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September 29, 2003

 

Enfield offshoots fall to penalty

By Walter Gammie

Enfield Town 0 Carshalton Athletic 1

 

BOTH camps were pleased after a hard-fought FA Cup second qualifying round tie at the Goldsdown Road ground that Enfield Town share with Brimsdown Rovers.

Carshalton escaped unscathed from a bumpy stretch of scrubland that barely passes for a football pitch and put behind them successive defeats that had seen them lose their place at the head of the Ryman League. Enfield Town acquitted themselves well before a crowd of 501, their third highest, as they enjoy their third season since they were formed by supporters disillusioned with the running of Enfield.

 

Supporters were able to take in the rapid progress to establishing the covered terracing, stand, turnstile block and toilets that will bring facilities up to the required standard. The pitch will remain a problem until it rains. Weeks of dry weather, an untimely bout of shingles that afflicted the Town groundsman and over-use have contributed to a playing surface that does nothing to help the club’s cause.

 

Having secured the victory, thanks to a penalty converted by Dave Marvell in the 43rd minute, Billy Smith, the Carshalton manager, happy to be back at the helm at the club he managed for nine seasons up till 1995, could afford to be sympathetic. “It’s a shame for them. They’re a good footballing side and it can’t be doing them any favours,” he said.

 

Jim Chandler, the Enfield manager, felt the penalty award, against Dave Allen as he ran across Des Boateng to try to cover a good ball from the right by Mark Hawthorne, was harsh. But where he felt the match slipped away was in the absence of Town’s three regular strikers. “I’m positive that if any one of them had been playing one of the three early chances we had would have gone in,” he said. Simon Miller, the main culprit, nonetheless troubled Carshalton throughout and in the 56th minute Peter Wood did well to clear Miller’s shot off the line.

 

Town fancy an extended run in the FA Vase but their next cup assignment is something special. The Middlesex Charity Cup has given them their first chance to lock horns with Enfield. It’s tomorrow week. And that crowd record could well go.

 

ENFIELD TOWN (3-5-2): A Hall — A Gant, S Snowden, S Baldwin — D Allen, B Quinn, J Ridout, J Geraghty (sub: S McGregor, 66min), M Negus — K Riley, S Miller (sub: K St Hilaire, 75). Substitutes not used: A Fenn, J Nash, W Grant. Booked: Quinn.

 

CARSHALTON ATHLETIC (4-4-2): S Searle — R Bouadji, M Bradford, G Elliott, P Wood — M Hawthorne, G Rose, D Boateng, M Johnson (sub: M York, 83) — D Marvell, K Olusesi (sub: S Todd, 70). Substitutes not used: C Hartburn, C Kane, J Dack.

 

Referee: C Jones.

 

 

 

[Normans Wisdom]

And yes Andy the Defence was very good!

[Ron Merlin]

Link here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0] http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,27-834764,00.html

[Southport - TOWNER]

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but if u search for Enfield Town; you can find it

[Ron Merlin]

Or copy and paste it into your address bar. The commas in the URL seem to prevent me making a direct link out of it.

[Badger]

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