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Non-League football | Pages 10-12

BrittAssombalongawas somebodywe were very

interested in duringthe summer and wewere in talks with hisagent – SeanO’Driscoll onP e t e r b o ro u g h ’sman-of-the-match

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Lambert’s Saintsdraw a blankagainst WestHam

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I have had acouple ofdays with thelads and I

think I have seenenough to suggestthere is goodquality in the squad– Bristol Rovers’new signing AndyBond

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Lee Tomlin - 6Britt Assombalonga - 8Tyrone Barnett - 7

Craig Alcock – 7Jack Payne – 6Danny Swanson – 6Tommy Rowe – 6

Match reaction

BRISTOL City head coach SeanO’Driscoll revealed he was close tosigning two-goal match-winner BrittAssombalonga on loan from Watfordbefore Peterborough paid £1.2mil-lion for his services in the summer.

The Midlander was in advancedtalks with the player’s agent whenPosh decided to spend big after re-ceiving £4 million for the sale oftop-scorer Dwight Gayle to CrystalPalace in July.

Having seen the 20-year-old tearhis young team apart at Ashton Gate,O’Driscoll admitted: “Assombalong awas somebody we were very inter-ested in during the summer and we

were in talks with his agent.“We couldn’t buy him and wanted

to take him on loan, because he is atalented young player from Wat-fo rd ’s Academy.

“We always knew how good hecould be but, when another club isable to pay £1.2 million, we cannotcompete with that.

“We have gone down a differentpath now and we don’t have that sortof finance. Peterborough have soldDwight Gayle for £4 million andspent £1.2 million on a replacement.That is good business and it is theway they have done things for sev-eral years now. I thought their front

two were better than our front two onthe day. I was in line with the secondgoal and if you see a better shot thisseason I’ll eat my hat!”

A shrewd operator in the transfermarket, Posh manager Darren Fer-guson insisted it was crucial he signAssombalonga on a permanent basisrather than bring him in on ashort-term loan.

He explained: “We always felt wehad to buy him, because if you loan astriker and he does what Britt isdoing now, the interest becomescrazy, other clubs get involved and hemoves out of our reach.

“We had the money we got for

Dwight Gayle and we were adamantwe wanted to buy him and spend thatmoney wisely.

“We knew we had to get somebodyin to score goals and, fortunately, thechairman was prepared to back mewith money.

“Britt is a lovely boy, he wants tolearn, he trains well every day andI’m pleased with him. He is just 20but, physically, he is a big strong ladand he has a real hunger.

“We have done really well in get-ting in young players who have thathunger and who want to improvet h e m s e l ve s. ”

City were marginally the better

Fan’s view byMatthew Withers

team up until Tyrone Barnett brokethe deadlock in the 23rd minute andO’Driscoll admitted: “It’s an oldadage, but goals change games.

“When an in-form team gets a liftby scoring goals at the right time, it isgoing to be difficult for the oppos-ition. The first goal is a goalkeepingerror at a time when we were almoston top of the game. Frank Fieldingwill be disappointed with that.

“We were back in the game and thesecond goal has killed us and giventhem a fantastic lift. It is very dif-ficult to come from 2-0 behind againsta team as confident as Peterbor-ough.”

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Match facts

HomeShots on target 3Shots off targetCor ners

Fouls conceded

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City Marlon Harewood for Reid (70 mins), Stephen McLaughlinfor Moloney (81 mins)

P e t e r b o ro u g h Grant McCann for Swanson (76 mins), DanielKearns for Tomlin (76 mins)

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� Frank Fielding: At fault for first goal, butredeemed himself with penalty save

� Brendan Moloney: Reasonably sound at theback and got forward when he could

� Aden Flint: Strong in the air and generallysound, but struggled against pace

� James O’Connor: Had a game to forget upagainst Assombalonga’s power and pace

� Greg Cunningham: Good going forward butcould do better defensively

� Bobby Reid: Struggled to find room to imposehimself on midfield battle

� Marlon Pack: Does some good things on theball, but some rash challenges

� Joe Bryan: Found the going tough againstLittle and made little impact

� Jay Emmanuel-Thomas: Two good chances,but had a rare off day

� Sam Baldock: Started brightly, but faded andmade very little impact

� Scott Wagstaff: Always puts in a good shiftwin, lose or draw

� P e t e r b o ro u g h ’s players celebrate opening the scoring at Ashton Gate

SEAN O’Driscoll’s contention thatBristol City is currently a big clubwithout a team to match the expect-ations of its supporters was amplyborne out as Peterborough pulledrank at Ashton Gate.

It seems a great deal has changedsince the Robins beat Posh 4-2 in aChampionship encounter on thesame ground just nine months ago.

Although both clubs were releg-ated in May, Peterborough are quiteclearly far better equipped to returnto the second tier of English footballin the near future.

If Posh have retained a majority ofthe players who were so unfortunateto suffer demotion, financial con-cerns have forced City into a re-volving door policy that has left headcoach O’Driscoll with the unenviabletask of starting virtually fromscratch with a young team barelyrecognisable from the one that fin-ished the previous season.

City’s best players either left as freeagents or were sold during the sum-mer, while Peterborough boss DarrenFerguson was handed a substantialsum of money to recruit Britt As-sombalonga as a replacement fortop-scorer Dwight Gayle, who left tojoin Crystal Palace.

Given these undeniable facts, it isdifficult to understand why so manyCity fans chose to boo their team offthe field at the final whistle. It canonly be hoped that the disparitybetween the two sides and the sub-sequent outcome, no matter how un-palatable, will serve as a wake-up callto those still labouring under themisapprehension that the Robinsshould be challenging at the otherend of the League One table.

Viewed in the wider context of whathas gone before – 18 League gameswithout a win dating back to March 9– it is entirely understandable thatsupporters feel a deep sense of frus-tration. But with the greatest of re-spect to those who pay at theturnstiles, City are just six gamesinto a long-term project designed toeradicate the mistakes of the past andpatience and forbearance are going tobe required in spade loads.

Peterborough were better in justabout every department and, oncethey got their noses in front, it wasonly a matter of how many goals theywould score against opponents whohave yet to keep a clean sheet sincereturning to League One.

Fans show their dismay at yet another league defeatBristol City vs Peterborough | Ashton Gate, Saturday, September 14

O’Driscoll argued that his side didnot deserve to lose 3-0 and he has apoint. But let us not forget that Poshmissed a penalty and had chances towin by an even wider margin.

The fact Assombalonga did somuch to hole City’s ship below thewater line says a great deal about therespective positions of the two clubs.O’Driscoll enquired as to the pos-sibility of taking the former Watfordforward on loan during the close sea-son, only for Posh to come up with

£1.2 million and acquire his serviceson a permanent basis.

Money talks and the 20-year-oldproduced the kind of high-octane per-formance that merely served to high-light City’s deficiencies at both endsof the pitch.

Quite simply, Assombalonga andstrike partner Tyrone Barnett playedbetter than their City counterparts,Sam Baldock and Jay Em-manuel-Thomas, aided and abetted asthey were by the some poor defend-ing.

Although City started reasonablywell, the first goal was always goingto prove crucial and it was handed toBarnett on a plate, keeper FrankFielding pushing Craig Alcock’sweak shot into the path of thegangling centre forward instead ofdiverting it behind.

At least Fielding made amends mo-ments later, diving to his left to keepout Lee Tomlin’s penalty, awarded

when James O’Connor needlesslybrought Assombalonga crashing toearth inside the 18-yard box.

But there was nothing the formerDerby County keeper could do toprevent Assombalonga’s brilliant25-yard shot finding the top-left handcorner of the net six minutes into thesecond half.

From that point on, it was difficultto see a way back for a City side thatdominated possession without hav-ing the wherewithal to make itcount.

All too often the Robins passed theball between themselves deep in theirown half instead of moving it forwardmore quickly to create pressure, withthe result that Peterborough’s exper-ienced back four was able to defendthe lead without too many anxiousm o m e n t s.

City looked to talismanic forwardEmmanuel-Thomas to conjure upsomething special, but for once hecame up short, failing even to hit thetarget with his side’s two bestch a n c e s.

More efficient in possession, Poshappeared eminently capable ofadding to their tally on thecounter-attack as City were forced totake risks, and Assombalonga en-sured his would be the name oneve r y b o dy ’s lips when collecting theball on the halfway line, holding offthe challenge of two red-shirted de-fenders and lifting his shot overFielding two minutes from time.

That the goal came direct from aCity corner, merely illustrates howmuch room for improvement therestill is within O’Driscoll’s embryonicteam.

� Bristol City’s Marlon Pack and Peterborough United's Tyrone Barnett battle for the high ball in Saturday’s 3-0home defeat Pictures: Joe Meredith � Greg Cunningham clears his lines

� Sean O’Driscoll gets angry

� Marlon Pack strides forward

18� The number of League gamessince City’s last victory

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Expert analysisStockhausen

Bristol City 0

Peterborough United 3

I’M fairly sure that Saturday’s0-3 home defeat against DarrenFe r g u s o n’s Peterborough Unitedresulted in an unwanted clubrecord. It’s now 18 league gameswithout a victory. Make no mis-take that’s a record that has toend there. We have to go out onTuesday against ShrewsburyTown and put in a 90-minuteperfor mance.

The Posh lost their Champi-onship status alongside us lastseason, but considered them-selves very unfortunate whendoing so in view of their end ofseason performances and finalpoints tally. Darren Ferguson in-vested over £1 million on Wat-ford striker Britt Assombalongaand is seeing immediate pay-back on that investment. Assom-balonga was a constant threat toCity’s defence and scored an ab-solute ‘wo rl d ly ’ for his first andhis team’s second and thenshowed pace, power and finessewhen adding his second and theteam’s third.

In truth, City started brightly.We kept the ball well but neverreally threatened. We play theball about across the back fournicely and link in with BobbyReid and Marlon Pack in thecentre of midfield, but had verylittle end product. Too often theball would end up at AidenF lint’s feet and would belaunched forward.

We have one of the beststrikers in this league in SamBaldock, but utilise his abilitiesall wrong. We look for a long ballover the top of the defence andBaldock spends too muchwasted energy chasing downlost causes.

There is no doubt that the roleof Jay Emmanuel-Thomas is keyto making this team tick.However, when Jay plays as hedid on Saturday it has a realnegative impact on the side. I’ma JET fan, but on Saturday hewas poor and he was the one whoshould have made way for Mar-lon Harewood.

I have to disagree when thehead coach talks about smallmargins. O’Driscoll felt that thePeterborough front two wereprobably more effective than ourfront two, and that’s what it’sabout – small margins. Probablymore effective?? Don’t take usfor fools Sean. Baldock had noservice and Jay was poor. Whilethe Posh two both scored andcould have had more.

O’Driscoll made a big call inrecalling Frank Fielding in goal.Unfortunately, Fielding was atfault for the opener.

The keeper should have heldonto the ball or pushed it wide,but could only push it out to theonrushing striker who had thesimple task of tapping into anempty net.

To be fair, Fielding madeamends when saving Lee Tom-l i n’s penalty a few minutes later,but that’s as good as it got forCity. You would have hoped thatnot going 2-0 down and seeingthe penalty save would have en-couraged City and had them onthe front foot but sadly not.

I also thought that NickyShorey should have retained hisplace in the side.

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Lee Tomlin - 6Britt Assombalonga - 8Tyrone Barnett - 7

Craig Alcock – 7Jack Payne – 6Danny Swanson – 6Tommy Rowe – 6

Match reaction

BRISTOL City head coach SeanO’Driscoll revealed he was close tosigning two-goal match-winner BrittAssombalonga on loan from Watfordbefore Peterborough paid £1.2mil-lion for his services in the summer.

The Midlander was in advancedtalks with the player’s agent whenPosh decided to spend big after re-ceiving £4 million for the sale oftop-scorer Dwight Gayle to CrystalPalace in July.

Having seen the 20-year-old tearhis young team apart at Ashton Gate,O’Driscoll admitted: “Assombalong awas somebody we were very inter-ested in during the summer and we

were in talks with his agent.“We couldn’t buy him and wanted

to take him on loan, because he is atalented young player from Wat-fo rd ’s Academy.

“We always knew how good hecould be but, when another club isable to pay £1.2 million, we cannotcompete with that.

“We have gone down a differentpath now and we don’t have that sortof finance. Peterborough have soldDwight Gayle for £4 million andspent £1.2 million on a replacement.That is good business and it is theway they have done things for sev-eral years now. I thought their front

two were better than our front two onthe day. I was in line with the secondgoal and if you see a better shot thisseason I’ll eat my hat!”

A shrewd operator in the transfermarket, Posh manager Darren Fer-guson insisted it was crucial he signAssombalonga on a permanent basisrather than bring him in on ashort-term loan.

He explained: “We always felt wehad to buy him, because if you loan astriker and he does what Britt isdoing now, the interest becomescrazy, other clubs get involved and hemoves out of our reach.

“We had the money we got for

Dwight Gayle and we were adamantwe wanted to buy him and spend thatmoney wisely.

“We knew we had to get somebodyin to score goals and, fortunately, thechairman was prepared to back mewith money.

“Britt is a lovely boy, he wants tolearn, he trains well every day andI’m pleased with him. He is just 20but, physically, he is a big strong ladand he has a real hunger.

“We have done really well in get-ting in young players who have thathunger and who want to improvet h e m s e l ve s. ”

City were marginally the better

Fan’s view byMatthew Withers

team up until Tyrone Barnett brokethe deadlock in the 23rd minute andO’Driscoll admitted: “It’s an oldadage, but goals change games.

“When an in-form team gets a liftby scoring goals at the right time, it isgoing to be difficult for the oppos-ition. The first goal is a goalkeepingerror at a time when we were almoston top of the game. Frank Fieldingwill be disappointed with that.

“We were back in the game and thesecond goal has killed us and giventhem a fantastic lift. It is very dif-ficult to come from 2-0 behind againsta team as confident as Peterbor-ough.”


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Match facts


Fouls conceded

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City Marlon Harewood for Reid (70 mins), Stephen McLaughlinfor Moloney (81 mins)

P e t e r b o ro u g h Grant McCann for Swanson (76 mins), DanielKearns for Tomlin (76 mins)

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� Frank Fielding: At fault for first goal, butredeemed himself with penalty save

� Brendan Moloney: Reasonably sound at theback and got forward when he could

� Aden Flint: Strong in the air and generallysound, but struggled against pace

� James O’Connor: Had a game to forget upagainst Assombalonga’s power and pace

� Greg Cunningham: Good going forward butcould do better defensively

� Bobby Reid: Struggled to find room to imposehimself on midfield battle

� Marlon Pack: Does some good things on theball, but some rash challenges

� Joe Bryan: Found the going tough againstLittle and made little impact

� Jay Emmanuel-Thomas: Two good chances,but had a rare off day

� Sam Baldock: Started brightly, but faded andmade very little impact

� Scott Wagstaff: Always puts in a good shiftwin, lose or draw

� P e t e r b o ro u g h ’s players celebrate opening the scoring at Ashton Gate

SEAN O’Driscoll’s contention thatBristol City is currently a big clubwithout a team to match the expect-ations of its supporters was amplyborne out as Peterborough pulledrank at Ashton Gate.

It seems a great deal has changedsince the Robins beat Posh 4-2 in aChampionship encounter on thesame ground just nine months ago.

Although both clubs were releg-ated in May, Peterborough are quiteclearly far better equipped to returnto the second tier of English footballin the near future.

If Posh have retained a majority ofthe players who were so unfortunateto suffer demotion, financial con-cerns have forced City into a re-volving door policy that has left headcoach O’Driscoll with the unenviabletask of starting virtually fromscratch with a young team barelyrecognisable from the one that fin-ished the previous season.

City’s best players either left as freeagents or were sold during the sum-mer, while Peterborough boss DarrenFerguson was handed a substantialsum of money to recruit Britt As-sombalonga as a replacement fortop-scorer Dwight Gayle, who left tojoin Crystal Palace.

Given these undeniable facts, it isdifficult to understand why so manyCity fans chose to boo their team offthe field at the final whistle. It canonly be hoped that the disparitybetween the two sides and the sub-sequent outcome, no matter how un-palatable, will serve as a wake-up callto those still labouring under themisapprehension that the Robinsshould be challenging at the otherend of the League One table.

Viewed in the wider context of whathas gone before – 18 League gameswithout a win dating back to March 9– it is entirely understandable thatsupporters feel a deep sense of frus-tration. But with the greatest of re-spect to those who pay at theturnstiles, City are just six gamesinto a long-term project designed toeradicate the mistakes of the past andpatience and forbearance are going tobe required in spade loads.

Peterborough were better in justabout every department and, oncethey got their noses in front, it wasonly a matter of how many goals theywould score against opponents whohave yet to keep a clean sheet sincereturning to League One.

Fans show their dismay at yet another league defeatBristol City vs Peterborough | Ashton Gate, Saturday, September 14

O’Driscoll argued that his side didnot deserve to lose 3-0 and he has apoint. But let us not forget that Poshmissed a penalty and had chances towin by an even wider margin.

The fact Assombalonga did somuch to hole City’s ship below thewater line says a great deal about therespective positions of the two clubs.O’Driscoll enquired as to the pos-sibility of taking the former Watfordforward on loan during the close sea-son, only for Posh to come up with

£1.2 million and acquire his serviceson a permanent basis.

Money talks and the 20-year-oldproduced the kind of high-octane per-formance that merely served to high-light City’s deficiencies at both endsof the pitch.

Quite simply, Assombalonga andstrike partner Tyrone Barnett playedbetter than their City counterparts,Sam Baldock and Jay Em-manuel-Thomas, aided and abetted asthey were by the some poor defend-ing.

Although City started reasonablywell, the first goal was always goingto prove crucial and it was handed toBarnett on a plate, keeper FrankFielding pushing Craig Alcock’sweak shot into the path of thegangling centre forward instead ofdiverting it behind.

At least Fielding made amends mo-ments later, diving to his left to keepout Lee Tomlin’s penalty, awarded

when James O’Connor needlesslybrought Assombalonga crashing toearth inside the 18-yard box.

But there was nothing the formerDerby County keeper could do toprevent Assombalonga’s brilliant25-yard shot finding the top-left handcorner of the net six minutes into thesecond half.

From that point on, it was difficultto see a way back for a City side thatdominated possession without hav-ing the wherewithal to make itcount.

All too often the Robins passed theball between themselves deep in theirown half instead of moving it forwardmore quickly to create pressure, withthe result that Peterborough’s exper-ienced back four was able to defendthe lead without too many anxiousm o m e n t s.

City looked to talismanic forwardEmmanuel-Thomas to conjure upsomething special, but for once hecame up short, failing even to hit thetarget with his side’s two bestch a n c e s.

More efficient in possession, Poshappeared eminently capable ofadding to their tally on thecounter-attack as City were forced totake risks, and Assombalonga en-sured his would be the name oneve r y b o dy ’s lips when collecting theball on the halfway line, holding offthe challenge of two red-shirted de-fenders and lifting his shot overFielding two minutes from time.

That the goal came direct from aCity corner, merely illustrates howmuch room for improvement therestill is within O’Driscoll’s embryonicteam.

� Bristol City’s Marlon Pack and Peterborough United's Tyrone Barnett battle for the high ball in Saturday’s 3-0home defeat Pictures: Joe Meredith � Greg Cunningham clears his lines

� Sean O’Driscoll gets angry

� Marlon Pack strides forward

18� The number of League gamessince City’s last victory

Andy

Expert analysisStockhausen

Bristol City 0

Peterborough United 3

I’M fairly sure that Saturday’s0-3 home defeat against DarrenFe r g u s o n’s Peterborough Unitedresulted in an unwanted clubrecord. It’s now 18 league gameswithout a victory. Make no mis-take that’s a record that has toend there. We have to go out onTuesday against ShrewsburyTown and put in a 90-minuteperfor mance.

The Posh lost their Champi-onship status alongside us lastseason, but considered them-selves very unfortunate whendoing so in view of their end ofseason performances and finalpoints tally. Darren Ferguson in-vested over £1 million on Wat-ford striker Britt Assombalongaand is seeing immediate pay-back on that investment. Assom-balonga was a constant threat toCity’s defence and scored an ab-solute ‘wo rl d ly ’ for his first andhis team’s second and thenshowed pace, power and finessewhen adding his second and theteam’s third.

In truth, City started brightly.We kept the ball well but neverreally threatened. We play theball about across the back fournicely and link in with BobbyReid and Marlon Pack in thecentre of midfield, but had verylittle end product. Too often theball would end up at AidenF lint’s feet and would belaunched forward.

We have one of the beststrikers in this league in SamBaldock, but utilise his abilitiesall wrong. We look for a long ballover the top of the defence andBaldock spends too muchwasted energy chasing downlost causes.

There is no doubt that the roleof Jay Emmanuel-Thomas is keyto making this team tick.However, when Jay plays as hedid on Saturday it has a realnegative impact on the side. I’ma JET fan, but on Saturday hewas poor and he was the one whoshould have made way for Mar-lon Harewood.

I have to disagree when thehead coach talks about smallmargins. O’Driscoll felt that thePeterborough front two wereprobably more effective than ourfront two, and that’s what it’sabout – small margins. Probablymore effective?? Don’t take usfor fools Sean. Baldock had noservice and Jay was poor. Whilethe Posh two both scored andcould have had more.

O’Driscoll made a big call inrecalling Frank Fielding in goal.Unfortunately, Fielding was atfault for the opener.

The keeper should have heldonto the ball or pushed it wide,but could only push it out to theonrushing striker who had thesimple task of tapping into anempty net.

To be fair, Fielding madeamends when saving Lee Tom-l i n’s penalty a few minutes later,but that’s as good as it got forCity. You would have hoped thatnot going 2-0 down and seeingthe penalty save would have en-couraged City and had them onthe front foot but sadly not.

I also thought that NickyShorey should have retained hisplace in the side.

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Bristol City vs Peterborough | Ashton Gate, Saturday, September 14

� Bristol City's Joe Bryan, centre, takes the ball past Peterborough United's Mark Little during Saturday’s 3-0 defeat at Ashton Gate Pictures: Joe Meredith

� Bristol City’s mascots meet the officials before Saturday’s game . . .

� . . . and go on to meet the Peterborough United players

� City’s Bobby Reid delivers a cross

� Aden Flint clears a dangerous attack by Peterborough United � Brendan Moloney looks for a pass

� Bristol Cityg o a l k e e p e r,Frank FieldingsavesP e t e r b o ro u g hUnited's LeeTo m l i n ' spenalty kickat AshtonGate

� City’s Sam Baldock is closely marked by Peterborough’s Mark Little

� A City fan shows off her skills before the Peterborough game

� Bristol City's Greg Cunningham dispossesses United’s Danny Swanson

� City's Marlon Harewood battles for the ball with Michael Bostwick


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� Bristol City's Joe Bryan, centre, takes the ball past Peterborough United's Mark Little during Saturday’s 3-0 defeat at Ashton Gate Pictures: Joe Meredith

� Bristol City’s mascots meet the officials before Saturday’s game . . .

� . . . and go on to meet the Peterborough United players

� City’s Bobby Reid delivers a cross

� Aden Flint clears a dangerous attack by Peterborough United � Brendan Moloney looks for a pass

� Bristol Cityg o a l k e e p e r,Frank FieldingsavesP e t e r b o ro u g hUnited's LeeTo m l i n ' spenalty kickat AshtonGate

� City’s Sam Baldock is closely marked by Peterborough’s Mark Little

� A City fan shows off her skills before the Peterborough game

� Bristol City's Greg Cunningham dispossesses United’s Danny Swanson

� City's Marlon Harewood battles for the ball with Michael Bostwick


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Afolabi Obafemi – 7Rhys Murphy – 8Zavon Hines – 7

Jack Connors – 7Billy Bingham – 9Abu Ogogo – 8Luke Howell – 8

HAD two key moments in this gameended differently, John Ward mayhave been walking off the VictoriaRoad pitch with praise rather thancriticism ringing in his ears.

As Ward trooped towards the chan-ging room at the final whistle afterwatching his side suffer a secondsuccessive away defeat, a handful ofsupporters left the manager in nodoubt that he needed to, in theirwords: “sort it out”. Had EliotRichards slammed a gilt-edged fifthminute chance high into the net in-stead of high over the crossbar,however, the outcome may well havebeen very different.

Even after Dagenham skipper AbuOgogo had punished Richards forthat prolificacy soon after by openingthe scoring when a ball deliveredback across the face of goal bouncedoff his knee and flew in off the un-derside off the crossbar fromclose-range, Rovers could and prob-ably still should have takensomething from this game.

The award of a penalty-kick in the

55th minute provided the opportun-ity of a lifeline, but once Matt Harroldsaw his effort to convert repelled bygoalkeeper Chris Lewington beforemidfielder Luke Howell doubled Da-g enham’s advantage soon after, thedye, it seems, was cast.

How the game would have pannedout had either of these opportunitiesbeen converted is anybody’s guess,yet these are all ifs, buts and maybes –and it would also be remiss not tomention that Dagenham would haveadded to the two goals they did scorehad Steve Mildenall not managed tomake fine saves when he was facedone-on-one with Ogogo, AfolabiObafemi and Rhys Murphy on three

Criticism stings Ward asRovers go down again

Dagenham & Redbridge vs Bristol Rovers | Victoria Road, September 14

separate occasions. Ward, mean-while, took issue with the industriallanguage that was aimed in his dir-ection by some supporters in an at-tempt to make their point at the finalwhistle – even if his counter-pointincluded the added caveat that heunderstood the frustrations of thosehardy followers who are yet to seetheir team claim a point on theirtravels this season.

The manager had made threechanges to his starting line-up, one ofwhich saw midfielder Andy Bondmake a quiet, yet neat and tidy, startto life in a Bristol Rovers shirt fol-lowing his loan move from ColchesterUnited on Thursday afternoon.

Ward also returned Harrold andRichards to the starting line-up topartner each other up front in place ofRyan Brunt, who was injured, andDavid Clarkson, who started on theb e n ch .

The early signs were that, perhaps,Ward had stumbled on a formula thatmay have some substance as Roversstarted brightly – a couple of shotsinside the opening five minutes,which included that golden chancefor Richards, was already a moreimpressive return than had been re-gistered at Home Park a week earli-e r.

Dagenham were quick to respondwith Ogogo’s early strike, however, toleave Ward standing in his dug outshaking his head after watching hisusually watertight defence concedeanother goal when at sixes and sev-ens in an unsuccessful attempt toclear from a set-piece.

The manager went from shakinghis head to pulling his hair out when

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Howell arrived unmarked to plant afree header into the net from ZavonHines’ corner to complete the scoringin the 72nd minute to continueRove r s ’ recent poor run of form whentasked with defending set-play situ-at i o n s.

In between, Harrold missed thepenalty that served to suck thelifeblood out of Rovers’ attempts totake something from the game – eve nif, during the 20 minutes that fol-lowed, Rovers’ response was to takecharge of the football that meant theyended a game having more posses-sion than their opponents for the firsttime this season.

Chances or end-product to com-plement that particular advantage,however, failed to materialise and, asa result, Ward was left to call some ofhis side’s decision-making into ques-tion. It will be the decisions of themanager, though, that will comeunder close scrutiny before Roversattempt to build on what has beentheir best start on home soil for thebest part of a decade when they areback at the Memorial Stadium for thefirst time in three weeks next Sat-u rd ay.

One decision that Ward was, un-derstandably, reticent to comment onat the final whistle was the one tostart Ellis Harrison at the end of aweek in which his problems awayfrom the pitch were reported else-where in this newspaper.

Perhaps seeing Harrison line upwith his team-mates prior to kick-off,however, should not have been assurprising as first seemed consid-ering the unswerving loyalty Wardhas always offered to his players.

Match reaction

NEW signing Andy Bond believesBristol Rovers currently haveenough quality in the squadto serve up a positive re-sponse in the face ofback-to-back defeats.

Midfielder Bond,pictured, washanded a full debutat Dagenham & Red-bridge on Saturdayafter completing amonth-long loan movefrom Colchester Unitedearlier in the week.

Rovers, however, failed to bounceback from a defeat at Plymouth seven

days earlier by slipping to a 2-0 re-verse following goals from midfield

duo Abu Ogogo and Luke How-ell.

A missed Matt Harroldpenalty, which would haveoffered Rovers an equal-iser in the early part ofthe second half, made thedefeat all the moregalling, and Bond, who

only met up with his newteam-mates for the first

time at a Friday afternoontraining session ahead of their

weekend engagement at VictoriaRoad, said: “I have had a couple of

days with the lads and I think haveseen enough to suggest there is goodquality in the squad.

“Had we scored the penalty thingsmay have been different, but Matthas missed it and then it was down tous to respond by creating morechances afterwards.

“We didn’t quite manage to do that,but I think we played well in partsthroughout the first half and alsostarted well when we came out in theearly part of the second half.

“The performance on Saturdaywas a bit sloppy, though, so we needto reflect on things on Monday morn-ing before picking ourselves up and

going again in training before thegame next Saturday.”

Bond completed the full 90 minutesof his debut in a right-sided midfieldro l e.

He added: “I like to get forward andI prefer to play in the middle, but itwas just nice to play.

“I don’t mind where I play, as longas I’m picked I’ll give it my all inevery game and do a job anywhere.I’m just here for a month and we’lltake it from there.

“I know John Ward because hesigned me at Colchester and I alsoknow John-Joe (O’Toole) very well. Iwas in contact with both of them on

Tuesday and they both spoke veryhighly of the club and of the lads.

“I haven’t been given as much op-portunity as I’d have liked at Col-chester, so I had no hesitation incoming here where, I’ll hopefully getsome games.

“I’ve dropped down a league, but Id o n’t mind doing that if it means I getthe opportunity to play some football.I’m only 27, but it is an importanttime of your career where you want tobe playing games.

“It is a bit demoralising to train allweek and not to have a game to play atthe end of it.”

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Dagenham: Medy Elito for Obafemi (64 mins), Sean Shieldsfor Hines (90 mins)

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� Tom Parkes: Gave away a needless free-kick thatoffered Dagenham the opportunity to score theiropening goal

� Mark McChrystal: Won a few headers, but failed tomake the most of a good opportunity to clear thedanger prior to the first goal

� Lee Brown: Worked hard and was involved in acouple of promising moves down the left

� Andy Bond: Miscued a good opportunity to mark hisdebut with a goal early on, but otherwise neat and tid

� Steve Mildenhall: Defeat would have been by awider margin, but for three very good one-on-onesaves

� Oliver Norburn: Popped the ball around neatly attimes, but didn’t manage to produce any reallypenetrative passes

� John-Joe O’Toole: Got stuck in, but lost his cool abit following some questionable decisions by there f e re e

� Ellis Harrison: Clearly distracted by things otherthan football at the moment and was replaced athalf-time

� Eliot Richards: Looked bright in patches. He’s oneof the quicker strikers in the squad who may benefitfrom a run of games

� Matt Harrold: Put himself about and won ball highup the pitch, but will be disappointed with missedpenalty

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� Bristol Rovers’ Eliot Richards tries to bring the ball under control during the 2-0 defeat to Dagenham & Redbridge on Saturday Pictures: Neil Brookman

� David Clarkson gets his shot away for Rovers � Rovers’ Matt Harrold tussles for the ball

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DAGENHAM and Redbridge isthe poorest supported side in theFootball League yet it can stillput out a side good enough tobeat Rovers.

They are 24th and bottom ofthe pile of attendances in Di-vision Two with an averagehome gate of 1,619 (we are fifth)and The Daggers were amongthe pre-season favourites for re-le gation.

You might think it is an unfaircomparison in a one-off game,but we have to believe that withour budget compared to theirswe should have a better side.Maybe we have on paper andperhaps we will finish abovethem. But not on last Saturday’sev i d e n c e.

Our fourth straight awayleague defeat summed up thefrustrations of yet another poorstart to the season. We have nogiven right to be at the top, butwe are once again fighting belowour weight.

Talking of budgets, John Wardrecently claimed there was noroom to bring in anyone else. Soit was a pleasant surprise thathe recruited Andy Bond. Asmoney is tight, he has to be verypicky over who he brings in. So Ithought Bond must be a strikeror a wide man, but no, I wasstaggered to see he is yet anothermidfield player who in the latestRove r s ’ tradition was played outof position at Dagenham.

I hope he turns out to be betterthan anything we have at themoment, but you have to wonderwhy we have not replaced Fa-bian Broghammer plus EllisHarrison now has off the fieldproblems to worry about.

The highly promising OllieClarke, ready for a return frominjury, must also have been dis-appointed with the Bond signingand we have to presume themanager does not rate Matt Gillwho was not signed by him.

The biggest puzzle over ourpoor start to the current cam-paign is that it has beenachieved (if that is the rightword!) with virtually the sameplayers who turned thingsaround last season. The maindifference is that most of our bigplayers now have contracts in-stead of being here on loan.

It shouldn’t really make a dif-ference, but just why are weplaying so badly at the moment?I thought Tom Lockyer, ourbrightest star this season, wasunlucky to be dropped on Sat-urday. Just like at Plymouth weconceded goals from headers fol-lowing set pieces. If a weaknessin the air is our problem thenperhaps Garry Kenneth is theanswer. He is not my favourite,but we need to plug that aerialgap that is so often exploited inour division.

Maybe things would have beendifferent on Saturday if MattHarrold had scored that penalty.We will never know.

What we do know is thatthings are not happening at themoment, especially away so let’shope Ward can come up with theright formula against Hartle-pool on Saturday.

That Harrison was replaced athalf-time following a difficult open-ing period, however, suggests that onthis occasion, perhaps, that decisionfailed to yield the desired effect.

Back-to-back defeats will no doubtmake for an uncomfortable next fewdays for all inside the camp. Yet isn’tthis when Ward’s side are at theirbest?

Claiming victories in the face ofadversity was something that Roverssomehow managed to fine-tune in toan art form last season at times whenthis reporter was admittedly guilty ofwriting them off on occasion.

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HAD two key moments in this gameended differently, John Ward mayhave been walking off the VictoriaRoad pitch with praise rather thancriticism ringing in his ears.

As Ward trooped towards the chan-ging room at the final whistle afterwatching his side suffer a secondsuccessive away defeat, a handful ofsupporters left the manager in nodoubt that he needed to, in theirwords: “sort it out”. Had EliotRichards slammed a gilt-edged fifthminute chance high into the net in-stead of high over the crossbar,however, the outcome may well havebeen very different.

Even after Dagenham skipper AbuOgogo had punished Richards forthat prolificacy soon after by openingthe scoring when a ball deliveredback across the face of goal bouncedoff his knee and flew in off the un-derside off the crossbar fromclose-range, Rovers could and prob-ably still should have takensomething from this game.

The award of a penalty-kick in the

55th minute provided the opportun-ity of a lifeline, but once Matt Harroldsaw his effort to convert repelled bygoalkeeper Chris Lewington beforemidfielder Luke Howell doubled Da-g enham’s advantage soon after, thedye, it seems, was cast.

How the game would have pannedout had either of these opportunitiesbeen converted is anybody’s guess,yet these are all ifs, buts and maybes –and it would also be remiss not tomention that Dagenham would haveadded to the two goals they did scorehad Steve Mildenall not managed tomake fine saves when he was facedone-on-one with Ogogo, AfolabiObafemi and Rhys Murphy on three

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separate occasions. Ward, mean-while, took issue with the industriallanguage that was aimed in his dir-ection by some supporters in an at-tempt to make their point at the finalwhistle – even if his counter-pointincluded the added caveat that heunderstood the frustrations of thosehardy followers who are yet to seetheir team claim a point on theirtravels this season.

The manager had made threechanges to his starting line-up, one ofwhich saw midfielder Andy Bondmake a quiet, yet neat and tidy, startto life in a Bristol Rovers shirt fol-lowing his loan move from ColchesterUnited on Thursday afternoon.

Ward also returned Harrold andRichards to the starting line-up topartner each other up front in place ofRyan Brunt, who was injured, andDavid Clarkson, who started on theb e n ch .

The early signs were that, perhaps,Ward had stumbled on a formula thatmay have some substance as Roversstarted brightly – a couple of shotsinside the opening five minutes,which included that golden chancefor Richards, was already a moreimpressive return than had been re-gistered at Home Park a week earli-e r.

Dagenham were quick to respondwith Ogogo’s early strike, however, toleave Ward standing in his dug outshaking his head after watching hisusually watertight defence concedeanother goal when at sixes and sev-ens in an unsuccessful attempt toclear from a set-piece.

The manager went from shakinghis head to pulling his hair out when

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Howell arrived unmarked to plant afree header into the net from ZavonHines’ corner to complete the scoringin the 72nd minute to continueRove r s ’ recent poor run of form whentasked with defending set-play situ-at i o n s.

In between, Harrold missed thepenalty that served to suck thelifeblood out of Rovers’ attempts totake something from the game – eve nif, during the 20 minutes that fol-lowed, Rovers’ response was to takecharge of the football that meant theyended a game having more posses-sion than their opponents for the firsttime this season.

Chances or end-product to com-plement that particular advantage,however, failed to materialise and, asa result, Ward was left to call some ofhis side’s decision-making into ques-tion. It will be the decisions of themanager, though, that will comeunder close scrutiny before Roversattempt to build on what has beentheir best start on home soil for thebest part of a decade when they areback at the Memorial Stadium for thefirst time in three weeks next Sat-u rd ay.

One decision that Ward was, un-derstandably, reticent to comment onat the final whistle was the one tostart Ellis Harrison at the end of aweek in which his problems awayfrom the pitch were reported else-where in this newspaper.

Perhaps seeing Harrison line upwith his team-mates prior to kick-off,however, should not have been assurprising as first seemed consid-ering the unswerving loyalty Wardhas always offered to his players.

Match reaction

NEW signing Andy Bond believesBristol Rovers currently haveenough quality in the squadto serve up a positive re-sponse in the face ofback-to-back defeats.

Midfielder Bond,pictured, washanded a full debutat Dagenham & Red-bridge on Saturdayafter completing amonth-long loan movefrom Colchester Unitedearlier in the week.

Rovers, however, failed to bounceback from a defeat at Plymouth seven

days earlier by slipping to a 2-0 re-verse following goals from midfield

duo Abu Ogogo and Luke How-ell.

A missed Matt Harroldpenalty, which would haveoffered Rovers an equal-iser in the early part ofthe second half, made thedefeat all the moregalling, and Bond, who

only met up with his newteam-mates for the first

time at a Friday afternoontraining session ahead of their

weekend engagement at VictoriaRoad, said: “I have had a couple of

days with the lads and I think haveseen enough to suggest there is goodquality in the squad.

“Had we scored the penalty thingsmay have been different, but Matthas missed it and then it was down tous to respond by creating morechances afterwards.

“We didn’t quite manage to do that,but I think we played well in partsthroughout the first half and alsostarted well when we came out in theearly part of the second half.

“The performance on Saturdaywas a bit sloppy, though, so we needto reflect on things on Monday morn-ing before picking ourselves up and

going again in training before thegame next Saturday.”

Bond completed the full 90 minutesof his debut in a right-sided midfieldro l e.

He added: “I like to get forward andI prefer to play in the middle, but itwas just nice to play.

“I don’t mind where I play, as longas I’m picked I’ll give it my all inevery game and do a job anywhere.I’m just here for a month and we’lltake it from there.

“I know John Ward because hesigned me at Colchester and I alsoknow John-Joe (O’Toole) very well. Iwas in contact with both of them on

Tuesday and they both spoke veryhighly of the club and of the lads.

“I haven’t been given as much op-portunity as I’d have liked at Col-chester, so I had no hesitation incoming here where, I’ll hopefully getsome games.

“I’ve dropped down a league, but Id o n’t mind doing that if it means I getthe opportunity to play some football.I’m only 27, but it is an importanttime of your career where you want tobe playing games.

“It is a bit demoralising to train allweek and not to have a game to play atthe end of it.”

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Match facts


Fouls conceded

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Dagenham: Medy Elito for Obafemi (64 mins), Sean Shieldsfor Hines (90 mins)

Rovers: Alefe Santos for Harrison (46 mins), David Clarksonfor Richards (73mins), Tom Lockyer for Norburn (86 mins)

Substitutions

Chris Lewington – 7Gavin Hoyte – 8Scott Doe – 8Brian Saah – 7

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� Tom Parkes: Gave away a needless free-kick thatoffered Dagenham the opportunity to score theiropening goal

� Mark McChrystal: Won a few headers, but failed tomake the most of a good opportunity to clear thedanger prior to the first goal

� Lee Brown: Worked hard and was involved in acouple of promising moves down the left

� Andy Bond: Miscued a good opportunity to mark hisdebut with a goal early on, but otherwise neat and tid

� Steve Mildenhall: Defeat would have been by awider margin, but for three very good one-on-onesaves

� Oliver Norburn: Popped the ball around neatly attimes, but didn’t manage to produce any reallypenetrative passes

� John-Joe O’Toole: Got stuck in, but lost his cool abit following some questionable decisions by there f e re e

� Ellis Harrison: Clearly distracted by things otherthan football at the moment and was replaced athalf-time

� Eliot Richards: Looked bright in patches. He’s oneof the quicker strikers in the squad who may benefitfrom a run of games

� Matt Harrold: Put himself about and won ball highup the pitch, but will be disappointed with missedpenalty

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� Bristol Rovers’ Eliot Richards tries to bring the ball under control during the 2-0 defeat to Dagenham & Redbridge on Saturday Pictures: Neil Brookman

� David Clarkson gets his shot away for Rovers � Rovers’ Matt Harrold tussles for the ball

� Dagenham & Redbridge players celebrate their opening goal

Read James’ stories byfollowing JamesMcNamara

at www.thisisbristol.co.uk

DAGENHAM and Redbridge isthe poorest supported side in theFootball League yet it can stillput out a side good enough tobeat Rovers.

They are 24th and bottom ofthe pile of attendances in Di-vision Two with an averagehome gate of 1,619 (we are fifth)and The Daggers were amongthe pre-season favourites for re-le gation.

You might think it is an unfaircomparison in a one-off game,but we have to believe that withour budget compared to theirswe should have a better side.Maybe we have on paper andperhaps we will finish abovethem. But not on last Saturday’sev i d e n c e.

Our fourth straight awayleague defeat summed up thefrustrations of yet another poorstart to the season. We have nogiven right to be at the top, butwe are once again fighting belowour weight.

Talking of budgets, John Wardrecently claimed there was noroom to bring in anyone else. Soit was a pleasant surprise thathe recruited Andy Bond. Asmoney is tight, he has to be verypicky over who he brings in. So Ithought Bond must be a strikeror a wide man, but no, I wasstaggered to see he is yet anothermidfield player who in the latestRove r s ’ tradition was played outof position at Dagenham.

I hope he turns out to be betterthan anything we have at themoment, but you have to wonderwhy we have not replaced Fa-bian Broghammer plus EllisHarrison now has off the fieldproblems to worry about.

The highly promising OllieClarke, ready for a return frominjury, must also have been dis-appointed with the Bond signingand we have to presume themanager does not rate Matt Gillwho was not signed by him.

The biggest puzzle over ourpoor start to the current cam-paign is that it has beenachieved (if that is the rightword!) with virtually the sameplayers who turned thingsaround last season. The maindifference is that most of our bigplayers now have contracts in-stead of being here on loan.

It shouldn’t really make a dif-ference, but just why are weplaying so badly at the moment?I thought Tom Lockyer, ourbrightest star this season, wasunlucky to be dropped on Sat-urday. Just like at Plymouth weconceded goals from headers fol-lowing set pieces. If a weaknessin the air is our problem thenperhaps Garry Kenneth is theanswer. He is not my favourite,but we need to plug that aerialgap that is so often exploited inour division.

Maybe things would have beendifferent on Saturday if MattHarrold had scored that penalty.We will never know.

What we do know is thatthings are not happening at themoment, especially away so let’shope Ward can come up with theright formula against Hartle-pool on Saturday.

That Harrison was replaced athalf-time following a difficult open-ing period, however, suggests that onthis occasion, perhaps, that decisionfailed to yield the desired effect.

Back-to-back defeats will no doubtmake for an uncomfortable next fewdays for all inside the camp. Yet isn’tthis when Ward’s side are at theirbest?

Claiming victories in the face ofadversity was something that Roverssomehow managed to fine-tune in toan art form last season at times whenthis reporter was admittedly guilty ofwriting them off on occasion.

3� The number of one-on-onesSteve Mildenhall won in the gameagainst Dagenham & Redbridge

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� Bristol Rovers’ David Clarkson puts the pressure on Dagenham & Redbridge’s Scott Doe during the 2-0 defeat at Victoria Road Pictures: Neil Brookman

� Disgruntled Rovers fans leave after seeing their side go down

� The two teams are led out before Saturday’s game at Victoria Road

� Rovers’ boss John Ward

� Rovers’ Matt Harrold shields the ball from a Dagenham defender� Steve Mildenhall has words withthe referee

� Anotherhealthycontingent ofRovers fansmade the tripto Dagenham& Redbridge’sVictoria Roadground onS a t u rd a y

� Ellis Harrison takes on Dagenham's Jack Connors before the Rovers player was substituted at half time

� Rovers’ David Clarkson is foiled by an acrobatic clearance by Scott Doe

� The Rovers’ bench prepare for the start of the game

� Rovers’ John-Joe O’Toole clears the danger against Dagenham


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� Bristol Rovers’ David Clarkson puts the pressure on Dagenham & Redbridge’s Scott Doe during the 2-0 defeat at Victoria Road Pictures: Neil Brookman

� Disgruntled Rovers fans leave after seeing their side go down

� The two teams are led out before Saturday’s game at Victoria Road

� Rovers’ boss John Ward

� Rovers’ Matt Harrold shields the ball from a Dagenham defender� Steve Mildenhall has words withthe referee

� Anotherhealthycontingent ofRovers fansmade the tripto Dagenham& Redbridge’sVictoria Roadground onS a t u rd a y

� Ellis Harrison takes on Dagenham's Jack Connors before the Rovers player was substituted at half time

� Rovers’ David Clarkson is foiled by an acrobatic clearance by Scott Doe

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THIS season was always going to be atest of how Bristol would come toterms with expectation – and theearly evidence suggests they have alot of work to do by June.

If the pre-season beatings at Bathand Exeter had shown weaknessesand highlighted a gulf between Bris-tol and the Aviva Premiership, yes-t e rd ay ’s display against Piratessuggested getting out of the GKIPAChampionship is likely to be a bigenough task in itself.

The expectations on Bristol are ashigh as they have been since theywere relegated from the top flight in2009 – with the money of Steve Lans-down, who was in the crowd at Exeter,and the coaching expertise and ex-perience of Andy Robinson and SeanHolley seen as a sure-fire ticket backto the big time. That is not to mentionthe arrival of several players withPremiership experience.

But the way in which Bristol suc-cumbed to Pirates in the final matchof the Championship’s experimentalweekend of double-headers at three

neutral venues was tame. If theirtactics were right, their execution ofthem appeared muddled, while a raftof unforced errors undermined theirattempts at gaining fluency, despite awealth of territory.

“After a quick look at the stats, Ithink we spent four times as long intheir 22 as the Pirates did in ours,which shows we’re lacking a bit ofcutting edge,” said coach Holley.

“That is something we’ll be work-ing on – the players need to startbelieving a little bit, and at times Ithink they looked a little bit timid. Wewant to give them the confidence togo for things.

“When Ruki Tipuna came on in the

Opening-day defeat hintsat work ahead for Bristol

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second half, he upped the tempo andwe looked a little bit more threat-ening, but there wasn’t enough of thatfor me. I’m used to seeing a lot moredominance – and that’s what I’ll beexpecting from Bristol. We never gotaway from the Pirates.

“Going into that changing roomand seeing how disappointed thoseplayers were, maybe some of them alittle bit embarrassed, says to me thatthey care. I know that should be agiven – but it’s something.”

Had Adrian Jarvis converted LukeE ve s ’ last-gasp try – after a sustainedspell of Bristol pressure – they wouldhave salvaged a draw, taken twopoints instead of one, and halvedP i r at e s ’ haul of points.

But it would barely have paperedover the cracks of the performance.Jarvis was arguably Bristol’s bestplayer; the game was lost in theknock-ons, the loose passes, the need-less offside and crossing offences, notin one late kick from the touchline.

Indeed, Bristol may have left Devonwith a draw had Eves not latched onto Tipuna’s long pass and dived over.The pressure they had been buildingon the Pirates line may have forced apenalty try and a conversion underthe sticks had it gone on muchlong er.

But again, that would merely haveprovided an extremely early use ofBristol’s get-out-of-jail-free card in aseason that could run until June 4.

Bristol led only once in the game –and that was after Jarvis knockedover a fifth-minute penalty when Pir-ates held on in the tackle. Lock James

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Sandford was driven over for theopening try of the match, with KieranHallett extending the Cornish side’slead with a conversion and penalty.

Pirates lost hooker Rob Elloway tothe sin bin – but even the numericaladvantage did not translate to similargains on the scoreboard. Instead, Jar-vis and Hallett twice traded penaltiesto give Pirates a 16-9 half-time lead.

James Merriman, as industrious asever, capped a lengthy spell of Bristolpressure by going over for a try that,once Jarvis had converted, levelledthe game at 16-16.

But the key moment came when,from a line-out in the Bristol half, twopasses put the ball in James Tinck-nell’s hands and the winger raced infrom 35 metres, evading Andy Shorton the way, to give Pirates a lead theywould not surrender.

Bristol’s late siege on the Pirates’line took them to the brink of sal-vaging a draw – but Jarvis was nar-rowly off-target from the touchline.

With 22 regular-season leaguegames, plus the potential for fourplay-off matches, to go, Holley is in nodoubt as to what is required.

“I want to come here for memoriesthat are positive – and that meansstanding on podiums, winning sil-verware and celebrating with sup-porters, not talking this sort of stuffto you guys,” Holley told the as-sembled journalists. “If we’re all onthe same page, and we’re all preparedto improve one, two per cent everyweek together, then that will createsome momentum – but it takes time,hard work and some tough talking.”

Key incidents

LUKE Eves’ last-gasp try was notenough for Bristol, as they fell to anopening-day GKIPA Championshipdefeat against Cornish Pirates.

The Bristol centre went over at theend of the final play of the match –after Bristol had laid siege to thePirates line, winning several pen-alties, but Adrian Jarvis was nar-rowly off-target with the touchlineconversion attempt.

Bristol collected a losing bonuspoint – but even had they salvaged adraw it would hardly have disguiseda below-par performance. Pirates led16-9 at half-time, with James Sand-fo rd ’s converted try the differencebetween the sides.

Bristol made a bright start andwere the first team to score, fly-half

Jarvis landing a fifth-minute pen-alty, after his side had taken com-plete control from the first whistle.

Pirates took the lead through lockS a n d fo rd ’s try, which came afterKieran Hallett’s high kick had beenspilled, with Hallett adding the con-version and then a penalty.

Jarvis kicked Bristol back to with-in four points after Pirates hookerRob Elloway was sin-binned forkilling the ball, but Hallett soon re-stored the seven-point advantage.

Jarvis and Hallett exchanged pen-alties on the stroke of half-time, afterBristol had spurned several prom-ising attacking positions.

Bristol drew level at 16-16 nineminutes after half-time, when, afterPirates had defended resolutely,

James Merriman burrowed over fortheir first try of the season, whichwas converted by Jarvis.

Pirates took the lead again whenJames Tincknell scored an excellenttry. Pirates ran a line-out move thatworked perfectly – with Bristol’s de-fence unable to lay a hand on Tinck-nell as he burst through and scoredfrom 35 metres. Hallett converted tomake it 23-21.

Bristol fought back and had plentyof late territory. They were alsoawarded three late penalties – andmay have been close to being awar-ded a penalty try when replacementRuki Tipuna threw out a long pass toEves, who went over in the corner.Jarvis, from the touchline, was un-able to find the middle of the posts.

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Pirates: Aaron Carpenter (for Conlon 37-40); Tom Kessell 6 (for Evans, 57); GaryJohnson (for Sandford, 62); Jack Andrew (for Paver, 68). Not used: Matt Bolwell,Angus Sinclair, Junior Fatialofa

Bristol: Jason Hobson 6 (for Hall, 41); Ruki Tipuna 7 (for Grindal, 46); Ollie Hayes(for Lawrence, 68); Redford Pennycook (for Merriman, 70); Fautua Otto (forShort, 70); Glen Townson (for Koster, 80). Not used: Tristan Roberts

Replacements

Craig Holland 6James Tincknell 7Tom Riley 7Rheon James 6Matt Evans 6

Kieran Hallett 8Gavin Cattle (capt) 8Alan Paver 7Rob Elloway 6Ben Prescott 7

James Sandford 7Darren Barry 7Chris Morgan 7Joel Conlon 6Laurie McGlone 7

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Pirates hookerRob Elloway seesyellow for killingthe ball and Jarvislands the penalty –6-10

Hallett restoresPirates’seven-pointcushion with apenalty for offside– 6-13

Jarvis appears tohave cut the deficitback to four pointswith anotherpenalty – 9-13Hallett sends hisside into the breakwith a seven-pointadvantage with a40-metre penalty –9-16

James Merrimangoes over fromclose range forBristol, with Jarvisconverting – 16-16

� Charlie Amesbury Looked to give Bristol a sparkwhenever he had the ball

� Andy Short Missed a tackle in what proved to bethe winning try – but was industrious in attack

� Luke Eves A solid all-round performance, cappedwith a last-gasp try in the left corner

� Ryan Edwards Was rarely involved in the game andwas tested under the high ball

� James Grindal (capt) Struggled to make an impact– Bristol looked livelier when Ruki Tipuna wasi n t ro d u c e d

� Kyle Traynor Scrummaged well under the new lawsand gave a busy performance

� Rhys Lawrence Action-packed display in the loose– and hit his first ten line-outs before seeing a coupleof late throws stolen

� James Hall Was withdrawn at half-time on his debutafter failing to impose himself on the game

� Ben Skirving Battled hard in the unfamiliar setting ofthe second row as Bristol toiled

� Adrian Jarvis Unfortunate that people willremember his late missed conversion, as heperformed with an air of authority

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� Nick Koster Carried the ball well in the openingperiod, but faded later on and was withdrawn

� James Merriman Scored his team’s second try butis capable of much more than he showed

� Marco Mama Gave a committed display at the backof the scrum but influence was limited

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THIS season was always going to be atest of how Bristol would come toterms with expectation – and theearly evidence suggests they have alot of work to do by June.

If the pre-season beatings at Bathand Exeter had shown weaknessesand highlighted a gulf between Bris-tol and the Aviva Premiership, yes-t e rd ay ’s display against Piratessuggested getting out of the GKIPAChampionship is likely to be a bigenough task in itself.

The expectations on Bristol are ashigh as they have been since theywere relegated from the top flight in2009 – with the money of Steve Lans-down, who was in the crowd at Exeter,and the coaching expertise and ex-perience of Andy Robinson and SeanHolley seen as a sure-fire ticket backto the big time. That is not to mentionthe arrival of several players withPremiership experience.

But the way in which Bristol suc-cumbed to Pirates in the final matchof the Championship’s experimentalweekend of double-headers at three

neutral venues was tame. If theirtactics were right, their execution ofthem appeared muddled, while a raftof unforced errors undermined theirattempts at gaining fluency, despite awealth of territory.

“After a quick look at the stats, Ithink we spent four times as long intheir 22 as the Pirates did in ours,which shows we’re lacking a bit ofcutting edge,” said coach Holley.

“That is something we’ll be work-ing on – the players need to startbelieving a little bit, and at times Ithink they looked a little bit timid. Wewant to give them the confidence togo for things.

“When Ruki Tipuna came on in the

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second half, he upped the tempo andwe looked a little bit more threat-ening, but there wasn’t enough of thatfor me. I’m used to seeing a lot moredominance – and that’s what I’ll beexpecting from Bristol. We never gotaway from the Pirates.

“Going into that changing roomand seeing how disappointed thoseplayers were, maybe some of them alittle bit embarrassed, says to me thatthey care. I know that should be agiven – but it’s something.”

Had Adrian Jarvis converted LukeE ve s ’ last-gasp try – after a sustainedspell of Bristol pressure – they wouldhave salvaged a draw, taken twopoints instead of one, and halvedP i r at e s ’ haul of points.

But it would barely have paperedover the cracks of the performance.Jarvis was arguably Bristol’s bestplayer; the game was lost in theknock-ons, the loose passes, the need-less offside and crossing offences, notin one late kick from the touchline.

Indeed, Bristol may have left Devonwith a draw had Eves not latched onto Tipuna’s long pass and dived over.The pressure they had been buildingon the Pirates line may have forced apenalty try and a conversion underthe sticks had it gone on muchlong er.

But again, that would merely haveprovided an extremely early use ofBristol’s get-out-of-jail-free card in aseason that could run until June 4.

Bristol led only once in the game –and that was after Jarvis knockedover a fifth-minute penalty when Pir-ates held on in the tackle. Lock James

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Sandford was driven over for theopening try of the match, with KieranHallett extending the Cornish side’slead with a conversion and penalty.

Pirates lost hooker Rob Elloway tothe sin bin – but even the numericaladvantage did not translate to similargains on the scoreboard. Instead, Jar-vis and Hallett twice traded penaltiesto give Pirates a 16-9 half-time lead.

James Merriman, as industrious asever, capped a lengthy spell of Bristolpressure by going over for a try that,once Jarvis had converted, levelledthe game at 16-16.

But the key moment came when,from a line-out in the Bristol half, twopasses put the ball in James Tinck-nell’s hands and the winger raced infrom 35 metres, evading Andy Shorton the way, to give Pirates a lead theywould not surrender.

Bristol’s late siege on the Pirates’line took them to the brink of sal-vaging a draw – but Jarvis was nar-rowly off-target from the touchline.

With 22 regular-season leaguegames, plus the potential for fourplay-off matches, to go, Holley is in nodoubt as to what is required.

“I want to come here for memoriesthat are positive – and that meansstanding on podiums, winning sil-verware and celebrating with sup-porters, not talking this sort of stuffto you guys,” Holley told the as-sembled journalists. “If we’re all onthe same page, and we’re all preparedto improve one, two per cent everyweek together, then that will createsome momentum – but it takes time,hard work and some tough talking.”

Key incidents

LUKE Eves’ last-gasp try was notenough for Bristol, as they fell to anopening-day GKIPA Championshipdefeat against Cornish Pirates.

The Bristol centre went over at theend of the final play of the match –after Bristol had laid siege to thePirates line, winning several pen-alties, but Adrian Jarvis was nar-rowly off-target with the touchlineconversion attempt.

Bristol collected a losing bonuspoint – but even had they salvaged adraw it would hardly have disguiseda below-par performance. Pirates led16-9 at half-time, with James Sand-fo rd ’s converted try the differencebetween the sides.

Bristol made a bright start andwere the first team to score, fly-half

Jarvis landing a fifth-minute pen-alty, after his side had taken com-plete control from the first whistle.

Pirates took the lead through lockS a n d fo rd ’s try, which came afterKieran Hallett’s high kick had beenspilled, with Hallett adding the con-version and then a penalty.

Jarvis kicked Bristol back to with-in four points after Pirates hookerRob Elloway was sin-binned forkilling the ball, but Hallett soon re-stored the seven-point advantage.

Jarvis and Hallett exchanged pen-alties on the stroke of half-time, afterBristol had spurned several prom-ising attacking positions.

Bristol drew level at 16-16 nineminutes after half-time, when, afterPirates had defended resolutely,

James Merriman burrowed over fortheir first try of the season, whichwas converted by Jarvis.

Pirates took the lead again whenJames Tincknell scored an excellenttry. Pirates ran a line-out move thatworked perfectly – with Bristol’s de-fence unable to lay a hand on Tinck-nell as he burst through and scoredfrom 35 metres. Hallett converted tomake it 23-21.

Bristol fought back and had plentyof late territory. They were alsoawarded three late penalties – andmay have been close to being awar-ded a penalty try when replacementRuki Tipuna threw out a long pass toEves, who went over in the corner.Jarvis, from the touchline, was un-able to find the middle of the posts.

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Pirates: Aaron Carpenter (for Conlon 37-40); Tom Kessell 6 (for Evans, 57); GaryJohnson (for Sandford, 62); Jack Andrew (for Paver, 68). Not used: Matt Bolwell,Angus Sinclair, Junior Fatialofa

Bristol: Jason Hobson 6 (for Hall, 41); Ruki Tipuna 7 (for Grindal, 46); Ollie Hayes(for Lawrence, 68); Redford Pennycook (for Merriman, 70); Fautua Otto (forShort, 70); Glen Townson (for Koster, 80). Not used: Tristan Roberts

Replacements

Craig Holland 6James Tincknell 7Tom Riley 7Rheon James 6Matt Evans 6

Kieran Hallett 8Gavin Cattle (capt) 8Alan Paver 7Rob Elloway 6Ben Prescott 7

James Sandford 7Darren Barry 7Chris Morgan 7Joel Conlon 6Laurie McGlone 7

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James Sandford isdriven over from aline-out to putPirates in front.Kieran Hallettconverts – 3-7 –and four minuteslater Hallettknocks over apenalty from morethan 40 metres –3-10

Pirates hookerRob Elloway seesyellow for killingthe ball and Jarvislands the penalty –6-10

Hallett restoresPirates’seven-pointcushion with apenalty for offside– 6-13

Jarvis appears tohave cut the deficitback to four pointswith anotherpenalty – 9-13Hallett sends hisside into the breakwith a seven-pointadvantage with a40-metre penalty –9-16

James Merrimangoes over fromclose range forBristol, with Jarvisconverting – 16-16

� Charlie Amesbury Looked to give Bristol a sparkwhenever he had the ball

� Andy Short Missed a tackle in what proved to bethe winning try – but was industrious in attack

� Luke Eves A solid all-round performance, cappedwith a last-gasp try in the left corner

� Ryan Edwards Was rarely involved in the game andwas tested under the high ball

� James Grindal (capt) Struggled to make an impact– Bristol looked livelier when Ruki Tipuna wasi n t ro d u c e d

� Kyle Traynor Scrummaged well under the new lawsand gave a busy performance

� Rhys Lawrence Action-packed display in the loose– and hit his first ten line-outs before seeing a coupleof late throws stolen

� James Hall Was withdrawn at half-time on his debutafter failing to impose himself on the game

� Ben Skirving Battled hard in the unfamiliar setting ofthe second row as Bristol toiled

� Adrian Jarvis Unfortunate that people willremember his late missed conversion, as heperformed with an air of authority

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Cornish Pirates 23

� James Merriman goes over for a Bristol try Pictures: johnwhitemedia.co.uk

� Adrian Jarvis lines up a penalty � Bristol lock Mark Sorenson � Bristol centre Luke Eves on the charge

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� Mark Sorenson Will perhaps have been expected tomake a stronger impact on his debut

� Nick Koster Carried the ball well in the openingperiod, but faded later on and was withdrawn

� James Merriman Scored his team’s second try butis capable of much more than he showed

� Marco Mama Gave a committed display at the backof the scrum but influence was limited

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James Tincknellbreaks through themiddle off aline-out move topunish Bristol –16-23

Luke Eves goesover from RukiTipuna’s longpass, but Jarvismisses the difficultconversionattempt – 21-23

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Gloucestershire County League

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Yate spring anupset to knockout Bluebirds

LONGLEVENS continue to set thepace in the David Wilson HomesGloucestershire County League,after they ran out 2-1 home winnersover Bristol Academy.

Sam Johnson scored for the vis-itors in stoppage time.

Gala Wilton remain hot on theirheels after their 4-1 win over Yat eRe s e r ve s . Gala took a two-goal lead,but Ben Royal halved the deficitshortly before half-time before Galatook control after half-time.

Bristol Telephones turned aone-goal deficit into a 2-1 victory at

Kingswood. Ben Griffiths grabbed an88th-minute equaliser for the visitorsbefore Martin Blacker snatched anunlikely winner in time added on.

Chipping Sodbury slumped to a2-1 home defeat against previouslypointless Berkeley, Karl Reece gettingtheir goal. Thornbury are now theonly team without a point, following a4-2 reverse at Southmead.

Steve Thompson’s early opener forthe strugglers was cancelled-out byGary Booth before Luke Coghlangave the home side a half-time lead.

Pete Fowler levelled on the hour

mark, but Luke Mills scored twice inthe final 20 minutes for Southmead.

Hanham were edged out 3-2 byPat ch way , Matt Davis, John Pugsleyand Phil Vice building up a three-goallead before Darren Burt pulled a goalback and James Shipman scored on90 minutes.

Henbury drew 3-3 at Bishop’sCleeve, Harry Bartlett, Ben Sandleand Joe Love scoring for the visitors.Frampton came from behind to beatvisiting Rockleaz e 3-2.

Ed Freeman had twice given Rock-leaze the lead.

Calor Southern League

PAULTON paid the price for an hor-rific first-half performance againstStratford, who took all three points inDivision One South & West.

Rovers conceded four goals in a15-minute spell midway through theopening period, before replying withthree second-half goals.

Matt West headed Stratford into a

22nd-minute lead, and the same play-er doubled the visitors’ advanta g eseven minutes later.

Richard Gregory crashed in goalnumber three and Stuart Hendriedribbled through to make it four.

Brandon Barnes pulled a goal backfrom the penalty spot after a foul onDan Cleverley six minutes into thesecond half. Paulton’s second goal,scored by Scott Brice, came in the90th minute. Nick McCootie claimedthe third three minutes into stop-page-time for the hosts, who visit Yatetomorrow (7.45pm).

Comeback is too late for PaultonLeaders Longlevens are too strong for AcademySHIREHAMPTON took their goaltally to 36 in seven league and cupmatches with a 6-2 away win againstBurnham United.

Scott Bamford gave Shirehamptona tenth-minute lead in the Premi-er/First Division Cup tie, and TonyBeacham added the second midwaythrough the half.

A Kyle O’Donovan goal, plus twomore from Beacham, completed anemphatic win for Shirehampton.

Saltford lost 3-2 at Odd Down Re-serves and Dundry Athletic wentdown 2-1 at Bishops Lydeard.

In Premier Division games, defend-ing champions Nailsea United we n ttop of the table with a 4-2 away winagainst Ilminster Town.

In-form Stockwood Green m ove dup to third with a 3-1 home successagainst Berrow.

Fry Club won the battle of thepromoted teams with a 3-1 home vic-tory against Yatton Athletic, whichmoved the Keynsham side up tofifth.

Nailsea Town lost 2-0 at WatchetTown, while Cutters Friday we rebeaten 1-0 at Weston St Johns.

WESTON recorded their fourthstraight Skrill South win in contro-versial circumstances.

With the game level at 1-1 deep intoinjury time, home keeper MitchWalker came off his line to field ahigh cross, but his impetus saw himtopple over Weston’s Naby Diallo andhe crashed to the ground, hurting his

Yate Town 3

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Bath are deniedby late strikefrom Angels

TONBRIDGE Angels scored in theopening and closing minutes of thematch to come away from Bath withan unlikely point.

Summer signings Ross Stearn andDave Pratt looked to have secured adeserved victory for the hosts, butAngels substitute Mark Lovellstunned them in injury-time.

City fell behind after 73 seconds.A corner fell to Nathan Pinney in thesix-yard box, his shot was blocked bykeeper Jason Mellor, but he managedto force home the rebound.

Josh Low almost equalised inbizarre fashion in the sixth minute,with Mellor's long clearance beingflicked on by Pratt and hitting him onthe knee before bouncing off the footof the post, with visiting keeper ClarkMasters stranded.

But Low was much more aware inthe 23rd minute as City drew level.When Chris Allen was fouled in byDavid Ijaha, Low joined the Angels’defensive wall before pulling awayand leaving a space for Stearn to drilla low free-kick into the net.

Four minutes into the second half,Pratt got the goal his energetic dis-play deserved as he ghosted inbetween two defenders to deftly vol-ley Ben Adelsbury's cross home.

City were the better team by now,and almost made it 3-1 in the 70thminute when Pratt found Adam Con-nolly 22 yards out and he createdsome space before firing in a dippingshot which hit the crossbar.

The hosts made their first changessoon after, with Noah Keats andAaron Brown replacing Allen andLow, while Tonbridge sent on Lovellfor Henry Muggeridge.

One of Keats' first touches was toplay in Stearn, but the winger's drivehit the side-netting, with some homefans thinking it had gone in.

That was Stearn's last major in-volvement, as he was replaced bySekani Simpson with seven minutesto go as City decided to protect theirlead.

However, it was not to be as, twominutes into injury-time, Lovell man-aged to get goal-side of the otherwiseimpressive Will Salmon and drove abrilliant shot past the outstretchedM e l l o r.

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Six of the best for Shirehamptonneck, and losing possession. As theDover defence waited for the whistle,Diallo was first to react and tappedthe loose ball into the empty net,leaving the home side to proteststrongly when referee Adrian San-nerude allowed the goal to stand.

Dover opened the scoring on 58minutes, when Weston’s OllieKnowles was cautioned for a foul onMichael Bakare and Ashley Carew’sfree-kick was blocked by the wall,only for Ricky Modeste to score fromthe rebound. Weston’s Ashley King-ton and Kane Ingram combined on

LAST season’s FA Cup surprise pack-ages Yate are at it again after taking afirst qualifying round victory overChippenham at Lodge Road.

The Calor Southern League Divi-sion One South & West hosts edgedout their Premier Division visitors,with Ross Staley scoring twice for theunderdo gs.

Yate went close to taking afifth-minute lead when Jake Cox’sfree-kick took a deflection and Blue-birds goalkeeper Ben John did well totip the ball over the bar.

Ricky Hulbert wasted a couple ofopportunities to put the home side infront, but Rob Cousins’ men did nothave to wait too long to make theb re a k t h ro u g h .

Lewis Haldane’s direct run was

halted, but the loose ball fell for Sta-ley, who drilled a shot past John with36 minutes on the clock.

Chippenham equalised threeminutes before half-time whenformer Yate man Joe McClennan cutin from the right and drove a shotbeyond goalkeeper Martin Horsell.

McClennan almost grabbed a swiftsecond with a lob that Horsell didwell to save, and instead it was thehosts who re-took the lead fiveminutes after the turnaround.

Hulbert crossed perfectly for42-year-old assistant-boss MichaelMeaker to plant a header past John.

Three minutes later, Staley playeda one-two with Haldane following athrow-in and burst into the area todrive a superb finish across John fora two-goal advantage.

Chippenham pulled a goal back on85 minutes, when James Guthrie’scorner went in off a combination ofHorsell and Greg Tindle, but Yateheld on.

the right to set up Tristan Plummerto equalise with a superb shot on theturn from the edge of the penalty areaon 67 minutes.

In a scoreless first half, Walker haddone well to turn Diallo’s strong ef-fort round his post, while at the otherend just before the break, Westonkeeper Luke Purnell did well to denySean Raggett’s glancing header.

From the resultant corner, Doverdefender Richard Orlu headedagainst the visitors’ crossbar and theWeston defence scrambled the ball tos a f e t y.

BRISLINGTON will take their placein today’s second qualifying rounddraw, following their 2-1 victory atfellow Toolstation League outfitWe l l s.

Alex Lambert and Frank Gingellscored within a six-minute spell mid-way through the second half, beforeJason Loxton struck a spectacularreply for the home side.

Bristol Manor Farm will hostCorsham in a replay after the teamsdrew 4-4 – with the visitors scoringthree times in the final 15 minutes tosave themselves.

A James Chevolleau double, bisec-ted by a Dan Lardener free-kick, gaveCorsham a three-goal lead inside theopening 40 minutes.

Will Hailston pulled a goal back forManor Farm three minutes before

half-time, but Ben Moore struck afourth for the home side almost im-m e d i at e ly.

The visitors remained three goalsdown with a quarter of an hour to go,but then George Brimson, Jon Mossand Jordan Metters, in injury-time,salvaged the game.

Hallen’s run in the competitioncame to an end as they were beaten 2-1at home by Hamworthy despite asecond-half equaliser from Ben Ba-ment.

Fellow Toolstation League sideStreet suffered heartbreak at South-ern League Truro, as Liam Eddyscored an 89th-minute winner to givethe hosts a 1-0 victory.

Larkhall, meanwhile, were beaten3-0 at Southern League Premier Di-vision high-fliers Bideford, whosegoals came from Matt Bye, OwenHowe and Connor Clifford.

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Stratford Town 4

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Dover 1

Weston-super-Mare 2

Weston play to the whistle to grab away success

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� Ross Staley wheels away after scoring for Yate

� Ya t e ’s Mike Bryant tries to get the ball under control

McNab booksClevedon’s spotin next roundClevedon 1

Plymouth Parkway 0

CLEVEDON put their winless start tothe league campaign to one side asPlymouth Parkway were dispatchedin the first qualifying round.

The South West Peninsula Leagueside ought to have taken a shock earlylead, but Levi Landricombe firedwide when put clear.

Instead, Town got a foothold in thegame and eventually took the lead

four minutes before the break whenRoss McNab’s cross went straightinto the net.

Clevedon had chances to settle theresult after the turnaround, butDanny Wring, Conor O’Sullivan andMatt Thorne were unable to convert.

However, Parkway could not carveout an equaliser, Landricombe miss-ing the pick of the chances whenfiring wide when one-on-one with thegoalkee per.

Clevedon return to Calor SouthernLeague Division One South & Westaction tomorrow when they playaway to Evesham.

Mangos strikeback to seal winin HampshireWinchester City 1

Mangotsfield United 2

MANGOTSFIELD overcame a sterntest in Hampshire, battling back froma goal down and playing for 28minutes with ten men to hit backthrough a Neil Arndale penalty andDave Stone’s last-minute winner.

Richard Thompson gave new sign-ing Luke Ballinger a starting berth,but the hosts were much the betterside in the first half.

Winchester took a deserved lead on56 minutes, a simple through ballopening up the Mangotsfield defenceand allowing Chris Mason a free run

on goal to place the ball past KevinSawyer and inside a post.

Shaun Lamb was shown a secondyellow card for kicking the ball at anopponent after an unseemly melee,and with the intensity rising Man-gotsfield were awarded a penalty on72 minutes after Dave Stone wastripped.

Neil Arndale stepped up to placethe ball into the bottom-right corner.

With the tie inside the final minute,Lewis Powell’s through ball sent DaveStone away and after doing well tostay on his feet after having his heelsclipped, he continued his run into thearea to slot the ball under goalkeeperRoss Casey and into the bottom-rightcorner to seal a memorablec o m e b a ck .� Michael Meaker scores in Yate’s win over Chippenham

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Gloucestershire County League

FA Cup | First qualifying round

Yate spring anupset to knockout Bluebirds

LONGLEVENS continue to set thepace in the David Wilson HomesGloucestershire County League,after they ran out 2-1 home winnersover Bristol Academy.

Sam Johnson scored for the vis-itors in stoppage time.

Gala Wilton remain hot on theirheels after their 4-1 win over Yat eRe s e r ve s . Gala took a two-goal lead,but Ben Royal halved the deficitshortly before half-time before Galatook control after half-time.

Bristol Telephones turned aone-goal deficit into a 2-1 victory at

Kingswood. Ben Griffiths grabbed an88th-minute equaliser for the visitorsbefore Martin Blacker snatched anunlikely winner in time added on.

Chipping Sodbury slumped to a2-1 home defeat against previouslypointless Berkeley, Karl Reece gettingtheir goal. Thornbury are now theonly team without a point, following a4-2 reverse at Southmead.

Steve Thompson’s early opener forthe strugglers was cancelled-out byGary Booth before Luke Coghlangave the home side a half-time lead.

Pete Fowler levelled on the hour

mark, but Luke Mills scored twice inthe final 20 minutes for Southmead.

Hanham were edged out 3-2 byPat ch way , Matt Davis, John Pugsleyand Phil Vice building up a three-goallead before Darren Burt pulled a goalback and James Shipman scored on90 minutes.

Henbury drew 3-3 at Bishop’sCleeve, Harry Bartlett, Ben Sandleand Joe Love scoring for the visitors.Frampton came from behind to beatvisiting Rockleaz e 3-2.

Ed Freeman had twice given Rock-leaze the lead.

Calor Southern League

PAULTON paid the price for an hor-rific first-half performance againstStratford, who took all three points inDivision One South & West.

Rovers conceded four goals in a15-minute spell midway through theopening period, before replying withthree second-half goals.

Matt West headed Stratford into a

22nd-minute lead, and the same play-er doubled the visitors’ advanta g eseven minutes later.

Richard Gregory crashed in goalnumber three and Stuart Hendriedribbled through to make it four.

Brandon Barnes pulled a goal backfrom the penalty spot after a foul onDan Cleverley six minutes into thesecond half. Paulton’s second goal,scored by Scott Brice, came in the90th minute. Nick McCootie claimedthe third three minutes into stop-page-time for the hosts, who visit Yatetomorrow (7.45pm).

Comeback is too late for PaultonLeaders Longlevens are too strong for AcademySHIREHAMPTON took their goaltally to 36 in seven league and cupmatches with a 6-2 away win againstBurnham United.

Scott Bamford gave Shirehamptona tenth-minute lead in the Premi-er/First Division Cup tie, and TonyBeacham added the second midwaythrough the half.

A Kyle O’Donovan goal, plus twomore from Beacham, completed anemphatic win for Shirehampton.

Saltford lost 3-2 at Odd Down Re-serves and Dundry Athletic wentdown 2-1 at Bishops Lydeard.

In Premier Division games, defend-ing champions Nailsea United we n ttop of the table with a 4-2 away winagainst Ilminster Town.

In-form Stockwood Green m ove dup to third with a 3-1 home successagainst Berrow.

Fry Club won the battle of thepromoted teams with a 3-1 home vic-tory against Yatton Athletic, whichmoved the Keynsham side up tofifth.

Nailsea Town lost 2-0 at WatchetTown, while Cutters Friday we rebeaten 1-0 at Weston St Johns.

WESTON recorded their fourthstraight Skrill South win in contro-versial circumstances.

With the game level at 1-1 deep intoinjury time, home keeper MitchWalker came off his line to field ahigh cross, but his impetus saw himtopple over Weston’s Naby Diallo andhe crashed to the ground, hurting his

Yate Town 3

Chippenham Town 2

Skrill South

Bath are deniedby late strikefrom Angels

TONBRIDGE Angels scored in theopening and closing minutes of thematch to come away from Bath withan unlikely point.

Summer signings Ross Stearn andDave Pratt looked to have secured adeserved victory for the hosts, butAngels substitute Mark Lovellstunned them in injury-time.

City fell behind after 73 seconds.A corner fell to Nathan Pinney in thesix-yard box, his shot was blocked bykeeper Jason Mellor, but he managedto force home the rebound.

Josh Low almost equalised inbizarre fashion in the sixth minute,with Mellor's long clearance beingflicked on by Pratt and hitting him onthe knee before bouncing off the footof the post, with visiting keeper ClarkMasters stranded.

But Low was much more aware inthe 23rd minute as City drew level.When Chris Allen was fouled in byDavid Ijaha, Low joined the Angels’defensive wall before pulling awayand leaving a space for Stearn to drilla low free-kick into the net.

Four minutes into the second half,Pratt got the goal his energetic dis-play deserved as he ghosted inbetween two defenders to deftly vol-ley Ben Adelsbury's cross home.

City were the better team by now,and almost made it 3-1 in the 70thminute when Pratt found Adam Con-nolly 22 yards out and he createdsome space before firing in a dippingshot which hit the crossbar.

The hosts made their first changessoon after, with Noah Keats andAaron Brown replacing Allen andLow, while Tonbridge sent on Lovellfor Henry Muggeridge.

One of Keats' first touches was toplay in Stearn, but the winger's drivehit the side-netting, with some homefans thinking it had gone in.

That was Stearn's last major in-volvement, as he was replaced bySekani Simpson with seven minutesto go as City decided to protect theirlead.

However, it was not to be as, twominutes into injury-time, Lovell man-aged to get goal-side of the otherwiseimpressive Will Salmon and drove abrilliant shot past the outstretchedM e l l o r.

Bath City 2

Tonbridge Angels 2

Skrill South

Six of the best for Shirehamptonneck, and losing possession. As theDover defence waited for the whistle,Diallo was first to react and tappedthe loose ball into the empty net,leaving the home side to proteststrongly when referee Adrian San-nerude allowed the goal to stand.

Dover opened the scoring on 58minutes, when Weston’s OllieKnowles was cautioned for a foul onMichael Bakare and Ashley Carew’sfree-kick was blocked by the wall,only for Ricky Modeste to score fromthe rebound. Weston’s Ashley King-ton and Kane Ingram combined on

LAST season’s FA Cup surprise pack-ages Yate are at it again after taking afirst qualifying round victory overChippenham at Lodge Road.

The Calor Southern League Divi-sion One South & West hosts edgedout their Premier Division visitors,with Ross Staley scoring twice for theunderdo gs.

Yate went close to taking afifth-minute lead when Jake Cox’sfree-kick took a deflection and Blue-birds goalkeeper Ben John did well totip the ball over the bar.

Ricky Hulbert wasted a couple ofopportunities to put the home side infront, but Rob Cousins’ men did nothave to wait too long to make theb re a k t h ro u g h .

Lewis Haldane’s direct run was

halted, but the loose ball fell for Sta-ley, who drilled a shot past John with36 minutes on the clock.

Chippenham equalised threeminutes before half-time whenformer Yate man Joe McClennan cutin from the right and drove a shotbeyond goalkeeper Martin Horsell.

McClennan almost grabbed a swiftsecond with a lob that Horsell didwell to save, and instead it was thehosts who re-took the lead fiveminutes after the turnaround.

Hulbert crossed perfectly for42-year-old assistant-boss MichaelMeaker to plant a header past John.

Three minutes later, Staley playeda one-two with Haldane following athrow-in and burst into the area todrive a superb finish across John fora two-goal advantage.

Chippenham pulled a goal back on85 minutes, when James Guthrie’scorner went in off a combination ofHorsell and Greg Tindle, but Yateheld on.

the right to set up Tristan Plummerto equalise with a superb shot on theturn from the edge of the penalty areaon 67 minutes.

In a scoreless first half, Walker haddone well to turn Diallo’s strong ef-fort round his post, while at the otherend just before the break, Westonkeeper Luke Purnell did well to denySean Raggett’s glancing header.

From the resultant corner, Doverdefender Richard Orlu headedagainst the visitors’ crossbar and theWeston defence scrambled the ball tos a f e t y.

BRISLINGTON will take their placein today’s second qualifying rounddraw, following their 2-1 victory atfellow Toolstation League outfitWe l l s.

Alex Lambert and Frank Gingellscored within a six-minute spell mid-way through the second half, beforeJason Loxton struck a spectacularreply for the home side.

Bristol Manor Farm will hostCorsham in a replay after the teamsdrew 4-4 – with the visitors scoringthree times in the final 15 minutes tosave themselves.

A James Chevolleau double, bisec-ted by a Dan Lardener free-kick, gaveCorsham a three-goal lead inside theopening 40 minutes.

Will Hailston pulled a goal back forManor Farm three minutes before

half-time, but Ben Moore struck afourth for the home side almost im-m e d i at e ly.

The visitors remained three goalsdown with a quarter of an hour to go,but then George Brimson, Jon Mossand Jordan Metters, in injury-time,salvaged the game.

Hallen’s run in the competitioncame to an end as they were beaten 2-1at home by Hamworthy despite asecond-half equaliser from Ben Ba-ment.

Fellow Toolstation League sideStreet suffered heartbreak at South-ern League Truro, as Liam Eddyscored an 89th-minute winner to givethe hosts a 1-0 victory.

Larkhall, meanwhile, were beaten3-0 at Southern League Premier Di-vision high-fliers Bideford, whosegoals came from Matt Bye, OwenHowe and Connor Clifford.

Paulton Rovers 3

Stratford Town 4

Somerset County League

Dover 1

Weston-super-Mare 2

Weston play to the whistle to grab away success


� Ross Staley wheels away after scoring for Yate

� Ya t e ’s Mike Bryant tries to get the ball under control

McNab booksClevedon’s spotin next roundClevedon 1

Plymouth Parkway 0

CLEVEDON put their winless start tothe league campaign to one side asPlymouth Parkway were dispatchedin the first qualifying round.

The South West Peninsula Leagueside ought to have taken a shock earlylead, but Levi Landricombe firedwide when put clear.

Instead, Town got a foothold in thegame and eventually took the lead

four minutes before the break whenRoss McNab’s cross went straightinto the net.

Clevedon had chances to settle theresult after the turnaround, butDanny Wring, Conor O’Sullivan andMatt Thorne were unable to convert.

However, Parkway could not carveout an equaliser, Landricombe miss-ing the pick of the chances whenfiring wide when one-on-one with thegoalkee per.

Clevedon return to Calor SouthernLeague Division One South & Westaction tomorrow when they playaway to Evesham.

Mangos strikeback to seal winin HampshireWinchester City 1

Mangotsfield United 2

MANGOTSFIELD overcame a sterntest in Hampshire, battling back froma goal down and playing for 28minutes with ten men to hit backthrough a Neil Arndale penalty andDave Stone’s last-minute winner.

Richard Thompson gave new sign-ing Luke Ballinger a starting berth,but the hosts were much the betterside in the first half.

Winchester took a deserved lead on56 minutes, a simple through ballopening up the Mangotsfield defenceand allowing Chris Mason a free run

on goal to place the ball past KevinSawyer and inside a post.

Shaun Lamb was shown a secondyellow card for kicking the ball at anopponent after an unseemly melee,and with the intensity rising Man-gotsfield were awarded a penalty on72 minutes after Dave Stone wastripped.

Neil Arndale stepped up to placethe ball into the bottom-right corner.

With the tie inside the final minute,Lewis Powell’s through ball sent DaveStone away and after doing well tostay on his feet after having his heelsclipped, he continued his run into thearea to slot the ball under goalkeeperRoss Casey and into the bottom-rightcorner to seal a memorablec o m e b a ck .� Michael Meaker scores in Yate’s win over Chippenham

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Results

Toolstation League

Sutton up andrunning withOdd Down win

REIGNING champions Bishop Sut-ton got off the mark in the newPremier Division campaign with a 1-0home victory over Odd Down.

Sutton suffered an exodus of play-ers over the summer and havestruggled thus far, but Mitch Ash-mead’s 70th-minute strike earnedthem victory here.

Cadbury Heath missed the chanceto go top of the table as they were heldto a 1-1 draw at home to Ilfracombe.

Matt Huxley headed Heath into thelead seven minutes after half-time,but Gary Skinner grabbed an equal-iser for the Devonians.

Gillingham also passed up thechance to hit the summit as they wereheld to a 2-2 draw by Radstock.

Bitton triumphed 1-0 at Heng rovewith Tom Morgan claiming the onlygoal of the game.

There were 11 goals at Sherborne,where the hosts fell behind on threeoccasions before beating visitingWinterbour ne 7-4.

Ben Dowdell opening the scoringfor the away side, but Raith Plantlevelled on the stroke of half-time andHaydn Binding put the hosts aheadstraight after the break.

A Dowdell double turned the gameback in Winterbourne’s favour, butSteve Burton drew parity for thehome side.

Karim Rendall edged the visitorsback in front for a third time, butPlant made it 4-4 with ten minutes togo and Matt Day immediately putSherborne in front.

The Dorset side made sure of thepoints as Plant completed hishat-trick and added a fourth goal.

Longwell Green crashed to a 4-0reverse at Bridport, with Dan Wise,

Chris Clarke, Chris Luke and TomRichardson scoring second-halfg o a l s.

Elsewhere, Buckland beatSlimbridge 2-0, while Melkshamdropped to the bottom as they wentdown 1-0 at Willand.

Bradford stayed top of the FirstDivision as Keiran Baggs, SamJordan and Nick Ridout all scored inthe opening half-hour of their 3-1home win over Wincanton.

C r i bb s remain second, followingtheir 3-1 victory over Warminster,Dave Gilroy giving the hosts ahalf-time lead.

Jack Kinnerley made it a two-goaladvantage and Dan Fowler halved thedeficit, but Justin Cattle settled mat-ters in the 90th minute.

Barnstaple beat Welton 4-1 to staythird, while Ben Cleverley’s penaltygave Shepton Mallet a 1-0 win atDevizes to move up to fourth place.

Cheddar triumphed 2-1 at Al-mondsbury UWE, Callum McManusand Sam Jones putting the visitorstwo goals up before James Fitzpatrickreplied for the hosts.

Chard beat Portishead 1-0 thanksto Leigh Bailey’s goal, while Key n -sham are off the bottom courtesy of a2-0 victory at Chippenham Park.

Wellington and Roman Glass StGeorge drew 4-4, while Westbury andOldland; and Calne and Ashton &B a ck we l l both finished 0-0.

� Midfielder Sam Taylor scored fivegoals as Tytherington Rocks wo n6-0 at home to New College (Swindon)in Division One West of the HellenicLea gue.

Taylor took two minutes to get hisfirst goal, and Toby Colbourne soonadded a second. Taylor scored hissecond before half-time, and hit threemore in the second period.


Football League Youth Alliance, South WestUnder-18: Bsl Rovers 1 Exeter City 1, Hereford Utd0 Cheltenham Tn 3, Plymouth Arg 3 Torquay Utd 0,Swindon 3 Bournemouth 4.South West Counties Youth: Andover Tn 6 BslAcademy 0, Bath City 4 Salisbury City 3, New CollAcad 0 Forest Green Rov 7, Newport Co 5Dorchester Tn 3, Poole Tn 2 Cirencester Acad 0.

FA Cup, First Round Qualifying: Aylesbury 1Shortwood Utd 5, Bideford 3 Larkhall Ath 0,Bridgwater Tn 2 Merthyr Tn 1, Clevedon Tn 1Plymouth Parkway 0, Corsham Tn 4 Bristol ManorFarm 4, Frome Tn 1 Bognor Regis Tn 1, Hallen 1Hamworthy Utd 2, Truro City 1 Street 0, Wells City 1Brislington 2, Winchester City 1 Mangotsfield Utd 2,Yate Tn 3 Chippenham Tn 2.

Calor Southern League, Div I South & West:Paulton Rov 3 Stratford Tn 4, Swindon Supermarine4 Fleet Tn 1, Taunton Tn 0 Wimborne Tn 0.

Uhlsport Hellenic, Div I West: Carterton 0Shortwood Utd 3, Lydney Tn 3 North Leigh Utd 1,Malmesbury Vic 0 Easington Spts 1, Purton 5Fairford Tn 2, Tuffley Rov 2 Clanfield 1, TytheringtonRocks 6 New College Swindon 0.

Toolstation Western League, Premier Div: BishopSutton 1 Odd Down 0, Bridport 4 Longwell GreenSpts 0, Buckland Ath 2 Slimbridge 0, Cadbury Heath1 Ilfracombe Tn 1, Gillingham Tn 2 Radstock Tn 2,Hengrove Ath 0 Bitton 1, Sherborne Tn 7Winterbourne Utd 4, Willand Rov 1 Melksham Tn 0.Div I: Almondsbury UWE 1 Cheddar 2, BarnstapleTn 4 Welton Rov 1, Bradford Tn 3 Wincanton Tn 1,Calne Tn 0 Ashton & Backwell Utd 0, Chard Tn 1Portishead Tn 0, Chippenham Park 0 Keynsham Tn2, Cribbs 3 Warminster Tn 1, Devizes Tn 0 SheptonMallet 1, Wellington 4 Roman Glass St George 4,Westbury Utd 0 Oldland Abbots 0.David Wilson Homes Gloucestershire County:Bishop’s Cleeve Res 3 Henbury 3, Chipping

Sodbury Tn 1 Berkeley Tn 2, Frampton Utd 3Rockleaze Rgrs 2, Gala Wilton 4 Yate Tn Res 1,Hanham Ath 2 Patchway Tn 3, Kings Stanley 1Ellwood 1, Kingswood 1 Bristol Telephones 2,Longlevens 2 Bristol Academy 1, Southmead CS Ath4 Thornbury Tn 2.Somerset County, Premier/Div I League CupRound I: Bishops Lyd 2 Dundry Ath 1, Odd DownRes 3 Saltford 2, Shirehampton 6 Burnham Utd 2.Premier Div: Fry Club 3 Yatton Ath 1, Ilminster Tn 2Nailsea Utd 4, Langford Rov 2000 2 Clutton 4,Stockwood Green 3 Berrow 1, Watchet Tn 2 NailseaTn 0, Weston St Johns 1 Cutters Friday 0.Div I: Broad Plain House 3 Larkhall Ath Res 2,Castle Cary 0 Congresbury 3, Clevedon Utd 1 StGeorge(EIG) 1, Keynsham Tn Res 2 Purnell Spts 3,Middlezoy Rov 2 Brislington Res 3, Westfield 2Frome Coll 1, Wrington Redhill 4 Banwell 4.Div II League Cup, Round I: Peasedown Ath 2Burnham Utd Res 1.Div II East: Ashton & Backwell Utd Res 3 Imperial 3,Chew Magna 3 Radstock Tn Res 1, ChilcomptonSpts 3 Stockwood Green Res 1, Cutters Friday Res0 Long Ashton 5, Timsbury Ath 1 Farrington Gurney0, Tunley Ath 1 Bishop Sutton Res 0, Welton RovRes 2 Fry Club Res 2.Div II West: Cheddar Res 1 Glastonbury 3, ChurchillClub 70 3 Portishead Tn Res 2, Cleeve West Tn 3Worle 1, Kewstoke Lions 1 Wells City Res 2, NorthCurry 6 Nailsea Utd Res 2, Staplegrove 5 Weston StJohns Res 1, Uphill Castle 5 Combe St Nicholas 1,Winscombe 1 Nailsea Tn Res 0.Bristol Premier, Premier Div: AEK Boco 2Winterbourne Utd Res 1, Hallen Res 0 Highridge Utd3, Bitton Res 0 Old Sodbury 4, Lebeq 4 NicholasWdrs 1, Longwell Green Res 0 Mendip Utd 1,Totterdown Utd 2 DRG Frenchay 1, Wick 2Shaftesbury 0.Div I: Frampton Ath 2 Eden Grove 0, BrimshamGreen 0 Made For Ever 1, Patchway Tn Res 2Bristol Manor Farm Res 5, Oldland Abbots Res 1Brislington Cricketers 1, Olveston Utd 2 Roman

Glass St George Res 1, Sea Mills Park 4 GreyfriarsAth 1.District, Senior Div: Henbury Res 3 BristolBarcelona 2, Iron Acton 3 Hallen A 4, LongwellGreen Spts A 1 Shire Res 3, Nicholas Wdrs Res 0AEK Boco Res 1, Portville Warriors 9 Wick Res 0,Pucklechurch Spts 5 Crosscourt Utd 2.Div I: Hambrook 4 Chipping Sodbury Tn Res 0,Mendip Utd Res 0 Totterdown Utd Res 1, Miners 0Bradley Stoke Tn 8, Rangeworthy 2 Seymour UtdRes 2, Stanton Drew 3 Lebeq Res 5, Talbot KnowleUtd 3 St Pancras 4, Winterbourne Utd A v SoundwellVic pp.Div II: DRG Frenchay Res 3 Cribbs Friends Life A10, Greyfriars Ath Res 3 Chipping Sodbury Tn A 0,Hartcliffe 1 Bendix 3, Nicholas Wdrs A 1 AEK BocoA 1, Real Thornbury 9 Iron Acton Res 2.Div III: Bsl Barcelona Res 8 Hambrook Res 3,Henbury A 3 Olveston Utd Res 1, Hillfields OB 4South Bristol Central 4, Horfield Utd v Hallen B pp,Made For Ever Res 1 Yate Ath 7, Roman Glass StGeorge A 0 Patchway NE 1, Stapleton 3Pucklechurch Spts Res 1.Div IV: Bendix Res 1 Wick A 2, Bradley Stoke TnRes 3 Frys Club B 2, Highridge Utd Res 5 LawrenceRov Res 2, Sea Mills Park Res 1 Old Sodbury Res6, Soundwell Vic Res 3 Shaftesbury Crusade Res 2,Talbot Knowle Utd Res 1 Fishponds Ath 6,Westerleigh Spts 3 Greyfriars Ath A 0.Div V: Iron Acton A 1 Crosscourt Utd Res 3, OldlandAbbotonians A 5 Rangeworthy Res 4, Staple HillOrient 3 Stanton Drew Res 0, Brislington CricketersRes 1 Shireway Spts 3, Cesson 7 Highridge Utd A 1,Patchway NE Res 0 Mendip Utd A 6.Div VI: Greyfriars Ath B 1 Stapleton Res 4, BradleyStoke A 4 Seymour Utd 1, Bristol Deaf 1 SaltfordRes 6, Stoke Lane Ath 7 Cutters Friday 1.Suburban, Premier Div I: Ashton Utd 7 St Aldhelms0, Easton Cowboys 0 Lawrence Weston 0, LittleStoke 3 Severn Beach 1, Mangotsfield Spts 0Tytherington Rocks Res 1, Old Georgians 1

Fishponds OB 3, Ridings High 3 Stoke Gifford Utd 1.Premier Div II: Almondsbury UWE Res 4Totterdown POB 0, Downend Foresters 5 CadburyHeath Res 1, Glenside 5 OB 3 Lebeq Utd 9,Rockleaze Rgrs Res 1 Brislington A 2, SouthmeadCS Utd v Bristol Ath pp, Wessex Wdrs 2 CABOlympic SC 2.Div I: AFC Hartcliffe 3 Kellaway Rgrs 2, AshtonBackwell Colts 0 Stoke Rgrs 2, Avonmouth Res 0Cleeve Colts 3, St Aldhelms Res 1 Filton Ath 4,Tyndalls Park Rgrs 0 Oldbury 3.Div II: Bsl Telephones Res 4 St Annes Tn 6,Hanham Ath Sub v Lawrence Weston Res pp,Hydez 6 Keynsham Tn A 1, Old Cothamians 10Ridings High Res 0, Wanderers v AlmondsburyUWE A pp.Div III: AEK Boco Colts 1 Sartan Utd 14, BristolBilbao 4 Old Cothamians Res 1, Coupland Insulation1 Long Ashton Res 4, Fishponds OB Res vCorinthian Spts pp, Severn Beach Res 2 DownendForesters Res 6.Div IV: Brandon Sports 3 Glenside 5 OB Res 3,Cadbury Heath A 6 Filton Ath Res 0, North BristolCatalans 4 Severnside 2, Rockleaze Rgrs B 1Oldbury FC Res 0, Stoke Gifford Utd A 1 OldGeorgians Res 1, Winford PH 4 Park Knowle 2.Div V: Kellaway Rgrs Res 0 Whitchurch Spts 4,Lawrence Weston A 1 North Bristol Utd 5, LockleazeCommunity 3 Wessex Wdrs Res 0, Real St George4 Imperial Res 3.Div VI: Brandon Spts Res 2 Winford PH Res 2,Bristol Spartak 4 Wanderers Res 1, Fry’s OB Res 10Real Fishponds 2, Long Ashton A 3 AFCMangotsfield 3, Sartan Utd Res 9 Cosmos 0.Bristol & Avon, Premier Div: Bristol Revolution 1LS Utd 5, Bristol Sports 10 Whitchurch Phoenix 2,Broad Plain A 6 Wessex Wdrs A 0, De Veys Res 5Dodington 0, Iron Acton B 8 Westerleigh Spts Res 4,Sea Mills Park A 0 AFC Hartcliffe Res 4.Downs, Div I: AFC Bohemia 1 Ashley 3, PortlandOB 3 Jersey Rgrs 1, Retainers 1 Jamaica Bell 7,

Saints OB 0 DAC Beachcroft 0, Sneyd Park 5Cotswool 1, Sporting Greyhound 0 Lawes Jrs 3,Torpedo 1 Clifton St Vinc 4.Div II: Ashley Res 0 Clifton Rockets 0, Saints OBRes 3 Lion 1, Sneyd Park Res 0 Hare On The Hill 3,Sporting Greyhound Res 0 Easton Cowboys 2, StAndrews 0 Corinthians 2, Tebby 5 Old Cliftonians 3,Torpedo Res 0 Clifton St Vinc Res 2.Div III: Bengal Tigers 1 Clifton St Vinc 3, OldElizabethans 6 Helios 0, Portland OB Res 0 GreenPark Rgrs 6, Retainers Res 1 Evergreen 3, SneydPark A 3 Easton Cowboys Res 8, Torpedo A 2Luccombe Garage 1, Wellington Wdrs 2 Cotham OB3.Div IV: Clifton Rockets Res 1 Clifton St Vinc 3,Retainers A 4 Lion FC 2, Sneyd Park B 3 JerseyRgrs Res 6, Tebby AFC Res 3 DDAS 4, Torpedo B1 Cosmos UK 2, Warmley Utd 1 NCSF Utd 1, WestTown Utd 2 Conham Rgrs 1.

Weston-s-Mare & District, Atwell Shield PrelimRd: Yatton Ath Res 5 Churchill Club 70 Res 3.Div I: Berrow Res 0 Tickenham Utd 6, Hutton 8Winscombe Res 0, Nailsea Utd A 2 Cleeve West TnRes 0, Portishead Tn A 0 Clevedon Utd Res 4.Div II: Burnham Utd A 4 Nailsea Utd B 3,Congresbury Res 3 Clevedon Dons 2, St George(EIG) Res 4 Clevedon Utd A 4, Weston SuperSeagulls 5 Langford Rov Res 2.Div III: Axbridge Tn 0 AFC Nailsea 2, Banwell Res 2Shipham 3, Portishead Tn B 4 Uphill Castle Res 5,Wedmore 2 Westend 2, Worle Rgrs 3 Winscombe A1.Div IV: Cheddar A 3 Pill Utd 1, King Alfred SC 5Hutton Res 1, KVFC 3 Kewstoke Lions Res 0, StGeorge (EIG) 0 Wrington Redhill Res 6.Div V: Congresbury A 1 Clapton-in-Gordano 1,Portishead CT 2 Shipham Res 1, South Park Rgrs 1Dolphin Ath 5, Worle Res 9 Priory Rgrs 2.Div VI: Burnham Utd B 0 Worle Rgrs Res 0,Clevedon Utd B 0 Berrow A 6.

treble check:Complete check for Littlewoods, Vernons and

Zetters: 8 = Score Draws, 5= No Score Draw or Void 36= Home or Away

Aston Villa ............... (0) 1 Newcastle ................(1) 2Benteke 67 Ben Arfa 18Att 37,554 Gouffran 73everton .................... (1) 1 chelsea ...................(0) 0Naismith 45 Att 36,034Fulham ..................... (1) 1 West brom ..............(0) 1Sidwell 22 McAuley 90Att 25,560hull ........................... (1) 1 cardiff ......................(0) 1Davies 40 Whittingham 59Att 21,949Man Utd ................... (1) 2 crystal Palace .........(0) 0van Persie 45 (pen) Att 75,170Rooney 81Spurs ....................... (1) 2 Norwich ...................(0) 0Sigurdsson 28, 49 Att 35,952Stoke ........................ (0) 0 Man city ..................(0) 0Att 25,052Sunderland .............. (0) 1 Arsenal ....................(1) 3Gardner 48 (pen) Giroud 11Att 39,055 Ramsey 67, 76

Yesterday Southamptn ............. (0) 0 West ham ................(0) 0Att 28,794 hOMe AWAY P W D L F A W D L F A PtsArsenal ..............4 1 0 1 2 3 2 0 0 6 2 9Spurs .................4 2 0 0 3 0 1 0 1 1 1 9Liverpool ............3 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 9Man City ............4 2 0 0 6 0 0 1 1 2 3 7Man Utd .............4 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 4 2 7Chelsea .............4 2 0 0 4 1 0 1 1 0 1 7Stoke .................4 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 1 1 1 7Newcastle ..........4 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 5 7Everton ..............4 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 2 6West Ham ..........4 1 0 1 2 1 0 2 0 0 0 5Southamptn .......4 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 5Cardiff ................4 1 1 0 3 2 0 1 1 1 3 5Fulham...............4 0 1 1 2 4 1 0 1 1 1 4Norwich..............4 1 1 0 3 2 0 0 2 0 3 4Hull ....................4 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 4 4Aston Villa..........4 0 0 2 1 3 1 0 1 4 3 3Crystal Pal .........4 1 0 1 3 2 0 0 2 1 4 3Swansea ............3 0 0 1 1 4 1 0 1 2 1 3West Brom .........4 0 0 2 0 3 0 2 0 1 1 2Sunderland ........4 0 0 2 1 4 0 1 1 2 4 1

hOMe AWAY P W D L F A W D L F A PtsBlackpool ...........6 3 0 0 3 0 2 1 0 6 3 16QPR ...................6 3 0 0 4 1 2 1 0 3 1 16Nottm For ..........6 3 0 0 7 2 1 1 1 3 3 13Leicester ............6 2 1 0 5 2 2 0 1 4 3 13Burnley ..............6 1 2 0 4 2 2 0 1 5 3 11Leeds .................6 1 1 1 3 3 2 1 0 3 1 11Derby .................6 0 1 2 1 5 3 0 0 10 2 10Watford ..............6 1 2 0 8 3 1 1 1 4 4 9Reading .............6 1 2 0 5 4 1 1 1 2 2 9Bournemth .........6 2 0 1 4 3 1 0 2 3 11 9Blackburn...........6 2 0 1 9 4 0 2 1 2 4 8Huddersfld ........6 1 2 0 6 2 1 0 2 2 3 8Wigan ................6 1 2 0 6 5 1 0 2 4 3 8Brighton .............6 1 1 1 4 3 1 1 1 2 2 8Ipswich...............6 2 0 1 7 3 0 1 2 2 4 7Middlesbro’ ........6 0 2 1 3 4 1 1 1 4 5 6Charlton .............5 1 0 1 2 2 0 2 1 4 5 5Doncaster ..........5 1 0 2 3 4 0 2 0 2 2 5Sheff Wed ..........6 0 2 1 4 5 0 2 1 3 4 4Birmingham .......6 0 1 2 1 3 1 0 2 3 4 4Yeovil .................6 0 0 3 0 5 1 1 1 2 3 4Barnsley.............6 1 1 1 4 7 0 0 3 4 9 4Bolton ................6 0 1 2 1 3 0 1 2 2 8 2Millwall ...............6 0 0 3 1 7 0 2 1 3 6 2

hOMe AWAY P W D L F A W D L F A PtsL Orient ..............6 3 0 0 8 2 3 0 0 8 2 18Peterboro ..........7 2 0 1 3 3 3 1 0 14 4 16Wolves ...............6 3 0 0 9 3 2 1 0 5 2 16Rotherham .........7 2 2 0 8 5 2 1 0 6 4 15Preston ..............7 2 2 0 7 3 1 2 0 7 4 13MK Dons ............7 2 2 0 7 4 1 2 0 3 2 13Bradford .............7 3 1 0 12 2 0 2 1 4 5 12Brentford ............7 2 1 0 4 1 1 2 1 6 9 12Crawley Town ....7 2 1 1 8 7 1 1 1 6 5 11Walsall ...............6 1 1 1 4 5 2 0 1 4 1 10Colchester .........7 1 1 1 3 3 1 2 1 4 5 9Swindon .............7 2 1 0 8 2 0 1 3 3 7 8Shrewsbury........6 1 2 0 3 1 0 2 1 3 6 7Port Vale ............7 1 1 1 4 5 1 0 3 4 7 7Oldham ..............7 1 0 2 3 3 1 0 3 8 10 6Stevenage .........7 0 1 2 4 6 1 1 2 1 4 5Tranmere ...........7 0 2 2 6 12 1 0 2 3 5 5Crewe ................7 1 2 1 7 9 0 0 3 0 8 5Carlisle...............7 1 0 3 2 10 0 2 1 1 5 5Coventry ............7 3 1 0 13 9 1 1 1 7 4 4Sheff Utd............7 1 1 1 3 3 0 0 4 2 9 4Bristol City .........6 0 1 2 3 7 0 2 1 7 8 3Gillingham..........7 0 2 1 2 3 0 1 3 5 11 3Notts Co ............6 0 0 3 2 6 0 1 2 3 6 1

bradford .................. (1) 2 colchester ...............(2) 2Wells 15, 53 Monakana 28Att 13,570 Ibehre 32bristol city .............. (0) 0 Peterboro ................(1) 3Att 11,134 Barnett 24 Assombalonga 51, 88carlisle..................... (0) 1 Sheff Utd .................(0) 0Robson 54 Att 4,863crawley town.......... (0) 1 Shrewsbury .............(0) 1Drury 64, Att 3,202 Wildig 47crewe ....................... (0) 0 Walsall .....................(0) 3Att 4,260 Westcarr 66, 69 (pen) Baxendale 84leyton Orient .......... (2) 3 Port Vale ..................(1) 2Mooney 24, 45, Lisbie 88 Dodds 21Att 4,888 Myrie-Williams 54Mk Dons .................. (2) 3 Notts county ...........(0) 1Chadwick 5, Williams 37 McGregor 76Bamford 90 Att 7,142Preston .................... (1) 3 Stevenage ...............(0) 0Huntington 45 Att 8,855Laird 59, Davies 84

rotherham ............... (1) 3 Oldham ....................(1) 2Nardiello 21 (pen), 63, 90 Montano 44Att 8,306 Lanzoni 53tranmere ................. (1) 3 brentford .................(2) 4Atkinson 44 Taylor 3Dugdale 55, Stockton 90 Donaldson 14, 71Att 4,454 Forshaw 90 (pen)Wolves ..................... (2) 3 Swindon ..................(0) 2Golbourne 3 N’Guessan 82, Mason 90Doyle 43, Foley 90 Att 19,388

Yesterday coventry .................. (1) 2 Gillingham ...............(1) 1L Clarke 2 McDonald 10Moussa 83 Att 2,046

burton Albion .......... (0) 1 Portsmouth .............(1) 2Diamond 90 Holmes 34Att 3,577 Ferry 52cheltenham ............. (1) 2 Oxford Utd ..............(1) 2Harrison 8 Kitson 34Gornell 51 Mullins 57Att 3,906chesterfield ............. (1) 2 AFc Wimbledon .....(0) 0Roberts 30 Hird 54Att 6,353Dag & red ............... (1) 2 bristol rovers .........(0) 0Ogogo 10 Att 1,423Howell 72Fleetwood town...... (0) 2 bury .........................(1) 1Sarcevic 52 Soares 28Evans 64Att 3,520 hartlepool ................ (2) 2 Accrington Stanley (0) 1Franks 30 Gray 57Monkhouse 42 Att 3,388Newport county ...... (2) 2 Morecambe .............(1) 3Jones 3 Naylor 12 (og), 57 (og)Willmott 24 Amond 71 (pen)Att 3,165Northampton ........... (1) 1 exeter ......................(1) 2Blyth 7 Bennett 35Att 4,036 O’Flynn 90Plymouth ................. (0) 0 Wycombe ................(0) 3Att 6,702 Wood 70 Morgan 74 Knott 90rochdale ................. (0) 1 torquay ...................(0) 0Henderson 77Att 2,138York .......................... (1) 1 Mansfield .................(1) 2Brobbel 3 Clucas 21 (pen)Att 3,513 Palmer 76 hOMe AWAY P W D L F A W D L F A PtsChesterfield .......7 4 0 0 7 1 2 1 0 6 2 19Oxford Utd .........7 1 2 0 5 4 3 1 0 11 4 15Fleetwood Town 7 3 0 1 11 6 2 0 1 3 2 15Exeter ................7 3 0 0 6 2 1 2 1 3 4 14Wycombe ...........7 2 0 1 3 2 2 1 1 7 4 13Morecambe........7 2 1 0 5 2 2 0 2 6 7 13AFC Wimbledon 7 3 0 0 6 2 1 1 2 3 5 13Mansfield ...........7 1 2 0 5 2 2 1 1 4 4 12Rochdale ...........7 3 1 0 7 2 0 1 2 1 3 11Burton Albion .....7 1 1 2 4 6 2 1 0 6 4 11Scunthorpe ........7 1 2 0 4 2 1 2 1 4 4 10Newport County .7 2 1 1 8 5 0 2 1 3 5 9Portsmouth ........7 1 0 2 4 6 1 3 0 8 7 9Dag & Red .........7 2 2 0 6 2 0 1 2 2 7 9Southend ...........7 2 0 2 4 4 1 0 2 3 4 9Plymouth............7 2 0 2 2 5 1 0 2 4 4 9Bury ...................7 2 0 1 7 3 0 1 3 4 7 7Bristol Rvrs ........7 2 1 0 4 2 0 0 4 1 6 7Torquay ..............7 0 2 1 2 4 1 1 2 4 7 6Cheltenham .......7 0 3 1 7 9 1 0 2 2 6 6Hartlepool ..........7 1 0 3 3 5 0 2 1 0 3 5Northamptn ........7 1 1 2 6 6 0 0 3 0 4 4York ...................7 1 1 2 2 4 0 0 3 3 7 4Accrington..........7 0 1 2 2 4 0 0 4 2 10

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basingstoke ........................2 ebbsfleet United ............... 2bath city ..............................2 tonbridge Angels ............. 2boreham Wood ...................2 Gosport borough ............. 0bromley ...............................3 Staines town .................... 0chelmsford ..........................0 Whitehawk ........................ 2Dorchester...........................1 bishop’s Stortford ........... 3Dover ...................................1 Weston-S-Mare ................. 2eastbourne borough ..........0 concord rangers ............. 0havant and W ......................1 hayes & Yeading .............. 2Maidenhead Utd ..................1 eastleigh ........................... 3Sutton Utd ...........................3 Farnboro ........................... 3

hOMe AWAY P W D l F A W D l F A PtEastleigh ................7 2 1 0 3 1 3 0 1 7 3 16Bromley .................7 4 0 0 14 2 1 0 2 3 3 15Weston-S-Mare .....7 2 0 1 4 1 3 0 1 7 4 15Bishop’s Stortford ..7 2 0 1 4 3 2 2 0 9 6 14Basingstoke ...........7 3 1 0 8 4 1 0 2 2 3 13Hayes & Yeading ...7 1 0 2 4 3 3 0 1 7 4 12Maidenhead Utd ....6 1 1 1 5 6 2 1 0 6 1 11Eastbourne Borough 6 1 2 0 3 2 2 0 1 3 2 11Sutton Utd .............7 2 1 1 10 6 0 2 1 1 2 9Bath City ................6 1 2 1 6 5 1 1 0 3 2 9Concord Rangers ..7 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 4 5 9Dover .....................7 1 0 3 3 5 2 0 1 2 1 9Whitehawk .............7 1 0 2 1 4 2 0 2 8 8 9Staines Town .........7 3 0 0 6 2 0 0 4 4 12 9Ebbsfleet United ....7 0 3 0 2 2 1 2 1 7 6 8Havant and W........7 2 0 2 6 5 0 2 1 1 2 8Tonbridge Angels ...7 1 1 1 3 4 1 1 2 6 10 8Boreham Wood......7 1 1 2 5 8 1 0 2 3 6 7Farnboro ................3 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 5 4Chelmsford ............6 1 1 2 6 8 0 0 2 1 6 4Gosport Borough ...7 0 1 2 1 4 0 1 3 3 7 2Dorchester .............7 0 0 4 4 15 0 1 2 1 3 1

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Paulton ................................3 Stratford town .................. 4Swindon Supermarine .......4 Fleet town......................... 1taunton ................................0 Wimborne town ............... 0

hOMe AWAY P W D l F A W D l F A PtSwindon Super ......7 4 0 0 12 4 1 1 1 5 6 16Paulton ..................6 2 1 1 11 6 2 0 0 11 3 13Bridgwater Town ....5 1 1 0 6 2 3 0 0 8 2 13Merthyr Town .........6 2 1 0 9 4 2 0 1 7 4 13North Leigh ............6 3 0 0 12 2 1 0 2 4 4 12Tiverton ..................6 2 0 1 5 3 1 1 1 7 8 10Stratford Town .......7 1 0 2 3 8 2 1 1 11 8 10Wimborne Town .....7 2 1 0 10 3 0 2 2 2 4 9Cirencester ............5 2 0 1 5 6 1 0 1 4 4 9Godalming Town ....6 2 0 1 3 5 1 0 2 4 8 9Cinderford ..............5 1 0 1 5 3 1 2 0 6 3 8Shortwood Utd .......6 1 1 1 8 8 1 1 1 6 3 8Yate .......................6 2 0 1 6 5 0 2 1 5 7 8Thatcham Town .....6 1 1 1 2 5 1 1 1 4 4 8Taunton ..................6 1 3 0 6 3 0 1 1 5 6 7Bishops Cleeve .....5 2 0 1 7 4 0 0 2 2 7 6Fleet Town .............7 1 1 1 3 4 0 2 2 2 10 6Mangotsfield ..........5 1 1 0 6 4 0 1 2 2 6 5Didcot Town ...........6 1 1 1 5 4 0 0 3 2 8 4Clevedon Town ......6 0 1 2 2 5 0 1 2 1 5 2Evesham................5 0 2 0 5 5 0 0 3 2 11 2Guildford City .........6 0 1 2 4 10 0 0 3 3 14 1

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bolton ...................... (0) 0 leeds .......................(1) 1Att 19,622 Varney 7bournemouth .......... (1) 1 blackpool ................(1) 2Grabban 12 Fuller 7Att 9,446 Bishop 48burnley .................... (0) 1 blackburn ................(0) 1Stanislas 76 Rhodes 85Att 15,699huddersfld ............... (0) 0 Doncaster ................(0) 0Att 13,102ipswich .................... (1) 3 Middlesbrough .......(1) 1McGoldrick 34, 90 Adomah 12Chambers 57 Att 15,276leicester .................. (1) 2 Wigan.......................(0) 0Moore 15 Att 21,810Nugent 81 (pen)Millwall ..................... (0) 1 Derby .......................(2) 5Waghorn 75 Buxton 9Att 9,523 Bryson 45, 57, 81 Bennett 87Nottm For ................ (2) 3 barnsley ..................(1) 2Cox 18 O’Grady 20 (pen)Etuhu 45 (og) Cywka 69Henderson 84 Att 21,181QPr .......................... (0) 1 birmingham ............(0) 0Austin 49Att 16,953Sheff Wed ................ (1) 1 Yeovil .......................(0) 1Nuhiu 25 Ralls 64Att 22,328Watford .................... (0) 1 charlton ..................(0) 1Pudil 71 Kermorgant 47 (pen)Att 16,431

Yesterday reading ................... (0) 0 brighton ..................(0) 0Att 18,306

barnet ..................................1 lincoln city ...................... 1cambridge Utd ....................1 Gateshead ......................... 0Dartford ...............................1 Nuneaton ........................... 2Forest Green .......................2 Fc halifax ......................... 1Grimsby ...............................1 braintree town ................. 0kidderminster .....................2 hyde .................................. 1Macclesfield ........................0 Alfreton town ................... 1Salisbury .............................3 chester Fc ........................ 1Southport ............................2 Welling .............................. 2

hOMe AWAY P W D l F A W D l F A PtCambridge .............8 4 0 0 10 1 2 2 0 4 2 20Nuneaton ...............8 3 1 0 8 3 3 1 0 6 3 20Forest Green .........8 3 1 0 13 2 1 2 1 5 5 15Barnet ....................8 2 2 0 8 4 2 1 1 6 3 15Alfreton Town .........8 4 0 0 11 5 1 0 3 3 7 15Kiddermnstr ...........8 3 0 1 8 5 2 0 2 5 6 15Grimsby .................8 2 1 1 6 4 2 1 1 3 2 14Lincoln City ............8 3 0 1 5 2 1 2 1 3 3 14Salisbury ................8 3 0 1 7 3 1 1 2 3 5 13FC Halifax ..............8 4 0 0 8 3 0 1 3 5 12 13Southport ...............8 3 1 0 6 3 1 0 3 4 9 13Hereford.................8 2 1 1 4 4 1 1 2 6 6 11Braintree Town.......8 1 1 2 3 5 2 1 1 4 2 11Luton......................8 1 3 0 3 1 1 1 2 2 3 10Welling ...................8 1 2 1 4 4 1 1 2 8 8 9Tamworth ...............8 1 2 1 6 5 1 1 2 3 6 9Wrexham ...............8 2 1 1 6 5 0 1 3 4 9 8Gateshead .............8 1 1 2 6 7 1 0 3 4 7 7Dartford..................8 1 0 3 3 6 1 1 2 2 5 7Woking ...................8 0 2 2 5 8 1 0 3 4 7 5Chester FC ............8 0 1 3 1 6 1 0 3 4 9 4Aldershot ...............8 3 0 1 6 2 1 1 2 3 3 3Macclesfld..............8 0 1 3 2 5 0 2 2 3 5 3Hyde ......................8 0 1 3 3 6 0 1 3 5 15 2*Aldershot deducted 10 points for entering administration

Hallen 1 Hamworthy Utd 2, Sholing 4 AFC Totton 0, Frome Town 1 Bognor Regis Town 1, Corsham Town 4 Bristol Manor Farm 4, Yate 3 Chippenham 2, Winchester City 1 Mangotsfld 2, Horndean 0 AFC Portchester 5, Bashley 2 Moneyfields 0, Truro City 1 Street 0, Bridg-water Town 2 Merthyr Town 1, Bideford 3 Larkhall Athletic 0, Wells City 1 Brislington 2, Clevedon T 1 Plymouth Parkway 0, Worksop Parramore 1 Cammell L 3, Hendon 7 Biggleswade Utd 1, Wingate & Finchley 0 Biggleswade Town 0, Cray Wanderers 0 Faversham Town 3, Grays Athletic 2 Romford 1, Worksop Parramore 1 Cammell L 3, Hendon 7 Biggleswade Utd 1, Wingate & Finchley 0 Biggleswade Town 0, Cray Wanderers 0 Faversham Town 3, Grays Athletic 2 Romford 1.

Guisborough Town 2 Bishop A 2, Jarrow Roofing 1 Morpeth Town 0, Marske Utd 3 Albion Sports 0, Penrith 3 Padiham 1, Spennymoor Town 0 Lancaster City 1, Brighouse Town 4 Crook Town 1, Blyth Spartans 1 AFC Fylde 3, Whitby 1 West Auckland 1, Team Northum-bria 0 Scarborough Athletic 4, Stocksbridge PS 2 Ramsbottom 2, Marine 2 Curzon Ashton 4, Warrington Tn 0 New Mills 0, Runcorn Linnets 2 Glossop North End 1, Prescot Cables 0 Buxton 1, FC United 0 Chorley 1, Ashton U 2 Witton Albion 1, Ossett Town 2 Bam-ber B 2, Frickley 4 Sheffield 1, Droylsden 1 Trafford 5, Worksop 1 Bootle 1, Burscough 2 Radcliffe Boro 1, Northwich 0 Skelmersdale 3, Tipton Town 2 Kidsgrove Ath 0, Atherstone Town 3 Redditch 3, AFC Wulfrunians 1 Walsall Wood 1, Evesham 0 Stourbrdge 3, Hinckley Utd 0 Rushall O 3, N’castle T 2 Sutton Coldfield 2, Chasetown 0 Stafford 0, Halesowen 2 Brocton 1, Coventry Sphinx 2 Tividale 1, Nantwich T 1 Rugby Town 2, Coalville Town 3 Long Eaton Utd 2, Stamford 0 Grantham 0, Corby 3 Barwell 0, Mickleover Sp 2 Lough-borough University 0, Carlton Town 1 Brigg Town 1, Dunkirk 0 Blaby & Whetstone 0, Gresley 3 Eastwood Town 2, Ilkeston 1 Belper T 2, Basford Utd 0 Matlock Town 2, St Neots Town 3 Wroxham 1, Sleaford Town A Huntingdon Town A, Kings Lynn Tn 1 Cambridge 5, St Ives Town 4 Dereham Town 1, Spalding 1 Gorleston 0, Billericay 2 Leiston 0, Witham Town 1 Mildenhall Town 1, Harlow 2 Lowestoft Town 1, AFC Hornchurch 1 East Thurrock 1, Brentwood Town 3 FC Clacton 3, Needham Market 3 Brantham Athletic 2, Bury Town 0 Thurrock 2, Aveley 2 Canvey I 5, Tilbury 2 Waltham Abbey 1, Maldon & Tiptree 0 Heybridge 2, Burnham Ramblers 1 AFC Sudbury 2, Chesham 1 Royston Town 2, Cockfosters 2 AFC Rushden & Diamonds 2, Dav-entry Town 6 Berkhamsted 1, Greenhouse London 2 Bedford T 6, Hitchin 1 Arlesey 1, Uxbridge 2 Barton 3, Harrow 2 North Greenford Utd 2, Wembley 0 Haringey Borough 2, St Albans 6 Enfield Town 1, Wealdstone 6 Kings Langley 1, Hertford 2 Dunstable 1, St Margarets-bury 0 H Hempstead 7, Westfield 1 Aylesbury Utd 1, Beaconsfield 2 Burnham 4, Chertsey T 4 Highmoor Ibis 0, Didcot Town 2 North Leigh 1, Hampton & Richmond 4 Ashford Town (Middx) 2, Aylesbury 1 Shortwood Utd 5, Hungerford Town 4 Cove 0, Chalfont St Peter 0 Met Police 0, Ardley Utd 2 Binfield 2, Hartley Wintney 0 Camberley Town 0, Banbury 1 Cirencester 2, Leatherh’d 2 Carshalton Ath 1, Burgess Hill Town 8 Alton Town 1, South Park 1 Horsham 1, Merstham 1 Corinthian Casuals 0, Peacehaven & Telscombe 2 Lewes 3, Three Bridges 0 Maidstone Utd 1, Thamesmead 2 Redhill 0, Hastings Utd 2 Guernsey 3, Margate 2 Kingstonian 1, Folkestone Invicta 2 Eastbourne Utd 0, Sittingbourne 3 Littlehampton Town 2, Dulwich 6 Shoreham 0, Hassocks 1 Chipstead 2, Eastbourne Town 3 Tunbridge Wells 2, Whyteleafe 3 Horley Town 0, Chatham Town 2 East Preston 1, Poole Town 2 Brockenhurst 0, Fareham Town 0 Weymouth 1,

� Goalmouth action from the Toolstation League Premier Division clash between Hengrove Athletic and Bitton

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Results

Toolstation League

Sutton up andrunning withOdd Down win

REIGNING champions Bishop Sut-ton got off the mark in the newPremier Division campaign with a 1-0home victory over Odd Down.

Sutton suffered an exodus of play-ers over the summer and havestruggled thus far, but Mitch Ash-mead’s 70th-minute strike earnedthem victory here.

Cadbury Heath missed the chanceto go top of the table as they were heldto a 1-1 draw at home to Ilfracombe.

Matt Huxley headed Heath into thelead seven minutes after half-time,but Gary Skinner grabbed an equal-iser for the Devonians.

Gillingham also passed up thechance to hit the summit as they wereheld to a 2-2 draw by Radstock.

Bitton triumphed 1-0 at Heng rovewith Tom Morgan claiming the onlygoal of the game.

There were 11 goals at Sherborne,where the hosts fell behind on threeoccasions before beating visitingWinterbour ne 7-4.

Ben Dowdell opening the scoringfor the away side, but Raith Plantlevelled on the stroke of half-time andHaydn Binding put the hosts aheadstraight after the break.

A Dowdell double turned the gameback in Winterbourne’s favour, butSteve Burton drew parity for thehome side.

Karim Rendall edged the visitorsback in front for a third time, butPlant made it 4-4 with ten minutes togo and Matt Day immediately putSherborne in front.

The Dorset side made sure of thepoints as Plant completed hishat-trick and added a fourth goal.

Longwell Green crashed to a 4-0reverse at Bridport, with Dan Wise,

Chris Clarke, Chris Luke and TomRichardson scoring second-halfg o a l s.

Elsewhere, Buckland beatSlimbridge 2-0, while Melkshamdropped to the bottom as they wentdown 1-0 at Willand.

Bradford stayed top of the FirstDivision as Keiran Baggs, SamJordan and Nick Ridout all scored inthe opening half-hour of their 3-1home win over Wincanton.

C r i bb s remain second, followingtheir 3-1 victory over Warminster,Dave Gilroy giving the hosts ahalf-time lead.

Jack Kinnerley made it a two-goaladvantage and Dan Fowler halved thedeficit, but Justin Cattle settled mat-ters in the 90th minute.

Barnstaple beat Welton 4-1 to staythird, while Ben Cleverley’s penaltygave Shepton Mallet a 1-0 win atDevizes to move up to fourth place.

Cheddar triumphed 2-1 at Al-mondsbury UWE, Callum McManusand Sam Jones putting the visitorstwo goals up before James Fitzpatrickreplied for the hosts.

Chard beat Portishead 1-0 thanksto Leigh Bailey’s goal, while Key n -sham are off the bottom courtesy of a2-0 victory at Chippenham Park.

Wellington and Roman Glass StGeorge drew 4-4, while Westbury andOldland; and Calne and Ashton &B a ck we l l both finished 0-0.

� Midfielder Sam Taylor scored fivegoals as Tytherington Rocks wo n6-0 at home to New College (Swindon)in Division One West of the HellenicLea gue.

Taylor took two minutes to get hisfirst goal, and Toby Colbourne soonadded a second. Taylor scored hissecond before half-time, and hit threemore in the second period.


Football League Youth Alliance, South WestUnder-18: Bsl Rovers 1 Exeter City 1, Hereford Utd0 Cheltenham Tn 3, Plymouth Arg 3 Torquay Utd 0,Swindon 3 Bournemouth 4.South West Counties Youth: Andover Tn 6 BslAcademy 0, Bath City 4 Salisbury City 3, New CollAcad 0 Forest Green Rov 7, Newport Co 5Dorchester Tn 3, Poole Tn 2 Cirencester Acad 0.

FA Cup, First Round Qualifying: Aylesbury 1Shortwood Utd 5, Bideford 3 Larkhall Ath 0,Bridgwater Tn 2 Merthyr Tn 1, Clevedon Tn 1Plymouth Parkway 0, Corsham Tn 4 Bristol ManorFarm 4, Frome Tn 1 Bognor Regis Tn 1, Hallen 1Hamworthy Utd 2, Truro City 1 Street 0, Wells City 1Brislington 2, Winchester City 1 Mangotsfield Utd 2,Yate Tn 3 Chippenham Tn 2.

Calor Southern League, Div I South & West:Paulton Rov 3 Stratford Tn 4, Swindon Supermarine4 Fleet Tn 1, Taunton Tn 0 Wimborne Tn 0.

Uhlsport Hellenic, Div I West: Carterton 0Shortwood Utd 3, Lydney Tn 3 North Leigh Utd 1,Malmesbury Vic 0 Easington Spts 1, Purton 5Fairford Tn 2, Tuffley Rov 2 Clanfield 1, TytheringtonRocks 6 New College Swindon 0.

Toolstation Western League, Premier Div: BishopSutton 1 Odd Down 0, Bridport 4 Longwell GreenSpts 0, Buckland Ath 2 Slimbridge 0, Cadbury Heath1 Ilfracombe Tn 1, Gillingham Tn 2 Radstock Tn 2,Hengrove Ath 0 Bitton 1, Sherborne Tn 7Winterbourne Utd 4, Willand Rov 1 Melksham Tn 0.Div I: Almondsbury UWE 1 Cheddar 2, BarnstapleTn 4 Welton Rov 1, Bradford Tn 3 Wincanton Tn 1,Calne Tn 0 Ashton & Backwell Utd 0, Chard Tn 1Portishead Tn 0, Chippenham Park 0 Keynsham Tn2, Cribbs 3 Warminster Tn 1, Devizes Tn 0 SheptonMallet 1, Wellington 4 Roman Glass St George 4,Westbury Utd 0 Oldland Abbots 0.David Wilson Homes Gloucestershire County:Bishop’s Cleeve Res 3 Henbury 3, Chipping

Sodbury Tn 1 Berkeley Tn 2, Frampton Utd 3Rockleaze Rgrs 2, Gala Wilton 4 Yate Tn Res 1,Hanham Ath 2 Patchway Tn 3, Kings Stanley 1Ellwood 1, Kingswood 1 Bristol Telephones 2,Longlevens 2 Bristol Academy 1, Southmead CS Ath4 Thornbury Tn 2.Somerset County, Premier/Div I League CupRound I: Bishops Lyd 2 Dundry Ath 1, Odd DownRes 3 Saltford 2, Shirehampton 6 Burnham Utd 2.Premier Div: Fry Club 3 Yatton Ath 1, Ilminster Tn 2Nailsea Utd 4, Langford Rov 2000 2 Clutton 4,Stockwood Green 3 Berrow 1, Watchet Tn 2 NailseaTn 0, Weston St Johns 1 Cutters Friday 0.Div I: Broad Plain House 3 Larkhall Ath Res 2,Castle Cary 0 Congresbury 3, Clevedon Utd 1 StGeorge(EIG) 1, Keynsham Tn Res 2 Purnell Spts 3,Middlezoy Rov 2 Brislington Res 3, Westfield 2Frome Coll 1, Wrington Redhill 4 Banwell 4.Div II League Cup, Round I: Peasedown Ath 2Burnham Utd Res 1.Div II East: Ashton & Backwell Utd Res 3 Imperial 3,Chew Magna 3 Radstock Tn Res 1, ChilcomptonSpts 3 Stockwood Green Res 1, Cutters Friday Res0 Long Ashton 5, Timsbury Ath 1 Farrington Gurney0, Tunley Ath 1 Bishop Sutton Res 0, Welton RovRes 2 Fry Club Res 2.Div II West: Cheddar Res 1 Glastonbury 3, ChurchillClub 70 3 Portishead Tn Res 2, Cleeve West Tn 3Worle 1, Kewstoke Lions 1 Wells City Res 2, NorthCurry 6 Nailsea Utd Res 2, Staplegrove 5 Weston StJohns Res 1, Uphill Castle 5 Combe St Nicholas 1,Winscombe 1 Nailsea Tn Res 0.Bristol Premier, Premier Div: AEK Boco 2Winterbourne Utd Res 1, Hallen Res 0 Highridge Utd3, Bitton Res 0 Old Sodbury 4, Lebeq 4 NicholasWdrs 1, Longwell Green Res 0 Mendip Utd 1,Totterdown Utd 2 DRG Frenchay 1, Wick 2Shaftesbury 0.Div I: Frampton Ath 2 Eden Grove 0, BrimshamGreen 0 Made For Ever 1, Patchway Tn Res 2Bristol Manor Farm Res 5, Oldland Abbots Res 1Brislington Cricketers 1, Olveston Utd 2 Roman

Glass St George Res 1, Sea Mills Park 4 GreyfriarsAth 1.District, Senior Div: Henbury Res 3 BristolBarcelona 2, Iron Acton 3 Hallen A 4, LongwellGreen Spts A 1 Shire Res 3, Nicholas Wdrs Res 0AEK Boco Res 1, Portville Warriors 9 Wick Res 0,Pucklechurch Spts 5 Crosscourt Utd 2.Div I: Hambrook 4 Chipping Sodbury Tn Res 0,Mendip Utd Res 0 Totterdown Utd Res 1, Miners 0Bradley Stoke Tn 8, Rangeworthy 2 Seymour UtdRes 2, Stanton Drew 3 Lebeq Res 5, Talbot KnowleUtd 3 St Pancras 4, Winterbourne Utd A v SoundwellVic pp.Div II: DRG Frenchay Res 3 Cribbs Friends Life A10, Greyfriars Ath Res 3 Chipping Sodbury Tn A 0,Hartcliffe 1 Bendix 3, Nicholas Wdrs A 1 AEK BocoA 1, Real Thornbury 9 Iron Acton Res 2.Div III: Bsl Barcelona Res 8 Hambrook Res 3,Henbury A 3 Olveston Utd Res 1, Hillfields OB 4South Bristol Central 4, Horfield Utd v Hallen B pp,Made For Ever Res 1 Yate Ath 7, Roman Glass StGeorge A 0 Patchway NE 1, Stapleton 3Pucklechurch Spts Res 1.Div IV: Bendix Res 1 Wick A 2, Bradley Stoke TnRes 3 Frys Club B 2, Highridge Utd Res 5 LawrenceRov Res 2, Sea Mills Park Res 1 Old Sodbury Res6, Soundwell Vic Res 3 Shaftesbury Crusade Res 2,Talbot Knowle Utd Res 1 Fishponds Ath 6,Westerleigh Spts 3 Greyfriars Ath A 0.Div V: Iron Acton A 1 Crosscourt Utd Res 3, OldlandAbbotonians A 5 Rangeworthy Res 4, Staple HillOrient 3 Stanton Drew Res 0, Brislington CricketersRes 1 Shireway Spts 3, Cesson 7 Highridge Utd A 1,Patchway NE Res 0 Mendip Utd A 6.Div VI: Greyfriars Ath B 1 Stapleton Res 4, BradleyStoke A 4 Seymour Utd 1, Bristol Deaf 1 SaltfordRes 6, Stoke Lane Ath 7 Cutters Friday 1.Suburban, Premier Div I: Ashton Utd 7 St Aldhelms0, Easton Cowboys 0 Lawrence Weston 0, LittleStoke 3 Severn Beach 1, Mangotsfield Spts 0Tytherington Rocks Res 1, Old Georgians 1

Fishponds OB 3, Ridings High 3 Stoke Gifford Utd 1.Premier Div II: Almondsbury UWE Res 4Totterdown POB 0, Downend Foresters 5 CadburyHeath Res 1, Glenside 5 OB 3 Lebeq Utd 9,Rockleaze Rgrs Res 1 Brislington A 2, SouthmeadCS Utd v Bristol Ath pp, Wessex Wdrs 2 CABOlympic SC 2.Div I: AFC Hartcliffe 3 Kellaway Rgrs 2, AshtonBackwell Colts 0 Stoke Rgrs 2, Avonmouth Res 0Cleeve Colts 3, St Aldhelms Res 1 Filton Ath 4,Tyndalls Park Rgrs 0 Oldbury 3.Div II: Bsl Telephones Res 4 St Annes Tn 6,Hanham Ath Sub v Lawrence Weston Res pp,Hydez 6 Keynsham Tn A 1, Old Cothamians 10Ridings High Res 0, Wanderers v AlmondsburyUWE A pp.Div III: AEK Boco Colts 1 Sartan Utd 14, BristolBilbao 4 Old Cothamians Res 1, Coupland Insulation1 Long Ashton Res 4, Fishponds OB Res vCorinthian Spts pp, Severn Beach Res 2 DownendForesters Res 6.Div IV: Brandon Sports 3 Glenside 5 OB Res 3,Cadbury Heath A 6 Filton Ath Res 0, North BristolCatalans 4 Severnside 2, Rockleaze Rgrs B 1Oldbury FC Res 0, Stoke Gifford Utd A 1 OldGeorgians Res 1, Winford PH 4 Park Knowle 2.Div V: Kellaway Rgrs Res 0 Whitchurch Spts 4,Lawrence Weston A 1 North Bristol Utd 5, LockleazeCommunity 3 Wessex Wdrs Res 0, Real St George4 Imperial Res 3.Div VI: Brandon Spts Res 2 Winford PH Res 2,Bristol Spartak 4 Wanderers Res 1, Fry’s OB Res 10Real Fishponds 2, Long Ashton A 3 AFCMangotsfield 3, Sartan Utd Res 9 Cosmos 0.Bristol & Avon, Premier Div: Bristol Revolution 1LS Utd 5, Bristol Sports 10 Whitchurch Phoenix 2,Broad Plain A 6 Wessex Wdrs A 0, De Veys Res 5Dodington 0, Iron Acton B 8 Westerleigh Spts Res 4,Sea Mills Park A 0 AFC Hartcliffe Res 4.Downs, Div I: AFC Bohemia 1 Ashley 3, PortlandOB 3 Jersey Rgrs 1, Retainers 1 Jamaica Bell 7,

Saints OB 0 DAC Beachcroft 0, Sneyd Park 5Cotswool 1, Sporting Greyhound 0 Lawes Jrs 3,Torpedo 1 Clifton St Vinc 4.Div II: Ashley Res 0 Clifton Rockets 0, Saints OBRes 3 Lion 1, Sneyd Park Res 0 Hare On The Hill 3,Sporting Greyhound Res 0 Easton Cowboys 2, StAndrews 0 Corinthians 2, Tebby 5 Old Cliftonians 3,Torpedo Res 0 Clifton St Vinc Res 2.Div III: Bengal Tigers 1 Clifton St Vinc 3, OldElizabethans 6 Helios 0, Portland OB Res 0 GreenPark Rgrs 6, Retainers Res 1 Evergreen 3, SneydPark A 3 Easton Cowboys Res 8, Torpedo A 2Luccombe Garage 1, Wellington Wdrs 2 Cotham OB3.Div IV: Clifton Rockets Res 1 Clifton St Vinc 3,Retainers A 4 Lion FC 2, Sneyd Park B 3 JerseyRgrs Res 6, Tebby AFC Res 3 DDAS 4, Torpedo B1 Cosmos UK 2, Warmley Utd 1 NCSF Utd 1, WestTown Utd 2 Conham Rgrs 1.

Weston-s-Mare & District, Atwell Shield PrelimRd: Yatton Ath Res 5 Churchill Club 70 Res 3.Div I: Berrow Res 0 Tickenham Utd 6, Hutton 8Winscombe Res 0, Nailsea Utd A 2 Cleeve West TnRes 0, Portishead Tn A 0 Clevedon Utd Res 4.Div II: Burnham Utd A 4 Nailsea Utd B 3,Congresbury Res 3 Clevedon Dons 2, St George(EIG) Res 4 Clevedon Utd A 4, Weston SuperSeagulls 5 Langford Rov Res 2.Div III: Axbridge Tn 0 AFC Nailsea 2, Banwell Res 2Shipham 3, Portishead Tn B 4 Uphill Castle Res 5,Wedmore 2 Westend 2, Worle Rgrs 3 Winscombe A1.Div IV: Cheddar A 3 Pill Utd 1, King Alfred SC 5Hutton Res 1, KVFC 3 Kewstoke Lions Res 0, StGeorge (EIG) 0 Wrington Redhill Res 6.Div V: Congresbury A 1 Clapton-in-Gordano 1,Portishead CT 2 Shipham Res 1, South Park Rgrs 1Dolphin Ath 5, Worle Res 9 Priory Rgrs 2.Div VI: Burnham Utd B 0 Worle Rgrs Res 0,Clevedon Utd B 0 Berrow A 6.

treble check:Complete check for Littlewoods, Vernons and

Zetters: 8 = Score Draws, 5= No Score Draw or Void 36= Home or Away

Aston Villa ............... (0) 1 Newcastle ................(1) 2Benteke 67 Ben Arfa 18Att 37,554 Gouffran 73everton .................... (1) 1 chelsea ...................(0) 0Naismith 45 Att 36,034Fulham ..................... (1) 1 West brom ..............(0) 1Sidwell 22 McAuley 90Att 25,560hull ........................... (1) 1 cardiff ......................(0) 1Davies 40 Whittingham 59Att 21,949Man Utd ................... (1) 2 crystal Palace .........(0) 0van Persie 45 (pen) Att 75,170Rooney 81Spurs ....................... (1) 2 Norwich ...................(0) 0Sigurdsson 28, 49 Att 35,952Stoke ........................ (0) 0 Man city ..................(0) 0Att 25,052Sunderland .............. (0) 1 Arsenal ....................(1) 3Gardner 48 (pen) Giroud 11Att 39,055 Ramsey 67, 76

Yesterday Southamptn ............. (0) 0 West ham ................(0) 0Att 28,794 hOMe AWAY P W D L F A W D L F A PtsArsenal ..............4 1 0 1 2 3 2 0 0 6 2 9Spurs .................4 2 0 0 3 0 1 0 1 1 1 9Liverpool ............3 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 9Man City ............4 2 0 0 6 0 0 1 1 2 3 7Man Utd .............4 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 4 2 7Chelsea .............4 2 0 0 4 1 0 1 1 0 1 7Stoke .................4 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 1 1 1 7Newcastle ..........4 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 5 7Everton ..............4 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 2 6West Ham ..........4 1 0 1 2 1 0 2 0 0 0 5Southamptn .......4 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 5Cardiff ................4 1 1 0 3 2 0 1 1 1 3 5Fulham...............4 0 1 1 2 4 1 0 1 1 1 4Norwich..............4 1 1 0 3 2 0 0 2 0 3 4Hull ....................4 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 4 4Aston Villa..........4 0 0 2 1 3 1 0 1 4 3 3Crystal Pal .........4 1 0 1 3 2 0 0 2 1 4 3Swansea ............3 0 0 1 1 4 1 0 1 2 1 3West Brom .........4 0 0 2 0 3 0 2 0 1 1 2Sunderland ........4 0 0 2 1 4 0 1 1 2 4 1

hOMe AWAY P W D L F A W D L F A PtsBlackpool ...........6 3 0 0 3 0 2 1 0 6 3 16QPR ...................6 3 0 0 4 1 2 1 0 3 1 16Nottm For ..........6 3 0 0 7 2 1 1 1 3 3 13Leicester ............6 2 1 0 5 2 2 0 1 4 3 13Burnley ..............6 1 2 0 4 2 2 0 1 5 3 11Leeds .................6 1 1 1 3 3 2 1 0 3 1 11Derby .................6 0 1 2 1 5 3 0 0 10 2 10Watford ..............6 1 2 0 8 3 1 1 1 4 4 9Reading .............6 1 2 0 5 4 1 1 1 2 2 9Bournemth .........6 2 0 1 4 3 1 0 2 3 11 9Blackburn...........6 2 0 1 9 4 0 2 1 2 4 8Huddersfld ........6 1 2 0 6 2 1 0 2 2 3 8Wigan ................6 1 2 0 6 5 1 0 2 4 3 8Brighton .............6 1 1 1 4 3 1 1 1 2 2 8Ipswich...............6 2 0 1 7 3 0 1 2 2 4 7Middlesbro’ ........6 0 2 1 3 4 1 1 1 4 5 6Charlton .............5 1 0 1 2 2 0 2 1 4 5 5Doncaster ..........5 1 0 2 3 4 0 2 0 2 2 5Sheff Wed ..........6 0 2 1 4 5 0 2 1 3 4 4Birmingham .......6 0 1 2 1 3 1 0 2 3 4 4Yeovil .................6 0 0 3 0 5 1 1 1 2 3 4Barnsley.............6 1 1 1 4 7 0 0 3 4 9 4Bolton ................6 0 1 2 1 3 0 1 2 2 8 2Millwall ...............6 0 0 3 1 7 0 2 1 3 6 2

hOMe AWAY P W D L F A W D L F A PtsL Orient ..............6 3 0 0 8 2 3 0 0 8 2 18Peterboro ..........7 2 0 1 3 3 3 1 0 14 4 16Wolves ...............6 3 0 0 9 3 2 1 0 5 2 16Rotherham .........7 2 2 0 8 5 2 1 0 6 4 15Preston ..............7 2 2 0 7 3 1 2 0 7 4 13MK Dons ............7 2 2 0 7 4 1 2 0 3 2 13Bradford .............7 3 1 0 12 2 0 2 1 4 5 12Brentford ............7 2 1 0 4 1 1 2 1 6 9 12Crawley Town ....7 2 1 1 8 7 1 1 1 6 5 11Walsall ...............6 1 1 1 4 5 2 0 1 4 1 10Colchester .........7 1 1 1 3 3 1 2 1 4 5 9Swindon .............7 2 1 0 8 2 0 1 3 3 7 8Shrewsbury........6 1 2 0 3 1 0 2 1 3 6 7Port Vale ............7 1 1 1 4 5 1 0 3 4 7 7Oldham ..............7 1 0 2 3 3 1 0 3 8 10 6Stevenage .........7 0 1 2 4 6 1 1 2 1 4 5Tranmere ...........7 0 2 2 6 12 1 0 2 3 5 5Crewe ................7 1 2 1 7 9 0 0 3 0 8 5Carlisle...............7 1 0 3 2 10 0 2 1 1 5 5Coventry ............7 3 1 0 13 9 1 1 1 7 4 4Sheff Utd............7 1 1 1 3 3 0 0 4 2 9 4Bristol City .........6 0 1 2 3 7 0 2 1 7 8 3Gillingham..........7 0 2 1 2 3 0 1 3 5 11 3Notts Co ............6 0 0 3 2 6 0 1 2 3 6 1

bradford .................. (1) 2 colchester ...............(2) 2Wells 15, 53 Monakana 28Att 13,570 Ibehre 32bristol city .............. (0) 0 Peterboro ................(1) 3Att 11,134 Barnett 24 Assombalonga 51, 88carlisle..................... (0) 1 Sheff Utd .................(0) 0Robson 54 Att 4,863crawley town.......... (0) 1 Shrewsbury .............(0) 1Drury 64, Att 3,202 Wildig 47crewe ....................... (0) 0 Walsall .....................(0) 3Att 4,260 Westcarr 66, 69 (pen) Baxendale 84leyton Orient .......... (2) 3 Port Vale ..................(1) 2Mooney 24, 45, Lisbie 88 Dodds 21Att 4,888 Myrie-Williams 54Mk Dons .................. (2) 3 Notts county ...........(0) 1Chadwick 5, Williams 37 McGregor 76Bamford 90 Att 7,142Preston .................... (1) 3 Stevenage ...............(0) 0Huntington 45 Att 8,855Laird 59, Davies 84

rotherham ............... (1) 3 Oldham ....................(1) 2Nardiello 21 (pen), 63, 90 Montano 44Att 8,306 Lanzoni 53tranmere ................. (1) 3 brentford .................(2) 4Atkinson 44 Taylor 3Dugdale 55, Stockton 90 Donaldson 14, 71Att 4,454 Forshaw 90 (pen)Wolves ..................... (2) 3 Swindon ..................(0) 2Golbourne 3 N’Guessan 82, Mason 90Doyle 43, Foley 90 Att 19,388

Yesterday coventry .................. (1) 2 Gillingham ...............(1) 1L Clarke 2 McDonald 10Moussa 83 Att 2,046

burton Albion .......... (0) 1 Portsmouth .............(1) 2Diamond 90 Holmes 34Att 3,577 Ferry 52cheltenham ............. (1) 2 Oxford Utd ..............(1) 2Harrison 8 Kitson 34Gornell 51 Mullins 57Att 3,906chesterfield ............. (1) 2 AFc Wimbledon .....(0) 0Roberts 30 Hird 54Att 6,353Dag & red ............... (1) 2 bristol rovers .........(0) 0Ogogo 10 Att 1,423Howell 72Fleetwood town...... (0) 2 bury .........................(1) 1Sarcevic 52 Soares 28Evans 64Att 3,520 hartlepool ................ (2) 2 Accrington Stanley (0) 1Franks 30 Gray 57Monkhouse 42 Att 3,388Newport county ...... (2) 2 Morecambe .............(1) 3Jones 3 Naylor 12 (og), 57 (og)Willmott 24 Amond 71 (pen)Att 3,165Northampton ........... (1) 1 exeter ......................(1) 2Blyth 7 Bennett 35Att 4,036 O’Flynn 90Plymouth ................. (0) 0 Wycombe ................(0) 3Att 6,702 Wood 70 Morgan 74 Knott 90rochdale ................. (0) 1 torquay ...................(0) 0Henderson 77Att 2,138York .......................... (1) 1 Mansfield .................(1) 2Brobbel 3 Clucas 21 (pen)Att 3,513 Palmer 76 hOMe AWAY P W D L F A W D L F A PtsChesterfield .......7 4 0 0 7 1 2 1 0 6 2 19Oxford Utd .........7 1 2 0 5 4 3 1 0 11 4 15Fleetwood Town 7 3 0 1 11 6 2 0 1 3 2 15Exeter ................7 3 0 0 6 2 1 2 1 3 4 14Wycombe ...........7 2 0 1 3 2 2 1 1 7 4 13Morecambe........7 2 1 0 5 2 2 0 2 6 7 13AFC Wimbledon 7 3 0 0 6 2 1 1 2 3 5 13Mansfield ...........7 1 2 0 5 2 2 1 1 4 4 12Rochdale ...........7 3 1 0 7 2 0 1 2 1 3 11Burton Albion .....7 1 1 2 4 6 2 1 0 6 4 11Scunthorpe ........7 1 2 0 4 2 1 2 1 4 4 10Newport County .7 2 1 1 8 5 0 2 1 3 5 9Portsmouth ........7 1 0 2 4 6 1 3 0 8 7 9Dag & Red .........7 2 2 0 6 2 0 1 2 2 7 9Southend ...........7 2 0 2 4 4 1 0 2 3 4 9Plymouth............7 2 0 2 2 5 1 0 2 4 4 9Bury ...................7 2 0 1 7 3 0 1 3 4 7 7Bristol Rvrs ........7 2 1 0 4 2 0 0 4 1 6 7Torquay ..............7 0 2 1 2 4 1 1 2 4 7 6Cheltenham .......7 0 3 1 7 9 1 0 2 2 6 6Hartlepool ..........7 1 0 3 3 5 0 2 1 0 3 5Northamptn ........7 1 1 2 6 6 0 0 3 0 4 4York ...................7 1 1 2 2 4 0 0 3 3 7 4Accrington..........7 0 1 2 2 4 0 0 4 2 10

hAlF tiMe 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 3 2 3 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 1 2 3 2 2 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 2 3 2 1 1 1 1 2 1

1 1 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 2 1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49

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basingstoke ........................2 ebbsfleet United ............... 2bath city ..............................2 tonbridge Angels ............. 2boreham Wood ...................2 Gosport borough ............. 0bromley ...............................3 Staines town .................... 0chelmsford ..........................0 Whitehawk ........................ 2Dorchester...........................1 bishop’s Stortford ........... 3Dover ...................................1 Weston-S-Mare ................. 2eastbourne borough ..........0 concord rangers ............. 0havant and W ......................1 hayes & Yeading .............. 2Maidenhead Utd ..................1 eastleigh ........................... 3Sutton Utd ...........................3 Farnboro ........................... 3

hOMe AWAY P W D l F A W D l F A PtEastleigh ................7 2 1 0 3 1 3 0 1 7 3 16Bromley .................7 4 0 0 14 2 1 0 2 3 3 15Weston-S-Mare .....7 2 0 1 4 1 3 0 1 7 4 15Bishop’s Stortford ..7 2 0 1 4 3 2 2 0 9 6 14Basingstoke ...........7 3 1 0 8 4 1 0 2 2 3 13Hayes & Yeading ...7 1 0 2 4 3 3 0 1 7 4 12Maidenhead Utd ....6 1 1 1 5 6 2 1 0 6 1 11Eastbourne Borough 6 1 2 0 3 2 2 0 1 3 2 11Sutton Utd .............7 2 1 1 10 6 0 2 1 1 2 9Bath City ................6 1 2 1 6 5 1 1 0 3 2 9Concord Rangers ..7 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 4 5 9Dover .....................7 1 0 3 3 5 2 0 1 2 1 9Whitehawk .............7 1 0 2 1 4 2 0 2 8 8 9Staines Town .........7 3 0 0 6 2 0 0 4 4 12 9Ebbsfleet United ....7 0 3 0 2 2 1 2 1 7 6 8Havant and W........7 2 0 2 6 5 0 2 1 1 2 8Tonbridge Angels ...7 1 1 1 3 4 1 1 2 6 10 8Boreham Wood......7 1 1 2 5 8 1 0 2 3 6 7Farnboro ................3 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 5 4Chelmsford ............6 1 1 2 6 8 0 0 2 1 6 4Gosport Borough ...7 0 1 2 1 4 0 1 3 3 7 2Dorchester .............7 0 0 4 4 15 0 1 2 1 3 1

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Paulton ................................3 Stratford town .................. 4Swindon Supermarine .......4 Fleet town......................... 1taunton ................................0 Wimborne town ............... 0

hOMe AWAY P W D l F A W D l F A PtSwindon Super ......7 4 0 0 12 4 1 1 1 5 6 16Paulton ..................6 2 1 1 11 6 2 0 0 11 3 13Bridgwater Town ....5 1 1 0 6 2 3 0 0 8 2 13Merthyr Town .........6 2 1 0 9 4 2 0 1 7 4 13North Leigh ............6 3 0 0 12 2 1 0 2 4 4 12Tiverton ..................6 2 0 1 5 3 1 1 1 7 8 10Stratford Town .......7 1 0 2 3 8 2 1 1 11 8 10Wimborne Town .....7 2 1 0 10 3 0 2 2 2 4 9Cirencester ............5 2 0 1 5 6 1 0 1 4 4 9Godalming Town ....6 2 0 1 3 5 1 0 2 4 8 9Cinderford ..............5 1 0 1 5 3 1 2 0 6 3 8Shortwood Utd .......6 1 1 1 8 8 1 1 1 6 3 8Yate .......................6 2 0 1 6 5 0 2 1 5 7 8Thatcham Town .....6 1 1 1 2 5 1 1 1 4 4 8Taunton ..................6 1 3 0 6 3 0 1 1 5 6 7Bishops Cleeve .....5 2 0 1 7 4 0 0 2 2 7 6Fleet Town .............7 1 1 1 3 4 0 2 2 2 10 6Mangotsfield ..........5 1 1 0 6 4 0 1 2 2 6 5Didcot Town ...........6 1 1 1 5 4 0 0 3 2 8 4Clevedon Town ......6 0 1 2 2 5 0 1 2 1 5 2Evesham................5 0 2 0 5 5 0 0 3 2 11 2Guildford City .........6 0 1 2 4 10 0 0 3 3 14 1

calor lge South & West

bolton ...................... (0) 0 leeds .......................(1) 1Att 19,622 Varney 7bournemouth .......... (1) 1 blackpool ................(1) 2Grabban 12 Fuller 7Att 9,446 Bishop 48burnley .................... (0) 1 blackburn ................(0) 1Stanislas 76 Rhodes 85Att 15,699huddersfld ............... (0) 0 Doncaster ................(0) 0Att 13,102ipswich .................... (1) 3 Middlesbrough .......(1) 1McGoldrick 34, 90 Adomah 12Chambers 57 Att 15,276leicester .................. (1) 2 Wigan.......................(0) 0Moore 15 Att 21,810Nugent 81 (pen)Millwall ..................... (0) 1 Derby .......................(2) 5Waghorn 75 Buxton 9Att 9,523 Bryson 45, 57, 81 Bennett 87Nottm For ................ (2) 3 barnsley ..................(1) 2Cox 18 O’Grady 20 (pen)Etuhu 45 (og) Cywka 69Henderson 84 Att 21,181QPr .......................... (0) 1 birmingham ............(0) 0Austin 49Att 16,953Sheff Wed ................ (1) 1 Yeovil .......................(0) 1Nuhiu 25 Ralls 64Att 22,328Watford .................... (0) 1 charlton ..................(0) 1Pudil 71 Kermorgant 47 (pen)Att 16,431

Yesterday reading ................... (0) 0 brighton ..................(0) 0Att 18,306

barnet ..................................1 lincoln city ...................... 1cambridge Utd ....................1 Gateshead ......................... 0Dartford ...............................1 Nuneaton ........................... 2Forest Green .......................2 Fc halifax ......................... 1Grimsby ...............................1 braintree town ................. 0kidderminster .....................2 hyde .................................. 1Macclesfield ........................0 Alfreton town ................... 1Salisbury .............................3 chester Fc ........................ 1Southport ............................2 Welling .............................. 2

hOMe AWAY P W D l F A W D l F A PtCambridge .............8 4 0 0 10 1 2 2 0 4 2 20Nuneaton ...............8 3 1 0 8 3 3 1 0 6 3 20Forest Green .........8 3 1 0 13 2 1 2 1 5 5 15Barnet ....................8 2 2 0 8 4 2 1 1 6 3 15Alfreton Town .........8 4 0 0 11 5 1 0 3 3 7 15Kiddermnstr ...........8 3 0 1 8 5 2 0 2 5 6 15Grimsby .................8 2 1 1 6 4 2 1 1 3 2 14Lincoln City ............8 3 0 1 5 2 1 2 1 3 3 14Salisbury ................8 3 0 1 7 3 1 1 2 3 5 13FC Halifax ..............8 4 0 0 8 3 0 1 3 5 12 13Southport ...............8 3 1 0 6 3 1 0 3 4 9 13Hereford.................8 2 1 1 4 4 1 1 2 6 6 11Braintree Town.......8 1 1 2 3 5 2 1 1 4 2 11Luton......................8 1 3 0 3 1 1 1 2 2 3 10Welling ...................8 1 2 1 4 4 1 1 2 8 8 9Tamworth ...............8 1 2 1 6 5 1 1 2 3 6 9Wrexham ...............8 2 1 1 6 5 0 1 3 4 9 8Gateshead .............8 1 1 2 6 7 1 0 3 4 7 7Dartford..................8 1 0 3 3 6 1 1 2 2 5 7Woking ...................8 0 2 2 5 8 1 0 3 4 7 5Chester FC ............8 0 1 3 1 6 1 0 3 4 9 4Aldershot ...............8 3 0 1 6 2 1 1 2 3 3 3Macclesfld..............8 0 1 3 2 5 0 2 2 3 5 3Hyde ......................8 0 1 3 3 6 0 1 3 5 15 2*Aldershot deducted 10 points for entering administration

Hallen 1 Hamworthy Utd 2, Sholing 4 AFC Totton 0, Frome Town 1 Bognor Regis Town 1, Corsham Town 4 Bristol Manor Farm 4, Yate 3 Chippenham 2, Winchester City 1 Mangotsfld 2, Horndean 0 AFC Portchester 5, Bashley 2 Moneyfields 0, Truro City 1 Street 0, Bridg-water Town 2 Merthyr Town 1, Bideford 3 Larkhall Athletic 0, Wells City 1 Brislington 2, Clevedon T 1 Plymouth Parkway 0, Worksop Parramore 1 Cammell L 3, Hendon 7 Biggleswade Utd 1, Wingate & Finchley 0 Biggleswade Town 0, Cray Wanderers 0 Faversham Town 3, Grays Athletic 2 Romford 1, Worksop Parramore 1 Cammell L 3, Hendon 7 Biggleswade Utd 1, Wingate & Finchley 0 Biggleswade Town 0, Cray Wanderers 0 Faversham Town 3, Grays Athletic 2 Romford 1.

Guisborough Town 2 Bishop A 2, Jarrow Roofing 1 Morpeth Town 0, Marske Utd 3 Albion Sports 0, Penrith 3 Padiham 1, Spennymoor Town 0 Lancaster City 1, Brighouse Town 4 Crook Town 1, Blyth Spartans 1 AFC Fylde 3, Whitby 1 West Auckland 1, Team Northum-bria 0 Scarborough Athletic 4, Stocksbridge PS 2 Ramsbottom 2, Marine 2 Curzon Ashton 4, Warrington Tn 0 New Mills 0, Runcorn Linnets 2 Glossop North End 1, Prescot Cables 0 Buxton 1, FC United 0 Chorley 1, Ashton U 2 Witton Albion 1, Ossett Town 2 Bam-ber B 2, Frickley 4 Sheffield 1, Droylsden 1 Trafford 5, Worksop 1 Bootle 1, Burscough 2 Radcliffe Boro 1, Northwich 0 Skelmersdale 3, Tipton Town 2 Kidsgrove Ath 0, Atherstone Town 3 Redditch 3, AFC Wulfrunians 1 Walsall Wood 1, Evesham 0 Stourbrdge 3, Hinckley Utd 0 Rushall O 3, N’castle T 2 Sutton Coldfield 2, Chasetown 0 Stafford 0, Halesowen 2 Brocton 1, Coventry Sphinx 2 Tividale 1, Nantwich T 1 Rugby Town 2, Coalville Town 3 Long Eaton Utd 2, Stamford 0 Grantham 0, Corby 3 Barwell 0, Mickleover Sp 2 Lough-borough University 0, Carlton Town 1 Brigg Town 1, Dunkirk 0 Blaby & Whetstone 0, Gresley 3 Eastwood Town 2, Ilkeston 1 Belper T 2, Basford Utd 0 Matlock Town 2, St Neots Town 3 Wroxham 1, Sleaford Town A Huntingdon Town A, Kings Lynn Tn 1 Cambridge 5, St Ives Town 4 Dereham Town 1, Spalding 1 Gorleston 0, Billericay 2 Leiston 0, Witham Town 1 Mildenhall Town 1, Harlow 2 Lowestoft Town 1, AFC Hornchurch 1 East Thurrock 1, Brentwood Town 3 FC Clacton 3, Needham Market 3 Brantham Athletic 2, Bury Town 0 Thurrock 2, Aveley 2 Canvey I 5, Tilbury 2 Waltham Abbey 1, Maldon & Tiptree 0 Heybridge 2, Burnham Ramblers 1 AFC Sudbury 2, Chesham 1 Royston Town 2, Cockfosters 2 AFC Rushden & Diamonds 2, Dav-entry Town 6 Berkhamsted 1, Greenhouse London 2 Bedford T 6, Hitchin 1 Arlesey 1, Uxbridge 2 Barton 3, Harrow 2 North Greenford Utd 2, Wembley 0 Haringey Borough 2, St Albans 6 Enfield Town 1, Wealdstone 6 Kings Langley 1, Hertford 2 Dunstable 1, St Margarets-bury 0 H Hempstead 7, Westfield 1 Aylesbury Utd 1, Beaconsfield 2 Burnham 4, Chertsey T 4 Highmoor Ibis 0, Didcot Town 2 North Leigh 1, Hampton & Richmond 4 Ashford Town (Middx) 2, Aylesbury 1 Shortwood Utd 5, Hungerford Town 4 Cove 0, Chalfont St Peter 0 Met Police 0, Ardley Utd 2 Binfield 2, Hartley Wintney 0 Camberley Town 0, Banbury 1 Cirencester 2, Leatherh’d 2 Carshalton Ath 1, Burgess Hill Town 8 Alton Town 1, South Park 1 Horsham 1, Merstham 1 Corinthian Casuals 0, Peacehaven & Telscombe 2 Lewes 3, Three Bridges 0 Maidstone Utd 1, Thamesmead 2 Redhill 0, Hastings Utd 2 Guernsey 3, Margate 2 Kingstonian 1, Folkestone Invicta 2 Eastbourne Utd 0, Sittingbourne 3 Littlehampton Town 2, Dulwich 6 Shoreham 0, Hassocks 1 Chipstead 2, Eastbourne Town 3 Tunbridge Wells 2, Whyteleafe 3 Horley Town 0, Chatham Town 2 East Preston 1, Poole Town 2 Brockenhurst 0, Fareham Town 0 Weymouth 1,

� Goalmouth action from the Toolstation League Premier Division clash between Hengrove Athletic and Bitton

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CLIFTON continued their impress-ive start to the season with victoryover promotion candidates HartpuryCollege, in an entertaining encounterat Cribbs Causeway.

The Henbury-based side, buoyed bytheir last-gasp 32-30 win at Canter-bury seven days earlier, played withan air of confidence and the sort ofself-belief that was missing fromtheir armoury last season.

Hartpury handed out a 72-3 drub-bing to their hosts in April, and Clif-ton director of rugby Darren Lloydwas quick to pay tribute to his youngside for the way they have turned

especially in attack. Pomphrey’s in-cision from full-back provided thrustand added a further dimension towhat was already a slick and dan-gerous looking back division – theversatile three-quarter first settingup a try for wing Auguy Slowik,before cutting the line to race in for amagnificent second-half try.

Full-back Billy Burns opened thescoring for Hartpury with asecond-minute penalty, before Eadie –C l i f t o n’s chief ball-carrier – crashedover in the corner for his second tryin as many weeks. Braley narrowlymissed the conversion, but added theextras after Slowik, who has just beennamed in the full England Sevenssquad for their six-day visit to Kenya,raced in under the posts, after re-ceiving a neat inside pass from Pom-p h re y.

Burns added another penalty, butmissed the conversion after HartpuryNo8 Ellis Genge muscled his way over

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� Clifton’s defence work hard to bring down a Hartpury attacker during their win at Cribbs Causeway on Saturday Picture: johnwhitemedia.co.uk

Clifton’s impressive start to theseason goes on with Hartpury win

things around since that fateful day.He said: “You have to be happy after

winning your opening two fixtures ofyour new campaign. Hartpury are avery good side – they gave us a hidinglast season – and, although these areearly days, we are showing un-doubted signs of improvement.

“We (the management and coaches)have given this squad a set of corevalues to follow, and this group ofplayers is buying into those values. Ithought there were some outstandingindividual performances out theretoday, but I was really impressed byour collective effort – we really arestarting to gel as a team.”

The home side got off to the betterstart and played with a greater ur-gency and hunger. Joe Quinn im-pressed in the second row, while No 8Mitch Eadie and scrum-half CallumBraley dominated play in thefirst-half. But it was full-back WillPomphrey who really caught the eye,

Local rugby

Dings lacklustredisplay givesChinnor victory

DINGS were well below par and nomatch for an efficient, but by nomeans outstanding Chinnor side.

Three tries in the first-half and fourin the second for the home side, sawthem secure a bonus point with Dingsmanaging just two consolation tries.

Poor tackling and a raft of penaltiesfrom Dings made things prettysimple for the home side, with speedywinger Tristan Corpe. proving tooquick for the visitors defence, bygrabbing four tries.

Playing up the slope and againstthe wind, Crusaders found it hardgoing against a lively Chinnor sideintent on moving the ball at everyoppor tunity.

The home side took the lead with apenalty from fly-half Will Millet inthe first minute, and were soonten-points up with a try from lockSam Blewitt, who strolled in unop-posed from 15 metres out.

Millet added the conversion.Five -minutes

later, Corpegot the firsttry, round-ing hiswing erout wideto scoreunderthe posts,and withMilletadding the con-version, Dings foundthemselves 17-0 down having not seenthe ball.

The Bristol side managed one realattack in the first half, when No 8Mike Uren barged to the try line butjust failed to find prop Mike Flookwith the line begging.

The home side rounded off thefirst-half with a try for Millett and ahalf-time lead of 22-0.

Dings opened the second-halfbrightly, and after going close to a trythrough centre Sheldon Stevens,opened their account with a MarkWoodrow penalty.

However, it was the home side whostretched the lead with a well workedtry, after moving the ball twice acrossthe pitch for a try in the corner forwing Corpe, who added another threeminutes later with a run from hisown 22 for his hat-trick and a lead of32-3.

Dings best period came around the60- minutes when centre Rob Demp-sey finished of a good drive by thepack with a try converted by Woo-d row.

Two more tries for the home side,first from replacement centre GeorgeBlewitt and then from Corpe to com-plete his four try haul, saw the homeside past forty points.

Dings were left to finish off with aconsolation try for centre Sam Cox,pictured, who was forced by injuriesto play much of the match as flanker,with the last play of the match.

from a driving line-out on 26-minutes.But the home side stretched theirlead with two long-range Braley pen-alties to make it 18-11 at the inter-va l .

Stern words at half-time appearedto do the trick for the visitors, and thesides were back on level terms after49 minutes when former Cliftoncentre Steve Leonard blasted his waypast three defenders to score underthe posts, allowing Burns the easiestof conversions.

Po m p h re y ’s splendid five-pointerwas cancelled out by Burns’ try in thecorner 14-minutes later, but twowell-struck penalties from Braley ex-tended Clifton’s lead to six pointswith ten minutes remaining. Hart-pury again upped their effort andthrew everything at Clifton, but amixture of poor execution by Hart-pury and dogged defence by the homeside ensured Clifton’s winning startto the season continued.

Results

Stroud 14, Gordon League 41 St Mary’s OB 11,Hucclecote 13 Whitehall 20, Painswick 28Southmead 16.Gloucester One: Bishopston 8 Old Richians 17,Bream 27 Old Colstonians 17, Brockworth 10Widden OB 16, Cheltenham Saracens 22Longlevens 34, Chipping Sodbury 12 Kingswood 7,Gloucester OB 28 Ashley Down OB 16.Gloucester Two: Aretians 7 Westbury 8, BAC 31Spartans 20, Broad Plain 8 Ross-on-Wye 10,Cheltenham CS 3 Old Cryptians 53.Gloucester Three: Hardwicke & Q 12 Tredworth82, Minchinhampton 7 Smiths 10, Norton 0 OldElizabethans 25.Somerset Premier: Bsl Barbarians 7 Gordano 48,Minehead Barb 31 Nailsea & Backwell 7, Taunton25 St Bernadettes 26, Tor 29 Weston-s-Mare 27,Winscombe 47 Old Reds 20, Wiveliscombe 36Keynsham 27, Yatton 15 Stothert & Pitt 24.Somerset One: Bridgwater & Alb 7 Yatton 13,Clevedon 58 Chard 7, Crewkerne 29 Hornets 5,Midsomer N 24 Wells 17, N Petherton 19 Castle

Cary 15, Old Sulians 10 Imperial 12, Wellington 47Old Reds 5.Somerset Two North: Bsl Harlequins 38Winscombe 20, Chew Valley 94 Weston-s-Mare 10,Clevedon 24 Walcot 25, Keynsham 31 OldCulverhaysians 10, Midsomer Norton 5 Nailsea & B36, Oldfield OB 0 Gordano 35.Somerset Two South: Burnham 27 Wiveliscombe22, Cheddar Valley 46 Tor 0, Hornets 14 Taunton43, Ivel Barb 22 Somerton 13, Minehead Barb 12Morganians 10, Wyvern 41 Bridgwater & Alb 7.Somerset Three North: Avon 56 Midsomer Norton0, Bath OEs 30 Keynsham 0, Bsl Barbarians 0Imperial 48, Stothert & Pitt 41 Walcot 7, Yatton vOldfield OB (home w/o).Somerset Three South: Castle Cary v Burnham(home w/o), Chard v Wells (home w/o), Crewkerne12 Wellington 36, Martock v Tor (home w/o),Minehead Barb 10 N Petherton 59.

YESTERDAYGreene King IPA Championship: Cornish Pirates23 Bristol 21, Plymouth 41 Jersey 27.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14The Rugby Championship: Australia 14Argentina 13, New Zealand 29 South Africa 15.Aviva Premiership: Bath 27 Leicester 20, Exeter30 Wasps 26, Harlequins 6 Northampton 13(played Fri), Sale 14 Newcastle 15 (played Fri),Worcester 18 London Irish 20.RaboDirect Pro12: Leinster 29 Ospreys 29,Scarlets 26 Benetton Treviso 10.Greene King IPA Championship: Ealing 13London Scottish 44, London Welsh 23 Bedford 9,Moseley 24 Rotherham 42, Nottingham 24 LeedsCarnegie 16.SSE National One: Coventry 38 Cinderford 13,Esher 40 Henley 30, Fylde 34 Wharfedale 21, HullIonians 19 Doncaster 40, Loughborough Stud 26Old Albanians 19, Rosslyn Park 26 Richmond 15,Tynedale 25 Blaydon 24, Worthing 22 Blackheath27.National Two South: Bishop’s Stortford 28Ampthill 28, Bournemouth 45 London Irish WG 25,Cambridge 24 Canterbury 14, Chinnor 42 Dings

Crus 17, Cornish AB 31 Redruth 10, Clifton 29Hartpury Coll 23, Southend 17 Shelford 13,Taunton 61 Exmouth 23.National Three South West: Amersham & C 29Avonmouth 7, Newton Abbot 27 Chippenham 15,Old Centralians 11 Lydney 44, Old Reds 31Brixham 7, Redingensians 18 Bracknell 12,Weston-s-Mare 36 Barnstaple 17, Worcester 20Old Patesians 28.South West One West: Bideford 12 St Austell 38,Bridgwater & A 14 Camborne 0, Chard 18 NorthPetherton 7, Hornets 42 Clevedon 9, Sidmouth 19Coney Hill 10, Thornbury 8 Cleve 34, Wadebridge10 Cullompton 6.Western Counties North: Bsl Harlequins 16Barton Hill 38, Chosen Hill FO 30 Avon 31,Drybrook 38 Midsomer Norton 3, Keynsham 14Chew Valley 25, Matson 47 Oldfield OB 12, NBristol 30 Berry Hill 0, Old Bristolians 34Cirencester 15.Gloucester Premier: Bsl Saracens 33 Newent 14,Dursley 12 Tewkesbury 25, Frampton Cott 40

Clifton 29

Hartpury College 23

Chinnor 42

Dings Crusaders 17

Mayweather hands out a beating to Alvarez

Tr i a t h l o n

Boxing

FLOYD Mayweather claimed theWBC light middleweight and WBAsuper world light middleweight titleson Saturday night, producing a dom-inant display to get past Saul Alvarezon a 12-round majority decision inLas Vegas.

Mayweather, 36, bossed proceed-ings against the Mexican 13 years hisjunior, and claimed a convincing vic-tory – despite one judge scoring theunification bout even – to extend hisunbeaten professional record to 45fights. The highly rated 23-year-oldheaded into the bout having built hisown unbeaten record and was re-garded by many as the biggest threatyet to Mayweather.

But the American, pictured, alwayslooked in control, his fast handsdoing enough to edge most roundshowever much Alvarez tried to strideforward. It was clear from the early

stages that the action would not liveup to the hype as Mayweather, whoearned a base purse of US dollars41.5million (£26.1m), made Al-varez dance to his tunet h ro u g h o u t .

The Michigan manmade the more livelystart, landing a few use-ful right hooks in roundone as Alvarez came toterms with his sur-ro u n d i n g s.

The American contin-ued plugging away, with Al-varez producing a couple ofbody-blows of his own but seemingunsteady on his feet as he tried toapply some positivity in round two.

Alvarez gave Mayweathersomething to think about in roundthree with a left hook, Mayweatherlooking a tad wary of his young Mex-

ican opponent. Alvarez’s neat com-binations were having no effect, withMayweather able to withstand

whatever was thrown at himwithout too much difficulty.

A right uppercut fromMayweather in the sev-enth had Alvarez introuble temporarily, butthe 23-year-old re-covered well.

Alvarez, spurred by alarge Mexican contin-

gent at MGM Grand,backed the American on to

the ropes in round eight butwas not landing any significant

blows, with Mayweather’s snappyand consistent jabs ensuring he con-tinued to score better. And the Amer-ican duly saw out the remainder ofthe bout with the minimum fuss.

JONNY Brownlee was upset he couldnot keep the family name on theworld championship trophy asS p a i n’s Javier Gomez clinched a dra-matic victory at the World TriathlonGrand Final in Hyde Park.

It came down to a sprint finishbetween the two men, with bothknowing victory would give them thetitle, but the Spaniard was thestronger in the final metres.

The world title is decided over aseries of races and Olympic cham-pion Alistair Brownlee led the way inthe standings after three victories,but an ankle injury that has troubledhim for much of the year kept him outof contention.

Going into the transition at thestart of the ten kilometre run, the25-year-old was grimacing in pain,and he eventually trailed in 52nd atthe same venue where he won goldlast summer.

Only Gomez has managed to rivalthe Brownlees since Alistair won theworld title for the first time in 2009,with the elder brother winning againin 2011 and Jonny taking the crownfor the first time last season.

Jonny, 23, said: “I’m a bit guttedbecause it was so close. When it’s likethat you ask yourself, ‘What could Ihave done differently?’

“I knew Alistair was strugglinggoing into it. He’s literally done fourweeks of training the whole year. Hedid two weeks of training in St Moritzand was already as fit as me and thenhe hurt himself in Stockholm.

“The only reason he did well inStockholm and Hamburg andKitzbuhel is because he’s so good. It’sincredible what he’s done this year.

“He shouldn’t have raced. AfterStockholm he really hasn’t run. He

ran on Thursday for the first time inabout two weeks.

“Before the race he was reallynervous. Yesterday we went for a runand I could tell it was bothering him.T hat’s why it’s even tougher to takebecause I wanted to win it for him aswell. I knew it was up to me.”

Jonny and Gomez were locked to-gether for the entirety of the runbefore Jonny made a move witharound 200 metres to go.

Initially, it looked like it might be

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enough but the Spaniard fought hisway past to clinch victory and histhird world championship.

Alistair at one stage looked to havegot into a rhythm, and climbed to fifthbefore the pain became too much andhe jogged around the remainder ofthe course.

He concentrated on trying to helpJonny, gesturing to him to play itsmart and then stopping to urge himon in the closing moments.

Alistair said: “I was watchingJonny and I was getting so frustratedwith him. All he had to do was sitbehind Javier until the last 50 metresand he was going to win.

“I saw him make his move withabout 200m to go, and I thought, ‘Ohno, what an idiot’. I’ll be giving him alot of stick for that. He’s thrown aworld title away through being a com-plete tactical numpty.”

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Barritt’s injury blow for EnglandENGLAND have lost a second playerto injury for their entire autumncampaign after Brad Barritt wasruled out for around three monthsfollowing foot surgery.

Just four days after knee ligamentdamage ended the season of Leicesterflanker Tom Croft, Saracens have re-vealed that Barritt suffered a recur-rence of a problem that first surfacedin last season’s Heineken Cupsemi-final defeat by Toulon.

The 27-year-old British and IrishLions centre started last weekend’svictory over London Irish but nowfaces a spell in the treatment room inan enforced break that Saracens dir-ector of rugby Mark McCall hintedmight prove beneficial.

McCall said: “We ’re not exactlysure of the time frame. It’s reallyunfortunate for Brad because he’sbeen outstanding for us over the last

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four seasons. We’ll miss him for thenext three months or so, but Bradh a s n’t had much of a break fromrugby for four and a half years.

“Getting him back in January willbe a real bonus for us and he’ll have alot to look forward to from that mo-ment on.

“We ’re not exactly sure when theinjury happened. He injured that footagainst Toulon last season and it’scome back again. It’s unfortunate, it’sone of those things.”

Barritt, a mid-tour call up by theLions in Australia, started everymatch of last season’s RBS Six Na-tions and has accumulated 16 capssince making his Test debut in the2012 Championship.

His strength in defence meant hewas a likely starter against Australia,Argentina and New Zealand in theAutumn internationals.

Luiten eases toa home win withplay-off victoryJOOST Luiten made it a day of doubleDutch delight with victory in theKLM Open after compatriot DaanHuizing won the Kharkov SuperiorCup on the Challenge Tour.

Minutes after Huizing secured atwo-shot win in the Ukraine, Luitenbeat Miguel Angel Jimenez on thefirst hole of a sudden-death play-off atKennemer Golf Club.

A par on the 18th was enough togive Luiten his third European Tourtitle and second of the season afterJimenez three-putted from longrang e.

Luiten, who won the Lyoness Openin Austria earlier this season, said:“Miguel was playing great, especiallyon the front nine when he startedwith four birdies in six holes and Iwas struggling a little bit.

“I made a few mistakes and al-though I saved par each time Ithought to just hang in there until theback nine and hopefully I can make amove there, and that happened.”

Luiten finished second to RossFisher at Kennemer in 2007 andadded: “It was my first year and agreat week but it definitely gave methe taste for more and to win it now Ic a n’t believe it yet, it’s unbelievable. Ithink tonight it will hit me.

“I don’t know what it means forDutch golf but I think it’s pretty big.Maarten Lafeber won it in 2003 andthat was huge, and to have anotherDutch winner now I think it will helpthe game here and, hopefully, we cancreate more Dutch winners for thistour nament.”

Jimenez, who was seeking his 13thvictory since turning 40, said: “Jo o s tplayed very well and there had to beonly one winner. The Dutch Opendeserved the winner.

“It was a tough day in the wind andnot easy for anyone. I was happy to bein contention once more.”

Three-time champion SimonDyson held a share of the lead early inthe final round after making threebirdies in his first four holes but sawhis chances of a fourth win come to anend with a double-bogey on the 15th.

He had to settle for a share of thirdplace on nine under par.


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CLIFTON continued their impress-ive start to the season with victoryover promotion candidates HartpuryCollege, in an entertaining encounterat Cribbs Causeway.

The Henbury-based side, buoyed bytheir last-gasp 32-30 win at Canter-bury seven days earlier, played withan air of confidence and the sort ofself-belief that was missing fromtheir armoury last season.

Hartpury handed out a 72-3 drub-bing to their hosts in April, and Clif-ton director of rugby Darren Lloydwas quick to pay tribute to his youngside for the way they have turned

especially in attack. Pomphrey’s in-cision from full-back provided thrustand added a further dimension towhat was already a slick and dan-gerous looking back division – theversatile three-quarter first settingup a try for wing Auguy Slowik,before cutting the line to race in for amagnificent second-half try.

Full-back Billy Burns opened thescoring for Hartpury with asecond-minute penalty, before Eadie –C l i f t o n’s chief ball-carrier – crashedover in the corner for his second tryin as many weeks. Braley narrowlymissed the conversion, but added theextras after Slowik, who has just beennamed in the full England Sevenssquad for their six-day visit to Kenya,raced in under the posts, after re-ceiving a neat inside pass from Pom-p h re y.

Burns added another penalty, butmissed the conversion after HartpuryNo8 Ellis Genge muscled his way over


� Clifton’s defence work hard to bring down a Hartpury attacker during their win at Cribbs Causeway on Saturday Picture: johnwhitemedia.co.uk

Clifton’s impressive start to theseason goes on with Hartpury win

things around since that fateful day.He said: “You have to be happy after

winning your opening two fixtures ofyour new campaign. Hartpury are avery good side – they gave us a hidinglast season – and, although these areearly days, we are showing un-doubted signs of improvement.

“We (the management and coaches)have given this squad a set of corevalues to follow, and this group ofplayers is buying into those values. Ithought there were some outstandingindividual performances out theretoday, but I was really impressed byour collective effort – we really arestarting to gel as a team.”

The home side got off to the betterstart and played with a greater ur-gency and hunger. Joe Quinn im-pressed in the second row, while No 8Mitch Eadie and scrum-half CallumBraley dominated play in thefirst-half. But it was full-back WillPomphrey who really caught the eye,

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Dings lacklustredisplay givesChinnor victory

DINGS were well below par and nomatch for an efficient, but by nomeans outstanding Chinnor side.

Three tries in the first-half and fourin the second for the home side, sawthem secure a bonus point with Dingsmanaging just two consolation tries.

Poor tackling and a raft of penaltiesfrom Dings made things prettysimple for the home side, with speedywinger Tristan Corpe. proving tooquick for the visitors defence, bygrabbing four tries.

Playing up the slope and againstthe wind, Crusaders found it hardgoing against a lively Chinnor sideintent on moving the ball at everyoppor tunity.

The home side took the lead with apenalty from fly-half Will Millet inthe first minute, and were soonten-points up with a try from lockSam Blewitt, who strolled in unop-posed from 15 metres out.

Millet added the conversion.Five -minutes

later, Corpegot the firsttry, round-ing hiswing erout wideto scoreunderthe posts,and withMilletadding the con-version, Dings foundthemselves 17-0 down having not seenthe ball.

The Bristol side managed one realattack in the first half, when No 8Mike Uren barged to the try line butjust failed to find prop Mike Flookwith the line begging.

The home side rounded off thefirst-half with a try for Millett and ahalf-time lead of 22-0.

Dings opened the second-halfbrightly, and after going close to a trythrough centre Sheldon Stevens,opened their account with a MarkWoodrow penalty.

However, it was the home side whostretched the lead with a well workedtry, after moving the ball twice acrossthe pitch for a try in the corner forwing Corpe, who added another threeminutes later with a run from hisown 22 for his hat-trick and a lead of32-3.

Dings best period came around the60- minutes when centre Rob Demp-sey finished of a good drive by thepack with a try converted by Woo-d row.

Two more tries for the home side,first from replacement centre GeorgeBlewitt and then from Corpe to com-plete his four try haul, saw the homeside past forty points.

Dings were left to finish off with aconsolation try for centre Sam Cox,pictured, who was forced by injuriesto play much of the match as flanker,with the last play of the match.

from a driving line-out on 26-minutes.But the home side stretched theirlead with two long-range Braley pen-alties to make it 18-11 at the inter-va l .

Stern words at half-time appearedto do the trick for the visitors, and thesides were back on level terms after49 minutes when former Cliftoncentre Steve Leonard blasted his waypast three defenders to score underthe posts, allowing Burns the easiestof conversions.

Po m p h re y ’s splendid five-pointerwas cancelled out by Burns’ try in thecorner 14-minutes later, but twowell-struck penalties from Braley ex-tended Clifton’s lead to six pointswith ten minutes remaining. Hart-pury again upped their effort andthrew everything at Clifton, but amixture of poor execution by Hart-pury and dogged defence by the homeside ensured Clifton’s winning startto the season continued.

Results

Stroud 14, Gordon League 41 St Mary’s OB 11,Hucclecote 13 Whitehall 20, Painswick 28Southmead 16.Gloucester One: Bishopston 8 Old Richians 17,Bream 27 Old Colstonians 17, Brockworth 10Widden OB 16, Cheltenham Saracens 22Longlevens 34, Chipping Sodbury 12 Kingswood 7,Gloucester OB 28 Ashley Down OB 16.Gloucester Two: Aretians 7 Westbury 8, BAC 31Spartans 20, Broad Plain 8 Ross-on-Wye 10,Cheltenham CS 3 Old Cryptians 53.Gloucester Three: Hardwicke & Q 12 Tredworth82, Minchinhampton 7 Smiths 10, Norton 0 OldElizabethans 25.Somerset Premier: Bsl Barbarians 7 Gordano 48,Minehead Barb 31 Nailsea & Backwell 7, Taunton25 St Bernadettes 26, Tor 29 Weston-s-Mare 27,Winscombe 47 Old Reds 20, Wiveliscombe 36Keynsham 27, Yatton 15 Stothert & Pitt 24.Somerset One: Bridgwater & Alb 7 Yatton 13,Clevedon 58 Chard 7, Crewkerne 29 Hornets 5,Midsomer N 24 Wells 17, N Petherton 19 Castle

Cary 15, Old Sulians 10 Imperial 12, Wellington 47Old Reds 5.Somerset Two North: Bsl Harlequins 38Winscombe 20, Chew Valley 94 Weston-s-Mare 10,Clevedon 24 Walcot 25, Keynsham 31 OldCulverhaysians 10, Midsomer Norton 5 Nailsea & B36, Oldfield OB 0 Gordano 35.Somerset Two South: Burnham 27 Wiveliscombe22, Cheddar Valley 46 Tor 0, Hornets 14 Taunton43, Ivel Barb 22 Somerton 13, Minehead Barb 12Morganians 10, Wyvern 41 Bridgwater & Alb 7.Somerset Three North: Avon 56 Midsomer Norton0, Bath OEs 30 Keynsham 0, Bsl Barbarians 0Imperial 48, Stothert & Pitt 41 Walcot 7, Yatton vOldfield OB (home w/o).Somerset Three South: Castle Cary v Burnham(home w/o), Chard v Wells (home w/o), Crewkerne12 Wellington 36, Martock v Tor (home w/o),Minehead Barb 10 N Petherton 59.

YESTERDAYGreene King IPA Championship: Cornish Pirates23 Bristol 21, Plymouth 41 Jersey 27.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14The Rugby Championship: Australia 14Argentina 13, New Zealand 29 South Africa 15.Aviva Premiership: Bath 27 Leicester 20, Exeter30 Wasps 26, Harlequins 6 Northampton 13(played Fri), Sale 14 Newcastle 15 (played Fri),Worcester 18 London Irish 20.RaboDirect Pro12: Leinster 29 Ospreys 29,Scarlets 26 Benetton Treviso 10.Greene King IPA Championship: Ealing 13London Scottish 44, London Welsh 23 Bedford 9,Moseley 24 Rotherham 42, Nottingham 24 LeedsCarnegie 16.SSE National One: Coventry 38 Cinderford 13,Esher 40 Henley 30, Fylde 34 Wharfedale 21, HullIonians 19 Doncaster 40, Loughborough Stud 26Old Albanians 19, Rosslyn Park 26 Richmond 15,Tynedale 25 Blaydon 24, Worthing 22 Blackheath27.National Two South: Bishop’s Stortford 28Ampthill 28, Bournemouth 45 London Irish WG 25,Cambridge 24 Canterbury 14, Chinnor 42 Dings

Crus 17, Cornish AB 31 Redruth 10, Clifton 29Hartpury Coll 23, Southend 17 Shelford 13,Taunton 61 Exmouth 23.National Three South West: Amersham & C 29Avonmouth 7, Newton Abbot 27 Chippenham 15,Old Centralians 11 Lydney 44, Old Reds 31Brixham 7, Redingensians 18 Bracknell 12,Weston-s-Mare 36 Barnstaple 17, Worcester 20Old Patesians 28.South West One West: Bideford 12 St Austell 38,Bridgwater & A 14 Camborne 0, Chard 18 NorthPetherton 7, Hornets 42 Clevedon 9, Sidmouth 19Coney Hill 10, Thornbury 8 Cleve 34, Wadebridge10 Cullompton 6.Western Counties North: Bsl Harlequins 16Barton Hill 38, Chosen Hill FO 30 Avon 31,Drybrook 38 Midsomer Norton 3, Keynsham 14Chew Valley 25, Matson 47 Oldfield OB 12, NBristol 30 Berry Hill 0, Old Bristolians 34Cirencester 15.Gloucester Premier: Bsl Saracens 33 Newent 14,Dursley 12 Tewkesbury 25, Frampton Cott 40

Clifton 29

Hartpury College 23

Chinnor 42

Dings Crusaders 17

Mayweather hands out a beating to Alvarez

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Boxing

FLOYD Mayweather claimed theWBC light middleweight and WBAsuper world light middleweight titleson Saturday night, producing a dom-inant display to get past Saul Alvarezon a 12-round majority decision inLas Vegas.

Mayweather, 36, bossed proceed-ings against the Mexican 13 years hisjunior, and claimed a convincing vic-tory – despite one judge scoring theunification bout even – to extend hisunbeaten professional record to 45fights. The highly rated 23-year-oldheaded into the bout having built hisown unbeaten record and was re-garded by many as the biggest threatyet to Mayweather.

But the American, pictured, alwayslooked in control, his fast handsdoing enough to edge most roundshowever much Alvarez tried to strideforward. It was clear from the early

stages that the action would not liveup to the hype as Mayweather, whoearned a base purse of US dollars41.5million (£26.1m), made Al-varez dance to his tunet h ro u g h o u t .

The Michigan manmade the more livelystart, landing a few use-ful right hooks in roundone as Alvarez came toterms with his sur-ro u n d i n g s.

The American contin-ued plugging away, with Al-varez producing a couple ofbody-blows of his own but seemingunsteady on his feet as he tried toapply some positivity in round two.

Alvarez gave Mayweathersomething to think about in roundthree with a left hook, Mayweatherlooking a tad wary of his young Mex-

ican opponent. Alvarez’s neat com-binations were having no effect, withMayweather able to withstand

whatever was thrown at himwithout too much difficulty.

A right uppercut fromMayweather in the sev-enth had Alvarez introuble temporarily, butthe 23-year-old re-covered well.

Alvarez, spurred by alarge Mexican contin-

gent at MGM Grand,backed the American on to

the ropes in round eight butwas not landing any significant

blows, with Mayweather’s snappyand consistent jabs ensuring he con-tinued to score better. And the Amer-ican duly saw out the remainder ofthe bout with the minimum fuss.

JONNY Brownlee was upset he couldnot keep the family name on theworld championship trophy asS p a i n’s Javier Gomez clinched a dra-matic victory at the World TriathlonGrand Final in Hyde Park.

It came down to a sprint finishbetween the two men, with bothknowing victory would give them thetitle, but the Spaniard was thestronger in the final metres.

The world title is decided over aseries of races and Olympic cham-pion Alistair Brownlee led the way inthe standings after three victories,but an ankle injury that has troubledhim for much of the year kept him outof contention.

Going into the transition at thestart of the ten kilometre run, the25-year-old was grimacing in pain,and he eventually trailed in 52nd atthe same venue where he won goldlast summer.

Only Gomez has managed to rivalthe Brownlees since Alistair won theworld title for the first time in 2009,with the elder brother winning againin 2011 and Jonny taking the crownfor the first time last season.

Jonny, 23, said: “I’m a bit guttedbecause it was so close. When it’s likethat you ask yourself, ‘What could Ihave done differently?’

“I knew Alistair was strugglinggoing into it. He’s literally done fourweeks of training the whole year. Hedid two weeks of training in St Moritzand was already as fit as me and thenhe hurt himself in Stockholm.

“The only reason he did well inStockholm and Hamburg andKitzbuhel is because he’s so good. It’sincredible what he’s done this year.

“He shouldn’t have raced. AfterStockholm he really hasn’t run. He

ran on Thursday for the first time inabout two weeks.

“Before the race he was reallynervous. Yesterday we went for a runand I could tell it was bothering him.T hat’s why it’s even tougher to takebecause I wanted to win it for him aswell. I knew it was up to me.”

Jonny and Gomez were locked to-gether for the entirety of the runbefore Jonny made a move witharound 200 metres to go.

Initially, it looked like it might be

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enough but the Spaniard fought hisway past to clinch victory and histhird world championship.

Alistair at one stage looked to havegot into a rhythm, and climbed to fifthbefore the pain became too much andhe jogged around the remainder ofthe course.

He concentrated on trying to helpJonny, gesturing to him to play itsmart and then stopping to urge himon in the closing moments.

Alistair said: “I was watchingJonny and I was getting so frustratedwith him. All he had to do was sitbehind Javier until the last 50 metresand he was going to win.

“I saw him make his move withabout 200m to go, and I thought, ‘Ohno, what an idiot’. I’ll be giving him alot of stick for that. He’s thrown aworld title away through being a com-plete tactical numpty.”

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Barritt’s injury blow for EnglandENGLAND have lost a second playerto injury for their entire autumncampaign after Brad Barritt wasruled out for around three monthsfollowing foot surgery.

Just four days after knee ligamentdamage ended the season of Leicesterflanker Tom Croft, Saracens have re-vealed that Barritt suffered a recur-rence of a problem that first surfacedin last season’s Heineken Cupsemi-final defeat by Toulon.

The 27-year-old British and IrishLions centre started last weekend’svictory over London Irish but nowfaces a spell in the treatment room inan enforced break that Saracens dir-ector of rugby Mark McCall hintedmight prove beneficial.

McCall said: “We ’re not exactlysure of the time frame. It’s reallyunfortunate for Brad because he’sbeen outstanding for us over the last

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four seasons. We’ll miss him for thenext three months or so, but Bradh a s n’t had much of a break fromrugby for four and a half years.

“Getting him back in January willbe a real bonus for us and he’ll have alot to look forward to from that mo-ment on.

“We ’re not exactly sure when theinjury happened. He injured that footagainst Toulon last season and it’scome back again. It’s unfortunate, it’sone of those things.”

Barritt, a mid-tour call up by theLions in Australia, started everymatch of last season’s RBS Six Na-tions and has accumulated 16 capssince making his Test debut in the2012 Championship.

His strength in defence meant hewas a likely starter against Australia,Argentina and New Zealand in theAutumn internationals.

Luiten eases toa home win withplay-off victoryJOOST Luiten made it a day of doubleDutch delight with victory in theKLM Open after compatriot DaanHuizing won the Kharkov SuperiorCup on the Challenge Tour.

Minutes after Huizing secured atwo-shot win in the Ukraine, Luitenbeat Miguel Angel Jimenez on thefirst hole of a sudden-death play-off atKennemer Golf Club.

A par on the 18th was enough togive Luiten his third European Tourtitle and second of the season afterJimenez three-putted from longrang e.

Luiten, who won the Lyoness Openin Austria earlier this season, said:“Miguel was playing great, especiallyon the front nine when he startedwith four birdies in six holes and Iwas struggling a little bit.

“I made a few mistakes and al-though I saved par each time Ithought to just hang in there until theback nine and hopefully I can make amove there, and that happened.”

Luiten finished second to RossFisher at Kennemer in 2007 andadded: “It was my first year and agreat week but it definitely gave methe taste for more and to win it now Ic a n’t believe it yet, it’s unbelievable. Ithink tonight it will hit me.

“I don’t know what it means forDutch golf but I think it’s pretty big.Maarten Lafeber won it in 2003 andthat was huge, and to have anotherDutch winner now I think it will helpthe game here and, hopefully, we cancreate more Dutch winners for thistour nament.”

Jimenez, who was seeking his 13thvictory since turning 40, said: “Jo o s tplayed very well and there had to beonly one winner. The Dutch Opendeserved the winner.

“It was a tough day in the wind andnot easy for anyone. I was happy to bein contention once more.”

Three-time champion SimonDyson held a share of the lead early inthe final round after making threebirdies in his first four holes but sawhis chances of a fourth win come to anend with a double-bogey on the 15th.

He had to settle for a share of thirdplace on nine under par.


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West Ham 0

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ARSENAL boss Arsene Wenger iskeeping his fingers crossed that in-juries do not ruin a promising start tothe season.

The Gunners climbed to the top ofthe Barclays Premier League table onSaturday after a 3-1 victory at Sun-d e rl a n d .

However, the win on Wearsidecame at a cost after striker OlivierGiroud limped off with a knee prob-lem late in the game to join SantiCazorla on the sidelines.

Wenger later revealed that theSpaniard is out of Wednesday’sChampions League clash with Mar-seille and is unlikely to play againbefore the next international break,and with Lukas Podolski currentlyalso on the casualty list, he admits hecannot afford to lose any more at-tacking players.

The Frenchman said: “We score

Giroud and Cazorla giveArsene cause for concern

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Lambert not ready to panic yet

ASTON Villa boss Paul Lambertclaimed after his side’s home defeatto Newcastle that the contest hadbeen “a bad one to lose” – but he is notabout to get carried away over howthings are shaping up at this earlystage of the season.

The result means Villa have nowlost three Barclays Premier Leaguegames in a row since beginning theirtop-flight campaign so impressivelyby winning 3-1 at Arsenal, with theother reverses coming at Chelsea andat home against Liverpool.

Lambert has no doubt the four fix-tures have made for a tough start andit seems he may well have regardedS at u rd ay ’s meeting with the Magpiesat Villa Park as a particularly im-portant opportunity to pick upp o i n t s.

As it turned out, a 73rd-minutestrike from substitute Yoan Gouffranensured Newcastle took all three, theforward reacting after Brad Guzanhad parried a shot from the impress-ive Hatem Ben Arfa, whoseclose-range 18th-minute opener hadbeen cancelled out by Christian Ben-t e ke ’s 67th-minute headed equaliser.

Everton 1

Chelsea 0

Aston Villa 1

Newcastle United 2

Following the final whistle, Lam-bert – whose side are currently 16thin the table, two points better off thanbottom-placed Sunderland – said:“The start we have had has been hard,but this was a bad one to lose.

“But if you look at all the results,there have been plenty of draws, andwe are only four games into the sea-son. There is a long, long way to go.”

In their past 40 home league games,stretching back to 2011-12, Villa havewon only nine times and some of thecl u b ’s fans voiced their discontentfrom the stands with boos on Sat-u rd ay.

Asked about that, Lambert, whotook charge of the Midlands outfit inthe summer of 2012, stressed he wouldnever be critical of the supportersafter the backing they have givenhim, and also emphasised that hisplayers need to be galvanised ratherthan inhibited by playing at home.

“I’m not one for excuses,” said theScot, who confirmed Villa defenderJores Okore had sustained whatlooked like a knee injury during theNewcastle game.

“You have to thrive on that crowdand playing in front of it – it is a greatcrowd to play in front of. You have tobe able to handle it.”

Newcastle boss, Alan Pardew said:“Hatem got probably the simplestgoal he is ever going to score. But hegot in the box, something we haveencouraged him to do.”

because we have a good game, livelywith a lot of energy, we are dynamicin our game, and a lot of belief aswe l l .

“But we are still short now. Withthe injuries we have, we cannot affordnow to lose players.”

Despite arriving at the Stadium ofLight without defender Per Merte-sacker and with record signing MesutOzil having only just recovered fromthe same bug which prevented histeam-mate from travelling, the Gun-ners turned in a superb first-halfdisplay and should really have hadthe game won by the break.

Ozil took little time to settle into hisnew surroundings, expertly con-trolling Kieran Gibbs’ long ball be-fore sliding a cross into OlivierG i ro u d ’s run and watching thestriker nonchalantly guide it pastkeeper Keiren Westwood with just 11minutes gone. The former Real Mad-rid star seemed able to split the Sun-derland defence at will and twiceplayed in Theo Walcott, only to seethe England international denied byWestwood on both occasions.

Indeed, Walcott might have had ahat-trick inside the opening 43

minutes, but ended the halfempty-handed when he sent a divingheader wide from Giroud’s cross.

But remarkably, Sunderland forcedtheir way back into the game withinfour minutes of the restart whenCraig Gardner, who had replacedDavid Vaughan at the break,thumped home a penalty afterLaurent Koscielny had tripped AdamJo h n s o n .

Aaron Ramsey restored the vis-itors’ lead with a sumptuous volleyfrom Carl Jenkinson’s 67th-minutecross, and the Welshman sealed thewin nine minutes later after com-bining with Ozil and Giroud on theedge of the box.

However, the Gunners had enjoyeda major escape in the meantimewhen, after Jozy Altidore hadout-muscled Bacary Sagna to stab ashot past keeper Wojciech Szczesny,referee Martin Atkinson called playback for a foul on the United Statesf ro n t m a n .

Wenger said: “We had plenty ofchances in the first half – we had anoutstanding first half. In the secondhalf, Sunderland played very wellwith much more energy.

Premier League

JUSSI Jaaskelainen pulled off astring of fine saves as West Ham heldSouthampton to a goalless draw indifficult conditions at St Mary’s.

In a match devoid of many mo-ments of class, the oldest man on thepitch proved decisive as Saints weredenied a first home win of the sea-son.

The 38-year-old was first called intoaction after 11 minutes, somehowkeeping out a Dani Osvaldo effortwhen it looked easier to score – thebest chance of a tepid first half inwhich Kevin Nolan had a goal ruledout for offside.

Lambert hit the post moments afterplay resumed, with the England in-ternational, making his 200thSouthampton appearance, thendenied by Jaaskelainen as MauricioPo ch e t t i n o ’s side pushed for the open-e r.

The veteran Finn, supported im-pressively by James Collins and Win-ston Reid, was also at his best to stopMorgan Schneiderlin, who was luckynot to be booked in the first half for apoor tackle on Mohamed Diame.

Referee Andre Marriner chose notto even award a free-kick for that

making amends soon after denied bythe quick thinking of Reid.

The New Zealand international’soutstretched leg prevented him run-ning free at goal, with Jaaskelainenthwarting Lambert from the re-bound.

� West Ham’s Jussi Jaaskelainen intercepts a cross during the 0-0 draw against Southampton at St Mary’s yesterday

West Ham frustrate Saints ina game to forget at St Mary’s

challenge and was in the spotlightagain after adjudging a Joey O‘Brienlunge on Adam Lallana only worthyof a booking.

Heading into the game, much of thetalk revolved around Ravel Morris-on.

The highly-rated, but unpredict-able 20-year-old was handed his firstPremier League start in place ofStewart Downing, who has joinedAndy Carroll, Joe Cole and GeorgeMcCartney in the treatment room.

Southampton brought in NathanielClyne, Jay Rodriguez and Luke Shaw,with the latter almost caught out inthe opening minutes.

Diame impressively controlled acrossfield ball and turned the teenageleft-back, giving him space to stingthe palms of Artur Boruc.

West Ham were quickest to settle inmiserable conditions on the southcoast, with Boruc forced into actionafter the wind sent a Matt Jarviscross towards his goal.

Saints, though, should have takenthe lead with their first chance of theafter noon.

After losing his man down the left,Rodrigue z’s cute cutback from thebyline found Osvaldo unmarked – bu tthe Italian’s goalbound strike wasimpressively blocked by Jaaskelain-en.

It was a chance Southampton’s re-cord signing was clearly frustratednot to have buried, with a chance at

Premier League

Eto ’o’s class willout in the end,insists Mikel

CHELSEA midfielder Jon Obi Mikelhas every confidence new strikerSamuel Eto‘o will find his shootingboots sooner rather than later.

The Cameroon international had adebut to forget in the 1-0 defeat atEverton – Jose Mourinho’s first lossin his second spell at the club – andlooked a poor imitation of the playerwho had successful spells at Bar-celona and Inter Milan.

Two extortionately paid seasonswith Russian side Anzhi Makhach-kala may have dulled the senses of the32-year-old but Mikel predicts it willnot be long before Eto‘o is strikingfear into defences again.

“Samuel is a great player, a fant-astic player. You could see the way heplayed, he created some fantasticch a n c e s, ” the Nigeria internationaltold Press Association Sport.

“That is why the manager broughthim in. Obviously he has a lot of trustand belief in him.

“Let’s wait and see, the Englishleague is very difficult to adapt to andthis was the first game for him and hehas done pretty well.

“Chelsea was my first real pro-fessional club and it took me sixmonths to a year to adapt, but I thinksomeone like Eto‘o, who is well ex-perienced and has played in so manyleagues, won’t take very long.

“I think he looked a bit sharp so itwo n’t take him long to get back intohis fitness.

“He is a world-class player, a fant-astic guy. We just have to keep playingwith him and helping him to adapt tothe Premier League. He tries to givehis experience so we have to keepworking with him, keep playing withhim and trying to help him to fitin.”

Eto‘o’s debut could have got off tothe perfect start after only fiveminutes, but he directed aclose-range header from Ramires’cross wastefully wide.

More embarrassingly for theCameroonian, and probably as a res-ult of trying too hard, he balloonedone shot into the upper tier of theGwladys Street end.

He would have scored into an opennet had Everton’s own debutantGareth Barry not slid in to rescuegoalkeeper Tim Howard’s blusheswhen, in trying to pass sideways outof his six-yard area, he picked outAndre Schurrle.

But all-in-all it was not the debutpeople were expecting as Steven Na-ismith bundled home a header fromclose range on the stroke ofh a l f - t i m e.

The closest Everton came to scor-ing after that was when LeightonBaines rattled the angle of crossbarand post with a 90th-minutef re e - k i ck .

Chelsea created plenty of chancesand Mikel said that meant it wasdifficult to know what to fix.

“It is about how we bounce back.Sometimes when you know whatyo u ’ve done wrong it is easy tobounce back,” he said.

“We need to go back to training andtry to find out what we didn’t do.”

Diame saw an audaciouslong-range drive whistle just over asWest Ham pushed for an opener in therain, which they thought they man-aged just past the half-hour mark.

Boruc spread himself well to stopJarvis when through one-on-one, butcaptain Nolan rifled home from out-side the box – only for the offside flagto cut the Hammers’ c e l e b r at i o n sshor t.

Schneiderlin was fortunate not toreceive a yellow card for a poor chal-lenge on the already booked Diame,with West Ham furious as the mid-fielder left in pain on the floorwithout so much as a free-kick.

Lambert nodded over and Morris-

200� The number of appearancesmade by Rickie Lambert forSouthampton

on curled just wide from 25 yards,before Marriner called time on a tur-gid first half.

Victor Wanyama, particularly poorin the first half, forced Jaaskelainento tip over from distance shortly afterthe restart, with the opener almostcoming from the resulting corner.

Lallana swung the ball in and Lam-ber t’s powerful header rattled thepost, followed by hopeful calls for ahandball against the impressiveCollins when Wanyama attempted tostrike home the rebound.

Saints had seemingly given up ontheir attempts to threaten West Hamwith aerial balls and reverted to play-ing on the deck, with Osvaldo slip-ping through Lallana only forJaaskelainen to thwart him.

Po ch e t t i n o ’s side continued in theascendancy and Schneiderlin saw athreatening overhead kick washeaded away by Reid after Osvaldohad seen a shot blocked.

Mark Noble and Wanyama wereboth booked for late challenges, withJoey O‘Brien soon joining them for atackle on Lallana that saw tempersfray and could have resulted in are d .

The challenge came afterJaaskelainen superbly turned aSchneiderlin volley around the post,with the veteran goalkeeper thenbrilliantly clawing away a curlingLambert effort.

Sunderland 1

Arsenal 3

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West Ham 0

Premier League

ARSENAL boss Arsene Wenger iskeeping his fingers crossed that in-juries do not ruin a promising start tothe season.

The Gunners climbed to the top ofthe Barclays Premier League table onSaturday after a 3-1 victory at Sun-d e rl a n d .

However, the win on Wearsidecame at a cost after striker OlivierGiroud limped off with a knee prob-lem late in the game to join SantiCazorla on the sidelines.

Wenger later revealed that theSpaniard is out of Wednesday’sChampions League clash with Mar-seille and is unlikely to play againbefore the next international break,and with Lukas Podolski currentlyalso on the casualty list, he admits hecannot afford to lose any more at-tacking players.

The Frenchman said: “We score

Giroud and Cazorla giveArsene cause for concern

Premier League

Lambert not ready to panic yet

ASTON Villa boss Paul Lambertclaimed after his side’s home defeatto Newcastle that the contest hadbeen “a bad one to lose” – but he is notabout to get carried away over howthings are shaping up at this earlystage of the season.

The result means Villa have nowlost three Barclays Premier Leaguegames in a row since beginning theirtop-flight campaign so impressivelyby winning 3-1 at Arsenal, with theother reverses coming at Chelsea andat home against Liverpool.

Lambert has no doubt the four fix-tures have made for a tough start andit seems he may well have regardedS at u rd ay ’s meeting with the Magpiesat Villa Park as a particularly im-portant opportunity to pick upp o i n t s.

As it turned out, a 73rd-minutestrike from substitute Yoan Gouffranensured Newcastle took all three, theforward reacting after Brad Guzanhad parried a shot from the impress-ive Hatem Ben Arfa, whoseclose-range 18th-minute opener hadbeen cancelled out by Christian Ben-t e ke ’s 67th-minute headed equaliser.

Everton 1

Chelsea 0

Aston Villa 1

Newcastle United 2

Following the final whistle, Lam-bert – whose side are currently 16thin the table, two points better off thanbottom-placed Sunderland – said:“The start we have had has been hard,but this was a bad one to lose.

“But if you look at all the results,there have been plenty of draws, andwe are only four games into the sea-son. There is a long, long way to go.”

In their past 40 home league games,stretching back to 2011-12, Villa havewon only nine times and some of thecl u b ’s fans voiced their discontentfrom the stands with boos on Sat-u rd ay.

Asked about that, Lambert, whotook charge of the Midlands outfit inthe summer of 2012, stressed he wouldnever be critical of the supportersafter the backing they have givenhim, and also emphasised that hisplayers need to be galvanised ratherthan inhibited by playing at home.

“I’m not one for excuses,” said theScot, who confirmed Villa defenderJores Okore had sustained whatlooked like a knee injury during theNewcastle game.

“You have to thrive on that crowdand playing in front of it – it is a greatcrowd to play in front of. You have tobe able to handle it.”

Newcastle boss, Alan Pardew said:“Hatem got probably the simplestgoal he is ever going to score. But hegot in the box, something we haveencouraged him to do.”

because we have a good game, livelywith a lot of energy, we are dynamicin our game, and a lot of belief aswe l l .

“But we are still short now. Withthe injuries we have, we cannot affordnow to lose players.”

Despite arriving at the Stadium ofLight without defender Per Merte-sacker and with record signing MesutOzil having only just recovered fromthe same bug which prevented histeam-mate from travelling, the Gun-ners turned in a superb first-halfdisplay and should really have hadthe game won by the break.

Ozil took little time to settle into hisnew surroundings, expertly con-trolling Kieran Gibbs’ long ball be-fore sliding a cross into OlivierG i ro u d ’s run and watching thestriker nonchalantly guide it pastkeeper Keiren Westwood with just 11minutes gone. The former Real Mad-rid star seemed able to split the Sun-derland defence at will and twiceplayed in Theo Walcott, only to seethe England international denied byWestwood on both occasions.

Indeed, Walcott might have had ahat-trick inside the opening 43

minutes, but ended the halfempty-handed when he sent a divingheader wide from Giroud’s cross.

But remarkably, Sunderland forcedtheir way back into the game withinfour minutes of the restart whenCraig Gardner, who had replacedDavid Vaughan at the break,thumped home a penalty afterLaurent Koscielny had tripped AdamJo h n s o n .

Aaron Ramsey restored the vis-itors’ lead with a sumptuous volleyfrom Carl Jenkinson’s 67th-minutecross, and the Welshman sealed thewin nine minutes later after com-bining with Ozil and Giroud on theedge of the box.

However, the Gunners had enjoyeda major escape in the meantimewhen, after Jozy Altidore hadout-muscled Bacary Sagna to stab ashot past keeper Wojciech Szczesny,referee Martin Atkinson called playback for a foul on the United Statesf ro n t m a n .

Wenger said: “We had plenty ofchances in the first half – we had anoutstanding first half. In the secondhalf, Sunderland played very wellwith much more energy.

Premier League

JUSSI Jaaskelainen pulled off astring of fine saves as West Ham heldSouthampton to a goalless draw indifficult conditions at St Mary’s.

In a match devoid of many mo-ments of class, the oldest man on thepitch proved decisive as Saints weredenied a first home win of the sea-son.

The 38-year-old was first called intoaction after 11 minutes, somehowkeeping out a Dani Osvaldo effortwhen it looked easier to score – thebest chance of a tepid first half inwhich Kevin Nolan had a goal ruledout for offside.

Lambert hit the post moments afterplay resumed, with the England in-ternational, making his 200thSouthampton appearance, thendenied by Jaaskelainen as MauricioPo ch e t t i n o ’s side pushed for the open-e r.

The veteran Finn, supported im-pressively by James Collins and Win-ston Reid, was also at his best to stopMorgan Schneiderlin, who was luckynot to be booked in the first half for apoor tackle on Mohamed Diame.

Referee Andre Marriner chose notto even award a free-kick for that

making amends soon after denied bythe quick thinking of Reid.

The New Zealand international’soutstretched leg prevented him run-ning free at goal, with Jaaskelainenthwarting Lambert from the re-bound.

� West Ham’s Jussi Jaaskelainen intercepts a cross during the 0-0 draw against Southampton at St Mary’s yesterday

West Ham frustrate Saints ina game to forget at St Mary’s

challenge and was in the spotlightagain after adjudging a Joey O‘Brienlunge on Adam Lallana only worthyof a booking.

Heading into the game, much of thetalk revolved around Ravel Morris-on.

The highly-rated, but unpredict-able 20-year-old was handed his firstPremier League start in place ofStewart Downing, who has joinedAndy Carroll, Joe Cole and GeorgeMcCartney in the treatment room.

Southampton brought in NathanielClyne, Jay Rodriguez and Luke Shaw,with the latter almost caught out inthe opening minutes.

Diame impressively controlled acrossfield ball and turned the teenageleft-back, giving him space to stingthe palms of Artur Boruc.

West Ham were quickest to settle inmiserable conditions on the southcoast, with Boruc forced into actionafter the wind sent a Matt Jarviscross towards his goal.

Saints, though, should have takenthe lead with their first chance of theafter noon.

After losing his man down the left,Rodrigue z’s cute cutback from thebyline found Osvaldo unmarked – bu tthe Italian’s goalbound strike wasimpressively blocked by Jaaskelain-en.

It was a chance Southampton’s re-cord signing was clearly frustratednot to have buried, with a chance at

Premier League

Eto ’o’s class willout in the end,insists Mikel

CHELSEA midfielder Jon Obi Mikelhas every confidence new strikerSamuel Eto‘o will find his shootingboots sooner rather than later.

The Cameroon international had adebut to forget in the 1-0 defeat atEverton – Jose Mourinho’s first lossin his second spell at the club – andlooked a poor imitation of the playerwho had successful spells at Bar-celona and Inter Milan.

Two extortionately paid seasonswith Russian side Anzhi Makhach-kala may have dulled the senses of the32-year-old but Mikel predicts it willnot be long before Eto‘o is strikingfear into defences again.

“Samuel is a great player, a fant-astic player. You could see the way heplayed, he created some fantasticch a n c e s, ” the Nigeria internationaltold Press Association Sport.

“That is why the manager broughthim in. Obviously he has a lot of trustand belief in him.

“Let’s wait and see, the Englishleague is very difficult to adapt to andthis was the first game for him and hehas done pretty well.

“Chelsea was my first real pro-fessional club and it took me sixmonths to a year to adapt, but I thinksomeone like Eto‘o, who is well ex-perienced and has played in so manyleagues, won’t take very long.

“I think he looked a bit sharp so itwo n’t take him long to get back intohis fitness.

“He is a world-class player, a fant-astic guy. We just have to keep playingwith him and helping him to adapt tothe Premier League. He tries to givehis experience so we have to keepworking with him, keep playing withhim and trying to help him to fitin.”

Eto‘o’s debut could have got off tothe perfect start after only fiveminutes, but he directed aclose-range header from Ramires’cross wastefully wide.

More embarrassingly for theCameroonian, and probably as a res-ult of trying too hard, he balloonedone shot into the upper tier of theGwladys Street end.

He would have scored into an opennet had Everton’s own debutantGareth Barry not slid in to rescuegoalkeeper Tim Howard’s blusheswhen, in trying to pass sideways outof his six-yard area, he picked outAndre Schurrle.

But all-in-all it was not the debutpeople were expecting as Steven Na-ismith bundled home a header fromclose range on the stroke ofh a l f - t i m e.

The closest Everton came to scor-ing after that was when LeightonBaines rattled the angle of crossbarand post with a 90th-minutef re e - k i ck .

Chelsea created plenty of chancesand Mikel said that meant it wasdifficult to know what to fix.

“It is about how we bounce back.Sometimes when you know whatyo u ’ve done wrong it is easy tobounce back,” he said.

“We need to go back to training andtry to find out what we didn’t do.”

Diame saw an audaciouslong-range drive whistle just over asWest Ham pushed for an opener in therain, which they thought they man-aged just past the half-hour mark.

Boruc spread himself well to stopJarvis when through one-on-one, butcaptain Nolan rifled home from out-side the box – only for the offside flagto cut the Hammers’ c e l e b r at i o n sshor t.

Schneiderlin was fortunate not toreceive a yellow card for a poor chal-lenge on the already booked Diame,with West Ham furious as the mid-fielder left in pain on the floorwithout so much as a free-kick.

Lambert nodded over and Morris-

200� The number of appearancesmade by Rickie Lambert forSouthampton

on curled just wide from 25 yards,before Marriner called time on a tur-gid first half.

Victor Wanyama, particularly poorin the first half, forced Jaaskelainento tip over from distance shortly afterthe restart, with the opener almostcoming from the resulting corner.

Lallana swung the ball in and Lam-ber t’s powerful header rattled thepost, followed by hopeful calls for ahandball against the impressiveCollins when Wanyama attempted tostrike home the rebound.

Saints had seemingly given up ontheir attempts to threaten West Hamwith aerial balls and reverted to play-ing on the deck, with Osvaldo slip-ping through Lallana only forJaaskelainen to thwart him.

Po ch e t t i n o ’s side continued in theascendancy and Schneiderlin saw athreatening overhead kick washeaded away by Reid after Osvaldohad seen a shot blocked.

Mark Noble and Wanyama wereboth booked for late challenges, withJoey O‘Brien soon joining them for atackle on Lallana that saw tempersfray and could have resulted in are d .

The challenge came afterJaaskelainen superbly turned aSchneiderlin volley around the post,with the veteran goalkeeper thenbrilliantly clawing away a curlingLambert effort.

Sunderland 1

Arsenal 3

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3 Bradford (H)................................................................................................................ 2-26 Gillingham (Capital One, First Round) (A) ................................................................. 2-011 Coventry (A) ............................................................................................................ 4-517 Wolverhampton (H) ................................................................................................. 1-224 MK Dons (A) ............................................................................................................ 2-227 Crystal Palace (Capital One, Second Round) (H)................................................... 2-131 Gillingham (A) .......................................................................................................... 1-1

SEPTEMBER4 Bristol Rovers (JPT, First Round) (H) ........................................................................ 2-114 Peterborough (H) ..................................................................................................... 0-317 Shrewsbury .............................................................................................................. (H)21 Swindon.................................................................................................................... (A)24/25 Southampton (Capital One, Third Round) (A)28 Colchester ................................................................................................................ (H)

OCTOBER5 Port Vale ..................................................................................................................... (A)8 Wycombe (JPT Second Round) ................................................................................. (A)12 Crawley Town........................................................................................................... (H)19 Crewe ....................................................................................................................... (A)22 Brentford................................................................................................................... (H)26 Carlisle ..................................................................................................................... (A)

NOVEMBER2 Oldham ....................................................................................................................... (H)16 Tranmere .................................................................................................................. (A)23 Sheffield United ........................................................................................................ (H)26 Leyton Orient ............................................................................................................ (H)30 Preston ..................................................................................................................... (A)

DECEMBER14 Rotherham ................................................................................................................ (H)21 Notts County ............................................................................................................. (A)26 Walsall ...................................................................................................................... (H)29 Stevenage ................................................................................................................ (H)

JANUARY1 Leyton Orient .............................................................................................................. (A)4 Coventry ..................................................................................................................... (H)11 Bradford .................................................................................................................... (A)18 MK Dons................................................................................................................... (H)25 Wolverhampton ........................................................................................................ (A)28 Brentford ................................................................................................................... (A)

FEBRUARY1 Carlisle ....................................................................................................................... (H)8 Oldham ....................................................................................................................... (A)15 Tranmere.................................................................................................................. (H)22 Sheffield United ........................................................................................................ (A)

MARCH1 Gillingham .................................................................................................................. (H)8 Shrewsbury ................................................................................................................ (A)11 Peterborough............................................................................................................ (A)15 Swindon.................................................................................................................... (H)22 Colchester ................................................................................................................ (A)25 Port Vale................................................................................................................... (H)29 Rotherham ................................................................................................................ (A)

APRIL5 Preston ....................................................................................................................... (H)12 Walsall ...................................................................................................................... (A)19 Notts County............................................................................................................. (H)21 Stevenage ................................................................................................................ (A)26 Crewe ....................................................................................................................... (H)

MAY3 Crawley Town............................................................................................................. (A)

LEAGUE TWOAUGUST

3 Exeter (A) .................................................................................................. 1-26 Watford (Capital One Cup, First Round) (H) ............................................. 1-310 Scunthorpe (H) ........................................................................................ 0-017 Newport County(A) .................................................................................. 0-124 York (H) ................................................................................................... 3-231 Northampton (H) ...................................................................................... 1-0

SEPTEMBER4 Bristol City (JPT, First Round) (A) .............................................................. 1-27 Plymouth (A) .............................................................................................. 0-114 Dag & Red (A) ......................................................................................... 0-221 Hartlepool ................................................................................................ (H)28 Southend .................................................................................................. (A)

OCTOBER5 Fleetwood .................................................................................................. (H)12 Mansfield .................................................................................................. (A)19 Wycombe ................................................................................................ (H)22 Accrington Stanley ................................................................................... (A)26 Chesterfield ............................................................................................. (H)

NOVEMBER2 Oxford Utd .................................................................................................. (A)16 Bury ......................................................................................................... (H)23 Burton Albion ............................................................................................ (A)26 Cheltenham .............................................................................................. (A)30 AFC Wimbledon ...................................................................................... (H)

DECEMBER14 Morecambe .............................................................................................. (A)21 Portsmouth .............................................................................................. (H)26 Torquay .................................................................................................... (A)29 Rochdale .................................................................................................. (A)

JANUARY1 Cheltenham ............................................................................................... (H)4 Scunthorpe ................................................................................................. (A)11 Exeter ....................................................................................................... (H)18 York .......................................................................................................... (A)25 Newport County ....................................................................................... (H)28 Accrington Stanley .................................................................................. (H)

FEBRUARY1 Chesterfield ................................................................................................ (A)8 Oxford Utd ................................................................................................. (H)15 Bury .......................................................................................................... (A)22 Burton Albion........................................................................................... (H)

MARCH1 Northampton............................................................................................... (A)8 Plymouth ................................................................................................... (H)11 Dag & Red............................................................................................... (H)15 Hartlepool ................................................................................................. (A)22 Southend ................................................................................................. (H)25 Fleetwood ................................................................................................. (A)29 Morecambe ............................................................................................. (H)

APRIL5 AFC Wimbledon ......................................................................................... (A)12 Torquay ................................................................................................... (H)19 Portsmouth ............................................................................................... (A)21 Rochdale ................................................................................................. (H)26 Wycombe ................................................................................................. (A)

MAY3 Mansfield ................................................................................................... (H)

Bristol City 2013-14The season so far . . .

Bristol Rovers 2013-14The season so far . . .

Writes for theGreen ’Un

DavePayne

Columnist

Bravery on the football pitch is nothing compared to going to school in south Bristol

Bristol Rugby 2013-14The season so far . . .

AFTER a football matchrecently, along with anumber of my playersin the clubhouse, wewere discussingbravery in sport. Itcame about after

someone remarked on the Scottishboxer Ricky Burns, who sustained abroken jaw while fighting MexicanRay Beltrand, a couple of weeks ago.

The incident happened during thesecond round of the light heavy-weight encounter, but remarkably,Burns carried on until the end of thebout, which ended in a draw.

The amount of pain he sufferedmust have been unbearable, consid-

ering his opponent was still con-stantly jabbing him on the jaw.

One of my players, Carl Chisholmshowed similar qualities that sameweekend. He went over on his ankleduring our match, and with our reg-ular physio being away that partic-ular day, I ran on to the pitch to treathim with the magic sponge.

After Carl had groaned for a fewseconds, I told him to put some weighton the injured ankle and try to run itoff. He managed this for ten minutesor so, before he signalled over to methat he was incapable of carrying on.Later that evening, he left a messageon my mobile phone saying he was atthe hospital where he had just had acast fitted on his broken ankle.

To be honest, I fractured my legabout 20 years ago, while playing forMangotsfield United against Chip-penham Town. I also carried on play-ing not realising how serious theinjury was until after the game.

A lot of people that know me won’tbelieve this, but it is true that I ac-tually considered getting a few tattoos

done all over my body not long after,just to prove how tough I must havebeen!

One of our chaps though betteredthese stories in my opinion. He didstate before he began to relate hisexperience that it may be classed asstupid rather than brave.

He said that as a youngster, he wentto Merrywood, the all-boys’ school inKnowle, South Bristol. He told all ofus listening that when he was14-years-old, during a PE lesson theteacher asked his entire group to dothe high jump, knowing that you weregoing to get injured.

Quizzically, we looked at him andone of us asked: “Why is that so

b r ave ? ” He answered: “Well someonehad stolen all the sand from the land-ing area, so you either belly or backflopped straight on to gravel.”

A couple of people have approachedme recently and remarked that thiscolumn has got a bit more serious oflate. So before I sign off, I would like toput that straight and inform you thatthe last few days have been quiteeventful for me. I was out last weekand got hit by a bouncer; I havedecided that’s the last game of cricketI am playing!

Also, the other evening, I answeredthe door to a group of people who weretrying to persuade me to change thebrand of bread I eat. I told them whereto go – blooming Hovis witnesses.

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