Leicestershire Senior League

Premier Division

Saturday 29th January 2022

Kick Off 14.00 Actual 14.01

Fleckney Athletic 0 Blaby & Whetstone Athletic 3, attendance 44

10’ 0-1

35’ 0-2

56’ 0-3

@ Fleckney Sports Centre

Leicester Road

Fleckney

LE8 8BG

No Admission or Programme.

Fleckney Athletic have struggled somewhat since gaining promotion into this division. They were sitting second bottom in the league table last season, when Covid-19 caused the season to be brought to a premature halt, having won just one of their ten games played at the time. This season, they have made little improvement, sitting bottom of the table, with just two wins from their twenty matches played coming into this.

The visitors, starting the day fifth in the table, were just too strong. Fleckney competed well, but just lacked that little bit of quality in the final third. Blaby & Whetstone were good value for their 0-2 halftime lead and they put the game out of reach when they added a third goal eleven minutes into the second half.

Midland League

U21 East Division

Saturday 29th January 2022

Kick Off 10.30 Actual 10.33

Leicester Football Education Academy U21 2 A.F.C. Rushden & Diamonds U21 1, attendance 21

26’ 1-0

49’ 2-0

56’ 2-1

@ Jubilee Park

Barkby Thorpe Lane

Thurmaston

LE4 8GN

No Admission or Programme.

This was the first game I had watched in this league, with 7th hosting 5th (out of 10) in the table. LFEA went ahead after twenty six minutes, with a shot from the edge of the box that found the bottom corner and they looked to be coasting to a comfortable win when they doubled their lead four minutes into the second half. R&D pulled it back to 2-1 within seven minutes, before going down to 10 men following a sin bin a few minutes later. They survived with a man light, and once back to the full compliment, pushed hard for an equaliser, but just couldn’t beat the home ’keeper, who put in a man of the match performance to keep them out.