Football

Spalding United 2 Kidsgrove Athletic 1 A bizarre own goal by Kidsgrove Athletic keeper Ben Chapman steered Spalding United to a battling 2-1 Evo-Stik NPL Division One South win on Saturday. Chapman failed to deal with a routine back pass by Paul Donnelly on 12 minutes – and only succeeded in running the ball into his own net to put ...

Daniel Pick scored a hat-trick as Baston came from behind to beat Spalding United Reserves 4-2 in ChromaSport PDFL Division One on Saturday. Visitors Spalding bossed the opening 35 minutes with numerous half chances wasted, but did finally open the scoring through the unlikely source of skipper Dave Endersbee. With his back to goal, the defender collected a loose ball ...

Spalding United climbed back into the Evo-Stik NPL First Division South play-off places with a battling 2-1 home win over Kidsgrove Athletic on Saturday. An early Tom Waumsley strike (4) and an own goal from keeper Ben Chapaman (12) put the Tulips in command at the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field, before Kidsgrove skipper Ant Malbon pulled one back (20). ...

Holbeach United 4 Peterborough Northern Star 2 Ten-man Holbeach United produced a remarkable display to beat rivals Peterborough Northern Star 4-2 at Carter’s Park on Saturday. An early Jack Smith (9) goal put the Tigers ahead In the ChromaSport UCL Premier Division clash, but the game looked set to turn on its head when Nick Jackson was sent off for ...

Holbeach United boss Tom Roberts is glad to have seen the back of what he describes as “an absolutely miserable” January. With last Saturday’s trip to Kempston Rovers postponed due to a waterlogged pitch, it meant that the Tigers only managed to play one game over the entire month. That was a 2-1 defeat against ChromaSport UCL Premier Division strugglers ...

Disillusioned Spalding United boss Marcus Ebdon admits to being a little baffled by Josh Moreman’s decision to leave the club for Peterborough Sports. The Tulips’ leading scorer, who snubbed a move to higher-graded King’s Lynn down just a few weeks ago, has decided to drop down two levels to play for Jimmy Dean’s ambitious UCL Division One outfit. The speedy ...

Moulton Harrox chalked up another impressive milestone in their stellar season as they thrashed Leverington Sports 8-0 in the ChromaSport PDFL Premier Division On Saturday. The unbeaten leaders moved six points clear at the top of the table with their 16th win from 17 league games – and netted their 100th goal of the campaign in the process. Ian Bradbury ...

Goals from Jake Farrell, Matt Rose and Edgaras Buzas gave Spalding United Reserves a much-deserved victory as they booked their place in the semi-finals of the PFA Challenge Cup with a 3-0 victory over Oundle Town. After their barren run of recent weeks, this was the performance Kev Nottingham’s side have been threatening as of late. Right from the kick ...

Tydd St Mary and Spalding Town both pulled off Spalding Inter Services Trophy upsets on Saturday as they set up a final showdown at Carter’s Park in April. ChromaSport PDFL Division Three outfit Tydd stunned Division One rivals Long Sutton 2-0 at London Road, while Division Two promotion hopefuls Town knocked off Sutton Bridge United, another Division One team, 1-0 ...

Loughborough Dynamo 2 Spalding United 2 Two moments of magic helped Spalding United secure a deserved 2-2 draw at relegation-threatened Loughborough Dynamo in Evo-Stik NPL Division One South on Saturday. It looked liked the play-off chasing Tulips were heading for a disappointing defeat when Kevin Hemagou bagged a quick-fire first-half double for lowly Loughborough (10 & 19) at the Nanpantan ...

Spalding United produced an impressive second-half comeback to net a 2-2 draw at Loughborough Dynamo in Evo-Stik NPL Division One South on Saturday. The play-off chasing Tulips trailed 2-0 at half time against a Dynamo side that started the day in the bottom two after two Kevin Hemagou strikes (10 and 19). It was far from game over, however, with ...

It’s crunch time for Holbeach United’s ChromaSport UCL Premier Division title hopes on Saturday as they make the trip to unbeaten Kempston Rovers (3pm). The Tigers, currently fifth in the table, are ten points behind the second-placed Walnut Boys with two games in hand ahead of the first meeting between the pair this season. Tom Roberts’ side do come into ...

Marcus Ebdon admits that he and his Spalding United side are looking forward to visiting Evo-Stik NPL Division One South rivals Loughborough Dynamo on Saturday (3pm). The Tulips produced one of their best performances in recent memory when they romped to a 6-0 success at Nanpantan Sports Ground last season. Ebdon, then assistant to former boss Pat Rayment, has fond ...

Ollie Maltby helped himself to a hat-trick as Moulton Harrox picked up their first ChromaSport PDFL Premier Division win of 2016 by seeing off South Holland rivals Holbeach United Reserves 3-1 on Saturday. The in-form midfielder notched twice in the first 30 minutes at Broad Lane, only for an own goal from Bobby Patterson to haul a strong Holbeach side ...

Tydd St Mary Reserves stormed into the last four of the ChromaSport PDFL’s League Shield with a 6-3 win over Parkside on Saturday. Despite not playing a game for six weeks, Tydd started the first five minutes brightly and went ahead when Kyle Davis slid the goal past the bewildered keeper after some lovely football by Dale Parnell. A crazy ...

A last-gasp Steve Boon equaliser denied Spalding United Reserves their first win since December as they were held 1-1 at Stamford Belvedere on Saturday. Although Tulips chief Kev Nottingham will be pleased with what he saw from his side in the ChromaSport PDFL Division One clash, the late leveller was a real kick in the teeth after an improved performance. ...

Spalding United 0 Sheffield FC 0 Michael Duggan kept a clean sheet on his 150th Spalding United appearance in an otherwise unremarkable goalless draw with Sheffield FC on Saturday. In a game that saw more yellow cards dished out than there was goalmouth action, the Tulips at least extended their unbeaten run in Evo-Stik NPL Division One South to two ...

Moulton Harrox made it 16 ChromaSport PDFL Premier Division games unbeaten on Saturday with a 3-1 derby win over Holbeach United Reserves. Ollie Maltby bagged all three goals for the table-toppers to keep up his rich vein of form, rendering an own goal from Bobby Patterson as consolation for Omar Joof’s Tigers. Harrox’s 15th win from 16 games keeps them ...

Tom Roberts admits that he’s actively looking to strengthen his attacking options at Holbeach United. The Tigers face something of a selection crisis ahead of Saturday’s home clash against ChromaSport UCL Premier Division rivals Kirby Muxloe (3pm) with only 12 players available. Strikers Josh Ford, Tommy Treacher and Jake Clitheroe are all unavailable, while Aaron Eyett is facing eight weeks ...

Danny Hussey has backed Josh Moreman to fire Spalding United into the play-offs after the striker turned down a move to King’s Lynn Town. The 16-goal hitman, Spalding’s leading scorer this season, held talks with the higher graded Linnets before opting to stay at the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field for the remainder of the campaign. Tulips’ assistant boss Hussey ...