Brian Hope Memorial Match

Thursday 9th July 2026

Kick Off 18.30 On Time!

Hawick Waverley 2 Langholm Legion 7, attendance 66

13’ 0-1

16’ 1-1

22’ 1-2

23’ 1-3

44’ 1-4

60’ 2-4

62’ 2-5

89’ 2-6

90’ 2-7

@ Wilton Lodge Park

Wilton Park Road

Hawick

TD9 7JL

No Admission or Programme.

A trip north of the border started in The Borders with a memorial match between two teams from the Border Amateur F.A. The game was at Wilton Lodge Park, in the southwest of Hawick, on the banks of the River Teviot. It is home to a number of clubs in this league, with at least three separate changing room buildings and/or equipment huts bearing club signage. The match was played on a pitch which was the middle of three and wasn’t even roped off, with each team setting up their ‘bench’ on opposite sides of the pitch.

Although it was a friendly, it was played with full commitment throughout, with goal scoring chances coming with almost every attack. Langholm took an early lead, but were pegged back three minutes later, both goals aided by hesitant ‘keeper’s not clearing through balls. Two goals in a minute, midway through the half, saw the visitors go 1-3 up, before an angled shot, in off the far post, saw them go in 1-4 up at the break. A 20 yarder, which went straight under the ‘keeper, saw Hawick pull it back to 2-4 on the hour mark, but that was as near as any comeback was to come though, as they went 2-5 down a couple of minutes later. Two more goals in the last two minutes, the first a far post header from a corner, followed by a neat finish that was set up by a cheeky back healed pass, rounded off a resounding 2-7 win for the visitors.