Football

Ominous Holbeach United Sunday cruised into the last eight of the Lincs FA Sunday Cup with a crushing 7-0 win at Metheringham. Joint player/boss Josh Ford led by example with four of the goals, while a Jonny Allen double and a header from defender Jonny Clay rounded off the rout. The Tigers have made no secret of their desire to ...

Loyal Martyn Cundy has offered to stay on and help out whoever takes on the role of Holbeach United manager after turning down the job following a stint as caretaker boss. Cundy, who was chairman Dave Dougill’s number one choice for the role and is popular with the club’s players, admits that it’d be “selfish” of him to take the ...

Newly-formed Holbeach United under-6 football team have been boosted by sponsorship from three businesses. Jakemans (menthol confectioners based in Sutterton), JW Concrete (based in Holbeach) and Centralinc Systems Limited (also based in Holbeach) have all backed the young Tigers. An amazing £500 donation from shirt sponsor Jakemans helped finance purchasing the new kit, with everyone at Holbeach incredibly thankful.

Comeback kings Long Sutton Athletic turned a 3-0 deficit into a 5-4 win at Oakham United Reserves on Saturday as player/boss Matt Cawthorn struck a stoppage-time winner. With Oakham usually very strong at home, Sutton looked to be in dire straits in the ChromaSport PDFL Division One clash when Will Lee (28), Richard Phoenix (33) and Liam Mullineaux (40) found ...

Moulton Harrox’s bid for glory in the Lincs FA Junior Cup ended in penalty shoot-out heartache on Saturday. Harrox were level at 3-3 with hosts North Somercotes United after 90 minutes and then 4-4 after extra time, with Ben Allen, Ainsley Johnson, Marcus Parry and Joe Townsend all on target. But the hosts won the shoot-out 4-2 and progress to ...

In-form Tydd St Mary stunned higher-graded Netherton United Reserves 2-1 on Saturday to progress in the ChromaSport PDFL’s PFA Challenge Cup. With Netherton struggling a little in Division One and Tydd on scorching form in Division Two, an upset always looked likely on paper – and so it proved. Both sides had opportunities early on, but it was the Saints ...

Basford United 1 Spalding United 0 Spalding United slipped to their fourth defeat from their last five Evo-Stik NPL First Division South fixtures as a late Fabian Smith strike gave hosts Basford United a narrow victory on Saturday. The defences of both teams were prominent throughout a very tight and closely contested game on a bitterly cold afternoon in Nottinghamshire, ...

Northampton Sileby Rangers 3 Holbeach United 2 Caretaker boss Martyn Cundy paid tribute to his patched-up Holbeach United side after seeing two late goals deny them what would have been an incredible away win at Northampton Sileby Rangers on Saturday. Missing no less than ten players ahead of the clash, goals in either half from Aaron Eyett and Tommy Treacher ...

South Holland duo Spalding United and Holbeach United both suffered league defeats away from home on Saturday. The Tulips went down 1-0 at Basford United in Evo-Stik NPL Division One South, while the Tigers slipped up 3-2 at Northampton Sileby Rangers in the ChromaSport UCL Premier Division. It’s now five league games without a win for Spalding, who were seen ...

Three players hit doubles to fire Sutton Bridge to a huge 10-2 victory over Spalding Wanderers in Spalding and District Sunday League over the weekend. Liam Burton, Jake Lally and Jack Murley all notched braces, with Bradley Fox, Robert Hook and Joe Sutton also netting as Bridge moved level on points with leaders Holbeach United Sunday. Jordan Clow – who ...

Bullish Spalding United boss Dave Frecklington is refusing to press the panic button after a run of four games without a win in Evo-Stik NPL Division One South. The Tulips were the early pace-setters in the division and only lost for the first time on October 15, but are now six points off the top in third place. Frecklington admits ...

Holbeach United 1 Peterborough Sports 4 Life after Tom Roberts began with a 4-1 home loss against ChromaSport UCL Premier Division leaders Peterborough Sports for Holbeach United on Wednesday night. The Tigers trailed 1-0 at the break thanks to a strike from the free-scoring Mark Jones, then Sports doubled their lead through Josh Moreman early in the second period. Dan ...

Holbeach United chairman Dave Dougill has confirmed that he’d like Martyn Cundy as the club’s next manager after Tom Roberts’ departure on Saturday. Number two Cundy, a former Holbeach player and manager of Moulton Harrox, is Dougill’s number one choice for the job as he seeks continuity ahead of the busy festive period. The Tigers chairman also revealed that he ...

Top scorer Ollie Maltby helped himself to a double hat-trick as Pinchbeck United crushed hosts Stilton United 11-1 on Saturday to record their biggest ChromaSport PDFL Premier Division win in recent memory. Maltby scored his goals on 15 (pen), 20, 36, 40, 45 and 49 minutes at Knight Street, a haul that makes him the league’s leading marksman on 26. ...

Player/boss Matt Cawthorn toasted one of Long Suton Athletic’s best results of the season so far on Saturday. The Magpies smashed Netherton United Reserves 7-0 at London Road in ChromaSport PDFL Division One – meaning they have now beaten them three times already this season. Sutton went ahead when Billy Radeloff’s cross was flicked on by Billy Oliver for Cawthorn ...

Ian Bradbury and Ben Allen scored two goals apiece to fire Moulton Harrox to a 5-0 ChromaSport PDFL Premier Division win over Uppingham Town on Saturday. Defender Ashley Coddington also got in on the act, as Harrox climbed up to second in the table. Also in the top tier, Crowland Town lost 2-1 at home against Thorney and Holbeach United ...

Tydd St Mary avenged their only ChromaSport PDFL Division Two loss of the season so far by beating South Holland rivals Crowland Town Reserves 3-0 on Saturday. Tydd started well and could have been 1-0 up within a minute but some poor decision making and good defending kept it level. Paul Newcombe then hit a wicked first-time shot off the ...

Spalding United 2 Stocksbridge PS 3 The absence of talismanic skipper Nathan Stainfield loomed large as Spalding United slipped to their fourth Evo-Stik NPL Division One South defeat of the season on Saturday. Goals from Harrison Biggins (28) and Adam Hinchcliffe (43) put mid-table Stocksbridge Park Steels in command at half time in the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field clash ...

Holbeach United 2 Harborough Town 2 A stunning injury-time free kick from Jack Smith rescued a deserved point for Holbeach United against fellow high-flyers Harborough Town on Saturday. Smith curled a 25-yard effort over the wall and into the corner three minutes into added time at Carter’s Park in what turned out to be Tom Roberts’ final game as Tigers’ ...

Outgoing Holbeach United player/boss has admitted that he made his decision to step down from the role with a very heavy heart. Roberts left his position with the Tigers after Saturday’s 2-2 ChromaSport UCL Premier Division draw with Harborough Town at Carter’s Park, citing increased work commitments that saw him miss two games last week. Having joined Holbeach as number two ...