East Sussex League

Premier Division

Saturday 6th November 2021

Kick Off 14.00 Actual 13.57

Hawkhurst United 2 Crowhurst 7, attendance 31

6’ 0-1

28’ 1-1

31’ 1-2

40’ 2-2

43’ 2-3

49’ 2-4

63’ 2-5

64’ 2-6

90’ 2-7

@ King George V Playing Fields

The Moor

Hawkhurst

TN18 4QB

No Admission or Programme.

This was 7th versus 2nd in the league table and the last ground I hadn’t visited in the Premier Division. Crowhurst played some really good football, which was of far higher standard than you’d expect for Step 8 football. They went ahead three times in the first half to lead 2-3 at the break, in a half where Hawkhurst only had three chances, converting two of them, the second goal coming direct from a corner, in off the far post.

An early second half goal saw the visitors go 2-4 up, before they scored twice in a minute, just after the hour mark, to race into a 2-6 lead. They coasted for the rest of the game, adding a seventh goal in the last minute to round things off, a 20 yarder that gave the ‘keeper no chance.

Arthurian League

Premier Division

Saturday 6th November 2021

Kick Off 11.00 Actual 11.02

Old Tonbridgians 4 Old Carthusians 2, attendance 11

18’ 1-0 (pen)

29’ 2-0

32’ 3-0

50’ 4-0

78’ 4-1

84’ 4-2

@ Tonbridge School Centre

London Road

Tonbridge

TN10 3AD

No Admission or Programme.

I had previously seen Old Tonbridgians play a home game at the 3G pitch at Wrotham School, where they beat Old Salopians 1-0 in an Arthur Dunn Cup match, back on 24th February 2018. This season they are playing home matches at Tonbridge School Centre. I had seen Tonbridge School at home in an Independent Schools F.A. Cup match in 2011, which was also played here, but it was in a different part of the complex, a few hundred yards from the pitch used by Old Tonbridgians.

Today’s match was 4th versus 1st in the league table, Carthusians having a 100% winning start from their six matches played. When Tonbridgians went ahead from the penalty spot after eighteen minutes, it set the game up perfectly for the neutral. However, when they added two more goals with little more than half an hour on the clock, it was certainly not going to form. When they made it 4-0 five minutes into the second half, there was to be no comeback for the visitors, although they gave it a good go, scoring twice in the last twelve minutes, but they had left themselves with too much to do.