Football

Danny Hussey wants to get prolific striker Jack Smith smiling again as he bids to seal a swoop for the Pinchbeck United ace. Smith, who swapped Holbeach United for the Knights in December after a disagreement with then boss Seb Hayes, looks set to return to Carter’s Park ahead of Saturday’s home derby date with Boston Town (3pm). Tigers boss ...

Spalding United boss Matt Easton is closing on two new signings as he bids to finalise a squad he hopes will secure their Evo-Stik NPL East Division status. With Ben Davison’s move to Lincoln United expected to be completed yesterday (Wednesday), Easton also hoped to complete swoops for a central midfield and a full-back. Having made wholesale changes since replacing ...

High-flying Pinchbeck United have been warned not to underestimate one of non-league’s most beleaguered teams this Saturday. The Knights, fourth in the Future Lions UCL Premier Division, visit rock-bottom Wellingborough Whitworth (3pm) – who boast the worst defensive record of any team at Step Five (94 goals conceded). Whitworth have only won twice in the league all season, but Pinchbeck ...

The Spalding and District Sunday League’s leading two teams have booked a mouth-watering date with each other in the Knockout Cup final. Table-topping Jubilee and unbeaten Sutton St James will clash at the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field later in the season after impressive semi-final showings. Jubilee thumped Pinchbeck United Sunday 11-0 at Monkhouse Lane, with four-goal Declan Earth doing ...

Moulton Harrox have moved eight points clear at the top of the ChromaSport PDFL Premier Division after thrashing Oakham United 5-1 on Saturday. Top scorer Joe Townsend led the spree for Harrox with two goals at Broad Lane, taking his tally for the season to 20. Marcus Parry, Ashley Coddington and Declan Earth also got in on the act as ...

Lincoln United 2 Spalding United 1 A superb strike by 20-year-old James Hugo was Spalding United’s only reward from a feisty Evo-Stik NPL East Division derby defeat at Lincoln United on Saturday. Hugo’s 50th-minute goal cancelled out the home side’s first-half advantage, which came courtesy of a scrambled effort by former Tulip Tom Garrick two minutes before the interval. But ...

Two goals from Tom Garrick sentenced Spalding United to a 2-1 defeat at Lincoln United on Saturday, while Holbeach United were left kicking their heels. Starting with the Tulips, they failed to build on last weekend’s whopping 7-3 victory as they slipped to a narrow loss at the Sun-Hat Villas Stadium. Garrick netted the opener just before the break, only ...

Matt Easton wants his Spalding United side to use last Saturday’s remarkable 7-3 victory over Pontefract Collieries as a springboard towards survival. The Tulips produced their best performance in recent memory to smash the Evo-Stik NPL East Division title hopefuls at the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field (see page 37), but Easton insists that his side can’t afford for it ...

Pinchbeck United 2 Cogenhoe United 1 First-half goals from Liam Adams and Lee Beeson fired Pinchbeck United to a hard-fought 2-1 victory over rivals Cogenhoe United on Saturday. Adams netted a neat near-post finish on eight minutes, before Beeson buried a 27th-minute penalty to give the Knights a 2-0 lead in the Future Lions UCL Premier Division clash. Lee Ansell’s ...

Player/boss Ian Dunn says that Pinchbeck United will be forced to dive back into the transfer market after losing two players in a week. The Knights were rocked by Fraser Bayliss’ request to re-join old club Boston Town, while fellow winger Liam Ogden has decided to walk away from the club too. With Josh Smith also having left the club ...

New Holbeach United boss Danny Hussey admits that his charges will have to be at their best to keep their impressive Future Lions UCL Premier Division form going this Saturday. The Tigers, who have won all three of their league matches since Seb Hayes resigned as boss, make the trip to seventh-placed Eynesbury Rovers (3pm). The teams met as recently ...

The latest chapter in the rivalry between Sutton Bridge United and Long Sutton Athletic concluded with a 1-1 draw on Saturday. Talismanic striker Matt Eaton was on-target for Bridge in the ChromaSport PDFL Premier Division clash at Memorial Park, with Keegan Thorpe hitting back for the Magpies. The draw leaves both sides on 23 points, some seven points clear of ...

Sleaford Town 0 Holbeach United 2 Danny Hussey continued his 100 per cent league record as Holbeach United boss as his side picked up a 2-0 derby victory at Sleaford Town on Saturday. James Tricks gave the Tigers an early lead in the Future Lions UCL Premier Division game at Eslafore Park, before home striker Ryan Oliver was sent off ...

Spalding United 7 Pontefract Collieries 3 By RAY TUCKER An incredible performance by Spalding United on Saturday saw them brush aside championship-chasing Pontefract Collieries 7-3 in a ten-goal thriller at the Sir Halley Stewart Field. On the back of four straight defeats in the Evo-Stik NPL East Division – and a 3-0 battering by the Yorkshire side in mid-November – ...

Spalding United romped to a sensational 7-3 success over Pontefract Collieries on Saturday, while Holbeach United earned a 2-0 victory at Sleaford Town. On what was a remarkable day at the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field, a Brad Wells hat-trick inspired the relegation-threatened Tulips to a stunning success over third-placed Pontefract. Wells notched on 5, 70 and 78 minutes for ...

Former Holbeach United manager Seb Hayes has opened up on the reasons behind his shock resignation on New Year’s Eve. With the Tigers revealing that he walked away from Carter’s Park due to “personal reasons”, Hayes felt it was time to set the record straight. In an honest and revealing interview, Hayes admits that he went into the 2018/19 season ...

New Holbeach United manager Danny Hussey wants his side to stop the extraordinary recent goalscoring exploits of rivals Sleaford Town on Saturday. The last four matches involving Sleaford have seen 25 goals scored, with the Greens managing to net seven of those in one match as they beat Kirby Muxloe 7-3 last time out. Hussey’s Tigers have the best defensive ...

Spalding United boss Matt Easton insists that his Spalding United team will “give it all they’ve got” against high-flying Pontefract Collieries on Saturday. Easton rates Pontefract, who dispatched the Tulips 3-0 back in November, as the best team he’s seen in Evo-Stik NPL East Division so far this season. Third in the table ahead of Saturday’s clash at the Sir ...

Holders Holbeach United went out of the Lincs FA Senior Trophy after a semi-final defeat to Deeping Rangers on Wednesday night, while Pinchbeck United booked their place in the last four of the Hinchingbrooke Cup. Starting with the Tigers, they went 1-0 up early on in their semi-final showdown at Carter’s Park when Billy Smith bagged another stunning effort from ...

Sheffield FC 2 Spalding United 1 Once again, Spalding United paid the price for a piece of calamitous defending as they lost 2-1 at Sheffield FC on Saturday. After battling superbly to cancel out the home side’s early lead with a headed goal by Leon Mettam, the Tulips suffered a total black-out and handed back the advantage to their play-off ...