Essex Olympian League

Division 4 South East

Saturday 21st March 2026

Kick Off 14.00 On Time!

A.S. Rawreth 1 A.T.F. Southend 2, attendance 24

19’ 0-1

27’ 1-1

45’ + 1, 1-2

@ The Warren

Old London Road

Rawreth

SS11 5NX

No Admission or Programme.

A.S. Rawreth (it stands for Academy Soccer) play at The Warren, which is a very good set up for what is notionally Step 11 football. There are a number of small sized pitches here and two full sized ones. There was a Veterans game taking place on Pitch 2, whilst the main pitch runs lengthways away from the clubhouse/changing rooms behind the right hand goal as you enter. It’s fully railed and has a pair of wooden dugouts on the car park side of the pitch. A tea bar was in operation throughout the game.

The match was 6th versus 1st in the league table, with visitors A.T.F. (Achieve Thrive Flourish) needing a point to guarantee the title. They got off to a good start, going ahead after nineteen minutes, when a throw in was flicked on and tapped in at the far post. Their lead only lasted eight minutes though, when an attempt from a defender to play a ball across the 18 yard box was intercepted and finished with a low shot into the bottom corner. A.T.F. grabbed what turned out to be the winning goal in stoppage time at the end of the half, when an attempted defensive header back to the ‘keeper fell short, enabling a visiting striker to nip in and poke the ball into the corner of the net. Rawreth thought they’d equalised midway through the second half, but the ‘goal’ was ruled out for offside.

Unusually for a Saturday no traffic problems whatsoever in either direction at Dartford Crossing, so journey times were just over an hour.