Villa defeat the leaders- but the K’s fail to take advantage

Leaders Farnham Town, four points clear having played a match more than second place Kingstonian, welcomed fifth place Hanworth Villa. Farnham were unbeaten at home, whilst Villa were looking for a fourth consecutive win and had been scoring late goals galore. They didn’t get a late goal on this occasion, as the only goal of the game- and their winner- arrived just before the hour, George Wells the scorer, as they climbed to fourth. Image from Nick Taylor. 

The second place K’s welcomed South Park Reigate, and victory would have taken them to within one point of top spot. On paper, the match seemed a home banker- the K’s looking for a ninth consecutive league win, whilst the travelling Sparks, fourth from bottom, were still to win a match on the road- but the form book was thrown out of the window and trampled on. The match had only one goal, and it went to Vinnie Tume, after just fifteen minutes, which left the hosts an awful long time to find an equaliser. They couldn’t, and the delighted Sparks climbed two places. 

Uxbridge welcomed Hartley Wintney to Honeycroft. The Red Army have had much to celebrate of late, and the hosts came into the match having lost only one of their previous ten, and were looking for a fourth win in a row. They’d been particularly good at home, but The Row put an end to that positive run in some style, winning a third match in a row and climbing to third. Tyler Hayles put them ahead in the half hour, and after the break they really took control, Seb Karczewski making it two and three, and Ross Stepney adding a fourth with twenty minutes to go. That was that, four-nil the final score, and Uxbridge drop out of the top five. 

Ascot United, outside the top five only on goal difference at kick off, were inside the top five by full time after coming from behind to defeat ten man Rayners Lane for a fifth win in a row. The visitors went ahead on twelve minutes, Frank Keita with his seventeenth goal of the season, but the Yellas stormed back into the contest after the break. Khalid Simmo levelled on fifty six minutes, Connor Holland put his side ahead five minutes later, and with twelve minutes to go Anas Igozouln made it three. The red card arrived six minutes from time, Lauran Luke taking an early shower for the visitors, and that was that. United are fifth, Lane thirteenth. 

Raynes Park Vale had slipped to seventh at kick off, and dropped another place after being on the wrong end of a Hayes hammering. Vale were ahead at the break, Jordan Gallagher scoring for the nineteenth time this season, but Hayes & Yeading came back after the break to score four of their own. Adrian Clifton levelled four minutes after the break, and on fifty eight minutes Jonathan Hippolyte put his side ahead. Clifton quickly made it three-one, and a red card for the visitors Cameron Black seven minutes from time ended Vale’s chances. George Sippetts quickly added a fourth, and it sent the hosts above their visitors into seventh. 

Harrow Borough started the day only a point away from the top five, whilst their hosts, Binfield, were looking to avoid a fifth consecutive defeat. The two sides combined to deliver a seven goal thriller.

Binfield went two up, Rechan Espirit and Tyler D’Cruz on twenty seven and twenty eight minutes, but two goals in two minutes in the closing stages of the half saw Borough level, Keegan Bloom and Stephan Langley the scorers. Josh McMenemy quickly restored the Moles advantage only for James Gurteen to level, and it looked like both sides would take a point, but two minutes from time Connor Jeanes delivered a winner for the hosts. 

Westfield travelled to take on bottom side Badshot Lea, and the Baggies finally picked up their first win of the season at their sixteenth attempt. Finlay Evans was the chief architect, scoring a goal in each half, in twenty six and eighty one minutes, to deliver that elusive victory. Caleb Wright scored for the visitors three minutes from time, but the hosts held on for three points.

Horndean welcomed Ashford Town, and neither side could manage a goal. The Deans are twelfth, the Tangerines twentieth. 

Sutton Common Rovers hosted Southall. Rovers have struggled at home, and that story repeated itself as The All hit five. The first three arrived within nineteen minutes of kick off, Brendan Matthew scoring two of them, Makael Scott getting the second- and that was that until a minute from time, when we experienced the Christian Mulindwa show, the substitute scoring two goals in three minutes to make it five-nil. Southall climb to eleventh, Rovers are outside the bottom four only on goal difference. 

Met Police welcomed Leatherhead, and the Tanners, who had gone five without a win, finally rediscovered their mojo. Ruben Bartlett-Antwi scored his second goal in three matches to give his side the lead on sixty six minutes, and Met’s resistance was broken again seven minutes from time, Kelvin Manuel Massango making it two. Leatherhead are fourteenth, Met slip into the drop zone. 

Guernsey was the destination for Moneyfields, and it was also the destination for nine goals as the Moneys somehow came from three-one and four-three down, the latter with a minute to go, to win five-four! The Green Lions went ahead on three minutes, Owen Wallbridge the scorer, and although Marco De Sousa quickly levelled Matt Loaring made it two-one on twenty six minutes and Charlton Gauvain made it three just before the break. Jafer Mahhammedkier got a goal back for the visitors on the hour, and eight minutes from time drew them level, only for Ross Allen to make it four-three with only three minutes remaining. There was only one minute left when Tom Cain made it four-four, and then, seven minutes into added time, James Franklyn somehow got a fifth for the visitors, who are fifteenth. Guernsey are twenty first, six points from safety.