British Universities & Colleges Sports

South Eastern 2A

Wednesday 21st February 2018

Kick Off 17.10 Actual 17.15

University Portsmouth 1 St. Mary’s University College 2,  attendance 80

21’ 1-0

47’ 1-1

86’ 1-2

@ Langstone Campus, 3G Pitch

Furze Lane

Portsmouth

PO4 8LW

No Admission or Programme.

It was a comfortable 45 minute drive from Winchester to here and street parking was available on the road leading along to Furze Lane. I had been to see a match here previously, on the grass pitch that runs end on to the 3G pitch. Oddly, back on 4th March 2009, I saw the exact same fixture, which Portsmouth won 6-0. I also did a double that day as well, heading across to The Isle of Wight afterwards, where I saw Brading Town beat Lymington Town 2-0 in a Wessex League Premier Division match.

Todays match was 1st v 2nd in the league table. Portsmouth had won all eight of their games so far, with St. Mary’s having 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat (at home to Portsmouth) from their first six fixtures. This could have gone either way, but the visitors nicked it with just four minutes left, when a cross was converted from close range, but Portsmouth argued the ball hadn’t crossed the line, but the Linesman, who was right up with play, signaled the goal immediately, so that was that, the 100% winning record gone.

Although this was just a cage with spectator access along one side, it did have a couple of small sections of benches that had 3 rows of seating, which made it a little different.