Cheltenham League

Premier Division

Saturday 4th October 2025

Kick Off 12.15 Actual 12.17

Kings 1 Cheltenham Civil Service Reserves 1, attendance 14

48’ 0-1

66’ 1-1

@ Blackbridge Community & Sports Hub, 3G Pitch

Laburnum Road

Podsmead

Gloucester

GL1 5PG

No Admission or Programme.

For the second successive Saturday I headed to Gloucestershire for the first part of a double, starting off with an early kick off in the top division of the Cheltenham League. Kings normally play at Oxtalls Sports Park, where I’d seen them lose 0-5 to Montpellier in March last year, but today’s game was switched to the recently opened Blackbridge Community & Sports Hub, for what I believe was the first competitive game staged here. It’s a standard cage set up, with spectator access along three quarters of one side. There’s ample car parking and a two storey building behind the near goal end, with a viewing balcony of sorts, with the pitch running lengthways away from here.

The game was best described as a slow burner. Very little in the way of goal scoring opportunities in the first half, although Civil Service did hit the crossbar midway through the half. The second half was much better, probably helped by the visitors breaking the deadlock three minutes after interval, cutting in from the left before curling a shot into the far corner from the angle of the eighteen yard box. Kings equaliser came with twenty four minutes left, when a diagonal free kick from wide on the left saw a flicked header just beat the ‘keeper to an attempted punch clear.

A good start to the day. The game attracted three other ‘hoppers and we were thankful of no rain and not too much wind, following Storm Amy having passed through yesterday.