Cheltenham League

Division 3

Monday 11th April 2022

Kick Off 18.15 Actual 18.23

A.F.C. Kempsey 8 Newton 1, attendance 29

4’ 1-0

20’ 2-0

33’ 3-0

46’ 4-0

51’ 5-0

66’ 5-1 (pen)

78’ 6-1

82’ 7-1

87’ 8-1

@ Plovers Rise Playing Field

Plovers Rise

Kempsey

WR5 3SA

No Admission or Programme.

The game finally kicked off eight minutes late, with the visitors having just the bare eleven players. The match was played on a pitch as far from the changing rooms as it could possibly be, on what was a very poor surface, not that it would have made much difference here, as it was a dreadful standard of football, even allowing for the low level the bottom division of this league sits at.

It was 4th versus 10th in the league table. As a contest, it was all over after ten minutes, when Newton lost a player through injury, already trailing 1-0 to a fourth minute opener. Their ten men were never going to make a game of it and by halftime it was 3-0. Oddly, their ’Linesman’ came on at the start of the second half, bringing them back up to the full compliment of eleven (no idea why they never used him straight away) but two goals in the opening six minutes saw Kempsey cruise into a 5-0 lead. Newton rallied briefly, hitting the crossbar with an overhead kick, then heading the rebound against the post, before pulling it back to 5-1 with a goal from the penalty spot. Kempsey added three more goals as the visitors tired and if it wasn’t for a number of good saves by the Newton ’keeper, the final score would have been well into double figures.

This win sees Kempsey rise to second in the table, four points behind leaders Bishops Cleeve Development, but with five games in hand. Montpellier (Cheltenham) are third, level on points with Kempsey, but with a game in hand, whilst Relics are a further point back, having played one game more.