The Non - League thread

[AthleticoSpizz]

and?

That's a oxf*rd stupid idea

why is it stupid?

The pre-cursor was “it’ll never happen”

106 and no promotion, as is, it’ll happen again

[SouthDownsRoyal]

Wowser, The big winner takes all game, Rochdale take the lead 90+5 mins only for York to level it 90+13mins , must have been some scenes there.

Just seen the stoppage time action

Bottom line is if Rochdale fans had stayed in the stands until the end they would have won, even saw a few getting in the faces of York players, one of the fans got laid out by one of them.
Expect they feel quite stupid now.

Most likely but York could still have scored in the remaining 90 seconds or so.

[Sutekh]

Just seen the stoppage time action

Bottom line is if Rochdale fans had stayed in the stands until the end they would have won, even saw a few getting in the faces of York players, one of the fans got laid out by one of them.
Expect they feel quite stupid now.

Most likely but York could still have scored in the remaining 90 seconds or so.

Yes, but then ‘Dale players wouldn’t have had their concentration knackered quite so much.

[SouthDownsRoyal]

Bottom line is if Rochdale fans had stayed in the stands until the end they would have won, even saw a few getting in the faces of York players, one of the fans got laid out by one of them.
Expect they feel quite stupid now.

Most likely but York could still have scored in the remaining 90 seconds or so.

Yes, but then ‘Dale players wouldn’t have had their concentration knackered quite so much.

Fair point.

[Sanguine]

You have had an historic season, a billion points. Second place. Need to beat the team in first on the final day to go up. You score what looks like the winner in the sixth minute of six added minutes. You appear to have been promoted to the football league.

I'm not an 'on the pitch' guy, but of course fans went on the pitch. Of course they did. I bet not a single one of them 'feels silly' this morning. There were a whole bunch of footballing things - challenges, headers won/lost, cross blocked, cross sent in again, scramble in the six yard box. York scored - none of it was because Rochdale fans went on the pitch.

Crazy end to a brilliant season for both sides. Hopefully Rochdale now make it happen in the play-offs.

[Whore Jackie]

Indeed. York and Rochdale released a joint-statement on Saturday asking for the authorities to change it to 3 up from the NL.

https://rochdaleafc.co.uk/joint-stateme ... ty-240426/

Interestingly*, no team promoted from the National League has been relegated the following season since the league adopted its current format in 2002-03.

Of the 23 teams to have finished second in that period, only six have been promoted through the play-offs. Wrexham, Stockport and Bromley have all been promoted to League One within two seasons of escaping the National League, while Notts County have qualified for this season’s League Two play-offs.

[Four Of Clubs]

NL round-up – had covered a few events earlier

Sat 25th April

NAT
Aldershot Town 0-2 Truro City
Altrincham 3-1 Gateshead
Boreham Wood 1-0 Sutton United
Boston United 3-1 Hartlepool United
Carlisle United 3-0 Brackley Town
Forest Green Rovers 5-0 Morecambe
Rochdale 1-1 York City – att 7,221
Scunthorpe United 0-1 Eastleigh
Southend United 2-1 Wealdstone
Tamworth 5-1 Braintree Town
Woking 0-1 FC Halifax Town
Yeovil Town 1-4 Solihull Moors
- York City Champions
Play Offs -
Eliminator i) on Tue 28th Scunthorpe Utd v Southend Utd
Eliminator ii) on Wed 29th Boreham Wood v FGR

NAT-N
Alfreton Town 3-3 Curzon Ashton – both relegated – CA on GD with Hereford safe
Bedford Town 1-1 Scarborough Athletic
Buxton 4-1 Leamington
Chester 0-0 King's Lynn Town
Chorley 2-1 Worksop Town
Darlington 1-3 Oxford City
Hereford 2-2 Peterborough Sports – att 4,459 – Hereford still behind on 80’ – being relegated at that point and might have gone down with defeat, without Curzon’s late rally

Kidderminster Harriers 1-0 South Shields
Merthyr Town 2-4 AFC Fylde
- AFC Fylde Champions
Play Offs -
Eliminator i) on Tue 28th Buxton v Scarborough
Eliminator ii) on Wed 29th Macclesfield v Chester

NAT-S
AFC Totton 1-6 Farnborough
Bath City 2-3 Maidstone United
Chelmsford City 1-3 Eastbourne Borough
Dover Athletic 2-2 Chesham United
Hampton & Richmond Borough 1-0 Enfield Town
Hemel Hempstead Town 1-1 Salisbury
Hornchurch 0-0 Maidenhead United – att 2,138
Horsham 3-2 Chippenham Town
Slough Town 3-2 Dagenham & Redbridge – att 1,077 – and another goal for our ‘Basil’
Tonbridge Angels 1-2 Torquay United
Weston-super-Mare 1-1 Dorking Wanderers
Worthing 2-0 Ebbsfleet United – att 4,002 – a record and historic moment as they reach the top-flight for the first time
Play Offs -
Eliminator i) on Tue 28th Hemel Hempstead v W-s-M
Eliminator ii) on Wed 29th Dorking W v Maidenhead Utd – match all ticket – link via DW official site [dwfc.co.uk]

SLP-C
Alvechurch 1-1 Leiston
Barwell 3-1 Bishop's Stortford
Bromsgrove Sporting 1-3 Real Bedford
Bury Town 0-1 Kettering Town
Halesowen Town 5-0 AFC Sudbury
Needham Market 0-2 Banbury United – ‘Pilgrims’ finish mid-tabe
Redditch United 5-0 Quorn
St Ives Town 0-0 Stratford Town
Stamford 0-0 Harborough Town
Stourbridge 1-0 Royston Town
Worcester City 4-4 Spalding United
POs Wed 29th
Real Bedford v Kettering Town
Spalding United v Halesowen Town

SLP-S
Berkhamsted 2-0 Weymouth
Chertsey Town 1-0 Hungerford Town
Dorchester Town 0-4 Sholing
Gloucester City 1-0 Walton & Hersham
Gosport Borough 3-6 Plymouth Parkway
Hanwell Town 2-1 Basingstoke Town
Havant & Waterlooville 1-3 Yate Town
Taunton Town 0-0 Evesham United – a point here enough to relegate Weymouth
Tiverton Town 0-3 Farnham Town
Uxbridge 3-3 Poole Town
Wimborne Town 3-3 Bracknell Town
POs Wed 29th
Farnham Town v Berkhamsted
Gloucester City v Poole Town

SL1-C
AFC Dunstable 4-3 Rayners Lane - just as 'AFC' wink out of existence (merging with/absorbed by Town) they somehow finish their final ever game with a mad flourish in the final 20’
- come from 3 down to grab an unlikely win (only their 3rd of a wretched campaign where they’ve conceded 159 goals)
- their fourth goalscorer was reportedly the rather appropriately (for miracles ) named: Nehemiah Jeremiah Mahon-Bourne

Aylesbury United 1-3 Hertford Town
Beaconsfield Town 2-0 Ware
Biggleswade Town 2-0 Marlow
Enfield 2-4 Welwyn Garden City
Flackwell Heath 0-2 Biggleswade
Hitchin Town 0-5 Thame United – pretty remarkable margin of victory over runners- up Hitchin
- confirms Utd will finish 5th – and need to travel to the ‘Canaries’ Top Field ground again this Wed.
- if I was a slightly cynical man, I’d call ‘shennanigans’ on this result:
– following an end-of-season game I attended, Braintree were ‘bush-whacked’ (by Eastbourne Borough) in a STEP02 PO campaign - in similar circumstances .....
- likely PO opponents were facing them in the last regular season game and there was a 'whiff' of ‘manipulation’ about the outcome
– EB either played in a very low gear or put out a ‘2nd string’ for the league match - not ‘showing their hand’ too early
– thus Borough rather tamely lost the league game (avoiding much-fancied-Eastleigh as a result - that last bit has a certain re-verb)
- they promptly ‘whupped’ Braintree 5-0 on agg in the POs – though were still 2-legged back then
– it may just be my senility being fanciful but I thought it ‘odd’ that the Borough fans that day weren’t too fussed about the manner in which they were being beaten in the League game??
- the other S-F will see a clash of the ‘Biggles’ @ Bedford Town – Biggleswade v Biggleswade Town

SL1-S
Bideford 1-3 Bishops Cleeve
Didcot Town 1-1 Westbury United
Falmouth Town 0-2 Melksham Town
Frome Town 1-2 Portishead Town – att 1,095 – Champions beaten at home by runners-up ‘Posset’ who pipped Malvern to 2nd spot
Malvern Town 4-2 Swindon Supermarine
Willand Rovers 3-0 Tavistock – win to no avail – Melksham’s win assures Rovers finish in the bottom 4
Winchester City 3-0 Bristol Manor Farm
-NOTE PO S-Fs due for Wed 29th – BUT participants not confirmed yet pending an FA decision into a 'regulatory issue' – quote : “......involving a club occupying a PO spot”??
- a judgement will be made this AM and a statement issued this PM (Mon 27th) to enable S-Fs to take place
- need to check NLM regarding any info (qualified or otherwise) about whom is concerned here
- and will try and update when I see more??

IL1-SC
Ascot United 2-3 Metropolitan Police
Bognor Regis Town 3-0 Binfield
Fareham Town 2-2 South Park (Reigate)
Hanworth Villa 2-1 Raynes Park Vale
Harrow Borough 1-1 Southall
Hayes & Yeading United 0-3 Hartley Wintney
Hendon 2-2 Egham Town
Horndean 0-4 Littlehampton Town
Kingstonian 3-3 AFC Portchester
Leatherhead 2-0 Bedfont Sports
Moneyfields 4-1 Westfield

PO S-Fs this Wednesday 29th
Hanworth Villa v Money fields
Westfield v AFC Portchester

CCL-PN
British Airways 2-1 Virginia Water
Wokingham Town 4-0 North Leigh

CCL-PS PO Final
Fleet Town 2-4 Horley Town – att 1,189

CCL-1
PO S-Fs
Bedfont 1-0 Wembley
Brook House 0-0 Woodley United – 4-3 pens
PO Final Sat 2nd May - Bedfont v Brook House

CCL - Premier Cup Q-F
Abbey Rangers 0-3 Epsom & Ewell - - ‘Salts’ play Windsor & Eton in the S-F date tbc

Southern Combination Challenge Cup
Reading City 2-1 Sheerwater - 2 goals in as many minutes for City – Stefan Brown and Joel Valentin with the goals on 66’ & 68’
- This Cup is not best served by Soc.Med. I would probably need to go thru several club ‘X’ or FB sites to confirm later results.
– not aware that Sheerwater had been re-instated – thought they were on the 'other side' of the draw – but had noticed they had been drawn away at SCR and lost 0-1 back in Nov !?
–So ‘Cityzens’ were supposed to be playing SCR in this tie which was a Q-F– and now should host Bedfont Sports in the S-F?
Other S-F was Camberley Town 1-3 Cobham –played about a week or so back (18th?)
- this competition is very often an afterthought : shoe-horned in to where there are spare dates and subject to late exclusions and withdrawals.
I may have dig about for the last few dates/venues......

SEC-1
FC Elmstead 2-1 Chessington & Hook United – C&H do finish bottom – crushingly with the very last kick – were beaten in the in the 94’
– having escaped only in the final week of the season they slipped back but only on GD below Welling T – who’s equaliser also came very late in a 1-1 draw at Croydon
– are likely to be relegated somewhere with Welling Town and Lydd – barring re-shuffles/reprieves

Sheppey Sports 0-7 {SEVEN} SE Dons
Staplehurst Monarchs 0-2 AFC Greenwich Borough - AFC GB Champions

PO S-Fs
Mon 27th Apr - SE Dons v Croydon
Tues 28th Apr - Rochester United v Lordswood AFC

Final on 2nd May at highest placed Finalist


WESS-P
PO Final Portland Utd 0-0 Laverstock & Ford H win pens 5-3
WESS-1
Alresford Town 5-1 Ash United
Amesbury Town 3-3 Cove – Cove miss out on the POs by 2 pts – tho still would have need a margin of a 4 goal win due to Yateley’s win below
Blackfield & Langley 2-5 Lymington Town
Fleetlands 2-1 Whitchurch United – ‘Jam Boys’ lose at Champions but finish 5th – travel to Folland on Tue night in the PO S-F
Folland Sports 3-3 Hamworthy United
Kintbury Rangers 2-2 Fawley AFC
Newport (IoW) 3-0 AFC Aldermaston
Ringwood Town 1-2 Totton & Eling
Romsey Town 2-4 Colden Common
Yateley United 2-1 Clanfield – staggering late season run of 13 straight wins propelled Yateley into the POs
- were level bottom after 8 games
– they go to Winchester’s Charters Community Stadium on Wed night, to take on 3rd placed Colden Common
- CC were the last side to beat them back in mid Feb

TVPL-Prem
Premier Division
Maidenhead Town 4-2 Newbury Town

..... TVLP Berks Trophy Centre Cup Final @ SCL set for Tue 5th May
Westwood Wanderers v Tadley Calleva Reserves KO19:00

...and finally
- got a 'new' tick up at Britwell in the East Baaaarks Premier - the hosts lost 0-2 to AFC Dukes (from Bracknell)
- nice clubhouse bar in the Community Centre there, set just north of the Slough Trading Estate near M4 jn7 and pretty close to Burnham
- was far too hot for football - or maybe I was just caught out by the unseasonal warmth - very little shade too.

[parky]

The issue with the 3UP campaign for me is it completely ignores the fact that over half of the National League teams are utter crap. Yes two teams got over 100 points and third got 95. But half the league didn't get 60 points in a 46 game season. In most 24 team leagues less than 50 points should see you be relegated. The National League is not "League 3" as York and Rochdale claim. The top of it is but three quarters of it is not. I'd be in favour of the EFL becoming 4 leagues of 20 rather than 3 of 24 as it currently is to allow the top of the NL to be in the professional game. Rather than 3 up from the NL.

[Lighthouse]

The issue with the 3UP campaign for me is it completely ignores the fact that over half of the National League teams are utter crap. Yes two teams got over 100 points and third got 95. But half the league didn't get 60 points in a 46 game season. In most 24 team leagues less than 50 points should see you be relegated. The National League is not "League 3" as York and Rochdale claim. The top of it is but three quarters of it is not. I'd be in favour of the EFL becoming 4 leagues of 20 rather than 3 of 24 as it currently is to allow the top of the NL to be in the professional game. Rather than 3 up from the NL.

It’s not always the second place team that gets up via the play offs. Last season Oldham were promoted having finished 6th or 7th and they are comfortably mid table. I agree there’s a huge disparity between those at the top and the teams at the bottom. Not many are calling for 2 up and 2 down from the Premier League where there’s a similar disparity.

[Lighthouse]

NL round-up – had covered a few events earlier

Sat 25th April

NAT
Aldershot Town 0-2 Truro City
Altrincham 3-1 Gateshead
Boreham Wood 1-0 Sutton United
Boston United 3-1 Hartlepool United
Carlisle United 3-0 Brackley Town
Forest Green Rovers 5-0 Morecambe
Rochdale 1-1 York City – att 7,221
Scunthorpe United 0-1 Eastleigh
Southend United 2-1 Wealdstone
Tamworth 5-1 Braintree Town
Woking 0-1 FC Halifax Town
Yeovil Town 1-4 Solihull Moors
- York City Champions
Play Offs -
Eliminator i) on Tue 28th Scunthorpe Utd v Southend Utd
Eliminator ii) on Wed 29th Boreham Wood v FGR

NAT-N
Alfreton Town 3-3 Curzon Ashton – both relegated – CA on GD with Hereford safe
Bedford Town 1-1 Scarborough Athletic
Buxton 4-1 Leamington
Chester 0-0 King's Lynn Town
Chorley 2-1 Worksop Town
Darlington 1-3 Oxford City
Hereford 2-2 Peterborough Sports – att 4,459 – Hereford still behind on 80’ – being relegated at that point and might have gone down with defeat, without Curzon’s late rally

Kidderminster Harriers 1-0 South Shields
Merthyr Town 2-4 AFC Fylde
- AFC Fylde Champions
Play Offs -
Eliminator i) on Tue 28th Buxton v Scarborough
Eliminator ii) on Wed 29th Macclesfield v Chester

NAT-S
AFC Totton 1-6 Farnborough
Bath City 2-3 Maidstone United
Chelmsford City 1-3 Eastbourne Borough
Dover Athletic 2-2 Chesham United
Hampton & Richmond Borough 1-0 Enfield Town
Hemel Hempstead Town 1-1 Salisbury
Hornchurch 0-0 Maidenhead United – att 2,138
Horsham 3-2 Chippenham Town
Slough Town 3-2 Dagenham & Redbridge – att 1,077 – and another goal for our ‘Basil’
Tonbridge Angels 1-2 Torquay United
Weston-super-Mare 1-1 Dorking Wanderers
Worthing 2-0 Ebbsfleet United – att 4,002 – a record and historic moment as they reach the top-flight for the first time
Play Offs -
Eliminator i) on Tue 28th Hemel Hempstead v W-s-M
Eliminator ii) on Wed 29th Dorking W v Maidenhead Utd – match all ticket – link via DW official site [dwfc.co.uk]

SLP-C
Alvechurch 1-1 Leiston
Barwell 3-1 Bishop's Stortford
Bromsgrove Sporting 1-3 Real Bedford
Bury Town 0-1 Kettering Town
Halesowen Town 5-0 AFC Sudbury
Needham Market 0-2 Banbury United – ‘Pilgrims’ finish mid-tabe
Redditch United 5-0 Quorn
St Ives Town 0-0 Stratford Town
Stamford 0-0 Harborough Town
Stourbridge 1-0 Royston Town
Worcester City 4-4 Spalding United
POs Wed 29th
Real Bedford v Kettering Town
Spalding United v Halesowen Town

SLP-S
Berkhamsted 2-0 Weymouth
Chertsey Town 1-0 Hungerford Town
Dorchester Town 0-4 Sholing
Gloucester City 1-0 Walton & Hersham
Gosport Borough 3-6 Plymouth Parkway
Hanwell Town 2-1 Basingstoke Town
Havant & Waterlooville 1-3 Yate Town
Taunton Town 0-0 Evesham United – a point here enough to relegate Weymouth
Tiverton Town 0-3 Farnham Town
Uxbridge 3-3 Poole Town
Wimborne Town 3-3 Bracknell Town
POs Wed 29th
Farnham Town v Berkhamsted
Gloucester City v Poole Town

SL1-C
AFC Dunstable 4-3 Rayners Lane - just as 'AFC' wink out of existence (merging with/absorbed by Town) they somehow finish their final ever game with a mad flourish in the final 20’
- come from 3 down to grab an unlikely win (only their 3rd of a wretched campaign where they’ve conceded 159 goals)
- their fourth goalscorer was reportedly the rather appropriately (for miracles ) named: Nehemiah Jeremiah Mahon-Bourne

Aylesbury United 1-3 Hertford Town
Beaconsfield Town 2-0 Ware
Biggleswade Town 2-0 Marlow
Enfield 2-4 Welwyn Garden City
Flackwell Heath 0-2 Biggleswade
Hitchin Town 0-5 Thame United – pretty remarkable margin of victory over runners- up Hitchin
- confirms Utd will finish 5th – and need to travel to the ‘Canaries’ Top Field ground again this Wed.
- if I was a slightly cynical man, I’d call ‘shennanigans’ on this result:
– following an end-of-season game I attended, Braintree were ‘bush-whacked’ (by Eastbourne Borough) in a STEP02 PO campaign - in similar circumstances .....
- likely PO opponents were facing them in the last regular season game and there was a 'whiff' of ‘manipulation’ about the outcome
– EB either played in a very low gear or put out a ‘2nd string’ for the league match - not ‘showing their hand’ too early
– thus Borough rather tamely lost the league game (avoiding much-fancied-Eastleigh as a result - that last bit has a certain re-verb)
- they promptly ‘whupped’ Braintree 5-0 on agg in the POs – though were still 2-legged back then
– it may just be my senility being fanciful but I thought it ‘odd’ that the Borough fans that day weren’t too fussed about the manner in which they were being beaten in the League game??
- the other S-F will see a clash of the ‘Biggles’ @ Bedford Town – Biggleswade v Biggleswade Town

SL1-S
Bideford 1-3 Bishops Cleeve
Didcot Town 1-1 Westbury United
Falmouth Town 0-2 Melksham Town
Frome Town 1-2 Portishead Town – att 1,095 – Champions beaten at home by runners-up ‘Posset’ who pipped Malvern to 2nd spot
Malvern Town 4-2 Swindon Supermarine
Willand Rovers 3-0 Tavistock – win to no avail – Melksham’s win assures Rovers finish in the bottom 4
Winchester City 3-0 Bristol Manor Farm
-NOTE PO S-Fs due for Wed 29th – BUT participants not confirmed yet pending an FA decision into a 'regulatory issue' – quote : “......involving a club occupying a PO spot”??
- a judgement will be made this AM and a statement issued this PM (Mon 27th) to enable S-Fs to take place
- need to check NLM regarding any info (qualified or otherwise) about whom is concerned here
- and will try and update when I see more??

IL1-SC
Ascot United 2-3 Metropolitan Police
Bognor Regis Town 3-0 Binfield
Fareham Town 2-2 South Park (Reigate)
Hanworth Villa 2-1 Raynes Park Vale
Harrow Borough 1-1 Southall
Hayes & Yeading United 0-3 Hartley Wintney
Hendon 2-2 Egham Town
Horndean 0-4 Littlehampton Town
Kingstonian 3-3 AFC Portchester
Leatherhead 2-0 Bedfont Sports
Moneyfields 4-1 Westfield

PO S-Fs this Wednesday 29th
Hanworth Villa v Money fields
Westfield v AFC Portchester

CCL-PN
British Airways 2-1 Virginia Water
Wokingham Town 4-0 North Leigh

CCL-PS PO Final
Fleet Town 2-4 Horley Town – att 1,189

CCL-1
PO S-Fs
Bedfont 1-0 Wembley
Brook House 0-0 Woodley United – 4-3 pens
PO Final Sat 2nd May - Bedfont v Brook House

CCL - Premier Cup Q-F
Abbey Rangers 0-3 Epsom & Ewell - - ‘Salts’ play Windsor & Eton in the S-F date tbc

Southern Combination Challenge Cup
Reading City 2-1 Sheerwater - 2 goals in as many minutes for City – Stefan Brown and Joel Valentin with the goals on 66’ & 68’
- This Cup is not best served by Soc.Med. I would probably need to go thru several club ‘X’ or FB sites to confirm later results.
– not aware that Sheerwater had been re-instated – thought they were on the 'other side' of the draw – but had noticed they had been drawn away at SCR and lost 0-1 back in Nov !?
–So ‘Cityzens’ were supposed to be playing SCR in this tie which was a Q-F– and now should host Bedfont Sports in the S-F?
Other S-F was Camberley Town 1-3 Cobham –played about a week or so back (18th?)
- this competition is very often an afterthought : shoe-horned in to where there are spare dates and subject to late exclusions and withdrawals.
I may have dig about for the last few dates/venues......

SEC-1
FC Elmstead 2-1 Chessington & Hook United – C&H do finish bottom – crushingly with the very last kick – were beaten in the in the 94’
– having escaped only in the final week of the season they slipped back but only on GD below Welling T – who’s equaliser also came very late in a 1-1 draw at Croydon
– are likely to be relegated somewhere with Welling Town and Lydd – barring re-shuffles/reprieves

Sheppey Sports 0-7 {SEVEN} SE Dons
Staplehurst Monarchs 0-2 AFC Greenwich Borough - AFC GB Champions

PO S-Fs
Mon 27th Apr - SE Dons v Croydon
Tues 28th Apr - Rochester United v Lordswood AFC

Final on 2nd May at highest placed Finalist


WESS-P
PO Final Portland Utd 0-0 Laverstock & Ford H win pens 5-3
WESS-1
Alresford Town 5-1 Ash United
Amesbury Town 3-3 Cove – Cove miss out on the POs by 2 pts – tho still would have need a margin of a 4 goal win due to Yateley’s win below
Blackfield & Langley 2-5 Lymington Town
Fleetlands 2-1 Whitchurch United – ‘Jam Boys’ lose at Champions but finish 5th – travel to Folland on Tue night in the PO S-F
Folland Sports 3-3 Hamworthy United
Kintbury Rangers 2-2 Fawley AFC
Newport (IoW) 3-0 AFC Aldermaston
Ringwood Town 1-2 Totton & Eling
Romsey Town 2-4 Colden Common
Yateley United 2-1 Clanfield – staggering late season run of 13 straight wins propelled Yateley into the POs
- were level bottom after 8 games
– they go to Winchester’s Charters Community Stadium on Wed night, to take on 3rd placed Colden Common
- CC were the last side to beat them back in mid Feb

TVPL-Prem
Premier Division
Maidenhead Town 4-2 Newbury Town

..... TVLP Berks Trophy Centre Cup Final @ SCL set for Tue 5th May
Westwood Wanderers v Tadley Calleva Reserves KO19:00

...and finally
- got a 'new' tick up at Britwell in the East Baaaarks Premier - the hosts lost 0-2 to AFC Dukes (from Bracknell)
- nice clubhouse bar in the Community Centre there, set just north of the Slough Trading Estate near M4 jn7 and pretty close to Burnham
- was far too hot for football - or maybe I was just caught out by the unseasonal warmth - very little shade too.

Looks like Portishead have been kicked out of the play offs in SLS. Ground grading issues?
Semi finals
Malvern v Bishops Cleeve
Winch v Shaftesbury