Cambridgeshire County League
Senior B Division
Tuesday 15th April 2025
Kick Off 18.15 Actual 18.14!
Swavesey Institute 1 Fordham 5, attendance 24
12’ 0-1
23’ 0-2
60’ 0-3
73’ 0-4
82’ 0-5
84’ 1-5
@ Swavesey Recreation Ground
Middle Watch/High Street
Swavesey
CB24 4QU
No Admission or Programme.
Tonight was a trip to Cambridgeshire, just off the A14, to the north west of Cambridge, for a clash between two teams at the bottom end of the league. The ground is on the right when entering the village coming from the A14. No car park, but plenty of street parking, with the ground entrance opposite School Lane. There’s a small sized kids pitch nearest the entrance, with the main pitch beyond, running lengthways away from here. The changing room building is to the right, with the pitch roped along the touchline that side and there is a section of advertising boards running from the near corner to the six yard box. Swavesey Institute were propping up the table, seven points adrift of next to bottom Over Sports Reserves, but still having enough games to get themselves clear of relegation, whilst Fordham were four places above them and knew a win here tonight should see them secure their place in this division for next season.
Fordham went ahead early, heading in after nipping in front of the ‘keeper to beat him to a cross in from the left. They doubled their lead midway through the half, when a corner from the right was touched in at the near post. They made the game safe when they made it 0-3 on the hour mark, with a cracking 20 yard free kick into the bottom corner, before two more in the last ten minutes saw them go 0-5 up. Swavesey did get the final goal of the night though, heading in a corner at the far post.
The game was played in persistent rain from about ten minutes in, which got steadier as the game went on. Despite kicking off a minute early, I made it just 43 minutes played in the first half and 40 in the second, as the Referee blew for full time as soon as we restarted after Swavesey had scored their consolation goal. With a short halftime, where everyone stayed out on the pitch, we were done and dusted for 19.42 with the shortened halves played, although I doubt anyone else will have even noticed.
With problems approaching the Dartford Crossing, SatNav took me clockwise round the M25 instead for the outbound journey, although that was little better in the end and took almost three hours, due to a tedious crawl of traffic from J9 to J18. The return, via M11 and Dartford Crossing, was done in a more reasonable 1 hour 40 minutes.
