Athletic had the league's best defensive record. And then the Yachtsmen sailed in...
Grays Athletic had the best defence in the League at kick off. Thirteen games before this weekend had seen only eight goals conceded, they welcomed Wroxham to Chadfields hoping to hold onto their place in the top five and narrow the gap on the sides above them- but they started the match by conceding a rare goal, the Yachtsmen going ahead on fourteen minutes, Ryan Miles the scorer. That started a rather incredible first half, as Athletic levelled and went ahead- Alejandro Machado and Michael Finneran with the goals- only for the visitors to roar back and reestablish their supremacy, Ryan Hawkins and Harvey Peters taking them from two-one down to three-two up! The visitors added a fourth ten minutes into the second half, Hawkins scoring from the spot, and that Athletic defensive record truly departed when Ollie Sutton made it five with a quarter of an hour left- Sid Walker sent off for the hosts. Wroxham are up to nineteenth, Athletic down to seventh.
