Tulips

Sheffield FC 2 Spalding United 2 A debut stunner from Charley Sanders wasn’t enough to earn the Tulips a third Evo-Stik League First Division South win on the spin on Tuesday night. Josh Moreman’s 17th-minute goal gave the Tulips a deserved 1-0 half time lead in the steel city, before Sanders – signed from Wisbech Town on Monday – made ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Spalding United Reserves chief Kev Nottingham is aiming for back-to-back promotions. Following last season’s promotion to ChromaSport Peterborough League Division One, the Tulips’ second string kick off their campaign with a Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field clash against Oundle Town on Saturday (2pm). Boss Nottingham knows the step-up will demand more from his squad, who narrowly missed out on the ...

Pat Rayment was left purring after finally seeing his Spalding United side show what they are capable of on Tuesday night. The Tulips cruised to an impressive 3-0 win at UCL Premier Division side Deeping Rangers thanks to a double from Adam Millson and Mitch Griffiths’ strike. Having seen his side flatter to deceive so far in pre-season, Spalding supremo ...

Pat Rayment is expecting Spalding United’s friendly clash with St Ives Town to be their toughest pre-season test to date. The Tulips welcome the Saints to the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field on Saturday (3pm) as the pair lock horns for the first time since the UCL Knockout Cup final of 2013. Spalding won 4-0 that day, but the Saints ...

Holbeach United slipped to a 5-2 home defeat against higher-graded Lincoln United in their final pre-season game on Saturday, while Spalding United picked up a 1-1 draw against St Ives Town. Starting with the Tigers, a goal from Josh Ford snuffed out an early Lincoln opener as the sides were locked together at 1-1 as the half-time whistle sounded. Evo-Stik ...

Three South Holland sides picked up impressive friendly wins on Tuesday night. Spalding United picked up a 3-1 victory at Boston Town, while Holbeach United earned a fine 3-0 success at March Town and Pinchbeck United upset Bourne Town 4-3. All of the goals came in the first half of the Tulips’ Tattershall Road triumph, with George Zuerner (2) and ...

A deadly double from new signing Josh Moreman steered Spalding United to a 2-0 friendly victory over South Holland rivals Holbeach United on Saturday. Moreman buried a first-half penalty on 28 minutes, before rifling home a superb left-footed volley (72) to settle the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field clash. Having gone close early on through Neal Spafford Tom Waumsley and ...

Fierce South Holland rivals Spalding United and Holbeach United square off in a hotly-anticipated friendly clash on Saturday (3pm) – but both camps insist tempers won’t flare. The Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field showdown is the first meeting between the pair since 2013 – when the Tulips cruised to a 5-0 win over the Tigers en-route to winning the UCL ...

Spalding United 0 Stamford AFC 2 Holders Stamford dumped Spalding United out of the Lincs FA Senior Trophy on Friday night as they grabbed goals in final minute of each half. A scrambled 45-minute opener from Jordan Smith gave the Daniels a half-time lead at the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field, before Ryan Robbins converted a last-minute penalty to settle ...

Competitive football returns to the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field tonight as Spalding United square off against old foes Stamford in the revamped Lincs Senior Trophy. With just two pre-season friendly fixtures under their belt – a 2-1 loss at Wisbech Town on Saturday and a 4-1 victory at Oakham United on Tuesday – it does feel a little early ...

South Holland duo Spalding United and Holbeach United put Saturday’s defeats behind them as they romped to emphatic friendly wins on Tuesday night. The Tulips, who lost 2-1 at Wisbech Town on Saturday, cruised to a 4-1 victory at UCL Division One newboys Oakham United. New striker Josh Moreman (3) put the Tulips ahead with his first goal since joining ...

Both Spalding United and Holbeach United suffered 2-1 defeats in their first pre-season friendly games of the summer on Saturday. The Tulips went down to UCL Premier Division title hopefuls Wisbech Town, while the Tigers were handed a reverse by Thurlow Nunn Eastern Counties League Premier Division outfit Swaffham Town. At Wisbech, last season’s leading scorer Tom Waumsley picked up ...

Adam Jackson wants to lead by example after being named as the new captain of Spalding United. The popular left back, who was one of the Tulips’ star performers last season, takes the armband from Michael Leary – who has decided to leave the club for family reasons. A two-time UCL Premier Division winner with the Tulips and South Holland ...