Northamptonshire Combination League
Premier Division
Saturday 18th November 2025
Kick Off 14.30 Actual 14.32
Kettering Nomads 0 Medbourne 0, attendance 36
@ Isham Cricket Club
Orlingbury Road
Isham
NN14 1HW
No Admission or Programme.
I decided to head for a game in the top division of the Northamptonshire Combination League for my afternoon match, as the two clubs I’d yet to visit were both at home (Earls Barton United on their recently installed 3G pitch being the other). I chose Kettering Nomads, about half an hours drive away, as they play at a cricket ground, which means they very rarely play midweek home games at the start or end of season, invariably switching to alternate venues. This was certainly the case when I saw them host a midweek game versus Wollaston Victoria at The John Lowther Football Centre in Glendon, back in August 2023.
The car park and pavilion (open for drinks and snacks) back onto Orlingbury Road, with the football pitch on the far side of the cricket pitch, running widthways and roped off on all four sides. This looked like it would be a good game too, as 6th hosted 3rd in the league table. Despite being goalless, it was an enthralling match, very keenly contested and one that could have done with a far stronger Referee, who seemed well out of his depth and struggled to keep the players from both teams under control and it was lucky there were no serious injuries suffered, as some of the tackles that were going unpunished could have proved very costly to those on the receiving end. Nomads had a lob over the ‘keeper cleared off the line four minutes before halftime, before Medbourne had a man sin binned two minutes later, but it was no real surprise to see it remain 0-0 at halftime. The best chance of the second half came eleven minutes after the restart, when a Medbourne player rounded the ‘keeper, but his shot was cleared off the line and that was it as far as getting anything looking like a goal went.
In the end, it was probably a good point for the visitors, lifting them up to second place in the table, level on points with leaders Harpole, while Nomads drop a place to seventh.
