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Tuesday 7th July 2026

Kick Off 19.45 Actual 19.49

Horley Town 2 Godalming Town 3, attendance 12

53’ 0-1

55’ 0-2

58’ 1-2

60’ 1-3

65’ 2-3

@ Oasis Academy Shirley Park, 3G Pitch

Shirley Road

Addiscombe

CR9 7AL

No Admission or Programme.

This was Isthmian League Division 1 South East (Step 4) versus Combined Counties League Premier Division South (Step 5), played at the neutral venue of Oasis Academy Shirley Park. It’s just a caged pitch and although there’s no designated spectator area, there was no problem watching from inside the fence.

It was played at a very good pace throughout, probably helped by both sides changing almost their entire teams at halftime and with them having gone in goalless, the second half soon burst into life, with all five goals coming in the first twenty minutes after the restart. Godalming took the lead, beating the offside trap and scoring at the second attempt after an initial save. They doubled their lead two minutes later, lobbing in from 30 yards after the ‘keeper was beaten in a race to a through ball as he raced out to try and clear. A corner was touched in from close range to pull it back to 1-2, but Godalming quickly restored their two goal lead, with a twenty yarder that beat the ‘keeper low at his near post. Horley then made it 2-3 five minutes later, when a defender failed to cut out a cross, diverting it into his own net from a couple of yards out. Surprisingly, that was the last goal of the game, despite plenty more chances at each end.

The journey north to the outskirts of Croydon saw SatNav choose the winding back roads via Warlingham on the outbound leg, which took 54 minutes. The more direct A23 coming back took twenty minutes off that.