St. Piran League

West Division

Friday 15th April 2022

Kick Off 11.00 Actual 11.04

St. Agnes 5 Perranporth 0, attendance 82

16’ 1-0 (pen)

34’ 2-0

49’ 3-0 (pen)

76’ 4-0

85’ 5-0

@ Ynys Parc

Trevaunance Road

St. Agnes

TR5 0SS

£3 Admission

No Programme.

I only had the choice of two previously unvisited grounds in the south of the country today, and as the game at St. Mawgan involved reserve opposition, I went with this, which was 7th versus 14th in the league table. The hosts are too far adrift to challenge for the top places, but Perranporth needed the points in their fight against relegation. Even though the clubs are just 5 miles apart, it never really had the feel of a local derby. Perhaps if it hadn’t been so one sided, it may have been different.

St. Agnes went ahead with a penalty after sixteen minutes and doubled their lead just after the half hour mark, which more or less ended it as a contest. Right on halftime a Perranporth player suffered a bad ankle injury, which looked like it might have meant the game being abandoned. An ambulance was called, but it was thought it would be at least two hours before it would arrive. The Referee sensibly said they would take halftime and see how things developed from there. In the meantime, the player was stretchered off and after a break of 36 minutes, we were back underway, just as the injured player was taken to hospital by car.

Within four minutes of the restart it was 3-0, the hosts scoring with a second penalty, and the visitors then held out until fourteen minutes from time, before a dipping 30 yarder sailed over the ’keeper, to make it 4-0. Their bad day continued, having a man sent off for picking up a second yellow card, before St. Agnes made it 5-0 with five minutes left.