Western League

Premier Division

Friday 7th April 2023

Kick Off 15.00 Actual 15.02

Falmouth Town 5 Cadbury Heath 1, attendance 491

26’ 1-0

45’ 1-1

45’ + 2, 2-1

62’ 3-1

80’ 4-1

85’ 5-1

@ Bickland Park

Bickland Water Road

Falmouth

TR11 4PB

£6 Admission

Programme available, didn’t bother buying.

With no games at grounds I hadn’t previously visited scheduled for this afternoon, I decided on a re-visit to Falmouth Town. As we were based in Falmouth, I had to drive back there anyway and I last came to a game here back in August 1998, so didn’t really appreciate just how good a ground Bickland Park was, or still is, for that matter.

Today’s match was 8th versus 18th (out of 19) and a bit of an odd one for a Bank Holiday as Cadbury Heath to Falmouth is just over 190 miles and not a journey you’d relish down the M5 and A30 on one of the busiest days of the year as far as traffic congestion goes. Not surprisingly, there were only a handful of away supporters and considering Falmouth are not really challenging at the top of the table, it was pretty impressive to pull in a crowd just shy of 500.

Falmouth dominated the early exchanges, opening the scoring after twenty six minutes, heading down and in off the far post following a cross from the left. Cadbury Heath made a real game of it and deservedly levelled in the final minute of the first half, with a cross/shot from a tight angle that struck the far post on its way in. Two minutes into stoppage time Falmouth went back in front, when a miss hit back pass was intercepted and finished in to the bottom corner. Falmouth made it 3-1 just after the hour mark and in between a lovely chipped finish, which made it 4-1 with ten minutes left, the visitors had hit the crossbar and seen their ‘keeper save a Falmouth penalty. Cadbury Heath had a goal disallowed for offside, before a through ball was slotted home into the bottom corner to make it 5-1 as we entered the last five minutes.