Sydenhams Football League News 2020/21 Edition Number 19
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SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2020/21 EDITION NUMBER 19 Hello and welcome to the latest edition of your Newsletter, if you have anything to contribute, please do get in touch by email- [email protected] You can keep up to date with all the news from around the League by following us on Twitter at - @Sydwessex You are more than welcome to use any material (excluding attributed photographs) but it would be appreciated if any material used is acknowledged. It is hoped you enjoy reading this each week. With readership quite widespread, not only within our own competition, but across the three counties and beyond- if ANY club has anything they’d like to have published in here, whether that be a request for helpers, promotion of forthcoming events, items required or available for sale please contact the Newsletter Editor. As a general reminder- Match Reports, player news and photos are always welcome- it is your Newsletter! Saturday, 07 November 2020 Page 1 of 21 SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2020/21 EDITION NUMBER 19 ARE YOU LISTENING ? The Sydenhams Wessex Football League Show is the official podcast of the Sydenhams Wessex League. We’re on air live from the 103.9 Voice FM studios in Southampton from 3pm to 5pm every Sunday and you can also listen live on www.voicefmradio.co.uk from anywhere in the world. You can listen again afterwards, normally just one hour after the show has finished via the same website and there is also a Voice FM App you can download to your Phone I-Pad or Computer device. Our aim is to promote all local football but specifically the 38 teams of the Sydenhams Wessex League. So far, we have had managers, chairmen, players, press officers and secretaries joining us as studio guests and phone guests; from many Sydenhams Wessex League clubs, as well as guests from local teams both higher up and lower down the pyramid. This is your show and is a platform for your club to promote its events and raise its profile. If your club produces post-match interviews please either email us a copy of the audio or give permission for us to play them on air straight from your website or social media sites, as we will aim to play them on the show. Please come and join us one Sunday, at the moment, no guests will be allowed in the Studio, but please email [email protected] or [email protected] for more information. Saturday, 07 November 2020 Page 2 of 21 SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2020/21 EDITION NUMBER 19 Saturday, 07 November 2020 Page 3 of 21 SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2020/21 EDITION NUMBER 19 STAT ATTACK LEAGUE GOALS COUNT THIS WEEK PREMIER DIVISION 27 DIVISION ONE 20 LEADING GOALSCORERS – LEAGUE GAMES ONLY Details are based on clubs being up to date with records on Full Time at time of going to press and may or may not include League goals from any qualifying games played this weekend. PREMIER DIVISION Dan Cann Hamworthy United 9 Connor Duffin Horndean 9 - [four on] 7 - [seven on] 6 DIVISION ONE Russell Jones Laverstock & Ford 14 Clayd Roach Folland Sports 10 James Franklyn United Services Portsmouth 9 James Thomson Folland Sports 9 WATCHING BRIEF – TOP THREE LEAGUE ATTENDANCES PREMIER DIVISION AFC Portchester V Blackfield & Langley 300 31 October Bashley V Brockenhurst 276 3 November AFC Portchester V Fleet Town 271 5 September DIVISION ONE Andover Town V Andover New Street 289 29 September East Cowes Victoria V Newport IOW 288 29 September Laverstock & Ford V Bemerton Heath Harlequins 287 13 October SHARPEST AND MEANEST Leading goalscoring teams in the League and the meanest defences PREMIER DIVISION SHARPEST MEANEST Hamworthy United 35 Lymington Town 1 Fareham Town 32 Christchurch 8 AFC Stoneham 28 Hamworthy United 8 Horndean 26 AFC Portchester 9 Fleet Town 23 Blackfield & Langley 10 Christchurch 22 Fareham Town 11 DIVISION ONE SHARPEST MEANEST Laverstock & Ford 38 Romsey Town 9 Folland Sports 31 Alton 13 United Services Portsmouth 26 Laverstock & Ford 13 Andover Town 24 United Services Portsmouth 13 Newport IOW 24 Folland Sports 14 Alton 23 Newport IOW 14 Saturday, 07 November 2020 Page 4 of 21 SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2020/21 EDITION NUMBER 19 BUILDBASE FA VASE 2nd ROUND Christchurch v Cribbs Helston Athletic v Fareham Town or Roman Glass St George Millbrook or Sherborne Town v Bashley So, who drew who New Milton Town v Longlevens on Monday? Petersfield Town v Hamworthy United United Services Portsmouth v Brockenhurst or Street Prize of £900 to the winners and guaranteed one possibly two teams representing the league in the next Round. The ties are scheduled for 28 November, but that will be delayed due to the lockdown- so new dates will have to be confirmed. The games involving Brockenhurst and Fareham Town should have happened yesterday, so there remains uncertainty over the opponents. Similarly Bashley will have to wait for the outcome of the Millbrook Sherborne game, which was also scheduled for yesterday. FA YOUTH CUP 1st ROUND Brockenhurst versus Truro City was brought forward to last Wednesday at Grigg Lane, and it went well for the Badgers. Going in at the interval two goals to the good through Jordan Evans and Liam Nixon, the youngsters had keeper Ben Puleo to thank for three great saves to keep the White Tigers at bay before and after City grabbed a goal on 70 minutes through substitute Joe Moran. The result was no more than they deserved whilst playing some decent football and has earned them a place in the 2nd Round where they will play Newport County. A long trip for the young Badgers, after County won 1-0 at Wimborne, also on Wednesday evening. That game looks highly likely to be the last one being played at Cuthbury as progress on the new ground (New Cuthbury) has continued over the summer. In a way a shame the Magpies couldn’t register a win for the occasion. The winner came early in the second half through Lewys Twamley. Wimborne came close to a reply on the hour when they hit the bar. The opening goal at Grigg Lane came on ten minutes when a Connor Ings corner was headed home by Jordan EVANS in a crowded area into the top corner of the goal and less than ten minutes later the lead was doubled when a slip by Truro defender Archie McTeare allowed Liam NIXON to race away and drive the ball home. Between these two strikes young Ben Puleo had made a fine acrobatic save to keep the lead. The second half saw a renewed impetus from the visitors and a rasping shot from Sam Wickins nearly got them back in the game just before the hour mark, and shortly after- and a little against the run of play, Evans found a space for himself and his shot was not too far off the target bouncing on the roof of the net. A Wickins free kick hit a Brockenhurst defender and Puleo was alert to the danger and managed to tip the ball away but wasn’t able to prevent the White Tigers getting a goal with less than a quarter of an hour remaining. He stopped the initial strike but sub Joe MORAN was on hand to pick up the scraps and drill it home from near the penalty spot. Badgers’ nerves were tested in the dying minutes when James Swan worked an opening but fortunately for the vast majority of the 300 crowd the ball only hit the side netting. MIDWEEK RESULTS Tuesday 3 November Premier Division Amesbury Town 0-1 Horndean 32 Jean-Pierre Alexander Bashley 2-0 Brockenhurst 276 Cameron Beard 70, 87 Saturday, 07 November 2020 Page 5 of 21 SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2020/21 EDITION NUMBER 19 Christchurch 3-0 Baffins Milton Rovers 106 Max Wilcock 57 Will Fletcher 70, 90 Fareham Town 3-3 Alresford Town 258 Josh Benfield Ashley Elson [2] Callum Benfield Louis Russell Tom Settle Fleet Town 5-0 Shaftesbury 125 Mal Thomas [2] Billy Oram [2] Ralph Karumazondo Hamble Club 3-3 Cowes Sports 97 Mitch Byrne 61, 73 Jimmy Wykes 6 Mike Byrne 90 John McKie 68, 89 Lymington Town 1-0 Hamworthy United 136 Sam House 50 Portland United 0-3 AFC Stoneham 138 Sam Woodward 29, 55 Nathan Clements 42 Division One Alton 3-2 Ringwood Town 133 George Bowerman 8, 55, 77 Shaun Prentice Adam Riley Andover New Street 0-2 Romsey Town 130 George Callard Jack Odam Hythe & Dibden 2-2 Bemerton Heath Harlequins 121 Sam Floyd Justin Bennett 34 Cain Prentice Kane O'Keefe 85 Newport (IOW) 5-0 Totton & Eling 116 Scott Sampson 3 Jake Wright 9 Connor Kelly 43 Joe Butcher 44 Tommy Jackson 82 Wednesday 4 November Buildbase FA Vase 1st Round United Services Portsmouth 3-1 Bournemouth 184 Dec Seiden 33 Jack Kinge-Phillips 12 Andy Todd 37 James Franklyn 59 Division One Whitchurch United 4-0 New Milton Town 90 George Bishop Lloyd Thompson Harry Edmondson Nick Yeomans Saturday, 07 November 2020 Page 6 of 21 SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2020/21 EDITION NUMBER 19 MIDWEEK MATCH REPORTS Tuesday 3 November Premier Division PORTLAND UNITED 0-3 AFC STONEHAM TWENTIETH visit to the New Grove for me and a bracing evening with just over 130 other intrepid souls to watch the youngsters of Portland United against AFC Stoneham, writes Mike Robins. Despite the final score, which perhaps could have been more convincing, it was a close fought encounter at least for the first half hour before the visitors got their noses in front.