Bedfordshire County League

Premier Division

Saturday 15th January 2022

Kick Off 14.00. On Time !

Marston Shelton Rovers 4 Cranfield United 0, attendance 47

2’ 1-0

16’ 2-0

49’ 3-0

78’ 4-0

@ Marston Playing Field

Bedford Road

Marston Moretaine

MK43 0LD

No Admission or Programme.

This was 11th versus 1st in the league table. When checking out the visitors, I was surprised to see it was as far back as 2013 that they dropped back into County League football from the Spartan South Midlands League. MSR went ahead after just two minutes, increasing their lead with a header from a corner after sixteen minutes and the league leaders just never recovered. It was 3-0 four minutes into the second half, before a long ball over the top was well finished by the striker to round off the scoring with twelve minutes left.

The defeat sees Cranfield drop to second place in the table and with the four clubs below them all having enough games in hand to potentially overtake them, then it is unlikely that they will still be in with a realistic chance of winning it. MSR are now tenth.

Arthurian League

Premier Division

Saturday 15th January 2022

Kick Off 10.30 Actual 10.32

Old Harrovians 3 Old Alleynians 5, attendance 9

15’ 0-1

26’ 0-2

30’ 0-3

41’ 0-4

45’+ 2, 0-5

71’ 1-5

75’ 2-5

89’ 3-5

@ Harrow School, 3G Pitch

Garlands Lane

Harrow

HA1 3EA

No Admission or Programme.

I had seen a match here before, when Harrow School played Allen’s School in the Independent Schools F.A. Cup, a game that was played on Park Lake Field, which runs parallel to the 3G pitch, but is on a higher plateau and separated by grass banking and a few trees. The cage here has no designated spectator area, but there was no problem standing inside the fence to watch.

As for the game, it went pretty much as expected, where bottom of the league table hosted fourth. Alleynians were simply superb in the first half, cruising into a 0-5 lead by halftime, with a couple of top quality goals. Despite Harrovians scoring three times in the second half, without reply, the game was never as close as the score line suggests. I have seen Harrovians play at home twice now this season and both games have produced eight goals. Unfortunately for them, they were both defeats, as they were beaten 2-6 by Old Wykehamists in a game played at The Philathletic Ground on 16th October.