The Views Expressed Are Solely My Own, Are Written Tongue In Cheek
And Should Be Taken With A Pinch Of Salt
Codicote pictured below celebrating that clean sheet.
One club still has a 100% league record while two clubs still seek their first points of the new campaign. The weekend brought about 122 goals from the 29 games (an average of 4.21 per game) with Josh Douglas-Smith (Old Bradwell United) netting the weekend’s only hat-trick.
11/12 September Stats: 29 games played of which 14 were home wins, 8 were away wins and 7 draws.
100% league record to date: Stotfold.
0% league record to date: Baldock Town and Dunstable Town.
Weekend Highest Attendance: 418 Leighton Town v Harpenden Town, 165 Stotfold v White Ensign (FA Vase) and 107 Hadley v Baldock Town.
Season’s Highest Attendances to date (Premier Division Clubs): 418 Leighton Town v Harpenden Town, 350 Harefield United v Hastings United (FA Cup) and 337 Leighton Town v Risborough Rangers.
Season’s Highest Attendances to date (Division One Clubs): 317 Stotfold v Letchworth Garden City Eagles, 176 Stotfold v Buckingham Athletic and 175 Ampthill Town v Langford.
Season’s Highest Attendances to date (Division Two Clubs): 130 Totternhoe v Old Bradwell United, 112 Bovingdon v Sarratt and 109 Eynesbury United v Pitstone & Ivinghoe.
2-3 Amersham Town v Winslow United (Bennett, Kerley) / (Workman [2], Khan [pen]) Attendance: 82
5-0 Ardley United v Burton Park Wanderers (Talboys [2], Odhiambo [2], Convey) Attendance: 62
4-4 [2-3 pens] Arlesey Town v FC Deportivo Galicia (Sayer [2] [1 pen], Taylor, Brito) / (Devia, Orobio-Monroy, Fernandez, Mejdoubi) Attendance: 80
3-1 Aylesbury Vale Dynamos v London Tigers (Shortt, Brown, Pobbe) / (Unknown) Attendance: 88
2-2 [5-3 pens] British Airways v Dunstable Town (Unknown) / (Trif, Richards) Attendance: 48
1-0 Broadfields United v Holyport (Blennerhassett) Attendance: 40
4-2 Buckingham Athletic v Rushden & Higham United (James [2] [both pens], Faulkner, Parr) / (Unknown) Attendance: 65
6-1 Burnham v Bedford (Qevani [2], Moore, Gritt, Nsomi, Ami) / (Bunker) Attendance: 86
1-1 [4-5 pens] Camberley Town v Long Crendon (Unknown) / (Lane) Attendance: 40
2-3 Cogenhoe United v Harefield United (Wakley, Wilson) / (Pacquette [2], Austin) Attendance: 62
1-1 [11-10 pens] Egham Town v Crawley Green (Masembe) / (Rhiney) Attendance: 47
2-0 Holmer Green v Spelthorne Sports (Dimitrijevic, Booker) Attendance: 52
1-1 [4-3 pens] London Colney v Leverstock Green (Montvydas) / (Seale) Attendance: 48
2-2 [2-4 pens] Long Buckby v Tring Athletic (Bolton, Yorston) / (Twelves, Gbejuade) Attendance: 69
3-2 Risborough Rangers v Edgware Town (Kedzierski, Coles, Wyllie) / (Ofori [pen], Campbell) Attendance: 103
1-5 Stotfold v White Ensign (Bagge) / (Gregory [2], Munyard, Locke [pen], Barnby) Attendance: 165
5-1 Wembley v Oxhey Jets (Adetiba [3], Bernard, Jones) / (Beaumont) Attendance: 51
1-4 Hackney Wick v New Salamis (Danquah) / (Tandon, Georgiou, Lutaaya, Hervel [pen]) Attendance: 47
1-5 Irchester United v Hillingdon Borough (Whitehead) / (Unknown) Attendance: 67
3-1 Hadley v Baldock Town (Alfano, Anwar, Jupp) / (Bates) Attendance: 107
0-2 Leighton Town v Harpenden Town (Palmer, Rickman) Attendance: 418
1-1 Milton Keynes Irish v Flackwell Heath (Lawless) / (Thomas) Attendance: 38
1-0 Codicote v Risborough Rangers Development (Evans) Attendance: 78
4-1 Milton Keynes College Football Academy v Eynesbury United (Barnes-Garner [2], Davis, Summers) / (Bassett) Attendance: 75
0-1 New Bradwell St Peter v Totternhoe (Spavins) Attendance: 53
3-0 Old Bradwell United v Tring Corinthians AFC (Douglas-Smith [3] [1 pen]) Attendance: 46
6-4 Pitstone & Ivinghoe v Berkhamsted Raiders (Hall [2], Gallant [2], Downes, Wilkes) / (Barnard-White [2], Moriarty, Williams [pen]) Attendance: 51
4-0 Sarratt v Berkhamsted Comrades (Thomas [2], Bircham, Powell) Attendance: 37
1-4 The 61FC (Luton) v Bovingdon (Carney) / (Beckwith [2], Payne, Barkers-Obua) Attendance: 29
AND FINALLY
Tweet of the day came from Louise Parry of BBC Three Counties with this gem - @Ollie_Bayliss went from hero to villain in 30 seconds after telling me he’d removed a large spider from the sink them admitting he’d set it free in the BBC Three Counties office where I’m working. “It wanted to be indoors” he insisted. You’re making coffee mate!
Don’t forget that every Sunday afternoon the Non-League Show on Three Counties Radio (Herts, Beds & Bucks), a show all about local non-league football. The popular show presented by Ollie Bayliss has been increased to two hours each week and is the perfect opportunity to catch up with our local non-league scene at all levels. For those who missed it then you can catch up here:-
Ollie Bayliss Non League Show
The result of this week’s Team of the Day Poll with 186 votes cast is:-
Harpenden Town 49.5%
Codicote 26.3%
Winslow United 16.1%
Ardley United 8.1%