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THE INANE RAMBLINGS FROM UP NORFF #9

THE INANE RAMBLINGS FROM UP NORFF #9

Rob Cairney14 Sep 2021 - 13:22
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‘NOWT SO QUEER AS YORKSHIRE FOLK’

THE INANE RAMBLINGS FROM UP NORFF
‘NOWT SO QUEER AS YORKSHIRE FOLK’
BY KAREN BROWNE

The Views Expressed Are Solely My Own, Are Written Tongue In Cheek
And Should Be Taken With A Pinch Of Salt

WEEKEND HEADLINES

Step 6 Long Crendon slay step 5 Camberley Town in the FA Vase. Ardley United record their biggest FA Vase victory. Codicote finally win for the first time this season and managed to keep a clean sheet. Pitstone & Ivinghoe continue their fine goalscoring form with another six on Saturday.

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.

Saturday 11th September / Sunday 12th September

THE BUILDBASE FA VASE First Round Qualifying

Twenty four SSML sides were involved in the First Qualifying round of the Buildbase FA Vase at the weekend and for half of them the ‘Wembley Dream’ remains alive. Two of our clubs were victims of cup shocks as they lost to sides one step below them in the pyramid, both losing in the lottery of penalty shoot-outs to Combined Counties Division One sides. Arlesey Town were beaten by FC Deportivo Galicia after a high scoring 4-4 draw while Dunstable Town exited at the hands of British Airways after a 2-2 draw. Also departing at the first hurdle on penalties were Premier Division Crawley Green (10-11 in the shoot-out against Egham Town) and Leverstock Green who lost out to fellow SSML side London Colney. Long Crendon produced a cup upset when defeating step 5 hosts Camberley Town (Combined Counties Premier Division) 5-4 on penalties after a 1-1 draw while Tring Athletic saw off the threat of hosts Long Buckby 4-2 on penalties following a 2-2 draw. Also booking their passage to the next round were Premier Division clubs Ardley United, winning 5-0 against visiting Division One side Burton Park Wanderers, likewise Aylesbury Vale Dynamos overcame Division One visitors London Tigers 3-1. Broadfields United saw off Holyport by a solitary goal win while Harefield United won 3-2 at Cogenhoe United and Holmer Green defeated visiting Spelthorne Sports 2-0. Risborough Rangers avenged a previous FA Vase defeat when beating former SSML side Edgware Town 3-2 at home and New Salamis won 4-1 at Hackney Wick. In all SSML ties Winslow United edged out hosts Amersham Town by the odd goal in five while Buckingham Athletic beat their visitors Rushden & Higham United 4-2. For the rest of the SSML sides involved in First Round Qualifying action it was a case of maybe next year with Oxhey Jets going down 1-5 at ex SSML side Edgware Town, Stotfold exited 1-5 at home against White Ensign while it was a similar result as Irchester United lost to former SSML side Hillingdon Borough and Bedford were thumped 1-6 at step 5 Burnham. Full results and goalscorers (where known) are listed below.

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

PREMIER DIVISION

It was top v second at Bell Close as Leighton Town welcomed Harpenden Town and watched by the SSML’s biggest crowd of the season to date, 418, it was the visitors who went home happy thanks to two late goals and as a result regained top spot. Hadley move up to fourth after they won 3-1 at home against Baldock Town, a result that leaves the North Hertfordshire side remaining second from bottom. The day’s other Premier Division fixture saw Flackwell Heath earning their first point of the campaign following a 1-1 draw at Milton Keynes Irish, the hosts requiring a stoppage time equalizer. Full results and goalscorers are listed below.

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

DIVISION TWO

Saturday saw major changes in Division Two at both ends of the table, at the top we saw the only club with a 100% record lose while at the bottom the only club without a point recorded their first win. Leaders New Bradwell St Peter welcomed fifth place Totternhoe looking to make six out of six but the visitors had not read the script and a Josh Spavins strike ended the host’s perfect start to the season. At the other end bottom side Codicote entertained mid table Risborough Rangers Development and a Max Evans goal brought about welcomed celebrations as the ‘Cod’ ended their barren run. Second placed Old Bradwell United took full advantage of their near neighbours defeat to leap frog them to the top of the standings with a Josh Douglas-Smith hat-trick seeing off the challenge of visiting Tring Corinthians AFC. The foals were once again in evidence at Pitstone & Ivinghoe where they led 5-1 at the interval before surviving a scare as visitors Berkhamsted Raiders hit back and even missed a penalty before finally going down 4-6, P&I fans have seen their side net 25 times out of the 44 goals the club has been involved in this campaign. Elsewhere there were comfortable wins for both Sarratt and Milton Keynes College Football Academy, the former beating visiting Berkhamsted Comrades 4-0 while the Academy students overcame their guests Eynesbury United 4-1. The day’s other action saw Bovingdon winning 4-1 at The 61FC (Luton). Full results and goalscorers listed below.

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%

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