Football

Spalding United couldn’t hold on to their 2-0 lead on Tuesday night as hosts Sheffield FC battled back to earn a 2-2 draw in a cracking Evo-Stik League First Division South contest. Josh Moreman gave the Tulips a 1-0 lead at half time with a free kick on the edge of the box, before new signing Charley Sanders jumped off ...

Four-some Moulton Harrox continued their flawless start to the ChromaSport Peterborough League Premier Division season with another super success on Saturday. Early efforts from Bobby Patterson and Joe Townsend and a second-half Ben Allen double clinched a 4-1 victory at promoted Ketton – and made it four wins from as many matches for Harrox. New boss Dave Panton had nothing ...

Long Sutton Athletic suffered a disappointing ChromaSport Peteborough League Division One 4-2 defeat at Kings Cliffe on Saturday. The Magpies were hoping to bounce back after their humbling against neighbours Sutton Bridge last time out – and despite a slow start they went 1-0 ahead when David Wilson outstripped the defence and crossed for Sam Moses to score. However, three ...

Spalding United cashed in on a dream start on Saturday as they extend their unbeaten start to the new Evo-Stik League First Division South season to three games with a 2-1 win over Tividale. After dominanting the early stages at the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field, Neal Spafford’s second-minute header gave the Tulips the earliest of leads. Pat Rayment’s side ...

Holbeach United’s stuttering start to the season continued in a 2-2 draw with Northampton Spencer on Saturday. They had to be thankful for two Josh Ford penalties in the second half for rescuing a point at Carter’s Park. Asssistant manager Tom Roberts had called on the side to repeat the style of the 4-0 midweek Emirates FA Cup win over ...

Seven points from the opening week is a very satisfactory start to the season for Spalding United. Josh Moreman fired a second-half winner as the Tulips beat Tividale 2-1 at the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field. Defender Neal Spafford had headed Pat Rayment’s side ahead  after just two minutes. Tividale, who won 2-0 in the corresponding fixture last February, fashioned ...

Polishborough captain Tomasz Rabiega gave a man of the match performance as his side eased to a 1-0 victory and cut the gap on the top-flight leaders in The Spalding and South Holland Six-a-Side League. The match against Univeg Team was a potential banana skin for the title chasers. It was always going to be a tight game, Univeg’s solid ...

Moulton Harrox made it a perfect three wins at the start of the ChromaSport Peterborough League Premier Division. They went third in the table with a 3-0 win over Holbeach United Reserves at Carter’s Park on Tuesday. Bobby Patterson got the ball rolling with a header from a corner early in the second half. A 25-yard screamer from Aris Placis ...

Spalding United paid little attention to Loughborough Dynamo’s six-goal weekend salvo, with a shut-out providing the backbone to a 2-0 win on Tuesday (Aug 18). Josh Moreman (7mins) and Jordan Nuttell (74) got the goals to make it a win and a draw from the Tulips’ first two matches of the Evo-stik First Division South campaign. Loughborough – captained by ex-Tulip ...

An eye-catching return to Cambridgeshire is the next Emirates FA Cup fixture for Holbeach United after a comprehensive 4-0 replay win at Ely City on Tuesday night. They paved the way for a preliminary round tie at Wisbech Town on Saturday, August 29, with a demolition job in the cathedral city. The tie at the Fenland Stadium will be a ...

Pinchbeck United got their ChromaSport Peterborough League Premier Division campaign up and running on Tuesday. A 4-1 defeat of Crowland Town at Knight Street was their first win at the fourth time of asking. Tyler Wright (2), Ryan Leggett and Corban Oldham got the goals for Pinchbeck, Patrick Dooner getting the visitors’ reply. Pinchbeck manager Ian Dunn said: “We fully ...

Assistant manager Matthew Cawthorn helped himself to four goals in Long Sutton Athletic’s 6-1 demolition of Peterborough ICA Sports Reserves on Saturday (Aug 22). Sutton missed a host of chances in the first 15 minutes and could have put the ChromaSport Peterborough League Division One match out of sight. But they also had to do some stout defending from a succession ...

Tydd St Mary FC finished their pre-season in style with a 6-3 away win over Upwell Town on Saturday. Upwell took the lead after four minutes but The Saints were back level two minutes later when Nick Reims was upended in the box and Tim Lowe converted the penalty. Reims was involved again on 18 minutes when Tydd went 2-1 ...

Spalding United Reserves recorded back-to-back wins with Saturday’s 3-1 defeat of Baston in ChromaSport Peterborough League Division One. Goals from Jamie Cartlidge, Matthew Cannon and Mark Lovelace, along with heroics from keeper Ashley Elderkin did the trick. Cartlidge latched on to an excellent through ball from Adam Braybrook and cooly slotted the ball low into the left corner of the ...

It was third time lucky for EMG Motor Group-sponsored Spalding United at Coles Land on Saturday for the opening day of a new Evo-Stik League Division One South campaign. The previous visits to the stadium, and playing on a 4G pitch, inside a year, ended in defeat – losing 2-0 to promoted Sutton Coldfield Town on the opening day of ...

Holbeach United switch their attention to The Emirates FA Cup on Saturday as they host Ely City in the Extra Preliminary Round (3pm). The Tigers haven’t had much joy in the competition in recent years, having only made the first qualifying round once in five years (2012). That’s something boss Darren Jarvis would like to improve on this year, with ...

A place in the Evo-Stik League First Division South play-offs has to be the aim for Spalding United this season. That’s the verdict of ambitious boss Pat Rayment, who takes his Tulips side to Romulus on Saturday (3pm) for their first league game of the new campaign. Rayment always starts each season with the aim of bettering the last. And, ...

Goals from strikers Josh Ford and Andrew Tidswell fired Holbeach United to their first win of the new ChromaSport UCL Premier Division season on Wednesday night. The pair struck in the second half as the Tigers saw off Lincolnshire rivals Sleaford Town 2-0 at Carter’s Park, as they put Saturday’s disappointing Desborough defeat behind them. Holbeach had to wait until ...

Tekkers edged the top-of-the-table Division One clash against You’ve Got No Fans on another top night of action in The Spalding and South Holland Voice six-a-side League on Monday. Second tier leaders Puyol Pants Down also showed great bouncebackability at Surfleet’s Glen Park, as they put last week’s loss behind them by thrashing in-form Balotellitubbies. Champions Polishborough kicked off the ...

New Long Sutton Athletic chief Danny Goddard was pleased to grab his first ChromaSport Peterborough League Division One point on Saturday – but felt his side could have taken all three. The Magpies were held to a 1-1 draw by Stamford Belvedere in the first game of their campaign, in what was Goddard’s first competitive game in charge. Sutton were ...