Herts Senior County League

Premier Division

Saturday 23rd March 2019

Kick Off 15.00. On Time !

Evergreen 1 Chipperfield Corinthians 3, attendance 31

9’ 0-1 (pen)

31’ 0-2

45’+ 2, 0-3

56’ 1-3

@ Southway

Entrance via Essex Lane

Abbots Langley

WD4 8PN

No Admission or Programme.

This is the second successive season where Evergreen have been the only club that I haven’t visited in the Premier Division of this league, so it was about time that I got round to completing the set, with the action played out adjacent to the imposing Warner Bros. Studios.

A couple of weeks ago, bottom of the league table Sun Sports pulled out of the league, which meant their results were expunged from the table and that there will now be only one team relegated at the end of the season. This was not good news for Evergreen, as they had taken four points from their two matches against them, and also, it then left Evergreen bottom of the league in their place, whilst third from bottom Broadfields are a point ahead of them, but they lose no points from Sun Sports demise as they had only played them once and they lost that, so were unaffected.

Chipperfield started the day in seventh place in the league and looked far too good for the hosts from the off. By halftime it was 0-3 and there looked like little chance of a comeback, which turned out to be the case. Evergreen did pull one goal back, with a goal awarded by the Linesman, who thought the ball had crossed the goal line, but it certainly didn’t, as I was stood much nearer the incident and it was nowhere near and a perfect headed clearance up onto the crossbar by the defender.

It may turn out to be irrelevant as to whether Evergreen finish bottom or not, as during a conversation at halftime, I was told that they are hoping to join the Spartan South Midlands League next season.

Football League Youth Alliance

Merit League 1

Saturday 23rd March 2019

Kick Off 11.00. On Time !

Stevenage U18 4 A.F.C. Bournemouth U18 0, attendance 79

21’ 1-0

26’ 2-0

31’ 3-0

80’ 4-0

@ Shephalbury Sports Academy

Broadhall Way

Stevenage

SG2 8RH

No Admission or Programme.

Stevenage are one of the clubs who openly advertise their youth matches as being open to the public, and it pays off, as this was one of the better crowds that I have seen at this level of the youth leagues. It was also easy to check where the match was being played, as it is possible to telephone the venue, which was worthwhile yesterday, as I learned that the match would be kicking off at 11 o’clock, which is half an hour later than they normally start here, although the Bournemouth website had the game down for a noon start.

Bournemouth actually looked the better side early on, but three goals in a ten minute spell, including missing a penalty when it was 1-0, saw Stevenage take control by the half hour mark and they never looked like being pegged back. It was a surprise that we had to wait until ten minutes from the end to see a goal in the second half, but an unstoppable shot from the corner of the 18 yard box rounded off the scoring.