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Saturday 2nd July 2022

Kick Off 14.15 Actual 14.11

Redhill 6 Loxwood 2, attendance 41

24’ 1-0 (pen)

36’ 2-0

54’ 3-0

61’ 4-0

79’ 5-0

81’ 5-1 (pen)

84’ 5-2

88’ 6-2

@ Oriel High School, 3G Pitch

Maidenbower Lane

Maidenbower

Crawley

RH10 7XW

No Admission or Programme.

The drive from West Ewell to Crawley took forty minutes, for part two of my double, which was again at a neutral venue. The cage here has no official spectator area, although a concrete path runs around the entire pitch perimeter, so there was no problem standing inside the fence to watch, although all bar half a dozen of us chose to watch from outside for some reason.

The match was between two Step 5 teams. Redhill play in the Combined Counties League Premier Division South whilst Loxwood are in the Southern Combination League Premier Division. Redhill were far too strong for Loxwood. A penalty opened the scoring for Redhill and they added a second nine minutes before halftime. They had a player sin binned two minutes before halftime, which followed a flurry of yellow cards when the game threatened to get out of hand.

They changed their entire line up for the second half, although one player had to wait an extra eight minutes to join the action, as the sin bin offence had to be completed. They added three more goals, before Loxwood scored a penalty of their own to pull it back to 5-1, before making it 5-2 a few minutes later with the goal of the game, when a striker received the ball with his back to goal and flicked it up before sending an overhead kick high over the ’keeper, who despite back pedalling, was unable to scoop the ball away. Two minutes from time Redhill rounded off the scoring with an excellent finish, curling a shot into the top far corner, giving them a resounding 6-2 win.