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Saturday 6th July 2024

Kick Off 12.00 Actual 12.04

Saffron Walden Town 4 Dunmow Town 4, attendance 49

25’ 1-0

39’ 1-1

47’ 1-2

48’ 1-3

56’ 2-3

60’ 2-4

81’ 3-4

82’ 4-4

@ Lime Avenue Playing Fields

Lime Avenue

Saffron Walden

CB10 2GE

No Admission or Programme.

This was Essex Senior League (Step 5) v Eastern Counties League Division 1 South (Step 6), a clash between two teams who will share the Catons Lane ground of Saffron Walden Town this season. With the main stadium being unavailable, as it was staging a function, this was played at Lime Avenue Playing Fields, a couple of hundred yards to the north and was brought forward to a noon kick off to enable players/supporters ample time to get home for the England game. There are two pitches here, separated by a changing room building and car park, with today’s game played on the most northern of the two.

The journey up the M11 was very wet and it continued to rain for most of the first half, although it did brighten up during the second half. Saffron Walden opened the scoring midway through the first half, but Dunmow drew level six minutes before the break. Two goals within a minute of each other, saw Dunmow open up a 1-3 lead just three minutes into the second half and although Saffron Walden pulled one back, the visitors restored their two goal lead on the hour mark. Saffron made it 3-4 with nine minutes left, cutting in from the right, before finishing into the far corner and levelled it up at 4-4 a minute later, with a cracking finish into the top corner from the edge of the 18 yard box.