Bedfordshire County League

Premier Division

Wednesday 17th April 2024

Kick Off 18.15 Actual 18.19

A.F.C. Kempston Town Hammers 0 Queens Park Crescents 7, attendance 37

13’ 0-1, 17’ 0-2, 36’ 0-3, 39’ 0-4

48’ 0-5, 83’ 0-6, 85’ 0-7

@ Kempston Hammers Sports & Social Club

134 High Street

Kempston

MK42 7BN

No Admission or Programme.

Tonight I took the opportunity to visit the only ground I hadn’t previously seen a game at in this division. Hammers are rock bottom of the league table and already relegated, but at least tonight they had a realistic chance of getting their first win of the season, as Queens Park Crescents are second bottom and in the reverse fixture they drew 2-2…the only point Hammers have picked up all season! They came into this with a goal difference of -109, certainly not helped by losing 17-0 away at Biggleswade Reserves on Saturday, but to their credit, they have fulfilled all their fixtures to date and even had four substitutes tonight.

Crescents certainly did their survival hopes the world of good and now only trail Riseley Sports by two points and have three games in hand to make up the deficit. Tonight’s game was over as a contest by halftime, with two goals in the opening seventeen minutes setting Crescents on their way to what turned out to be a comfortable win. It was 0-4 by halftime and despite goal number five arriving three minutes into the second half, Hammers didn’t totally collapse and the final two goals only came in the last seven minutes.

The sports ground hosts cricket, rugby and football, with the latter in the far left hand corner as you enter off High Street, running parallel with Cemetery Road. Just a basic pitch and little else. Even the clubhouse remained closed.