Saturday 1st March

[Karen Browne]

GOAL: Biggleswade United 1 Hadley 1

GOAL: Colney Heath 2 Holmer Green 1 (Parkinson 54 mins)

Edited March 1, 2014 by Karen Browne

[Karen Browne]

FT: Stony Stratford Town 3 Buckingham Athletic 1

FT: Colney Heath 2 Holmer Green 1

FT: Berkhamsted 1 St Margaretsbury 1

Edited March 1, 2014 by Karen Browne

[thecoldend]

FT

 

WGC 9 (NINE) ATFC RES 1

[Karen Browne]

Hope you got all the goals on film CE

[Karen Browne]

Saturday 1^st March

LEAGUE CHALLENGE TROPHY SECOND ROUND

P-P Crawley Green v Hertford Town

 

HERTS INTERMEDIATE CUP SEMI FINAL

2-5 Bushey Rangers v Oxhey Jets Reserves

 

PREMIER DIVISION

8-3 Ampthill Town v Hillingdon Borough

1-1 Berkhamsted v St Margaretsbury

1-1 Biggleswade United v Hadley

2-1 Colney Heath v Holmer Green

P-P Hanwell Town v Tring Athletic

1-1 Hoddesdon Town v AFC Dunstable

P-P London Colney v Cockfosters

2-2 London Lions v Oxhey Jets

P-P Stotfold v London Tigers

 

DIVISION ONE

2-0 Bedford v Southall

P-P Codicote v Amersham Town

P-P Harpenden Town v Risborough Rangers

P-P Kentish Town v Wodson Park

2-5 Langford v Chesham United Reserves

3-1 Stony Stratford Town v Buckingham Athletic

9-1 Welwyn Garden City v Arlesey Town Reserves

P-P Winslow United v FC Broxbourne Borough

 

DIVISION ONE CUP QUARTER FINAL

P-P Baldock Town v Kings Langley

 

DIVISION TWO

1-0 Grendon Rangers v Old Bradwell United

0-2 Pitstone & Ivinghoe v The 61FC (Luton)

1-3 Totternhoe v Kent Athletic

1-2 Tring Corinthians v Aston Clinton

P-P Willen v Brimsdown

 

DIVISION TWO CUP QUARTER FINAL

P-P Mursley United v Hale Leys United

 

RESERVE DIVISION ONE

4-1 AFC Dunstable Reserves v Hadley Reserves

P-P Cockfosters Reserves v Hoddesdon Town Reserves

1-0 Kent Athletic Reserves v London Lions Reserves

P-P Kings Langley Reserves v Baldock Town Reserves

P-P Risborough Rangers Reserves v The 61FC (Luton) Reserves

P-P St Margaretsbury Reserves v Stotfold Reserves

 

RESERVE DIVISION TWO

P-P Aston Clinton Reserves v Stony Stratford Town Reserves

P-P Buckingham Athletic Reserves v Crawley Green Reserves

P-P Old Bradwell United Reserves v Biggleswade United Reserves

P-P Sun Postal Sports Reserves v Langford Reserves

P-P Wodson Park Reserves v Mursley United Reserves

P-P Wolverton Town Reserves v Winslow United Reserves

[Rhodes]

Saturday 1^st March

DIVISION TWO

1-0 Grendon Rangers v Old Bradwell United

A report on this one from another Forum:

 

Grendon Rangers 1 Old Bradwell United 0 (Spartan South Midlands League Division 2) Att: 42 h/c

 

Much better than it sounds. What a contrast to the miserable gits at Crawley Down: a cheerful welcome from everyone, a free mug of tea and a biscuit and a most enjoyable chat to start the afternoon off. The game was pretty good - the sides were very evenly matched, both had splendid defences and both needed a decent striker to finish the job off. We identified home midfielder Cameron MacPherson as the man most likely, and sure enough he broke the deadlock in the 87th minute with a cool finish of a different class to all the previous efforts from both sides. Played in excellent spirit, an almost total absence of dissent and nasty tackles, and very well refereed.

 

The ground was better than I had expected - a permanent rope and posts job and a reasonable bit of cover, but with the potential to provide accidental brain surgery for anyone taller than me. Good company in the form of Mr Smallman, who shared my concern about a possible 0-0 - neither of us have had one since the infamous night at Llanwrst; 4 page prog was a gift at 50p; a quid for the raffle and half time tea another quid.

 

Strange Tales of Groundhopping, No. 165: a chap arrived at about 2.15, purchased two programmes then drove away. He reappeared at half time, watched the first 8 minutes then walked away and was not seen again. Very, very odd. 

[Jimmy GroundHopper]

Went to Stony Stratford v Buckingham Athletic less said about the game the better, two very VERY poor sides that would be languishing in division below or north bucks even. Stony deserved their win, central midfielder who I'm sure I saw playing for Buckingham Town and Aylesbury United few years back is an absolute clown and got himself sent off, Buckingham's manager who was an excellent player in his day just spends the game screaming and swearing way way beyond anything I have seen and it rubs off on his players. The usually prolific Phil Martin looked totally disinterested and should have had a hattrick, why he is playing for this team I don't know. Poor, poor, poor game all round.

[Munchkin]

A report on this one from another Forum:

 

Grendon Rangers 1 Old Bradwell United 0 (Spartan South Midlands League Division 2) Att: 42 h/c

 

Much better than it sounds. What a contrast to the miserable gits at Crawley Down: a cheerful welcome from everyone, a free mug of tea and a biscuit and a most enjoyable chat to start the afternoon off. The game was pretty good - the sides were very evenly matched, both had splendid defences and both needed a decent striker to finish the job off. We identified home midfielder Cameron MacPherson as the man most likely, and sure enough he broke the deadlock in the 87th minute with a cool finish of a different class to all the previous efforts from both sides. Played in excellent spirit, an almost total absence of dissent and nasty tackles, and very well refereed.

 

The ground was better than I had expected - a permanent rope and posts job and a reasonable bit of cover, but with the potential to provide accidental brain surgery for anyone taller than me. Good company in the form of Mr Smallman, who shared my concern about a possible 0-0 - neither of us have had one since the infamous night at Llanwrst; 4 page prog was a gift at 50p; a quid for the raffle and half time tea another quid.

 

Strange Tales of Groundhopping, No. 165: a chap arrived at about 2.15, purchased two programmes then drove away. He reappeared at half time, watched the first 8 minutes then walked away and was not seen again. Very, very odd.

Pretty fair report, story of our season lacking quality in front of goal.

[OD's]

Just like to say, thought our game v Hoddesdon was played in a great spirit. Both teams got on with the game and it seemed all the players on both sides had respect for each other. Congrats should go to the management teams for sending their teams out with the right frame of mind. I know the watching SSMFL members were impressed as well. Fair result too. Lets hope the return fixture next month is the same.

[Winslow Boy]

Went to Stony Stratford v Buckingham Athletic less said about the game the better, two very VERY poor sides that would be languishing in division below or north bucks even. Stony deserved their win, central midfielder who I'm sure I saw playing for Buckingham Town and Aylesbury United few years back is an absolute clown and got himself sent off, Buckingham's manager who was an excellent player in his day just spends the game screaming and swearing way way beyond anything I have seen and it rubs off on his players. The usually prolific Phil Martin looked totally disinterested and should have had a hattrick, why he is playing for this team I don't know. Poor, poor, poor game all round.

Forgot to mention nasty off the ball elbow by Buckingham Athletic midfielder that went unpunished, ugly incident ugly game.

[Jimmy GroundHopper]

Forgot to mention nasty off the ball elbow by Buckingham Athletic midfielder that went unpunished, ugly incident ugly game.

Yes that was very nasty, they didn't cover themselves in glory yesterday. However I saw your game against Athletic and your centre half clashed with this midfielder in a similar fashion and the lad never stopped moaning about it during the game and in the bar, seemed to think he'd done nothing wrong yesterday, players and managers never think they've done anything wrong but then have a go at everyone else, thats football I guess.

[Rhodes]

Saturday 1^st March

PREMIER DIVISION

1-1 Hoddesdon Town v AFC Dunstable

Both sides of the story:

 

http://www.hoddesdontownfc.co.uk/match-reports/

 

http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/afcdunstableyouth/s/match-centre-104082/0-2284302

[Savagebee]

Worked yesterday so at least I didn't miss a Hanwell Town game

[Rhodes]

What is your line of work out of interest

[Whitley Bay]

What is your line of work out of interest

What has that question got to do with the SSMFL?

[tringarmy]

Seems strange for the League not to allow the use of Crawley's 3G but then to allow Stony play on their 2nd pitch. I assume this is the one on the cricket pitch with no floodlights (hence the 2.30pm kick off) , no railings, walkways or cover for spectators etc

[Dirtyclaret]

Agreed