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Thursday 30th June 2022

Kick Off 19.30 Actual 19.25

Northampton O.N. Chenecks 3 Lutterworth Athletic 2, attendance 41

8’ 1-0

18’ 1-1

22’ 1-2

27’ 2-2

74’ 3-2

@ Northampton School for Boys, 3G Pitch

Billing Road

Northampton

NN1 5RT

No Admission or Programme.

This was unusual for a pre-season game, as both teams will play in Spartan South Midlands League Division 1 (Step 6) this season. It was played at the neutral venue of Northampton School for Boys, which is more or less opposite O.N Chenecks normal home venue, where I saw them draw 1-1 versus Higham Town in a United Counties League Division 1 match on 1st September 1995 and adjacent to St. Andrews Hospital, where I had seen Northampton Town U18 host West Bromwich Albion U18 in a Midland Youth League match on 17th February 1996.

Chenecks opened the scoring after eight minutes, with a 25 yard shot into the bottom corner, but two goals in five minutes saw Lutterworth turn it round midway through the half. The lead only lasted five minutes, before a cross from the right was finished with a header at the far post, which looped over the ‘keeper to make it 2-2. The winner came sixteen minutes from time, when a Lutterworth defender blindly played a ball back to his ’keeper, who was well out of position on the edge of the 18 yard box and the ball rolled past him into the empty net, to win it for the hosts.