Perry Street & District League

Reg Eglon Cup

Quarter Final

Thursday 14th August 2025

Kick Off 18.15 Actual 18.13

Dowlish Wake & Donyatt 4 Merriott Saints 1, attendance 53

32’ 1-0 (pen)

64’ 2-0

65’ 3-0

83’ 3-1

85’ 4-1

@ Lawrence Kellett Playing Field

Oxenford Lane

Dowlish Wake

TA19 0PA

No Admission or Programme.

A trip to Somerset tonight, for a match in the Perry Street & District League’s Reg Eglon Cup, which is for teams in the second division. As well as football, the Lawrence Kellett Playing Field is home to a number of croquet courts, which are between the car park/pavilion and the football pitch itself. It’s just an open pitch, which has a huge end to end slope as well as side to side. There are two wooden dugouts on the far side, flanked by a spectator barrier extending about ten yards.

There was very little between the two sides in the first half and the only goal came courtesy of a penalty that saw the hosts go in front just after the half hour mark. Dowlish doubled their lead midway through the second half, smashing in from close range after a corner from the right wasn’t cleared and a minute later they made it 3-0, when a long ball over the top saw the ‘keeper totally miss his attempted clearance and the ball was rolled into the empty net. Merriott missed an easy chance to get a goal back with ten minutes left, but the follow up to a lob that came back off the crossbar was hit well wide of the target. They did get on the scoresheet a couple of minutes later though, heading in a corner at the near post, but the comeback was short lived, as Dowlish added a fourth goal within minutes, when a corner was turned in from close range.

I’d had a very quick response from the home club via text message that the game was going ahead okay and apart from the usual hold up on the A303 past Stonehenge, which cost me nearly ten minutes, it was a pretty trouble free journey heading west. Totally clear run back, helped by the fact that the game was over by 19.50 and back home just after ten.