Faringdon Thursday Memorial Cup
1st Round
Tuesday 5th August 2025
Kick Off 18.30 On Time!
Hailey 3 North Leigh Reserves 1, attendance 37
31’ 0-1
43’ 1-1
65’ 2-1
73’ 3-1
@ The Recreation Ground
Middletown
Hailey
OX29 9TA
No Admission or Programme.
Tonight’s game was Witney & District League Premier Division versus Oxfordshire Senior League Premier Division, two teams just four miles apart. The ground here in Hailey, adjacent to the village hall, is just an open pitch, enclosed by trees/bushes, with a small car park behind the goal end nearest the entrance and a changing room building in the near right hand corner.
North Leigh Reserves were the better team in the early stages and deservedly opened the scoring just after the half hour mark, when a cross in from the left was knocked down and finished with a first time shot into the bottom corner. Two minutes before halftime Hailey drew level, when a free kick from just outside the box went straight through the wall and right on halftime they almost went in front, but a finger tip save saw the ball turned round the post. Twenty minutes into the second half Hailey went in front, with an angled shot through the ‘keeper’s legs that found the far corner and they rounded off the scoring with seventeen minutes left, when a ball over the top was finished with a first time shot that the ‘keeper should really have kept out. The win now sees Hailey visit Letcombe in the quarter finals.
A surprisingly quiet M25 in both directions, losing under ten minutes on the outbound journey and totally trouble free on the return.
Above : Hailey’s No.10 (in green) smashes in their second goal.
