor
Ascot United v Wantage Town

Slough Challenge
Chalvey Sports v Langley @ Arbour Park Slough FC

WESSP
Alresford Town v Portland United
Andover New Street v Fareham Town
Christchurch v Tadley Calleva

WESS1
AFC Stoneham v Alton
New Milton Town v Petersfield Town
Verwood Town v Andover Town
Whitchurch United v Downton

[Royal Rother]

Almondsbury 0-3 Windsor

Another couple for Dan Roberts in a comfortable win in the Cup semi. We will face Ascot in the final, venue to be announced. Hopefully not Bracknell.

[Royal Rother]

Almondsbury 0-3 Windsor

Another couple for Dan Roberts in a comfortable win in the Cup semi. We will face Ascot in the final, venue to be announced. Hopefully not Bracknell.

Oh well, the Hellenic have surpassed themselves.....

It’ll be held at oxf*rd Ardley Utd which is 50 miles away from both Windsor and Ascot and is a small, tidy, but 3 sided ground with a sloping pitch and a tiny clubhouse - completely unsuitable for a Cup Final.

I mean, WTAF?

Oh, and not that it really matters but this is a pic of the gents toilet!

[Four Of Clubs]

NL Results from yesterday:

Saturday 9th March

NAT
Barrow 2-1 Aldershot Town – Sh!ts undone by 96’ pen
Maidenhead United 1-0 Sutton United – 95’ winner from Upward
NATN
Brackley Town 1-0 Stockport County
NATS
Billericay Town 0-2 Torquay United
Concord Rangers 2-2 Slough Town - Amartey on 80’ and Togwell in injury time save a point for Rebels
Dartford 2-0 Gloucester City
Eastbourne Borough 1-1 Chelmsford City
Hemel Hempstead Town 0-3 Bath City
Oxford City 3-5 Hampton & Richmond Borough – ‘Beavers’ first away win since September
St Albans City 1-0 Dulwich Hamlet
Truro City 1-3 East Thurrock United
Wealdstone 1-3 Welling United
Weston-super-Mare 0-0 Hungerford Town
Woking 2-0 Chippenham Town

ILP
Wingate & Finchley 1-2 Dorking Wanderers
IL1-SC
Ashford Town (Middx) 1-3 Ware
Bedfont Sports 4-0 South Park
Chalfont St Peter 4-3 Waltham Abbey – all seven goals scored after the hour mark.
Egham Town 2-2 Uxbridge
Hanwell Town 2-1 Bracknell Town
Hayes & Yeading United 0-2 Marlow – Blues score twice through Kameron English and were down to 10 men from 50’ – manage to wreck H&Y’s perfect home record.
Tooting & Mitcham United 1-1 Westfield

SLP-C
Kettering Town 3-0 Banbury United – Puritans well beaten and leaders. They’ve also had four points deducted for playing an ineligible player in two games.
SLP-S
Basingstoke Town 2-0 Swindon Supermarine – important win keeps ‘stoke clear of trouble – still only 3 points between 14th and 20th
Beaconsfield Town 1-1 Walton Casuals
Chesham United 5-1 Poole Town
Farnborough 2-2 Dorchester Town
Staines Town 1-0 Frome Town – a week after having relegation confirmed Staines win their first game for about four months – against the side immediately above them.
Taunton Town 2-2 Hartley Wintney – leaders at the start of play, held by an improving HW and Weymouth profit beating Hendon 3-0 and leaping to the top of the table
SL1-C
Dunstable Town 0-3 Didcot Town
North Leigh 4-2 Aylesbury United
Thame United 1-1 Corby Town
Yaxley 1-2 Kidlington
SL1-S
Evesham United 4-0 Fleet Town
Moneyfields 2-1 Highworth Town
Thatcham Town 1-2 Bideford
Winchester City 5-0 Street – City chasing the PO pack – only 2 points behind Evesham with 2 games in hand

CCLP
Badshot Lea 2-0 AFC Hayes
Banstead Athletic P-P Chertsey Town
Colliers Wood United 3-2 Cobham
Guildford City 4-3 CB Hounslow United
Hanworth Villa 4-3 Abbey Rangers
Horley Town 1-2 Spelthorne Sports
Knaphill 2-1 Redhill
Raynes Park Vale 2-1 Balham
Sutton Common Rovers 3-0 Southall – SCR grab back top-spot tough their lead is 1 points and they have played 5 games more than 2nd placed Chertsey.
Walton & Hersham 2-3 Camberley Town
CCL1
British Airways 4-1 Ash United
Chessington & Hook United 6-2 Cove
Dorking Wanderers Res 0-4 Sandhurst Town
Farnham Town 3-1 Eversley & California
Fleet Spurs 1-1 Tooting Bec
Frimley Green 5-1 Bedfont & Feltham – heavy defeat for morning’s leaders – FG take over top spot
Godalming Town 0-3 Sheerwater
Kensington Borough 5-1 Epsom & Ewell

HELLP
Binfield 0-1 Abingdon United - disappointing way to end to a good ‘mini-run’ for Moles.
Bishops Cleeve P-P Flackwell Heath
Longlevens P-P Royal Wootton Bassett Town
Lydney Town 1-3 Shrivenham
Reading City 1-0 Brackley Town Saints
Tuffley Rovers 1-0 Brimscombe & Thrupp
Virginia Water 1-1 Ardley United
HELL1E
Abingdon Town 0-9 {NINE} Burnham
Didcot Town Development 3-1 Penn & Tylers Green
Wallingford Town 4-3 Chinnor
HELLENIC Challenge Cup Semi-Finals
Almondsbury 0-3 Windsor
Ascot United 1-0 Wantage Town att 148

Slough Challenge
Chalvey Sports 1-3 Langley

WESSP
Alresford Town 0-2 Portland United
Andover New Street 0-0 Fareham Town
Christchurch 1-0 Tadley Calleva
WESS1
AFC Stoneham 4-0 Alton
New Milton Town 0-0 Petersfield Town
Verwood Town 1-0 Andover Town
Whitchurch United 3-3 Downton

[Four Of Clubs]

NL Fixtures for this w/e:

...very few games that were scheduled this midweek survived the bad weather

Saturday 16th March

FAT S-F 1st Leg
1 Leyton Orient (NAT) v A.F.C. Telford (NATNN)
2 A.F.C. Fylde (NAT) v Stockport County (NATN)
FAV S-F 1st Leg
1 Cray Valley (P.M.) (05 SCEP) v Canterbury City (05 SCEP) (Sun 3p.m.)
2 Northwich Victoria (05 NWCP) P-P Chertsey Town (05 CCLP) - rescheduled for next Sunday 24th

NAT
Aldershot Town v Salford City
Harrogate Town v Maidenhead United
- both 'featured ' sides suffered midweek defeats - Magpies 'downed' 3-0 at Ebbsfleet whilst the Sh!ts were undone at home 1-2 by leaders Orient and are 8 points adrift of Dover Athletic.
NATN
Altrincham P-P Brackley Town - waterlogged
NATS
Bath City v Wealdstone
Chelmsford City v Weston-super-Mare
Chippenham Town v St Albans City
Dulwich Hamlet v Truro City
East Thurrock United v Oxford City
Gloucester City v Hemel Hempstead Town
Hampton & Richmond Borough v Concord Rangers
Hungerford Town v Eastbourne Borough
Slough Town v Billericay Town
Torquay United v Dartford
Welling United v Woking

ILP
Dorking Wanderers v Carshalton Athletic
IL1-SC
Bracknell Town v Tooting & Mitcham United
Cheshunt v Egham Town
Marlow v Ashford Town (Middx)
Molesey v Chalfont St Peter
South Park v Hayes & Yeading United
Uxbridge v Hanwell Town
Waltham Abbey v Bedfont Sports
Westfield v Hertford Town

SLP-C
Tamworth v Banbury United
SLP-S
Chesham United v Farnborough - Farnborough led by H/T at Salisbury midweek - another goal from Coles - but were edged out 3-2 in the last minute.
Elsewhere Merthyr seem to have hit some more trouble as they were hammered 1-7 at Pennydarren Park by lowly Dorchester
Dorchester Town v Basingstoke Town
Gosport Borough v Walton Casuals
Hartley Wintney v Harrow Borough
Staines Town v Hendon
Swindon Supermarine v Beaconsfield Town
SL1-C
AFC Dunstable v Aylesbury United
Aylesbury v Dunstable Town
Barton Rovers v Thame United
Corby Town v North Leigh
Didcot Town v Peterborough Sports
Kidlington v Berkhamsted
Sutton Coldfield Town v Yaxley
- left this one here as it is our match of choice on Saturday - visitors have the highest aggregate goals F:A (over 130 in 30 matches) in the division so lets hope the trend continues
SL1-S
Barnstaple Town v Fleet Town
Cinderford Town v Thatcham Town
Melksham Town v Highworth Town
Winchester City v Slimbridge

CCLP
Abbey Rangers v Badshot Lea
AFC Hayes v Knaphill
Balham v Cobham
Camberley Town v Spelthorne Sports
CB Hounslow United v Hanworth Villa
Guildford City v Horley Town @ Godalming
Redhill v Raynes Park Vale
Southall v Banstead Athletic
Walton & Hersham v Sutton Common Rovers
CCL1
Bagshot v Cove @ Fleet
British Airways v Godalming Town
Chessington & Hook United v FC Deportivo Galicia
Eversley & California v Dorking Wanderers Res
Fleet Spurs v Farnham Town
Sandhurst Town v Ash United
Sheerwater v Bedfont & Feltham
CCL1 Cup Q-F
Tooting Bec v Frimley Green @ Raynes Park

HELLP
Abingdon United v Ardley United
Binfield v Tuffley Rovers
Bishops Cleeve v Holmer Green
Brackley Town Saints v Ascot United
Brimscombe & Thrupp v Royal Wootton Bassett Town
Reading City v Virginia Water
Wantage Town v Shrivenham
Windsor v Longlevens
HELL1E
Abingdon Town v Holyport
Milton United v Wallingford Town
Penn & Tylers Green v Thame Rangers

Hell Supplementary Q-F
Flackwell Heath v Wallingford Town
Stokenchurch v Woodley United
Thornbury Town v Fairford Town
HELL Subsidiary Cup
Clanfield (85) v Burnham
RG Sen 14:00
Woodcote SR v AFC Aldermaston


WESSP
Christchurch v Andover New Street
Horndean v Alresford Town
Tadley Calleva v Cowes Sports - Tadley beaten 1-3 at Hamworthy on Tue and stay in the lower half of the table
WESS1
Alton v United Services Portsmouth
Andover Town v Hythe & Dibden
Petersfield Town v Fawley AFC
Verwood Town v Whitchurch United

[From Despair To Where?]

Slightly further afield but North Ferriby United were wound up yesterday.

FA Trophy winners 3 years ago and in Conference National 2 seasons ago but were 19 points adrift at the bottom of the Northern Premier League Premier Division.

[Royal Rother]

Windsor 0-4 Longlevens

Very poor performance today against lowly opposition. The wind was ridiculous but they beat us 2-0 in each half with and without the wind.

No Dan Roberts today - he was playing for Slough. I guess the next (and last) time we will see him in the Windsor shirt will be the Challenge Cup Final.

[Christof]

Windsor 0-4 Longlevens

Very poor performance today against lowly opposition. The wind was ridiculous but they beat us 2-0 in each half with and without the wind.

No Dan Roberts today - he was playing for Slough. I guess the next (and last) time we will see him in the Windsor shirt will be the Challenge Cup Final.

Dan was an unused substitute yesterday, as Slough beat Billericay Town 2-1, lovely stuff. Looking forward to seeing him soon though, as from what I heard when the Rebels beat Hemel he played well.

Unsavoury scenes at half-time as one of the Billericay subs took umbrage to something a home supporter had uttered, jumped the fence and allegedly went for a 15-year old. Stay classy lads...

[Four Of Clubs]

NL Results:

Saturday 16th March

FA Trophy S-F 1st Leg
1 Leyton Orient 1-0 A.F.C. Telford
2 A.F.C. Fylde 0-0 Stockport County
FA Vase S-F 1st Leg
1 Cray Valley (P.M.) v Canterbury City (05 SCEP) -Playing this PM - 0-0 at H/T
....EDIT finished 1-0 club record att of 663

NAT
Aldershot Town 0-1 Salford City - a 2-1 win for Dover vs Halifax, drops Barnet to 20th who are 10 points above the Sh!ts
Harrogate Town 1-0 Maidenhead United
NATS
Bath City 1-1 Wealdstone
Chelmsford City 2-2 Weston-super-Mare
Chippenham Town 0-0 St Albans City
Dulwich Hamlet 3-2 Truro City
East Thurrock United 0-1 Oxford City
Gloucester City 1-1 Hemel Hempstead Town
Hampton & Richmond Borough 1-4 Concord Rangers
Hungerford Town 2-0 Eastbourne Borough - Crusaders now within a point of safety
Slough Town 2-1 Billericay Town
Torquay United 2-0 Dartford
Welling United 3-3 Woking – Cards three down at HT fought back to level in the last minute

ILP
Dorking Wanderers 2-3 Carshalton Athletic – first defeat in ages for leaders Wanderers but 2nd placed Haringey also stumbled losing 2-0 at Borough
IL1-SC
Bracknell Town 3-1 Tooting & Mitcham United –att 258 goal each for Ferdinand and Grant – plus an og
Cheshunt 3-0 Egham Town
Marlow 1-0 Ashford Town (Middx)
Molesey P-P Chalfont St Peter
Northwood 2-0 Chipstead
South Park 1-6 {SIX} Hayes & Yeading United
Uxbridge 0-1 Hanwell Town
Waltham Abbey 2-1 Bedfont Sports
Westfield 3-2 Hertford Town

SLP-C
Tamworth 4-0 Banbury United
SLP-S
Chesham United 0-1 Farnborough
Dorchester Town 4-1 Basingstoke Town
Gosport Borough 0-0 Walton Casuals
Hartley Wintney 3-0 Harrow Borough
Staines Town 2-5 Hendon
Swindon Supermarine 4-0 Beaconsfield Town
SL1-C
AFC Dunstable 1-1 Aylesbury United
Aylesbury 3-2 Dunstable Town
Barton Rovers 2-4 Thame United
Corby Town 5-2 North Leigh
Didcot Town 1-1 Peterborough Sports
Kidlington 1-0 Berkhamsted
Sutton Coldfield Town 3-1 Yaxley
- Got to this without any difficulty – oddly leafy Brum suburbia North of the City between the M6 and it’s twin Toll road.
- Game on the balance until a late goal extended the ‘Royals’ lead to two and kept their hopes of reaching a PO spot alive.
- The visitors (nicknamed the Cuckoos) had more of the ball 2nd half but the blustery conditions helped neither side.
- 3G pitch big seated stand – club shop and a food hatch doing all the standard fare.
-
SL1-S
Barnstaple Town 4-1 Fleet Town – Fleet slip to the bottom after this heavy defeat against their fellow relegation candidates – I think it’s been mentioned that the N.Devon side may be taking a voluntary 2 step drop down to the South West Peninisula League for 19-20

Cinderford Town P-P Thatcham Town
Melksham Town 3-2 Highworth Town
Winchester City {SIX} 6-1 Slimbridge – City four up by H/T

CCLP
Abbey Rangers 2-0 Badshot Lea
AFC Hayes 3-2 Knaphill
Balham 2-3 Cobham
Camberley Town 1-1 Spelthorne Sports
CB Hounslow United 2-1 Hanworth Villa
Guildford City 0-1 Horley Town
Redhill P-P Raynes Park Vale
Southall 3-1 Banstead Athletic
Walton & Hersham 0-5 Sutton Common Rovers
CCL1
Bagshot 2-2 Cove
British Airways 0-3 Godalming Town
Chessington & Hook United P-P FC Deportivo Galicia
Eversley & California 2-2 Dorking Wanderers Res
Fleet Spurs 5-1 Farnham Town - surprise win for the bottom club over promotion contenders
Sandhurst Town 2-2 Ash United
Sheerwater 4-1 Bedfont & Feltham
CCL1 Cup Q-F
Tooting Bec P-P Frimley Green

HELLP
Abingdon United 0-2 Ardley United
Binfield 4-2 Tuffley Rovers
Bishops Cleeve 3-3 Holmer Green
Brackley Town Saints 5-1 Ascot United - Yellamen’s form continues it’s spiral downwards and they now well out of the title race, can only finish 4th
– indeed they only have two league games left – finishing their league season on 30th April with a Cup Final date set for 6th May.
- they are still in the Quarter Finals of the Floodlit Cup.

Brimscombe & Thrupp 2-0 Royal Wootton Bassett Town
Reading City 0-2 Virginia Water
Wantage Town 1-1 Shrivenham
Windsor 0-4 Longlevens - as stated an unexpectedly heavy defeat to the side at the foot of the table.
- A quirk of the Fixture Computer (bag of Fag Packet system) has the sides meeting in the league again next Saturday; after which Windsor have a run of 5 home games.
HELL1E
Abingdon Town 0-7 Holyport – since I watched the Abbots get a creditable draw at Wallingford at the end of last month, they’ve lost three straight games at an aggregate score of 0:23 !!
Milton United P-P Wallingford Town
Penn & Tylers Green 2-3 Thame Rangers
Hell Supp Q-F
Flackwell Heath 1-2 Wallingford Town
Stokenchurch 2-1 Woodley United
Thornbury Town 5-2 Fairford Town aet
HELL Sub
Clanfield (85) 2-3 Burnham
RG Senior
Woodcote SR P-P AFC Aldermaston – away w/o WSR unable to raise a side


WESSP
Bashley 0-0 Sholing - only the 2nd league game Sholing haven’t won this season W25 D2
Christchurch 3-0 Andover New Street
Horndean 4-1 Alresford Town
Tadley Calleva 2-1 Cowes Sports
WESS1
Alton 1-4 United Services Portsmouth
Andover Town 0-4 Hythe & Dibden
Petersfield Town 3-1 Fawley AFC
Verwood Town 0-3 Whitchurch United

[Royal Rother]

What makes the defeat to Longlevens even worse is that the club (Longlevens) have tweeted thanks for turning out to the guys in the team who had had a heavy day at Cheltenham races on Friday!

Oh well, maybe we’ll get revenge next Saturday!

[Zammo]

Bought a Didcot Town season ticket last summer and boy, are we being entertained !!