Mid-Somerset League

Charity Cup 1st Round

Thursday 5th May 2022

Kick Off 18.30 Actual 18.34

Haydon Sports 4 Coleford Athletic 3, attendance 31

19’ 1-0

22’ 1-1

47’ 2-1

50’ 3-1

57’ 4-1

74’ 4-2

87’ 4-3

@ Roundhill Recreation Ground

Bath Old Road

Radstock

BA3 3HG

No Admission or Programme.

This was 3rd in Division 1 versus 3rd in the Premier Division. It wasn’t great on skill, not helped by a pretty poor pitch, that could do with cutting, but it was certainly entertaining. Haydon went ahead with a cracking shot into the top corner, but Coleford scrambled in from a corner to level it just minutes later. The visitors were well on top and apart from the goal, Haydon created very little and it remained 1-1 at the break.

It must have been some team talk at halftime, as Haydon looked a completely different side in the second half. They scored, following a corner, to make it 2-1 within two minutes of the restart and it was 3-1 before we were five minutes in, heading in from a free kick. It looked all over, when a defender headed into his own net, when trying to play the ball back to his ’keeper, to make it 4-1 twelve minutes into the half. Coleford battled back, with the Haydon ’keeper being the busiest player on the pitch. A glancing header pulled it back to 4-2 with sixteen minutes left and in the dying minutes they scrambled one in after the ’keeper fumbled a cross, to make it 4-3. They had a chance to level it in stoppage time, but the ball was cleared off the line.