East Sussex League

Division 4/Division 5 Cup Group Match

Saturday 17th April 2021

Kick Off 16.30 Actual 16.29

Welcroft Park Rangers 4 Hooe 2, attendance 34

35’ 0-1

44’ 0-2

49’ 1-2

90’ 2-2

90’+ 2, 3-2

90’+ 3, 4-2

@ Berwick Recreation Ground

Rear of Village Hall

Station Road

Berwick

BN26 6TF

No Admission or Programme.

Welcroft Park Rangers normally play their home games at the ground of Southern Combination League club Hailsham Town, but restrictions due to COVID-19 have seen them schedule their home games in the end of season cup competition to the ground here in Berwick, which is where their reserves play their home matches.

The match was between two teams from Division 4, both having won their opening two matches in the cup. When the league was brought to a halt this would have been 3rd versus 1st in the league table. Hooe looked well in command having gone 0-2 up right before halftime, but Welcroft Park Rangers reduced the arrears within minutes of the restart, which set the game up perfectly. The game looked to be heading for a 1-2 win for the visitors, but they somehow threw it away in a mad four minute spell as we reached the ninety minute mark. The Welcroft Park Rangers No. 7 scored his second goal to make it 2-2, then their No.9 put them in front two minutes into stoppage time, before the No. 7 completed his hat trick a minute later to make it 4-2 and complete a remarkable comeback.