Herts Senior County League

Aubrey Cup

Saturday 5th February 2022

Kick Off 14.00 Actual 14.08

Broxbourne Badgers 0 Chipperfield Corinthians 3, attendance 7

45’+ 1, 0-1

47’ 0-2

85’ 0-3

@ Paringdon Sports & Social Club, Top Field Pitch 2

Paringdon Road

Sumners

Harlow

CM19 4SG

No Admission or Programme.

Paringdon Sports & Social Club has five grass pitches, all of which are roped off through plastic posts. There are three pitches that run parallel in front of the changing room building, then up on a higher plateau, hence the name Top Field, are two more, today’s game taking place on Pitch 2, the furthest one from the entrance. Thankfully, there is plenty of on site parking, as the housing estate bordering the complex didn’t look like the kind of place you would want to leave your car.

On paper, this looked to be the perfect cup tie, as Division 2 (6th place) hosted Premier Division (9th place). In the end it didn’t meet expectations. Chipperfield should have been six goals up, before finally converting in stoppage time to lead 0-1 at the break. Two minutes into the second half it was 0-2 and game over. Despite an awful pitch, which was certainly a leveller as far as the gulf between the teams went, Broxbourne never looked like scoring. In fact, I think they only got the ball into the opposition box three times, twice wasting what can only be described as half chances, at best. Chipperfield finally made it 0-3 with five minutes left. They should really have hit double figures, but their finishing was woeful.

Despite the game not being great, I found it more disappointing that a team called Badgers didn’t play in black and white!