Southampton District F.A. Senior Cup

1st Round

Friday 16th September 2022

Kick Off 19.45 Actual 19.48

Hedge End Rangers 1 Colden Common 4, attendance 135

12’ 1-0

23’ 1-1

39’ 1-2

51’ 1-3

66’ 1-4

@ Deer Park School, 3G Pitch

off Woodhouse Lane

Hedge End

SO30 2HT

No Admission

Programme sold out.

This was the first competitive ‘midweek’ game played on the new 3G pitch here at Deer Park School. It is typical of many of the cages built these days, with spectator access limited to three quarters of one side of the pitch and a small seated kit stand on that same side. The club had issued a programme to commemorate the occasion, but had misjudged the numbers massively, as it had sold out a good forty minutes before kick off, which cost them dearly, as they hadn’t charged any admission price.

Hedge End Rangers play in the Southampton League Premier Division, sitting bottom of the table, albeit after just one match, whilst Colden Common are two levels higher, currently in third place in the Hampshire Premier League Senior Division, with 5 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat from their opening seven matches, so tonight’s result wasn’t too much of a surprise.

Hedge End went ahead after twelve minutes, with a side footed finish, but an unmarked header from a corner saw their lead last just nine minutes. Colden Common went onto the break leading 1-2, when a through ball was clinically finished six minutes before halftime. It was game over early in the second half as it became 1-3, before a tap in at the far post made it 1-4 midway through the half.