Saturday 8 February - SSML Results/Reports

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Saturday's fixtures:

Saturday 8 February (kick off 3.00pm unless stated)

Premier Division

Baldock Town v Aylesbury Vale Dynamos

Crawley Green v Potton United (at Potton United)

Dunstable Town v FC Romania

Harpenden Town v Kempston Rovers

Milton Keynes Irish v Cockfosters

Tring Athletic v Colney Heath

Winslow United v Biggleswade United

Wormley Rovers v Arlesey Town

Division One

Buckingham FC v Rushden & Higham United

Desborough Town v Huntingdon Town

Irchester United v AFC Welwyn

Leighton Town Reserves v Cranfield United

London Colney v Ampthill Town (kick off 2.00pm)

Long Buckby AFC v Eaton Socon

Moulton FC v Letchworth Garden City Eagles

Royston Town Reserves v Raunds Town

Wellingborough Whitworth v Langford

Division Two

Aston Clinton v The 61 FC (Luton) (kick off 2.00pm)

Eynesbury United v Milton Keynes Irish Reserves (kick off 2.00pm)

Newport Pagnell Town Development v Milton Keynes College Football Academy

Padbury Village v Caddington AFC (kick off 2.00pm)

Sarratt v New Bradwell St Peter (kick off 2.00pm)

Totternhoe v Codicote (kick off 2.00pm)

Tring Corinthians AFC v Old Bradwell United (kick off 2.00pm)

SSML Division Two Cup Second Round

Bovingdon v Pitstone & Ivinghoe (kick off 2.00pm)

[Rhodes]

45 minutes ago, Rhodes said:

Saturday 8 February
Division Two
Sarratt v New Bradwell St Peter (kick off 2.00pm)

New Bradwell St Peter only won the reverse fixture at the Recreation Ground 2-1 just before Christmas so three points aren't a foregone conclusion at the King George V Playing Fields:

 

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3 hours ago, Rhodes said:

Saturday 8 February
Division One
Leighton Town Reserves v Cranfield United

The early match programme:

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.pitchero.com/clubs/3144/4dvTHnxDRMeT54JIpSJW_20250208 Leighton Town Res v Cranfield United Programme.pdf

[Rhodes]

3 hours ago, Rhodes said:

Saturday 8 February
Division One
London Colney v Ampthill Town (kick off 2.00pm)

Note the 2.00pm kick off at Cotlandswick as Full Time erroneously states 3.00pm:

[Rhodes]

44 minutes ago, Rhodes said:

Saturday 8 February
Division One
Buckingham FC v Rushden & Higham United

The match programme and a match preview from Stratford Fields:

https://buckinghamfootballclub.aflip.in/0d45d982f1.html

A heads up for the weekend. Buckingham v Rushden & Higham United in a 3.00pm kick off. It's only the second home game of 2025 and it would be nice to see as many of you there as possible. The matchday programme can be found here https://www.buckinghamfc.co.uk/a/match-programmes-67175.html Manager Scott Reynolds has this to say about this weekend: '𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘍𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘴. 𝘖𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘥, 𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘹𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘶𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴. 𝘞𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘣 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘵 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘎𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰. 𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘪𝘹 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘬, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘯𝘰 𝘧𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘪𝘹 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘫𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴. 𝘜𝘱 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘜23 𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘌𝘥 𝘖𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘴𝘩 𝘙𝘢𝘪 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘈𝘺𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘜nited. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘢 𝘧𝘦𝘸 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘪𝘯𝘫𝘶𝘳𝘺, 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘓𝘰𝘤𝘩𝘭𝘢𝘯, 𝘚𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘳 & 𝘋𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥. 𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘶𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘈𝘺𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘜nited 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘵𝘰𝘰. 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘥𝘦𝘯 & 𝘏𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘢𝘮 United 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘪𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩, a𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 L𝘦𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘦, 𝘴𝘰 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮. 𝘖𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 C𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴, 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦. 𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘍𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘴. 𝘚𝘦𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦'. The Clubhouse is open from 12.00, showing any live games on the big screens, see you there.

[Rhodes]

An interesting preview of the Division One fixtures by The Cold End on his informative Blog and the top of the table clash between Irchester United and AFC Welwyn at Alfred Street:

https://thecoldend.blogspot.com/2025/02/spartan-south-midlands-division-one.html

POS	TEAM	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PTS	PP	FORM
1.	IRCHESTER UTD	26	16	6	4	66	31	+35	54	90	WWLWDL
2.	MOULTON	24	17	3	4	64	36	+28	54	96	WWLWWW
3.	AFC WELWYN	22	16	4	2	52	17	+35	52	100	WWWWWW
4.	EATON SOCON	24	15	4	5	55	34	+21	49	91	WLWDDW
5.	DESBOROUGH TOWN	19	15	2	2	73	19	+54	47	104	WLWWWW
6.	AMPTHILL TOWN	22	12	6	4	31	20	+11	42	90	DWLDLW
7.	WELLINGBOROUGH WHI	22	12	2	8	47	39	+8	38	86	WWWWWD
8.	STOTFOLD RESERVES	24	11	4	9	49	46	+3	37	79	WLLWDL
9.	CRANFIELD UTD	21	10	3	8	36	25	+11	33	84	DLWLLD
10.	LETCHWORTH GC EAG	25	10	3	12	50	57	-7	33	72	LDLWDD

[Rhodes]

18 hours ago, Rhodes said:

Saturday 8 February
Division One
Irchester United v AFC Welwyn

The match programme from Alfred Street:

https://issuu.com/irchesterunited/docs/irchesterutdmatchdayprogramme_36bdd5e1cabb89

[Rhodes]

18 hours ago, Rhodes said:

Saturday 8 February
Premier Division 
Wormley Rovers v Arlesey Town

An interesting preview of this affair at Church Lane:

https://wormleysports.club/programme/wormley-rovers-fc-vs-arlesey-town-fc/

[Rhodes]

13 minutes ago, Rhodes said:

Saturday 8 February
Premier Division 
Crawley Green v Potton United (at Potton United)

Confirmation that this one has been switched to the Hutchinson Hollow due to Luton Town 'pulling rank', the return fixture will now be at The Brache on Tuesday 8 April:

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22 hours ago, Rhodes said:

Saturday 8 February
Division Two
Eynesbury United v Milton Keynes Irish Reserves (kick off 2.00pm)

Eynesbury United will be looking to pretty much cement their promotion to Step 6 this afternoon against Milton Keynes Irish Reserves at Hall Road:

Edited February 8 by Rhodes

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On 07/02/2025 at 10:51, Rhodes said:

Saturday 8 February 
Division One
London Colney v Ampthill Town (kick off 2.00pm)

Division Two
Sarratt v New Bradwell St Peter (kick off 2.00pm)
Totternhoe v Codicote (kick off 2.00pm)

Unfortunately there were three postponements this afternoon at Cotlandswick, the King George V Playing Fields and Dunstable Road.

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The results:

Saturday 8 February 

Premier Division

Baldock Town 1 Aylesbury Vale Dynamos 0

Crawley Green 3 Potton United 1 (at Potton United)

Dunstable Town 1 FC Romania 0

Harpenden Town 5 Kempston Rovers 0

Milton Keynes Irish 3 Cockfosters 1

Tring Athletic 1  Colney Heath 0

Winslow United 1 Biggleswade United 2

Wormley Rovers 3 Arlesey Town 1

Division One

Buckingham FC 3 Rushden & Higham United 0

Desborough Town 7 Huntingdon Town 1

Irchester United 0 AFC Welwyn 0

Leighton Town Reserves 1 Cranfield United 1

London Colney P Ampthill Town 

Long Buckby AFC 1 Eaton Socon 2

Moulton FC 2 Letchworth Garden City Eagles 1

Royston Town Reserves 1 Raunds Town 2

Wellingborough Whitworth 3 Langford 0

Division Two

Aston Clinton 0 The 61 FC (Luton) 1

Eynesbury United 3 Milton Keynes Irish Reserves 1

Newport Pagnell Town Development 1 Milton Keynes College Football Academy 1

Padbury Village 3 Caddington AFC 3

Sarratt P New Bradwell St Peter 

Totternhoe P Codicote 

Tring Corinthians AFC 1 Old Bradwell United 0

SSML Division Two Cup Second Round

Bovingdon 0 Pitstone & Ivinghoe 1

Edited February 8 by Rhodes

[Rhodes]

On 08/02/2025 at 16:19, Rhodes said:

Saturday 8 February
Division Two
Eynesbury United 3 Milton Keynes Irish Reserves 1

Eynesbury United's summary of events:

Spartan South Midlands Division 2

Eynesbury Utd (2) 3 MK Irish (1) 1 (McLeod, Baxter, Palmer)

The Bulls made it eight straight wins after a dogged 3-1 win at home to MK Irish Reserves. This moved the Bulls into second place, just two points behind the current leaders New Bradwell St Peter.

Both sides started brightly with MK trying to get at the Bulls back four - but they could find no way past Martin in the United goal.

The first real chance of the game for the Bulls was from a corner - the ball bounced around and fell to Iwen Jones whose volley flicked off McLeod to give the Bulls the lead.

MK didn’t roll over though and their midfield and front three were always in the game, on 25 minutes a great ball from the impressive Brad Brown saw Baxter race clear, the keeper advanced and Baxter lifted the ball over him but the ball hit the underside of the bar and the rebound cleared.

United continued to have most of the play and finally extended their lead when man of the match Baxter beat the MK right back and blasted the ball past the keeper.

Two up and now well on top and managing the game - but just before half time the Bulls fell asleep and a great ball in saw Dummett reduce the Bulls lead with a good header - 2-1.

Again both sides came out battling in the second half. MK were on top and could have equalised when a header from Brito somehow missed. Minutes later a rasping shot had Martin scrambling but it went thankfully into the side netting. From a corner the Bulls should have extended their lead - Chris Newton recovered a clearance, played a great one two with McLeod, but fluffed his lines from five yards out and shanked it wide. United’s other centre half then had a great chance but missed a header from just under the bar. United were getting nervous and needed that third goal and it finally came when Baxter got to the MK by-line - centred a great ball and Archie Palmer shot home to give the Bulls all three points.

A huge win and with a tough away day at Caddington AFC next Saturday - the Bulls are growing in confidence with every game. Man of the match Ryan Baxter - though Sammy Routs pushed him close.

[Rhodes]

On 07/02/2025 at 15:20, Rhodes said:

Saturday 8 February
Premier Division
Milton Keynes Irish 3 Cockfosters 1

Over 150 photographs from Manor Fields, courtesy of Sports Shots photographer Luke Stafford:

[Rhodes]

6 hours ago, Rhodes said:

Saturday 8 February
Division One
Moulton FC 2 Letchworth Garden City Eagles 1

A match report from Brunting Road:

https://www.moultonfc.co.uk/teams/139524/match-centre/1-15672421/report

Edited February 10 by Rhodes

[Rhodes]

On 10/02/2025 at 10:39, Rhodes said:

Saturday 8 February
Premier Division
Milton Keynes Irish 3 Cockfosters 1

Some highlights from Manor Fields: