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Non-League football | Pages 10-12

People arealways goingback to theirold clubs and

scoring and it wasnice to get a goal –City’s defender AdenFlint on opening thescoring against hisformer club

M a rc oMamaontarget asBristols e c u refirst winof theseason

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We didn’t getthe threepoints but atleast people

will go homethinking that if weplay like we did inthe second half wewill be alright –Bristol Rovers’boss John Ward

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Louis Thompson - 6Danny N’Guessan – 7Nile Ranger – 6

Jay McEveley – 6Yaser Kasim – 8Nicky Ajose - 7Massimo Luongo – 7

Fan’s view with Matthew Withers

ADEN Flint insists it is only amatter of time before City claimthat elusive first victory inLeague One.

While he was bitterly disap-pointed not to leave the CountyGround with at least a point, thebig central defender felt the vis-itors performed well enough towarrant a win.

And the former Swindon manbelieves more performanceslike that will eventually yieldthe three points he and histeam-mates crave.

He said: “We have to keep thefaith and keep believing in whatwe are doing, because some ofthe football we played was ex-cellent.

“It was nearly as we good aswe can be and we have to takeencouragement from that. If wecontinue to work hard and playlike that, then that first win willcome eventually.

“This was a great game for theneutral and for both sets of fansas well. There were goals, lots ofshots on target and some reallygood football played.

Swindon v Citymatch reaction

Player Rating (out of 10)

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Anthony Taylor (Cheshire) – got most of the big decisions right

Match facts

HomeShots on target 6Shots off targetCor ners

Fouls conceded

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Swindon: Mohammed El Gabbas for N’Guessan (90 mins)

City: Joe Bryan for Williams (46 mins), Greg Cunningham forO’Connor (52 mins), Marlon Harewood for Shorey (88 mins)

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� Frank Fielding: Sound handling and gooddistribution, he could not be faulted

� James O’Connor: Had a sound game untilinjury forced him off early

� Derrick Williams: Won more battles than helost before making way for a change in shape

� Brendan Moloney: Effective as wing-back andright-back, he almost equalised at the death

� Scott Wagstaff: Fully-committed, he workedhard and caused Swindon problems

� Marvin Elliott: Used his experience and didthe simple things well throughout

� Marlon Pack: A driving force in midfield, hepassed the ball well and produced a goal assist

� Nicky Shorey: A calming influence, he hardlyput a foot wrong despite positional switch

� Jay Emmanuel-Thomas: Wrong optionsoffset by a well-taken goal, he was a threat

� Sam Baldock: Lacked service at times, butkept the centre-backs occupied and worked hard

FOLLOWING two seasons of strugglein the Championship, Bristol Cityplayers and fans could be excused foranticipating an easier ride in LeagueO n e.

Unfortunately for the Robins andtheir followers, it has been a depress-ing case of more of the same.

If nothing else, a frustrating se-quence of eight League gameswithout a win has caused everyoneconnected with the club to recalib-rate their expectations for the re-mainder of this season.

Far from comprising a multitude ofovertly-physical and technically-lim-ited teams hell-bent on playinglong-ball football, the third tier hasshown itself to be full of surprises.

West rivals Swindon are merely thelatest in a procession of opponents tohave demonstrated a penchant forplaying attractive pass and move foot-ball at a high tempo. And as City willtestify after losing out to NileRang er’s 87th-minute winner, thethird tier has quality players capableof hurting even the best-organisedd e f e n c e s.

Lodged in the bottom four and stillsearching for their first win, City arebeing taught a chastening lesson;there are no easy games at thisl eve l .

While supporters stress, it is in-cumbent upon head coach SeanO’Driscoll and his staff to fashion ateam and a style of play capable ofimproving the club’s fortunes on thepitch. And sooner rather than later.

While a majority of fans can berelied upon to exercise patience andremain on-side so long as they can seeprogression, others have already lostf aith.

Rather than bellyache about theoverall situation, it is perhaps morehelpful to analyse performancesgame by game. City may have lost ablood-and-thunder derby by the oddgoal in five, but there was much toadmire in their work against a Swin-don team expected to be challengingfor the play-offs.

O’Driscoll’s players put in a shift,working hard off the ball, puttingtheir bodies on the line and display-ing a level of commitment thatprompted many fans to stay behindand show their appreciation after thefinal whistle.

Enterprising in possession, the vis-itors also moved the ball quickly andcreated sufficient goal-scoring oppor-tunities to have won the game severaltimes over.

City need to tighten up at the back to secure first winSwindon Town vs Bristol City | County Ground, Saturday, September 21

Aden Flint headed his first goal forthe club from a Marlon Pack cornerand Jay Emmanuel-Thomas issued afurther reminder of his ability topunish defences with an unerring leftfoot as City twice prised open thehome side in a first half they con-trolled for long spells.

And had Brendan Moloney’s in-jury-time shot crept under the cross-bar instead of striking the undersideand staying out, few would have ar-gued that City were not worth a share

of the spoils. Those are the pluspoints and, taken in isolation, theysuggest a first League win in sixmonths is not far away.

Yet City’s best efforts continue to beundermined by their inability tokeep a clean sheet. Swindon scoredthree goals and, once they imposedthemselves in the second half, couldeasily have had five on a day whenthey were missing three of their mostcreative players through injury.

O’Driscoll has a reputation for de-ploying well-organised teams and hewill feel let down by the lapse inconcentration that permitted thehome side to poach their first equal-iser from a throw-in. NathanThompson launched the ball over thehead of an unsuspecting defender andNicky Ajose skipped past exposedcentre-back Derrick Williams to beatFrank Fielding with an angled shot.

Similarly, when Massimo Luongowent on a run along the edge of theopposition penalty area, no defenderclosed him down. It was too easy for

the midfielder to deliver a low crossthat travelled a long way before beingturned in by Ajose.

If City’s game-plan was to disruptS w i n d o n’s supply lines and hustle thehome side out of possession, itworked reasonably well during theopening 45 minutes. O’Driscoll thendecided to deploy two banks of fourafter the break to further frustrateMark Cooper’s team, only for themove to backfire within fivem i nu t e s.

Having withdrawn Williams andintroduced another midfielder, City’shead coach was presented with aproblem when James O’Connorpulled up injured. Without a recog-nised centre-half on the bench, hewas forced to deploy left-back GregCunningham at the heart of the backfour. While the Irishman made a goodfist of it, he was unable to prevent themuscular Ranger from turning himand smashing the ball into the roof ofthe net in the game’s defining mo-ment three minutes from time.

But then that is symptomatic of theway things are going for City rightnow. That said, teams make their ownluck to a large degree and, until theycan find a means to better protecttheir own goal, the Robins will re-main vulnerable.

City are being punished for theirfailings in both penalty areas and anumber of promising attacking situ-ations were squandered for the wantof a clinical final ball, notably whensubstitute Joe Bryan was unable tofind Sam Baldock in space close togoal when it was 2-2.

Such is the treadmill nature of theEnglish league, there is no time todwell on ifs, buts and maybes. Citymust necessarily move on andO’Driscoll will doubtless highlightthe positive aspects of his team’slatest performance – and there weremany – in order to instil the beliefthat Colchester United can be beatenat Ashton Gate on Saturday. � Bristol City’s Aden Flint celebrates his side’s first goal against Swindon Town on Saturday Pictures: Rogan Thompson � Sam Baldock is beaten in the air

� Brendan Moloney takes control

� Jay Emmanuel-Thomas

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Andy

Expert analysisStockhausen

Swindon Town 3

Bristol City 2

I WOULD have been disappointed toleave Swindon Town’s CountyGround with just a point on Sat-urday, but to have to walk out withnothing was a real kick in the guts.

I witnessed 45 minutes of totalineptitude on Tuesday night againstShrewsbury Town and would go asfar as to say that it was one of theworst performances that I had seenin years. The improvement againstSwindon was clear to see, but we arestill searching for that first win ofthe season.

The display against Shrewsbury

was hard to take, especially as itfollowed a poor result against Pe-terborough at home just a few daysbefore. Ashton Gate is not an easyplace to play when things are notgoing well.

I have never, and will never, boothe team, but what I saw in that first45 minutes was unacceptable. Theplayers showed no effort or energyagainst a team who should not be amatch for us at this level with thedifferences in finances and sizes ofcl u b s.

Fans pay their money and if some

choose to boo then that’s their right,in the same way as it’s a fan’s right toapplaud the team off when they havebeen poor. I will always take losingwhen I see that the players have triedand that was not the case in that first45 minutes on Tuesday.

The atmosphere was negative onTuesday and the players have to givethe fans something to cheer about.When they did the fans got rightbehind them and City could so easilyhave gone on to win the game.

The fans turned out in their num-bers for the short trip up the M4 to

Swindon. The Swindon Robins havebeen playing some decent footballand this was always going to be atest for Sean O’Driscolls side. Thehead coach opted to start with aback three of Aiden Flint, DerrickWilliams and James O‘Connor withBrendan Maloney and NickyShorey operating as part of afive-man midfield alongside MarlonPack, Marvin Elliott and Scott Wag-staff. Jay Emmanuel Thomas andSam Baldock played up top as ap a i r.

Flint scored a decent opener, but

� Aden Flint: Brave in his defending, he did wellagainst Ranger and scored a goal

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“We ’ve kept the ball, we’veknocked it about well and we’vescored two good goals.

“We ’ve played our part in areally good game and deservedto get something. We haven’tand that’s disappointing, but wejust have to keep pluggingaw ay.

“If we can improve on ourpositioning at the back and stopthe opposition scoring, we willwin games playing like that.”

Flint gave City the lead andrefused to celebrate out of re-spect for Swindon’s players andf ans.

“It was on the cards that I wasgoing to score,” said Flint, whoclimbed high at the back post tohead his first City goal fromMarlon Pack’s ninth-minutecor ner.

“People are always going backto their old clubs and scoringand it was nice to get a goal. Itmeant a bit more because it wasagainst Swindon, but it wouldhave meant even more had ithelped us get the result wewanted.

“I’m not fussed about whetherI score or not, I’m more con-cerned about us getting thatfirst win.

“We ’ve had enough chancesin the second half, but wereeither in the right place at thewrong time or could not get ontothe end of balls going into theb ox .

“Then they go up the otherend and score a goal like that –it’s heart-breaking.”

City couldn’t hold on and Williamswas caught out by a quick throw andthen lost his footing to gift Swindonan equaliser. I’m still of the beliefthat goalkeeper Frank Fielding isstruggling to find his best form andwhile not at fault for any of theSwindon goals, I’m not sure howconfident his defenders are in frontof him and I think Elliott Parishshould be given an opportunity.

The fans stayed behind the teamand were rewarded when this sea-s o n’s talisman Jay Em-manuel-Thomas scored another

wonderful strike. JET doesn’t lackself belief, but I wish he showed adesire to want to be involved anddictate the game a little more.

What I mean by that is at this levelJET can be unplayable and can al-most go past players at will and firein a thunderbolt of a shot, and yet heonly does this a few times in a gamewhen he should be doing it farm o re.

Yet again, City couldn’t hold ontothe lead and more sloppy defendingallowed Swindon to snatch anequaliser late in the first half. Both

teams played some decent footballin the second half and for the last 15minutes halfway through the gamewas there for the taking. I felt achange was needed perhaps bring-ing Bobby Reid on. We didn’t andsadly we were made to pay whenNile Ranger held off Cunningham toscore the winner. There were pos-itives to take out of the game, but weneed to show a higher tempo andenergy at home and if we do thisfrom the start and put our foot inthen the fans will get right behindthe team .

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Louis Thompson - 6Danny N’Guessan – 7Nile Ranger – 6

Jay McEveley – 6Yaser Kasim – 8Nicky Ajose - 7Massimo Luongo – 7

Fan’s view with Matthew Withers

ADEN Flint insists it is only amatter of time before City claimthat elusive first victory inLeague One.

While he was bitterly disap-pointed not to leave the CountyGround with at least a point, thebig central defender felt the vis-itors performed well enough towarrant a win.

And the former Swindon manbelieves more performanceslike that will eventually yieldthe three points he and histeam-mates crave.

He said: “We have to keep thefaith and keep believing in whatwe are doing, because some ofthe football we played was ex-cellent.

“It was nearly as we good aswe can be and we have to takeencouragement from that. If wecontinue to work hard and playlike that, then that first win willcome eventually.

“This was a great game for theneutral and for both sets of fansas well. There were goals, lots ofshots on target and some reallygood football played.

Swindon v Citymatch reaction

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Anthony Taylor (Cheshire) – got most of the big decisions right

Match facts

HomeShots on target 6Shots off targetCor ners

Fouls conceded

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� Frank Fielding: Sound handling and gooddistribution, he could not be faulted

� James O’Connor: Had a sound game untilinjury forced him off early

� Derrick Williams: Won more battles than helost before making way for a change in shape

� Brendan Moloney: Effective as wing-back andright-back, he almost equalised at the death

� Scott Wagstaff: Fully-committed, he workedhard and caused Swindon problems

� Marvin Elliott: Used his experience and didthe simple things well throughout

� Marlon Pack: A driving force in midfield, hepassed the ball well and produced a goal assist

� Nicky Shorey: A calming influence, he hardlyput a foot wrong despite positional switch

� Jay Emmanuel-Thomas: Wrong optionsoffset by a well-taken goal, he was a threat

� Sam Baldock: Lacked service at times, butkept the centre-backs occupied and worked hard

FOLLOWING two seasons of strugglein the Championship, Bristol Cityplayers and fans could be excused foranticipating an easier ride in LeagueO n e.

Unfortunately for the Robins andtheir followers, it has been a depress-ing case of more of the same.

If nothing else, a frustrating se-quence of eight League gameswithout a win has caused everyoneconnected with the club to recalib-rate their expectations for the re-mainder of this season.

Far from comprising a multitude ofovertly-physical and technically-lim-ited teams hell-bent on playinglong-ball football, the third tier hasshown itself to be full of surprises.

West rivals Swindon are merely thelatest in a procession of opponents tohave demonstrated a penchant forplaying attractive pass and move foot-ball at a high tempo. And as City willtestify after losing out to NileRang er’s 87th-minute winner, thethird tier has quality players capableof hurting even the best-organisedd e f e n c e s.

Lodged in the bottom four and stillsearching for their first win, City arebeing taught a chastening lesson;there are no easy games at thisl eve l .

While supporters stress, it is in-cumbent upon head coach SeanO’Driscoll and his staff to fashion ateam and a style of play capable ofimproving the club’s fortunes on thepitch. And sooner rather than later.

While a majority of fans can berelied upon to exercise patience andremain on-side so long as they can seeprogression, others have already lostf aith.

Rather than bellyache about theoverall situation, it is perhaps morehelpful to analyse performancesgame by game. City may have lost ablood-and-thunder derby by the oddgoal in five, but there was much toadmire in their work against a Swin-don team expected to be challengingfor the play-offs.

O’Driscoll’s players put in a shift,working hard off the ball, puttingtheir bodies on the line and display-ing a level of commitment thatprompted many fans to stay behindand show their appreciation after thefinal whistle.

Enterprising in possession, the vis-itors also moved the ball quickly andcreated sufficient goal-scoring oppor-tunities to have won the game severaltimes over.

City need to tighten up at the back to secure first winSwindon Town vs Bristol City | County Ground, Saturday, September 21

Aden Flint headed his first goal forthe club from a Marlon Pack cornerand Jay Emmanuel-Thomas issued afurther reminder of his ability topunish defences with an unerring leftfoot as City twice prised open thehome side in a first half they con-trolled for long spells.

And had Brendan Moloney’s in-jury-time shot crept under the cross-bar instead of striking the undersideand staying out, few would have ar-gued that City were not worth a share

of the spoils. Those are the pluspoints and, taken in isolation, theysuggest a first League win in sixmonths is not far away.

Yet City’s best efforts continue to beundermined by their inability tokeep a clean sheet. Swindon scoredthree goals and, once they imposedthemselves in the second half, couldeasily have had five on a day whenthey were missing three of their mostcreative players through injury.

O’Driscoll has a reputation for de-ploying well-organised teams and hewill feel let down by the lapse inconcentration that permitted thehome side to poach their first equal-iser from a throw-in. NathanThompson launched the ball over thehead of an unsuspecting defender andNicky Ajose skipped past exposedcentre-back Derrick Williams to beatFrank Fielding with an angled shot.

Similarly, when Massimo Luongowent on a run along the edge of theopposition penalty area, no defenderclosed him down. It was too easy for

the midfielder to deliver a low crossthat travelled a long way before beingturned in by Ajose.

If City’s game-plan was to disruptS w i n d o n’s supply lines and hustle thehome side out of possession, itworked reasonably well during theopening 45 minutes. O’Driscoll thendecided to deploy two banks of fourafter the break to further frustrateMark Cooper’s team, only for themove to backfire within fivem i nu t e s.

Having withdrawn Williams andintroduced another midfielder, City’shead coach was presented with aproblem when James O’Connorpulled up injured. Without a recog-nised centre-half on the bench, hewas forced to deploy left-back GregCunningham at the heart of the backfour. While the Irishman made a goodfist of it, he was unable to prevent themuscular Ranger from turning himand smashing the ball into the roof ofthe net in the game’s defining mo-ment three minutes from time.

But then that is symptomatic of theway things are going for City rightnow. That said, teams make their ownluck to a large degree and, until theycan find a means to better protecttheir own goal, the Robins will re-main vulnerable.

City are being punished for theirfailings in both penalty areas and anumber of promising attacking situ-ations were squandered for the wantof a clinical final ball, notably whensubstitute Joe Bryan was unable tofind Sam Baldock in space close togoal when it was 2-2.

Such is the treadmill nature of theEnglish league, there is no time todwell on ifs, buts and maybes. Citymust necessarily move on andO’Driscoll will doubtless highlightthe positive aspects of his team’slatest performance – and there weremany – in order to instil the beliefthat Colchester United can be beatenat Ashton Gate on Saturday. � Bristol City’s Aden Flint celebrates his side’s first goal against Swindon Town on Saturday Pictures: Rogan Thompson � Sam Baldock is beaten in the air

� Brendan Moloney takes control

� Jay Emmanuel-Thomas

8� The number of league games thatCity have gone without a win thisseason

Andy

Expert analysisStockhausen

Swindon Town 3

Bristol City 2

I WOULD have been disappointed toleave Swindon Town’s CountyGround with just a point on Sat-urday, but to have to walk out withnothing was a real kick in the guts.

I witnessed 45 minutes of totalineptitude on Tuesday night againstShrewsbury Town and would go asfar as to say that it was one of theworst performances that I had seenin years. The improvement againstSwindon was clear to see, but we arestill searching for that first win ofthe season.

The display against Shrewsbury

was hard to take, especially as itfollowed a poor result against Pe-terborough at home just a few daysbefore. Ashton Gate is not an easyplace to play when things are notgoing well.

I have never, and will never, boothe team, but what I saw in that first45 minutes was unacceptable. Theplayers showed no effort or energyagainst a team who should not be amatch for us at this level with thedifferences in finances and sizes ofcl u b s.

Fans pay their money and if some

choose to boo then that’s their right,in the same way as it’s a fan’s right toapplaud the team off when they havebeen poor. I will always take losingwhen I see that the players have triedand that was not the case in that first45 minutes on Tuesday.

The atmosphere was negative onTuesday and the players have to givethe fans something to cheer about.When they did the fans got rightbehind them and City could so easilyhave gone on to win the game.

The fans turned out in their num-bers for the short trip up the M4 to

Swindon. The Swindon Robins havebeen playing some decent footballand this was always going to be atest for Sean O’Driscolls side. Thehead coach opted to start with aback three of Aiden Flint, DerrickWilliams and James O‘Connor withBrendan Maloney and NickyShorey operating as part of afive-man midfield alongside MarlonPack, Marvin Elliott and Scott Wag-staff. Jay Emmanuel Thomas andSam Baldock played up top as ap a i r.

Flint scored a decent opener, but

� Aden Flint: Brave in his defending, he did wellagainst Ranger and scored a goal

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People are always goingback to their old clubs andscoring and it was nice toget a goal

Aden Flint.................................................................

“We ’ve kept the ball, we’veknocked it about well and we’vescored two good goals.

“We ’ve played our part in areally good game and deservedto get something. We haven’tand that’s disappointing, but wejust have to keep pluggingaw ay.

“If we can improve on ourpositioning at the back and stopthe opposition scoring, we willwin games playing like that.”

Flint gave City the lead andrefused to celebrate out of re-spect for Swindon’s players andf ans.

“It was on the cards that I wasgoing to score,” said Flint, whoclimbed high at the back post tohead his first City goal fromMarlon Pack’s ninth-minutecor ner.

“People are always going backto their old clubs and scoringand it was nice to get a goal. Itmeant a bit more because it wasagainst Swindon, but it wouldhave meant even more had ithelped us get the result wewanted.

“I’m not fussed about whetherI score or not, I’m more con-cerned about us getting thatfirst win.

“We ’ve had enough chancesin the second half, but wereeither in the right place at thewrong time or could not get ontothe end of balls going into theb ox .

“Then they go up the otherend and score a goal like that –it’s heart-breaking.”

City couldn’t hold on and Williamswas caught out by a quick throw andthen lost his footing to gift Swindonan equaliser. I’m still of the beliefthat goalkeeper Frank Fielding isstruggling to find his best form andwhile not at fault for any of theSwindon goals, I’m not sure howconfident his defenders are in frontof him and I think Elliott Parishshould be given an opportunity.

The fans stayed behind the teamand were rewarded when this sea-s o n’s talisman Jay Em-manuel-Thomas scored another

wonderful strike. JET doesn’t lackself belief, but I wish he showed adesire to want to be involved anddictate the game a little more.

What I mean by that is at this levelJET can be unplayable and can al-most go past players at will and firein a thunderbolt of a shot, and yet heonly does this a few times in a gamewhen he should be doing it farm o re.

Yet again, City couldn’t hold ontothe lead and more sloppy defendingallowed Swindon to snatch anequaliser late in the first half. Both

teams played some decent footballin the second half and for the last 15minutes halfway through the gamewas there for the taking. I felt achange was needed perhaps bring-ing Bobby Reid on. We didn’t andsadly we were made to pay whenNile Ranger held off Cunningham toscore the winner. There were pos-itives to take out of the game, but weneed to show a higher tempo andenergy at home and if we do thisfrom the start and put our foot inthen the fans will get right behindthe team .

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Swindon Town vs Bristol City | County Ground, Saturday, September 21

� Bristol City’s Aden Flint rises to head his side into the lead against Swindon Town at the County Ground on Saturday Pictures: Rogan Thompson

� City’s Scott Wagstaff holds off a challenge from a Swindon defender

� Brendan Moloney puts in a cross against Swindon Town

� City head coach Sean O’Driscoll

� City’s Joe Bryan passes his way out of trouble against Swindon � Marvin Elliott looks for a pass

� City’splayers andmascot meetthe officialsbefore thegame againstSwindon atthe CountyGround onS a t u rd a y

� Bristol City’s Jay Emmanuel-Thomas is beaten in the air by Swindon’s Grant Hall in Saturday’s 3-2 defeat

� The travelling City fans look on during Saturday’s game against Swindon

� City’s James O’Connor is carried off after suffering an injury

� A City corner is played dangerously in to the Swindon penalty area

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Swindon Town vs Bristol City | County Ground, Saturday, September 21

� Bristol City’s Aden Flint rises to head his side into the lead against Swindon Town at the County Ground on Saturday Pictures: Rogan Thompson

� City’s Scott Wagstaff holds off a challenge from a Swindon defender

� Brendan Moloney puts in a cross against Swindon Town

� City head coach Sean O’Driscoll

� City’s Joe Bryan passes his way out of trouble against Swindon � Marvin Elliott looks for a pass

� City’splayers andmascot meetthe officialsbefore thegame againstSwindon atthe CountyGround onS a t u rd a y

� Bristol City’s Jay Emmanuel-Thomas is beaten in the air by Swindon’s Grant Hall in Saturday’s 3-2 defeat

� The travelling City fans look on during Saturday’s game against Swindon

� City’s James O’Connor is carried off after suffering an injury

� A City corner is played dangerously in to the Swindon penalty area

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Jack Compton – 7Andy Monkhouse – 7Luke James – 9

Christian Burgess – 7Matty Dolan – 7Jonathan Franks – 7Simon Walton – 8

SCORING a last-minute goal to se-cure a draw at home against Hartle-pool United may certainly not be acause to bring out the bunting – bu tJohn-Joe O’To o l e ’s 90th-minute lev-eller did, at the very least, serve tomake for a slightly more relaxed at-mosphere at John Ward’s post-matchpress briefing.

It was hard to disagree with Wardas he waxed lyrical over his players’‘at t i t u d e ’ and ‘mental toughness’ tohalt a recent losing streak that was onthe verge of being extended to fourgames, but those words would havecertainly carried less credence hadRovers slipped to another defeat.

Had the result been different, sup-porters, too, would possibly havebeen less willing to recognise thevast-improvement in performance –particularly in the second-half – t h atfinally offers Ward something pos-itive to build on following recent de-f e at s.

Aside from the collective, therewere also plenty of individual brightspots to ponder; Lee Brown produ-

cing his finest display of the season;Matt Harrold appearing to be over-coming his recent struggle for fitness,while Tom Lockyer was impressiveon his return to the side alongsideO’Toole in central midfield.

Andy Bond, too, looks as though hemay be a useful addition in an at-tacking sense – even if he lacks theraw pace of an out-and-out wingerdown the right-hand side – wh i l eMichael Smith and Steve Mildenhallremain consistent performers amongthe relative inconsistency of others.

That said, however, Ward was notshying away from the fact that someproblems still need to be addressed if

A point halts the run ofdefeats for Ward’s men

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Rovers are to perform to a standardthat reflects the quality of the squadon paper.

The players fell well below thatstandard during an opening periodwhere they huffed and puffed, butlacked the quality when in charge ofthe football to find a meaningful pas-sage towards Hartlepool’s goal.

Hartlepool, meanwhile, warmed totheir task the longer the game re-mained goalless and, orchestrated byexperienced central midfielderSimon Walton, looked the more likelyto break the deadlock.

Winger Jonathan Franks was alsooffered too much time and space onthe edge of the penalty area to wrapthe post with another effort beforeRovers managed to finally edge infront – somewhat unsurprisingly as aresult of a moment of individual bril-liance amid the mediocrity of thecollective – when Harrold took theball deftly on his chest before ex-ecuting a neat pirouette and finish allin one sharp movement to score hisfirst goal of the season.

If the players thought scoring theopening goal was a case of ‘job done’,however, they were offered a rudeawakening immediately from the re-start; left-back Jack Crawford aiminga diagonal on to the head of AndyMonkhouse, which was flicked intothe path of excellent young strikerLuke James, who equalised with aclinical shot from the edge of the box.Minutes later, the set-piece lethargythat has resulted in three goalsagainst in the last fortnight reared itshead again to offer James the chanceto grab his second goal of the day

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when turning on a sixpence to smashthe ball in after it had been swunginto the six-yard box following a shortcor ner.

Ward, however, was quick to pointto individual error rather than anydeep-rooted problem when askedabout Rovers’ recent run of poor formwhen defending set-pieces; the per-ceived offender on this occasionseemingly Richards, if Mildenhall’sangry dash to the edge of his ownpenalty area to remonstrate with thestriker was anything to go by.

The manager gave those who hadgot themselves in such a mess anopportunity to atone for their sins byrefraining from major change athalf-time – although Mitch Harding,who had been handed a surprise startup front for the first time since theopening day of the season, andRichards, who had been moved outwide, swapped places in a move thatserved to offer Rovers greater attack-ing threat.

Harrold deflected a stingingRichards shot on to the crossbar andBrown had an effort cleared off theline as Rovers played higher up thepitch and switched their mode ofattack from one of long punts in thegeneral direction of their strikers toone of keeping the ball on the floorand moving it regularly into widerareas. Even then Rovers required agood save from Mildenhall to denyJames the opportunity to kill thegame off after O’To o l e ’s pocket hadbeen picked late on, while defenderChristian Burgess also missed agilt-edged chance to score with aheader. That would have been harsh

Match reaction

STRIKER Matt Harrold hopesJohn-Joe O’To o l e ’s last-minuteequaliser to secure a draw againstHartlepool United at the Me-morial Stadium on Sat-urday will be the catalystto drag Bristol Roversout of their recents l u m p.

O’Toole pounced toscore a 90th-minuteequaliser after afirst-half brace off theboot of striker Luke Jameslooked as if it was going to beenough to see Hartlepool claimtheir second successive league vic-

tory of their League Two campaign.The midfielder’s strike wasenough to end Rovers’ re c e n t

three-game losing streak,and when asked whether

the goal could prove to bea turning point, Har-rold, pictured, whohad opened the scor-ing with what was hisfirst goal of the season,replied: “I hope it will,

but we need to go onfrom here.“We have to build on this

performance when we go toSouthend on Friday night.

“That will be a tough game for us,so we have to go there with the samesort of determination and positivitywe showed as a group today if we areto bring something back home.

“The only disappointment for meis that I really felt the game was therefor us to win and I think we havedropped two points.

“We must have got about 20 crossesinto the penalty area and threatenedtheir goal a hell of a lot in the secondh a l f.

“A point is a point, though, and anypoint is a good one when you havebeen on a bad run.

“The last couple of weeks have not

been good for us, so the club as awhole is not as happy as it would be ifwe were doing better.

He added: “We know the script.This is my third season at the clubnow and we know we have to try to benearer to the top (of the league) thanthe bottom.

“We have to deal with those kinds ofthings and be strong mentally andshow the character to battle throughwhen we are in a bad spell.

“When things do go well we knoweveryone will be behind us and reallyspecial things can happen – we sawthat last season.”

Harrold, meanwhile, opened the

scoring with a clinical finish aftertaking the ball out of the air with adeft touch off his chest and waspleased to have made amends formissing a chance to equalise from thepenalty spot before Rovers went on tolose at Dagenham & Redbridge lastwe e ke n d .

“It’s a relief to get off the mark forthe season and I’m pleased to havescored to make up for missing thepenalty last week,” he said.

“I held myself a bit responsible forus losing the game at Dagenham, so Ifelt I had something to prove. I wasdesperate to score and to help theteam get something from the game.”

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Rovers: Ellis Harrison for Harding (65 mins), David Clarksonfor Richards (86 mins)

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� Michael Smith: No messing about when indefensive situations and was a constant andconsistent attacking outlet down the right flank

� Tom Parkes: Made a couple of decent tackles anddrove out with the ball from the back on occasion

� Mark McChrystal: Had a tough afternoon upagainst a tricky performer in the shape of striker James

� Lee Brown: Played a part in the build-up to bothgoals. Probably his best game of the season

� Matt Harrold: Has struggled for fitness, but lookedhis usual self on Saturday. Scored a brilliant goal andwas a constant menace with his aerial prowess

� Andy Bond: Hasn’t got the pace of an out-and-outwinger, but has a nice touch and was involved in anumber of chances created from the flanks

� Tom Lockyer: Made a welcome return to the sideand produced a disciplined display alongside O’To o l ein the middle of the park

� John-Joe O’Toole: In the right place at the righttime to score a last-minute equaliser that could provevital in helping Rovers out of their current malaise

� Mitch Harding: Struggled to impose himself on thegame in the first-half, but wasn’t helped by a lack ofsuitable service

� Eliot Richards: Criticised for failing to close down ashort corner from which Hartlepool scored theirsecond goal – but better in second-half

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� Bristol Rovers’ striker Matt Harrold fires in his side’s first goal in the 2-2 draw against Hartlepool United at the Memorial Stadium Pictures: Neil Brookman

� Rovers’ Tom Lockyer blocks a Hartlepool pass

� Bristol Rovers and Hartlepool United take to the field on Saturday afternoon

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WE did deserve the point thanksto our battling second-half per-formance. However, it was sad toadmit that at half-time we wereready to settle for that draw eventhough we were at home toHartlepool United.

We were so poor in the firsthalf, but our football was somuch better after the breakwhen we abandoned the big boottactics and played some decentstuff, creating several chancesas we laid siege on the visitors’goal.

Once again, we conceded froma set piece as Tom Parkes andMark McChrystal struggled tocope with the visitors’ at t a ck s.

There seemed to be little un-derstanding at the back asHartlepool carved us open fartoo easily and once again theleft-hand post at the BlackthornEnd came to our rescue.

Steve Mildenhall kept us inthe game with some fine saves,but I was surprised to read thathe thinks ‘football reports arewritten by people who don’t ap-pear to have an understanding ofwhat goes on in the game.’

That could be me Steve, but Ido understand that if you bootthe ball long and high neitherMitch Harding nor EliotRichards are going to win it inthe air. I felt sorry for youngHarding, who hardly got a de-cent pass, although he did plentyof running to chase the longballs which I presume he wasbrought in for.

Our best attacks, once againstemmed from the in-formfull-backs Michael Smith andLee Brown, while Matt Har-ro l d ’s goal came thanks to a sur-ging run down the flank fromBrown who opened up theUnited defence.

Mildenhall might have seenthe light, because the best movein the game came after he threwthe ball out and some quickone-touch football ended with ashot just wide when it was sonearly the goal of the season.

Now our ‘keeper, who obvi-ously knows more about thegame than me, started throwingthe ball out more and suddenlywe were looking a lot more pos-itive as the introduction of EllisHarrison increased the pressureon the visitors’ d e f e n c e.

John- Joe O’Toole looked set tobe the villain of the day as he lostthe ball only for Mildenhall topull off a great save beforeJohn-Joe turned hero with theequaliser. It came soon afterHartlepool should have gone 3-1up as one of their big defendersheaded wide when unmarkedfrom a corner. How such a talldefender can be unmarked at acorner is beyond me and ourdefending in these situations is aconstant worry.

Clearly more work is neededon the training ground, andmaybe big Steve can use hisknowledge to organise things atcorners, while I have not beenover impressed with the arrivalof Andy Bond. If he is going toplay wide then we might as wellstick with Harrison or AlefeS a n t o s.

in the face of Rovers’ va s t ly - i m p rove dand dominant second-half display,however, and last-gasp reward even-tually came when O’Toole arrivedlate to carefully steer Brown’s crossinto the net in the final minute.

“We didn’t get the three points, but,at least people will go home thinkingthat if we play like we did in thesecond-half all the time we will bealright,” Ward said in his final ana-ly s i s.

The biggest challenge this weekwill be to find a way of reproducingthat form against Southend Unitedon Friday night.

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SCORING a last-minute goal to se-cure a draw at home against Hartle-pool United may certainly not be acause to bring out the bunting – bu tJohn-Joe O’To o l e ’s 90th-minute lev-eller did, at the very least, serve tomake for a slightly more relaxed at-mosphere at John Ward’s post-matchpress briefing.

It was hard to disagree with Wardas he waxed lyrical over his players’‘at t i t u d e ’ and ‘mental toughness’ tohalt a recent losing streak that was onthe verge of being extended to fourgames, but those words would havecertainly carried less credence hadRovers slipped to another defeat.

Had the result been different, sup-porters, too, would possibly havebeen less willing to recognise thevast-improvement in performance –particularly in the second-half – t h atfinally offers Ward something pos-itive to build on following recent de-f e at s.

Aside from the collective, therewere also plenty of individual brightspots to ponder; Lee Brown produ-

cing his finest display of the season;Matt Harrold appearing to be over-coming his recent struggle for fitness,while Tom Lockyer was impressiveon his return to the side alongsideO’Toole in central midfield.

Andy Bond, too, looks as though hemay be a useful addition in an at-tacking sense – even if he lacks theraw pace of an out-and-out wingerdown the right-hand side – wh i l eMichael Smith and Steve Mildenhallremain consistent performers amongthe relative inconsistency of others.

That said, however, Ward was notshying away from the fact that someproblems still need to be addressed if

A point halts the run ofdefeats for Ward’s men

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Rovers are to perform to a standardthat reflects the quality of the squadon paper.

The players fell well below thatstandard during an opening periodwhere they huffed and puffed, butlacked the quality when in charge ofthe football to find a meaningful pas-sage towards Hartlepool’s goal.

Hartlepool, meanwhile, warmed totheir task the longer the game re-mained goalless and, orchestrated byexperienced central midfielderSimon Walton, looked the more likelyto break the deadlock.

Winger Jonathan Franks was alsooffered too much time and space onthe edge of the penalty area to wrapthe post with another effort beforeRovers managed to finally edge infront – somewhat unsurprisingly as aresult of a moment of individual bril-liance amid the mediocrity of thecollective – when Harrold took theball deftly on his chest before ex-ecuting a neat pirouette and finish allin one sharp movement to score hisfirst goal of the season.

If the players thought scoring theopening goal was a case of ‘job done’,however, they were offered a rudeawakening immediately from the re-start; left-back Jack Crawford aiminga diagonal on to the head of AndyMonkhouse, which was flicked intothe path of excellent young strikerLuke James, who equalised with aclinical shot from the edge of the box.Minutes later, the set-piece lethargythat has resulted in three goalsagainst in the last fortnight reared itshead again to offer James the chanceto grab his second goal of the day

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when turning on a sixpence to smashthe ball in after it had been swunginto the six-yard box following a shortcor ner.

Ward, however, was quick to pointto individual error rather than anydeep-rooted problem when askedabout Rovers’ recent run of poor formwhen defending set-pieces; the per-ceived offender on this occasionseemingly Richards, if Mildenhall’sangry dash to the edge of his ownpenalty area to remonstrate with thestriker was anything to go by.

The manager gave those who hadgot themselves in such a mess anopportunity to atone for their sins byrefraining from major change athalf-time – although Mitch Harding,who had been handed a surprise startup front for the first time since theopening day of the season, andRichards, who had been moved outwide, swapped places in a move thatserved to offer Rovers greater attack-ing threat.

Harrold deflected a stingingRichards shot on to the crossbar andBrown had an effort cleared off theline as Rovers played higher up thepitch and switched their mode ofattack from one of long punts in thegeneral direction of their strikers toone of keeping the ball on the floorand moving it regularly into widerareas. Even then Rovers required agood save from Mildenhall to denyJames the opportunity to kill thegame off after O’To o l e ’s pocket hadbeen picked late on, while defenderChristian Burgess also missed agilt-edged chance to score with aheader. That would have been harsh

Match reaction

STRIKER Matt Harrold hopesJohn-Joe O’To o l e ’s last-minuteequaliser to secure a draw againstHartlepool United at the Me-morial Stadium on Sat-urday will be the catalystto drag Bristol Roversout of their recents l u m p.

O’Toole pounced toscore a 90th-minuteequaliser after afirst-half brace off theboot of striker Luke Jameslooked as if it was going to beenough to see Hartlepool claimtheir second successive league vic-

tory of their League Two campaign.The midfielder’s strike wasenough to end Rovers’ re c e n t

three-game losing streak,and when asked whether

the goal could prove to bea turning point, Har-rold, pictured, whohad opened the scor-ing with what was hisfirst goal of the season,replied: “I hope it will,

but we need to go onfrom here.“We have to build on this

performance when we go toSouthend on Friday night.

“That will be a tough game for us,so we have to go there with the samesort of determination and positivitywe showed as a group today if we areto bring something back home.

“The only disappointment for meis that I really felt the game was therefor us to win and I think we havedropped two points.

“We must have got about 20 crossesinto the penalty area and threatenedtheir goal a hell of a lot in the secondh a l f.

“A point is a point, though, and anypoint is a good one when you havebeen on a bad run.

“The last couple of weeks have not

been good for us, so the club as awhole is not as happy as it would be ifwe were doing better.

He added: “We know the script.This is my third season at the clubnow and we know we have to try to benearer to the top (of the league) thanthe bottom.

“We have to deal with those kinds ofthings and be strong mentally andshow the character to battle throughwhen we are in a bad spell.

“When things do go well we knoweveryone will be behind us and reallyspecial things can happen – we sawthat last season.”

Harrold, meanwhile, opened the

scoring with a clinical finish aftertaking the ball out of the air with adeft touch off his chest and waspleased to have made amends formissing a chance to equalise from thepenalty spot before Rovers went on tolose at Dagenham & Redbridge lastwe e ke n d .

“It’s a relief to get off the mark forthe season and I’m pleased to havescored to make up for missing thepenalty last week,” he said.

“I held myself a bit responsible forus losing the game at Dagenham, so Ifelt I had something to prove. I wasdesperate to score and to help theteam get something from the game.”

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Player Rating (out of 10)

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Charles Breakspear No complaints

Match facts

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Fouls conceded

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Rovers: Ellis Harrison for Harding (65 mins), David Clarksonfor Richards (86 mins)

Hartlepool: Sam Collins for Franks (78 mins), James Poole forMonkhouse (85 mins)

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� Michael Smith: No messing about when indefensive situations and was a constant andconsistent attacking outlet down the right flank

� Tom Parkes: Made a couple of decent tackles anddrove out with the ball from the back on occasion

� Mark McChrystal: Had a tough afternoon upagainst a tricky performer in the shape of striker James

� Lee Brown: Played a part in the build-up to bothgoals. Probably his best game of the season

� Matt Harrold: Has struggled for fitness, but lookedhis usual self on Saturday. Scored a brilliant goal andwas a constant menace with his aerial prowess

� Andy Bond: Hasn’t got the pace of an out-and-outwinger, but has a nice touch and was involved in anumber of chances created from the flanks

� Tom Lockyer: Made a welcome return to the sideand produced a disciplined display alongside O’To o l ein the middle of the park

� John-Joe O’Toole: In the right place at the righttime to score a last-minute equaliser that could provevital in helping Rovers out of their current malaise

� Mitch Harding: Struggled to impose himself on thegame in the first-half, but wasn’t helped by a lack ofsuitable service

� Eliot Richards: Criticised for failing to close down ashort corner from which Hartlepool scored theirsecond goal – but better in second-half

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� Bristol Rovers’ striker Matt Harrold fires in his side’s first goal in the 2-2 draw against Hartlepool United at the Memorial Stadium Pictures: Neil Brookman

� Rovers’ Tom Lockyer blocks a Hartlepool pass

� Bristol Rovers and Hartlepool United take to the field on Saturday afternoon

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WE did deserve the point thanksto our battling second-half per-formance. However, it was sad toadmit that at half-time we wereready to settle for that draw eventhough we were at home toHartlepool United.

We were so poor in the firsthalf, but our football was somuch better after the breakwhen we abandoned the big boottactics and played some decentstuff, creating several chancesas we laid siege on the visitors’goal.

Once again, we conceded froma set piece as Tom Parkes andMark McChrystal struggled tocope with the visitors’ at t a ck s.

There seemed to be little un-derstanding at the back asHartlepool carved us open fartoo easily and once again theleft-hand post at the BlackthornEnd came to our rescue.

Steve Mildenhall kept us inthe game with some fine saves,but I was surprised to read thathe thinks ‘football reports arewritten by people who don’t ap-pear to have an understanding ofwhat goes on in the game.’

That could be me Steve, but Ido understand that if you bootthe ball long and high neitherMitch Harding nor EliotRichards are going to win it inthe air. I felt sorry for youngHarding, who hardly got a de-cent pass, although he did plentyof running to chase the longballs which I presume he wasbrought in for.

Our best attacks, once againstemmed from the in-formfull-backs Michael Smith andLee Brown, while Matt Har-ro l d ’s goal came thanks to a sur-ging run down the flank fromBrown who opened up theUnited defence.

Mildenhall might have seenthe light, because the best movein the game came after he threwthe ball out and some quickone-touch football ended with ashot just wide when it was sonearly the goal of the season.

Now our ‘keeper, who obvi-ously knows more about thegame than me, started throwingthe ball out more and suddenlywe were looking a lot more pos-itive as the introduction of EllisHarrison increased the pressureon the visitors’ d e f e n c e.

John- Joe O’Toole looked set tobe the villain of the day as he lostthe ball only for Mildenhall topull off a great save beforeJohn-Joe turned hero with theequaliser. It came soon afterHartlepool should have gone 3-1up as one of their big defendersheaded wide when unmarkedfrom a corner. How such a talldefender can be unmarked at acorner is beyond me and ourdefending in these situations is aconstant worry.

Clearly more work is neededon the training ground, andmaybe big Steve can use hisknowledge to organise things atcorners, while I have not beenover impressed with the arrivalof Andy Bond. If he is going toplay wide then we might as wellstick with Harrison or AlefeS a n t o s.

in the face of Rovers’ va s t ly - i m p rove dand dominant second-half display,however, and last-gasp reward even-tually came when O’Toole arrivedlate to carefully steer Brown’s crossinto the net in the final minute.

“We didn’t get the three points, but,at least people will go home thinkingthat if we play like we did in thesecond-half all the time we will bealright,” Ward said in his final ana-ly s i s.

The biggest challenge this weekwill be to find a way of reproducingthat form against Southend Unitedon Friday night.

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� Bristol Rovers’ players congratulate Matt Harrold after he opened the scoring against Hartlepool United at the Memorial Stadium on Saturday Pictures: Neil Brookman

� Rovers’ Lee Brown keeps his eye on the ball against Hartlepool

� Rovers’ mascot enjoys her time in front of the Blackthorn End

� Ellis Harrison shows his fun side

� John-Joe O’Toole in an aerial battle with Hartlepool United's Simon Walton � Fans exchange notes

� Rovers’fans showtheira p p re c i a t i o nas the playerstake to thefield againstHartlepool onS a t u rd a y

� Rovers players show their relief after John-Joe O’To o l e ’s 90th-minute equaliser against Hartlepool United

� Another chance goes begging for Bristol Rovers against Hartlepool

� The pre-match warm-up in full swing for Rovers’ players

� Two Rovers’ fans enjoy the build-up to the game against Hartlepool

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� Bristol Rovers’ players congratulate Matt Harrold after he opened the scoring against Hartlepool United at the Memorial Stadium on Saturday Pictures: Neil Brookman

� Rovers’ Lee Brown keeps his eye on the ball against Hartlepool

� Rovers’ mascot enjoys her time in front of the Blackthorn End

� Ellis Harrison shows his fun side

� John-Joe O’Toole in an aerial battle with Hartlepool United's Simon Walton � Fans exchange notes

� Rovers’fans showtheira p p re c i a t i o nas the playerstake to thefield againstHartlepool onS a t u rd a y

� Rovers players show their relief after John-Joe O’To o l e ’s 90th-minute equaliser against Hartlepool United

� Another chance goes begging for Bristol Rovers against Hartlepool

� The pre-match warm-up in full swing for Rovers’ players

� Two Rovers’ fans enjoy the build-up to the game against Hartlepool

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BRISTOL got their GKIPA Champi-onship season underway at thesecond attempt with a performancethat brimmed with attacking intent,even if it was not quite matched withcutting edge.

That said, a bonus point was se-cured, thanks to the hosts’ four tries –three of which were scored by for-wards, the other courtesy of a penaltytry earned by said pack.

The performance was by no meansperfect – but the signs were encour-aging, as Bristol dominated longspells of territory and possession.

Aspects of their play will have con-cerned their coaches – notably theease with which London Scottishcarved them open to score two tries,and the fact they bossed the first half,but still trailed at the interval.

However, one thing shone through:Bristol’s mindset was different tohow it had been in their opening-daydefeat against Cornish Pirates.

They were not willing to settle forkeeping the scoreboard ticking overwith penalties – they wanted tries.

Andy Robinson, the director of rugby,has highlighted how his team need totake more try-scoring bonus pointsthan last season – and it showed in theway they tried to play the game.

In doing so, Bristol displayedbravery. Not the physical bravery thatis a given at this level of rugby, but anattacking bravery, to keep going forthe jugular even when they werebeing repelled by a physical andwell-drilled Scottish defence.

It would have been easy for thehosts to play it safe, and take the threepoints when they came on offer, butBristol – with several incisive backsstill to return from injury, have madeit clear they believe attack is the best

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form of defence. Flanker James Mer-riman, who scored the third of theirfour tries, said: “I thought we set thepace in the game really well in thefirst 20 minutes. We want to giveourselves a bit of a brand of rugby –and we went all-out at them.

“I think we’re going to do a lot ofthat this season, and try to dictatethat first 20 minutes and really setour stall out. We have to attack teams.We can’t really afford to sit off them –we ’ve got to really set the tempo in thefirst 20 minutes of these games. Wefeel if we can do that, teams are goingto drop off in that last 20 minutes,which showed today.

“Getting the bonus point was cru-cial for us. I said to the boys when Iwent off that we had to get that bonuspoint – and we got it, which I thinkthat could make a big difference comethe end of the season.”

Quite how Bristol did not lead athalf-time was something of a mystery.Scottish did not carry the ball into theBristol 22 until the 32nd minute of thegame – and, when they eventuallydid, they conceded a penalty.

However, on their second visit,after James Grindal’s forward passhad given away possession, JimThompson chipped through for MilesMantella to score. When Lee Millarconverted, it was 7-7, after MarcoMama had opened the scoring forBristol in the 29th minute.

Scottish did incredibly well to keeptheir hosts out until that point –thwarting wave after wave of attacks.But when Merriman was stopped justshort on the right, and Adrian Jarvis

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and Luke Eves combined on the left,Mama proved unstoppable.

Bristol, as baffling as it seemed,trailed at the break, following Mil-lar’s drop goal – but the second halfbelonged to the hosts.

It was not necessarily pretty – theirthree second-half tries were moreabout grunt and grit than guile andgrace, but their attacking intent re-mained, except for one occasionwhen Jarvis slotted a penalty to turna 21-18 lead into 24-18 with fourminutes to play.

Before that, though, Bristol hadforced a penalty try from a scrum,before Merriman was driven overfrom a line-out. While their runninggame was at times predictable, theset-piece proved a useful attackingtool throughout the afternoon. AndRobinson has made it clear that hewants his team to have balance andvariety in their attacking options.

Their lead of 21-10 became 21-18after Millar went over when MikeDoneghan was allowed to dancethrough the Bristol defence followinga quickly-taken line-out, before thefly-half sent over a penalty.

But Jarvis’s late penalty gave thehosts breathing space, before replace-ment lock Townson was set up by thequick thinking of fellow replacementRuki Tipuna – who livened up histeam – to go over for an all-importantfourth Bristol try.

Bristol will play better this season –but they have made their intentionsquite clear: opposing teams will beasked a variety of questions whenthey visit the Memorial Stadium.

Key incidents

BRISTOL got their season up andrunning with a bonus-point victoryover London Scottish at the Memori-al Stadium – scoring threesecond-half tries.

After dominating the first half,without taking full advantage, Bris-tol somehow trailed 10-7 at theb re a k .

But they were much more clinicalin the second period – and, althoughScottish came back to within threepoints with eight minutes to go, GlenTownson went over in the final playto grab the bonus point.

After Marco Mama’s first-halfscore, Bristol were granted asecond-half penalty try, before JamesMerriman and Townson crossed. Ad-rian Jarvis finished with a 100 per

cent kicking record, adding 11 pointsin the process.

Despite Bristol’s early pressure,the match was pointless until the29th minute, when – after repellingwave after wave of home attacks – thevisitors had no answer to a slickBristol move. Merriman went closeon the right, before Jarvis and LukeEves worked the ball wide to Mama,who burst over from close range.

But, on only their second forayinto the Bristol 22, Scottish drewlevel. James Grindal’s forward passconceded the attacking initiative,and Scottish quickly worked the ballwide, with Jim Thompson sendingthrough a kick, which was chased bypacy winger Miles Mantella. Hegathered possession and dived over,

with Lee Millar converting from thetouchline to make it 7-7.

Two minutes later, Scottish tookthe lead when Millar sent over a dropgoal from more than 30 metres to givehis side a 10-7 advantage.

Bristol’s scrum power earnedthem a penalty try 14 minutes afterthe restart, before Merriman wasdriven over from a line-out.

Millar’s penalty brought Scottishback into it a 21-13 – before thefly-half finished off a pacy breakfrom Mike Doneghan by going overin the corner. He was unable to con-vert his own try, and Jarvis soonincreased the lead with a penalty.

In the final minute, Ruki Tipunaran a penalty and Townson poweredover, with Jarvis converting.

Minute byminute

After dominatingthe early stageswithout being ableto force a score,Marco Mamabursts over fromclose range, withAdrian Jarvisconverting – 7-0

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HomePens conceded 8Handling errorsLine-outs won

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London Scottish: Nick Mayhew 6 (for Russell, 47-55 & for Irish, 55); Harry Allen5 (for Stagg, 50); Lewis Thiede 6 (for Fry, 55); Joe Trayfoot (for Russell, 55);Jamie Stevenson (for Thompson, 62); Andy Reay (for Gidlow, 66); Alex Karonias(for Best, 78)

Bristol: Ben Mosses 6 (for Amesbury, 40); Ruki Tipuna 8 (for Grindal, 47);Redford Pennycook (for Merriman, 62); Glen Townson TRY (for Koster, 66); RhysLawrence (for Hayes, 73); James Hall (for Hobson, 73). Not used: Tristan Roberts

Replacements

Jim Thompson 6Mike Doneghan 7Oli Grove 6PJ Gidlow 6Miles Mantella 7

Lee Millar 7Jordi Pasqualin 6Mark Irish 6Ted Stagg 6Eric Fry 6

Neil Best 7David Lyons 6Chevvy Pennycook 6Ben Russell 6Mark Bright (capt) 6

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London Scottish,who had defendedfor most of thegame, hit backwhen MilesMantella scores inthe corner and LeeMillar converts –7-7

Scottish ensure ahalf-time leadwhen Millarknocks over adrop goal frommore than 30metres – 7-10

Bristol retake thelead through apenalty tryfollowing a scrum,which Jarvisconverts – 14-10

James Merrimangoes over forBristol’s third try,with Jarvis againconverting – 21-10

Millar hits back forScottish with along-range penaltyfollowing a scrum– 21-13

Mike Doneghansets up Millar forScottish’s secondtry, but the fly-halfhits the post withthe conversionattempt – 21-18

� Charlie Amesbury: Started brightly as Bristoldominated the early exchanges, before suffering aninjury on the stroke of half-time

� Andy Short: Worked hard in the midfield, albeit forlittle reward, as Bristol’s backs were unable to getacross the line

� Luke Eves: Played in Mama for the opening try andcompeted well from start to finish

� Ryan Edwards: A sound, hard-working performanceon his 23rd birthday – was Bristol’s liveliest back

� Adrian Jarvis: Kicked his goals and was a calmpresence behind an impressive pack, but made theoccasional uncharacteristic error

� James Grindal: (capt) Started with bags ofendeavour, but forward pass led to Scottish’s secondtry, before Tipuna injected zest to Bristol’s attack

� Kyle Traynor: Made gains in the loose and workedtirelessly in the tight as he played a major part in histeam’s triumph

� Ollie Hayes: Delivered an extremely solidperformance, with his throwing spot-on and hisscrummaging sound

� Jason Hobson: The tighthead gives Bristol’s packits edge – which proved crucial in overcoming Scottish

� Mark Sorenson A commanding performance,befitting of a player with the New Zealander’s big-gameexperience and nous

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� Ben Skirving: Showed his experience in anextremely resolute scrummaging and line-out display inthe second row

� Nick Koster: Some impressive moments from theon-loan Bath man, who proved he can become a keyasset for Bristol

� James Merriman: Played a key part in first try,scored the third, and played at his usual high tempo

� Marco Mama: Bristol’s first try-scorer, Mama madea positive impact across the field

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BRISTOL got their GKIPA Champi-onship season underway at thesecond attempt with a performancethat brimmed with attacking intent,even if it was not quite matched withcutting edge.

That said, a bonus point was se-cured, thanks to the hosts’ four tries –three of which were scored by for-wards, the other courtesy of a penaltytry earned by said pack.

The performance was by no meansperfect – but the signs were encour-aging, as Bristol dominated longspells of territory and possession.

Aspects of their play will have con-cerned their coaches – notably theease with which London Scottishcarved them open to score two tries,and the fact they bossed the first half,but still trailed at the interval.

However, one thing shone through:Bristol’s mindset was different tohow it had been in their opening-daydefeat against Cornish Pirates.

They were not willing to settle forkeeping the scoreboard ticking overwith penalties – they wanted tries.

Andy Robinson, the director of rugby,has highlighted how his team need totake more try-scoring bonus pointsthan last season – and it showed in theway they tried to play the game.

In doing so, Bristol displayedbravery. Not the physical bravery thatis a given at this level of rugby, but anattacking bravery, to keep going forthe jugular even when they werebeing repelled by a physical andwell-drilled Scottish defence.

It would have been easy for thehosts to play it safe, and take the threepoints when they came on offer, butBristol – with several incisive backsstill to return from injury, have madeit clear they believe attack is the best

Bristol show attackingintent to open account

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form of defence. Flanker James Mer-riman, who scored the third of theirfour tries, said: “I thought we set thepace in the game really well in thefirst 20 minutes. We want to giveourselves a bit of a brand of rugby –and we went all-out at them.

“I think we’re going to do a lot ofthat this season, and try to dictatethat first 20 minutes and really setour stall out. We have to attack teams.We can’t really afford to sit off them –we ’ve got to really set the tempo in thefirst 20 minutes of these games. Wefeel if we can do that, teams are goingto drop off in that last 20 minutes,which showed today.

“Getting the bonus point was cru-cial for us. I said to the boys when Iwent off that we had to get that bonuspoint – and we got it, which I thinkthat could make a big difference comethe end of the season.”

Quite how Bristol did not lead athalf-time was something of a mystery.Scottish did not carry the ball into theBristol 22 until the 32nd minute of thegame – and, when they eventuallydid, they conceded a penalty.

However, on their second visit,after James Grindal’s forward passhad given away possession, JimThompson chipped through for MilesMantella to score. When Lee Millarconverted, it was 7-7, after MarcoMama had opened the scoring forBristol in the 29th minute.

Scottish did incredibly well to keeptheir hosts out until that point –thwarting wave after wave of attacks.But when Merriman was stopped justshort on the right, and Adrian Jarvis

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and Luke Eves combined on the left,Mama proved unstoppable.

Bristol, as baffling as it seemed,trailed at the break, following Mil-lar’s drop goal – but the second halfbelonged to the hosts.

It was not necessarily pretty – theirthree second-half tries were moreabout grunt and grit than guile andgrace, but their attacking intent re-mained, except for one occasionwhen Jarvis slotted a penalty to turna 21-18 lead into 24-18 with fourminutes to play.

Before that, though, Bristol hadforced a penalty try from a scrum,before Merriman was driven overfrom a line-out. While their runninggame was at times predictable, theset-piece proved a useful attackingtool throughout the afternoon. AndRobinson has made it clear that hewants his team to have balance andvariety in their attacking options.

Their lead of 21-10 became 21-18after Millar went over when MikeDoneghan was allowed to dancethrough the Bristol defence followinga quickly-taken line-out, before thefly-half sent over a penalty.

But Jarvis’s late penalty gave thehosts breathing space, before replace-ment lock Townson was set up by thequick thinking of fellow replacementRuki Tipuna – who livened up histeam – to go over for an all-importantfourth Bristol try.

Bristol will play better this season –but they have made their intentionsquite clear: opposing teams will beasked a variety of questions whenthey visit the Memorial Stadium.

Key incidents

BRISTOL got their season up andrunning with a bonus-point victoryover London Scottish at the Memori-al Stadium – scoring threesecond-half tries.

After dominating the first half,without taking full advantage, Bris-tol somehow trailed 10-7 at theb re a k .

But they were much more clinicalin the second period – and, althoughScottish came back to within threepoints with eight minutes to go, GlenTownson went over in the final playto grab the bonus point.

After Marco Mama’s first-halfscore, Bristol were granted asecond-half penalty try, before JamesMerriman and Townson crossed. Ad-rian Jarvis finished with a 100 per

cent kicking record, adding 11 pointsin the process.

Despite Bristol’s early pressure,the match was pointless until the29th minute, when – after repellingwave after wave of home attacks – thevisitors had no answer to a slickBristol move. Merriman went closeon the right, before Jarvis and LukeEves worked the ball wide to Mama,who burst over from close range.

But, on only their second forayinto the Bristol 22, Scottish drewlevel. James Grindal’s forward passconceded the attacking initiative,and Scottish quickly worked the ballwide, with Jim Thompson sendingthrough a kick, which was chased bypacy winger Miles Mantella. Hegathered possession and dived over,

with Lee Millar converting from thetouchline to make it 7-7.

Two minutes later, Scottish tookthe lead when Millar sent over a dropgoal from more than 30 metres to givehis side a 10-7 advantage.

Bristol’s scrum power earnedthem a penalty try 14 minutes afterthe restart, before Merriman wasdriven over from a line-out.

Millar’s penalty brought Scottishback into it a 21-13 – before thefly-half finished off a pacy breakfrom Mike Doneghan by going overin the corner. He was unable to con-vert his own try, and Jarvis soonincreased the lead with a penalty.

In the final minute, Ruki Tipunaran a penalty and Townson poweredover, with Jarvis converting.

Minute byminute

After dominatingthe early stageswithout being ableto force a score,Marco Mamabursts over fromclose range, withAdrian Jarvisconverting – 7-0

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Match facts

HomePens conceded 8Handling errorsLine-outs won

Successful kicks at goal

Missed kicks at goal

Attendance

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London Scottish: Nick Mayhew 6 (for Russell, 47-55 & for Irish, 55); Harry Allen5 (for Stagg, 50); Lewis Thiede 6 (for Fry, 55); Joe Trayfoot (for Russell, 55);Jamie Stevenson (for Thompson, 62); Andy Reay (for Gidlow, 66); Alex Karonias(for Best, 78)

Bristol: Ben Mosses 6 (for Amesbury, 40); Ruki Tipuna 8 (for Grindal, 47);Redford Pennycook (for Merriman, 62); Glen Townson TRY (for Koster, 66); RhysLawrence (for Hayes, 73); James Hall (for Hobson, 73). Not used: Tristan Roberts

Replacements

Jim Thompson 6Mike Doneghan 7Oli Grove 6PJ Gidlow 6Miles Mantella 7

Lee Millar 7Jordi Pasqualin 6Mark Irish 6Ted Stagg 6Eric Fry 6

Neil Best 7David Lyons 6Chevvy Pennycook 6Ben Russell 6Mark Bright (capt) 6

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London Scottish,who had defendedfor most of thegame, hit backwhen MilesMantella scores inthe corner and LeeMillar converts –7-7

Scottish ensure ahalf-time leadwhen Millarknocks over adrop goal frommore than 30metres – 7-10

Bristol retake thelead through apenalty tryfollowing a scrum,which Jarvisconverts – 14-10

James Merrimangoes over forBristol’s third try,with Jarvis againconverting – 21-10

Millar hits back forScottish with along-range penaltyfollowing a scrum– 21-13

Mike Doneghansets up Millar forScottish’s secondtry, but the fly-halfhits the post withthe conversionattempt – 21-18

� Charlie Amesbury: Started brightly as Bristoldominated the early exchanges, before suffering aninjury on the stroke of half-time

� Andy Short: Worked hard in the midfield, albeit forlittle reward, as Bristol’s backs were unable to getacross the line

� Luke Eves: Played in Mama for the opening try andcompeted well from start to finish

� Ryan Edwards: A sound, hard-working performanceon his 23rd birthday – was Bristol’s liveliest back

� Adrian Jarvis: Kicked his goals and was a calmpresence behind an impressive pack, but made theoccasional uncharacteristic error

� James Grindal: (capt) Started with bags ofendeavour, but forward pass led to Scottish’s secondtry, before Tipuna injected zest to Bristol’s attack

� Kyle Traynor: Made gains in the loose and workedtirelessly in the tight as he played a major part in histeam’s triumph

� Ollie Hayes: Delivered an extremely solidperformance, with his throwing spot-on and hisscrummaging sound

� Jason Hobson: The tighthead gives Bristol’s packits edge – which proved crucial in overcoming Scottish

� Mark Sorenson A commanding performance,befitting of a player with the New Zealander’s big-gameexperience and nous

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� Ben Skirving: Showed his experience in anextremely resolute scrummaging and line-out display inthe second row

� Nick Koster: Some impressive moments from theon-loan Bath man, who proved he can become a keyasset for Bristol

� James Merriman: Played a key part in first try,scored the third, and played at his usual high tempo

� Marco Mama: Bristol’s first try-scorer, Mama madea positive impact across the field

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Leaders Nailsea sweepaside Shire challenge

Somerset County League and Hellenic League

Gloucestershire County League

Calor Southern League

Powell pouncesas Mangos sinkSupermarine

PATCHWAY became the first teamthis season to inflict defeat uponreigning champions Longlevens.

The Gloucester side slipped off thetop of the table following their 1-0defeat, which came when Dave Richturned John Pugsley’s 30th-minuteeffort into his own goal.

Gala Wilton took over at the sum-mit after they triumphed 1-0 atBishop’s Cleeve Reserves.

Henbury needed to forge aheadfour times before finally seeing offBristol Telephones 4-3, the hostshitting three swift equalisers in a

thrilling encounter. Craig Davis’early opener was cancelled out byJack Fillingham, while Ben Griffithsdid likewise after Aaron Anglin hadput Henbury back in front.

A n g l i n’s second was matched byDani Golding, but Davis struck thedecisive blow from the penalty spotwith five minutes left to play.

Ellwood almost blew a three-goallead at home to Chipping Sodburybefore running out 5-2 winners.

Darryl Addis and Mike Nelsonbuilt up a two-goal advantage byhalf-time and Derek Roberts made it

three before Kyle Ford and JasonBradford replied for the visitors.

The hosts sealed the win with goalsfrom Jon Bowdler and Lee Scotford.

Frampton won 5-1 in their derbyclash at Berkeley, while Yate Re-serves were beaten 3-0 at home byKing’s Stanley.

Thornbury remain the only teamwithout a point, as they were beaten2-1 at home by Kingswood, Toby Ben-nett scoring their goal.

Rockleaze and Hanham drew 0-0,while Bristol Academy host South-mead this evening.

Calor Southern League

FIVE-goal Paulton returned to thetop of the table with a tremendousdisplay against fellow high-fliersMerthyr in the Calor SouthernLeague Division One South & West.

Rovers took just five minutes tomake the breakthrough, JamesBilling converting after Ben Laceyhad pulled the ball back.

Ian Traylor equalised for Merthyrfour minutes into the second period,but Lacey scored a tremendous in-dividual goal to restore the Paultonlead two minutes later.

However, Paul Keddle levelled forthe Welsh side within 60 seconds, butBilling then got his second goal.

Paulton built a two-goal cushionwith a little over 20 minutes remain-ing when Nick McCootie beat goal-keeper Craig Morris to the ball.

The hosts wrapped-up the victorywhen Ollie Price arrived at the farpost to tap in from a corner.

Five-star Rovers go back to topPatchway knock unbeaten Longlevens off perch

YATE leapfrogged mid-table oppon-ents Cinderford with a hard-foughtwin in Division One South & West.

The home side went close early onwhen Martin Horsell saved fromLewis Sommers, while Alex Harrisdenied Mike Bryant and LewisHaldane at the other end.

Bryant put a chance wide and

Ricky Hulbert fired over, but Yatemade the breakthrough throughHaldane in the second half.

The former Bristol Rovers forwardcontinued his fine run in front of goalwhen latching onto a header fromteam-mate Jordan Rogers.

Greg Lewis was thwarted byHorsell at the other end before Bryantdoubled the advantage with a headerfrom Ross Staley’s free-kick.

Andy Lewis pulled a goal back forthe Foresters, but Horsell refused tobe beaten again as Yate secured allthree points at the Causeway.

WESTON extended their unbeatenSkrill South run to five games ontheir first visit to the EnclosedGround to face last season’s RymanLeague winners.

Although the home side had goal-keeper Chris Winterton sent off forhandling outside his penalty area tenminutes into the second half, they

Mangotsfield United 1

Swindon Supermarine 0

Skrill South

Russell watchesas Bath slide tohome defeat

BATH City slipped to a second suc-cessive defeat as their miserableweek continued.

There was a surprise name on theCity bench – 40-year-old Alex Russell,who last featured for the club in April2012 and spent last season at Cleve-don Town before announcing his re-tirement from the game in March.

The visitors were the first to settleand produced the opening chance,with Nathan Elder shrugging off WillSalmon and firing in a stinging shot,which Jason Mellor tipped over.

Thomas Murphy then placed aneffort millimetres wide of the postfrom the edge of the box, while Melloragain came to the rescue by pushingRo gers’ dipping 25-yard strike overthe bar as Dover turned the screw.

The breakthrough came from thesubsequent corner. Mellor managedto claw it away under pressure, butwhen Tom Wynter played the ballback in, the keeper was beaten byElder’s header.

Lee Howells was clearly unhappywith what he had seen and made aswitch for the second half, with JoeBurnell going on in midfield for theineffectual Ben Adelsbury.

City finally produced their firstshot at goal in the 52nd minute, whenDave Pratt’s angled drive was pushedout by Mitch Walker as far as Stearn,but he couldn’t keep his shot down.

City were slightly better in thesecond half, but were still strugglingto create chances, prompting anotherchange with 16 minutes to go, whenChris Allen came on for Noah Keats.

And the substitute was involved inCity’s best chance, earning a cornerand then putting it into the area. Itwas flicked on and fell to Will Salmonin the six-yard box but his headerdropped onto the bar.

Another set-piece, this time afree-kick, led to a half-chance asP r at t ’s downward header missed theoutstretched foot of Dan Ball.

Dover keeper Walker was flappingat every cross, but City were unable totest him often enough.

Mellor was City’s best player, buthe was unable to prevent Dover doub-ling their lead five minutes from timeas Modeste’s cross was nodded homeat the far post by Thomas Murphy.

Bath City 0

Dover 2

Skrill South

Win takes Yate above rivalsdug in well and hung on for a point.Weston started strongly, forcing acouple of early corners, and TristanPlummer’s effort came back off a postafter 11 minutes.

Minutes later, Kane Ingram had astrong effort blocked from AshleyK i n g t o n’s free-kick.

Whitehawk mounted their first at-tack on 22 minutes, when DannyMills headed over from Jake Robin-s o n’s cross. Then Weston keeper LukePurnell brought off a fine save to denyHakeem Adelakun.

Whitehawk made a bright start to

AN error by Supermarine’s JakeJohns gifted Mangotsfield the pointsin Division One South & West.

Second-placed Supermarine en-joyed the greater possession beforethe break, but Mangotsfield’s defenceworked hard to contain the visitors.

Super marine’s best chance came inthe 51st minute when Kayden Jack-son broke down the right and his lowball was met by Sam Morris, whoseshot was superbly saved by Man-gotsfield goalkeeper Kevin Sawyer.

The hosts came into the game asthe second half progressed, and theywere rewarded in the 73rd minute,when Johns casually played the ballacross the penalty area, only for it tobe intercepted by Lewis Powell, whoslid his shot past goalkeeper KentKauppinen.

Soon after, Mangotsfield almostscored again when a volley from DaveStone struck the crossbar and Pow-ell’s follow-up effort was saved byKauppinen.

Despite late pressure from Su-permarine, Mangotsfield held on fortheir second win of the season, whichlifted them to 16th in the table.

the second half, with Robinson goingclose, and then Sam Gargan hit theunderside of the Weston bar and Pur-nell managed to punch the rebound tos a f e t y.

With the departure of Winterton,Gargan took over in goal and thehome side went on the defensive,pulling everyone behind the ball andrelying on occasional break-outs.

Near the end, Weston brought onnew signing Jake Harris, released byHereford United, and he forced Gar-gan to concede two late corners fromsnap shots.

NAILSEA United continue to set thepace at the top of the Premier Di-vision after a 4-1 home victoryagainst previously unbeaten Shire-hampton.

Louis Keane gave Nailsea, the de-fending champions, the lead shortlybefore half-time with a close-rangefinish.

Shirehampton, who had scored 24goals in their previous three games,equalised in the 52nd minute whenKyle O’Donovan beat Nailsea goal-keeper Scott Kendall at the secondat t e m p t .

A 67th-minute cross-shot fromKeane put Nailsea back in front, andhe completed his hat-trick 11 minuteslater when he fired a shot past Shire-hampton goalkeeper Mark Winkler.

Skipper James Lee completed Nail-sea’s victory with a superb strike inthe 89th minute.

Third-placed Clutton had a 3-2home win against Fry Club, andfourth-placed Stockwood Greenwent down 2-0 at Ilminster Town.

Cutters Friday put a disappoint-ing start to the season behind them

with an 8-2 home success againstbottom side Odd Down Reserves.

Nailsea Town suffered a 3-0 defeatat Bridgwater Town Reserves, whileYatton and Berrow battled out a goal-less draw.

In Division One, second-placedBroad Plain House were 3-0 winnersat Congresbury, while fifth-placedWr i n g t o n / Re d h i l l maintained theirunbeaten record with a 6-1 hammer-ing of Clevedon United.

Wr i n g t o n’s goals came from NeilAndow (2), Simon Riggs, Wes Bracey,Jake Murray and Joe Berry, whileDan Fowler netted for Clevedon.

� Tytherington Rocks lost 2-1 atClanfield to suffer their first defeat ofthe Hellenic League Division OneWest season.

The home side went 2-0 up, thanksto a headed goal from Adam Pendleand a penalty from Steve Olphert,before Stuart Nelson scored aspot-kick to pull a goal back.

T y t h e r i n g t o n’s misery was com-pounded by the 70th-minute dis-missal of Adamo Missiato.

Paulton Rovers 5

Merthyr Town 2

Calor Southern League

Whitehawk 0

Weston-super-Mare 0

Weston still unbeaten after stalemate in Sussex

� Mangotsfield goalscorer Lewis Powell gets a shot away

� Mangotsfield players celebrate Lewis Powell’s goal

� Mangotsfield’s Ashley Williams on the charge

Clevedon claim opening victory

Clevedon Town 2

Guildford 1

CLEVEDON chalked up their firstvictory of the season against fellowstrugglers Guildford to get off thebottom of the Division One South &West table.

The hosts were given a massiveboost during the first half, when Citygoalkeeper Will Dukes was dismissedfor handling the ball outside his pen-alty area.

Guildford defender Ryan Bernard

took over between the posts for theten-men visitors, and kept his goalintact until two minutes before thei n t e r va l .

Danny Wring created an openingfor Joe Flurry and his shot found thenet via the body of stand-in goal-keeper Bernard.

Clevedon doubled their lead fourminutes into the second period whenReeko Best played in Matt Thorneand he chipped Bernard in style.

Alex Afful and Oli Barton hadchances for the visitors before Geo-rge Bowerman pulled a goal back on75 minutes, but the home side com-fortably held on.� Nailsea United’s Louis Keane, centre, is congratulated after scoring

Cinderford Town 1

Yate Town 2

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PATCHWAY became the first teamthis season to inflict defeat uponreigning champions Longlevens.

The Gloucester side slipped off thetop of the table following their 1-0defeat, which came when Dave Richturned John Pugsley’s 30th-minuteeffort into his own goal.

Gala Wilton took over at the sum-mit after they triumphed 1-0 atBishop’s Cleeve Reserves.

Henbury needed to forge aheadfour times before finally seeing offBristol Telephones 4-3, the hostshitting three swift equalisers in a

thrilling encounter. Craig Davis’early opener was cancelled out byJack Fillingham, while Ben Griffithsdid likewise after Aaron Anglin hadput Henbury back in front.

A n g l i n’s second was matched byDani Golding, but Davis struck thedecisive blow from the penalty spotwith five minutes left to play.

Ellwood almost blew a three-goallead at home to Chipping Sodburybefore running out 5-2 winners.

Darryl Addis and Mike Nelsonbuilt up a two-goal advantage byhalf-time and Derek Roberts made it

three before Kyle Ford and JasonBradford replied for the visitors.

The hosts sealed the win with goalsfrom Jon Bowdler and Lee Scotford.

Frampton won 5-1 in their derbyclash at Berkeley, while Yate Re-serves were beaten 3-0 at home byKing’s Stanley.

Thornbury remain the only teamwithout a point, as they were beaten2-1 at home by Kingswood, Toby Ben-nett scoring their goal.

Rockleaze and Hanham drew 0-0,while Bristol Academy host South-mead this evening.

Calor Southern League

FIVE-goal Paulton returned to thetop of the table with a tremendousdisplay against fellow high-fliersMerthyr in the Calor SouthernLeague Division One South & West.

Rovers took just five minutes tomake the breakthrough, JamesBilling converting after Ben Laceyhad pulled the ball back.

Ian Traylor equalised for Merthyrfour minutes into the second period,but Lacey scored a tremendous in-dividual goal to restore the Paultonlead two minutes later.

However, Paul Keddle levelled forthe Welsh side within 60 seconds, butBilling then got his second goal.

Paulton built a two-goal cushionwith a little over 20 minutes remain-ing when Nick McCootie beat goal-keeper Craig Morris to the ball.

The hosts wrapped-up the victorywhen Ollie Price arrived at the farpost to tap in from a corner.

Five-star Rovers go back to topPatchway knock unbeaten Longlevens off perch

YATE leapfrogged mid-table oppon-ents Cinderford with a hard-foughtwin in Division One South & West.

The home side went close early onwhen Martin Horsell saved fromLewis Sommers, while Alex Harrisdenied Mike Bryant and LewisHaldane at the other end.

Bryant put a chance wide and

Ricky Hulbert fired over, but Yatemade the breakthrough throughHaldane in the second half.

The former Bristol Rovers forwardcontinued his fine run in front of goalwhen latching onto a header fromteam-mate Jordan Rogers.

Greg Lewis was thwarted byHorsell at the other end before Bryantdoubled the advantage with a headerfrom Ross Staley’s free-kick.

Andy Lewis pulled a goal back forthe Foresters, but Horsell refused tobe beaten again as Yate secured allthree points at the Causeway.

WESTON extended their unbeatenSkrill South run to five games ontheir first visit to the EnclosedGround to face last season’s RymanLeague winners.

Although the home side had goal-keeper Chris Winterton sent off forhandling outside his penalty area tenminutes into the second half, they

Mangotsfield United 1

Swindon Supermarine 0

Skrill South

Russell watchesas Bath slide tohome defeat

BATH City slipped to a second suc-cessive defeat as their miserableweek continued.

There was a surprise name on theCity bench – 40-year-old Alex Russell,who last featured for the club in April2012 and spent last season at Cleve-don Town before announcing his re-tirement from the game in March.

The visitors were the first to settleand produced the opening chance,with Nathan Elder shrugging off WillSalmon and firing in a stinging shot,which Jason Mellor tipped over.

Thomas Murphy then placed aneffort millimetres wide of the postfrom the edge of the box, while Melloragain came to the rescue by pushingRo gers’ dipping 25-yard strike overthe bar as Dover turned the screw.

The breakthrough came from thesubsequent corner. Mellor managedto claw it away under pressure, butwhen Tom Wynter played the ballback in, the keeper was beaten byElder’s header.

Lee Howells was clearly unhappywith what he had seen and made aswitch for the second half, with JoeBurnell going on in midfield for theineffectual Ben Adelsbury.

City finally produced their firstshot at goal in the 52nd minute, whenDave Pratt’s angled drive was pushedout by Mitch Walker as far as Stearn,but he couldn’t keep his shot down.

City were slightly better in thesecond half, but were still strugglingto create chances, prompting anotherchange with 16 minutes to go, whenChris Allen came on for Noah Keats.

And the substitute was involved inCity’s best chance, earning a cornerand then putting it into the area. Itwas flicked on and fell to Will Salmonin the six-yard box but his headerdropped onto the bar.

Another set-piece, this time afree-kick, led to a half-chance asP r at t ’s downward header missed theoutstretched foot of Dan Ball.

Dover keeper Walker was flappingat every cross, but City were unable totest him often enough.

Mellor was City’s best player, buthe was unable to prevent Dover doub-ling their lead five minutes from timeas Modeste’s cross was nodded homeat the far post by Thomas Murphy.

Bath City 0

Dover 2

Skrill South

Win takes Yate above rivalsdug in well and hung on for a point.Weston started strongly, forcing acouple of early corners, and TristanPlummer’s effort came back off a postafter 11 minutes.

Minutes later, Kane Ingram had astrong effort blocked from AshleyK i n g t o n’s free-kick.

Whitehawk mounted their first at-tack on 22 minutes, when DannyMills headed over from Jake Robin-s o n’s cross. Then Weston keeper LukePurnell brought off a fine save to denyHakeem Adelakun.

Whitehawk made a bright start to

AN error by Supermarine’s JakeJohns gifted Mangotsfield the pointsin Division One South & West.

Second-placed Supermarine en-joyed the greater possession beforethe break, but Mangotsfield’s defenceworked hard to contain the visitors.

Super marine’s best chance came inthe 51st minute when Kayden Jack-son broke down the right and his lowball was met by Sam Morris, whoseshot was superbly saved by Man-gotsfield goalkeeper Kevin Sawyer.

The hosts came into the game asthe second half progressed, and theywere rewarded in the 73rd minute,when Johns casually played the ballacross the penalty area, only for it tobe intercepted by Lewis Powell, whoslid his shot past goalkeeper KentKauppinen.

Soon after, Mangotsfield almostscored again when a volley from DaveStone struck the crossbar and Pow-ell’s follow-up effort was saved byKauppinen.

Despite late pressure from Su-permarine, Mangotsfield held on fortheir second win of the season, whichlifted them to 16th in the table.

the second half, with Robinson goingclose, and then Sam Gargan hit theunderside of the Weston bar and Pur-nell managed to punch the rebound tos a f e t y.

With the departure of Winterton,Gargan took over in goal and thehome side went on the defensive,pulling everyone behind the ball andrelying on occasional break-outs.

Near the end, Weston brought onnew signing Jake Harris, released byHereford United, and he forced Gar-gan to concede two late corners fromsnap shots.

NAILSEA United continue to set thepace at the top of the Premier Di-vision after a 4-1 home victoryagainst previously unbeaten Shire-hampton.

Louis Keane gave Nailsea, the de-fending champions, the lead shortlybefore half-time with a close-rangefinish.

Shirehampton, who had scored 24goals in their previous three games,equalised in the 52nd minute whenKyle O’Donovan beat Nailsea goal-keeper Scott Kendall at the secondat t e m p t .

A 67th-minute cross-shot fromKeane put Nailsea back in front, andhe completed his hat-trick 11 minuteslater when he fired a shot past Shire-hampton goalkeeper Mark Winkler.

Skipper James Lee completed Nail-sea’s victory with a superb strike inthe 89th minute.

Third-placed Clutton had a 3-2home win against Fry Club, andfourth-placed Stockwood Greenwent down 2-0 at Ilminster Town.

Cutters Friday put a disappoint-ing start to the season behind them

with an 8-2 home success againstbottom side Odd Down Reserves.

Nailsea Town suffered a 3-0 defeatat Bridgwater Town Reserves, whileYatton and Berrow battled out a goal-less draw.

In Division One, second-placedBroad Plain House were 3-0 winnersat Congresbury, while fifth-placedWr i n g t o n / Re d h i l l maintained theirunbeaten record with a 6-1 hammer-ing of Clevedon United.

Wr i n g t o n’s goals came from NeilAndow (2), Simon Riggs, Wes Bracey,Jake Murray and Joe Berry, whileDan Fowler netted for Clevedon.

� Tytherington Rocks lost 2-1 atClanfield to suffer their first defeat ofthe Hellenic League Division OneWest season.

The home side went 2-0 up, thanksto a headed goal from Adam Pendleand a penalty from Steve Olphert,before Stuart Nelson scored aspot-kick to pull a goal back.

T y t h e r i n g t o n’s misery was com-pounded by the 70th-minute dis-missal of Adamo Missiato.

Paulton Rovers 5

Merthyr Town 2

Calor Southern League

Whitehawk 0

Weston-super-Mare 0

Weston still unbeaten after stalemate in Sussex

� Mangotsfield goalscorer Lewis Powell gets a shot away

� Mangotsfield players celebrate Lewis Powell’s goal

� Mangotsfield’s Ashley Williams on the charge

Clevedon claim opening victory

Clevedon Town 2

Guildford 1

CLEVEDON chalked up their firstvictory of the season against fellowstrugglers Guildford to get off thebottom of the Division One South &West table.

The hosts were given a massiveboost during the first half, when Citygoalkeeper Will Dukes was dismissedfor handling the ball outside his pen-alty area.

Guildford defender Ryan Bernard

took over between the posts for theten-men visitors, and kept his goalintact until two minutes before thei n t e r va l .

Danny Wring created an openingfor Joe Flurry and his shot found thenet via the body of stand-in goal-keeper Bernard.

Clevedon doubled their lead fourminutes into the second period whenReeko Best played in Matt Thorneand he chipped Bernard in style.

Alex Afful and Oli Barton hadchances for the visitors before Geo-rge Bowerman pulled a goal back on75 minutes, but the home side com-fortably held on.� Nailsea United’s Louis Keane, centre, is congratulated after scoring

Cinderford Town 1

Yate Town 2

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Results

FA Vase and Toolstation League

Green resistRoman advanceto seal Vase win

LONGWELL Green held off a laterally from opponents Roman GlassSt George to win their FA Vasesecond qualifying round tie 3-2 atOaklands Park.

Playing on the newly-laid 3G sur-face at GFA headquarters, LongwellGreen took a two-goal lead into thebreak courtesy of a Danny Huntd o u bl e.

Alex Grimshaw added a third goalbefore Ian Power and Mikey Goldingstruck for the home side to make it atense finish, although LongwellGreen held on.

Winterbour ne also secured a 3-2away win – Ben Dowdell, KarimRendall and Jack Rhys-Jones scoringin the triumph at United ServicesPor tsmouth.

Hallen progressed with a 2-0 homevictory over Cowes, Tom Collett’spenalty and an Ashley Bennett strikeboth arriving after the interval.

Key n s h a m took the lead againstAshton & Backwell through JoshuaRice, but were beaten 3-1.

Almondsbury UWE beat Rad-stock 1-0 thanks to a Brett Agnewgoal, while the visitors had three mensent off in a melee inside the last fivem i nu t e s.

Odd Down hammered Wootton Bas-sett 7-0, with Brad Norris scoring thefirst two goals and Rory Kay adding athird before the interval.

Norris completed his hat-trickshortly after half-time before KyeSimpson, Mike Baker and Rich Daw-ley inflicted further punishmentupon the hapless visitors.

Bristol Manor Farm came from

behind to beat Corsham, Pete Shep-pard scoring the winner in extra-timeafter George Brimson had cancelledout Dan Lardner’s opener.

C r i bb s slipped to a 2-0 home defeatagainst Hamworthy, Greg Horlockbreaking the deadlock on 70 minutesand Paddy Hester’s penalty makingthe game safe late on.

Hengrove also slipped out of thecompetition with a 1-0 home reverse,against Laverstock & Ford, ElliottWykes scoring the only goal 20minutes from time.

Bradford went through with a 4-2victory over visiting Downton, DanKing, Sam Jordan, with two, andKieran Baggs on target for the homes i d e.

Shepton Mallet, meanwhile, took a3-1 win at Camelford with goals fromAshley Wilmott, James Vincent andLee Davidson.

The Toolstation League will alsohave continued representation in theVase from Warminster, who won 2-0at Brockenhurst; and Willand, whobeat Sherborne 5-3.

Buckland progressed with a 2-0 tri-umph at Exmouth, while Barnstaplemust replay with Newquay, followingtheir 2-2 draw in the Cornish resort.

However, Slimbridge crashed out4-1 at Farnham, Melksham lost 4-2 atFolland and Street were beaten 2-1 athome by Bovey Tracey.

Larkhall moved to the top of thePremier Division table, followingtheir 3-0 home victory over previousleaders Gillingham.

Tyler Sibbick’s penalty put thehosts ahead at the break and goalsfrom Jamie Lyons and Ross Lyewrapped up the points.

Bitton enjoyed a 5-0 home win over

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21Football league Youth Alliance, South WestUnder-18: Bournemouth 3 Plymouth 0, Cheltenham1 Bsl Rovers 1, Exeter 1 Oxford Utd 5, NewportCounty 2 Swindon 2.South West Counties Youth: Bsl Academy 3 BathCity 5, Cirencester Acad 2 Andover Tn 3, DorchesterTn 0 Poole tn 7, Forest Green Rov 4 Newport Co 2,New Coll Acad 1 Salisbury City 2.FA Vase, Second Round Qualifying: AlmondsburyUWE 1 Radstock Tn 0, Bradford Tn 4 Downton 2,Bristol Manor Farm 2 Corsham Tn 1 (aet),Brockenhurst 0 Warminster Tn 2, Camelford 1Shepton Mallet 3, Cribbs 0 Hamworthy Utd 2,Exmouth Tn 0 Buckland Ath 2, Fareham Tn 4 BslAcademy 1, Folland Spts 2 Melksham Tn 2, Hallen 2Cowes Spts 0, Hengrove Ath 0 Laverstock & Ford 1,Keynsham Tn 1 Ashton & Backwell Utd 3, Newquay2 Barnstaple Tn 2, Odd Down 7 Wootton Bassett Tn0, Roman Glass St George 2 Longwell Green Spts3, Saltash Utd 5 Longwell Green Spts 3, UnitedServices Portsmouth 2 Winterbourne Utd 3, WillandRov 5 Sherborne Tn 3.Calor Southern League, Premier Div: Arlesey Tn 1Bideford 1, Banbury Utd 2 Hitchin Tn 1, CambridgeCity 3 AFC Totton 0, Chippenham Tn 1 Bedford Tn4, Corby Tn 2 Chesham Utd 1, Frome Tn 0Hungerford Tn 2, Hinckley Utd 2 Bashley 0, PooleTn 0 Burnham 0, Redditch Utd 2 Biggleswade Tn 2,St Albans City 1 Stourbridge 2, St Neots Tn 2 TruroCity 0, Weymouth 0 Hemel Hempstead Tn 3.Div I South & West: Cinderford Tn 1 Yate Tn 2,Clevedon Tn 2 Guildford City 1, Didcot Tn 0 BishopCleeve 4, Fleet Tn 0 Cirencester Tn 1, GodalmingTn 1 Bridgwater Tn 3, Mangotsfield Utd 1 SwindonSupermarine 0, Paulton Rovers 5 Merthyr Tn 2,Shortwood Utd 3 Tiverton Tn 3, Taunton Tn 1 NorthLeigh 3, Thatcham Tn 1 Evesham Utd 1, WimborneTn 3 Stratford Tn 3.Uhlsport Hellenic, Div I West: Carterton 5 NorthLeigh Utd 2, Clanfield 2 Tytherington Rocks 1,Letcombe 0 Easington Spts 1, Purton 4 ShortwoodUtd 0, Tuffley Rov 4 Old Woodstock Tn 0.Toolstation Western League, Premier Div: Bitton5 Bishop Sutton 0, Bridport 2 Ilfracombe Tn 1,

Brislington 1 Cadbury Heath 1, Larkhall Ath 3Gillingham Tn 0.Div I: Cheddar 2 Chard Tn 2, Devizes Tn 1Westbury Utd 1, Oldland Abbots 1 Wellington 2,Wincanton Tn 5 Calne Tn 4.David Wilson Homes Gloucestershire County:Berkeley Tn 1 Frampton Utd 5, Bishops Cleeve Res0 Gala Wilton 1, Bsl Telephones 3 Henbury 4,Ellwood 5 Chipping Sodbury Tn 2, Patchway Tn 1Longlevens 0, Rockleaze Rgrs 0 Hanham Ath 0,Thornbury Tn 1 Kingswood 2, Yate Tn Res 0 KingsStanley 2.Somerset FA Intermediate Cup, Round I: Aces 6Meadow Rgrs 1, Alcombe Rov 5 Westhill Spts 1,Burnham Utd 4 High Littleton 2, Camerton Ath 4Nether Stowey 0, Evercreech 0 Highbridge Tn 4.Somerset County, Premier Div: Bishops Lyd 0Weston St Johns 2, Bridgwater Tn Res 3 Nailsea Tn0, Clutton 3 Fry Club 2, Cutters Friday 8 Odd DownRes 2, Ilminster Tn 2 Stockwood Green 0, Minehead2 Langford Rov 2000 1, Nailsea Utd 4 Shirehampton1, Watchet Tn 4 Street Res 1, Yatton Ath 0 Berrow0.Div I: Burnham Utd 4 Purnell Spts 2, Congresbury 0Broad Plain House 3, Dundry Ath 3 Westfield 1,Frome Collegians 4 St George (EIG) 0, MiddlezoyRov 3 Banwell 2, Saltford 2 Shepton Mallet Res 2,Wrington Redhill 6 Clevedon Utd 1.Div II East: Welton Rov Res 4 Farrington Gurney 0,Ashton & Backwell Utd Res 0 Chilcompton Spts 5,Bishop Sutton Res 1 Peasedown Ath 2, ChewMagna 3 Imperial 0, Fry Club Res 3 Cutters FridayRes 0, Radstock Tn Res 3 Tunley Ath 0, StockwoodGreen Res 1 Long Ashton 3, Timsbury Ath 4Hengrove Ath Res 0.Div II West: Cleeve West Tn 0 Winscombe 0,Combe St Nicholas 6 Cheddar Res 2, North Curry 1Burnham Utd Res 0, Portishead Tn Res 4 NailseaTn Res 0, Staplegrove 2 Worle 4, Uphill Castle 5Churchill Club 70 0, Wells City Res 2 Glastonbury 2,Weston St Johns Res 1 Kewstoke Lions 2.Gloucestershire FA Senior Amateur Cup, RoundI: Brimsham Green 0 AFC Mangotsfield 3, Torpedo2 Almondsbury UWE Res 0, Bristol Athletic 1 Made

For Ever 5, Highridge Utd walkover v Avonmouth,Ridings High 1 Olveston Utd 3, Hallen Res w/o vSouthmead Utd Res, Eden Grove 2 Cribbs Res 5,Wick 2 Nicholas Wdrs 2 (Wick won 5-3 on pens),Longwell Green Spts Res 2 Tytherington Rocks Res0, Wessex Wdrs 1 Totterdown Utd 7, Old Sodbury 4Bitton Res 0, Greyfriars Ath 3 Sneyd Park 3 (Sneydwon 4-2 on pens), DRG Frenchay 1 LawrenceWeston 3, Frampton Ath 5 Downend Foresters 1,Little Stoke 2 Mangotsfield Spts 1, Glenside 5 OB 0Shaftesbury Crus 0 (Shaftesbury won 4-3 on pens),Stoke Gifford Utd 5 Brislington Cktrs 1, LebeqSaturday w/o v Winterbourne Utd Res, Mendip Utd 7St Aldhelms 1, AEK Boco 5 Lebeq Utd 1, PatchwayTn Res 2 Rockleaze Rgrs Res 1, SportingGreyhound 9 Totterdown POB 2, Oldland AbbotsRes 3 Clifton St Vinc 12, CAB Olympic SC w/o vStockwood Wanderers Res, Sea Mills Park 8Cadbury Heath Res 2, Old Georgians 1 BristolManor Farm Res 2.Gloucestershire FA Minor Cup, Round I: Glenside5 OB Res 1 Clifton St Vinc A 2, Shireway Spts 1Sneyd Park A 2, AEK Boco Colts 4 Stanton DrewRes 2, VCF Santos 4 Brandon Sports 1, ThornburyBaptist 4 Rangeworthy Res 2, Wessex Wdrs Res 1Wellington Wdrs 6, Shaftesbury Crus Res 8 BendixRes 0, Portland OB Res 2 Old Elizabethans 8,Crosscourt Utd Res 3 Westerleigh Spts 4, LuccombeGarage 1 Helios 7, Oldland Abbots A v BengalTigers w/o, Sea Mills Park Res 3 Greyfriars Ath A 2,Cadbury Heath A w/o v SAS Utd, Stoke Gifford A 0Soundwell Vic Res 3, Green Park Rgrs 3 TalbotKnowle Res 5, Mendip Utd A 4 Hillfields Baptist 3,Torpedo A 5 Warmley Saints Res 1, Iron Acton A 3Cesson 4, Old Georgians Res 0 Lawrence Rov Res4, Brislington Cktrs Res 6 Old Sodbury Res 1,Retainers Res 2 Evergreen 2 (Retainers won 4-2 onpens), Castle Green 0 Easton Cowboys Res 2, WickA 2 Highridge Utd A 1, Old Sodbury Res 5 PatchwayNE Res 2, Severnside 5 Cotham OB 3, FishpondsAth 8 North Bristol Catalans 1, Bradley Stoke Tn A 4Filton Ath Res 3, Staple Hill Orient 6 CounterslipBaptist 2, Cosmsos 1 Woodland Rgrs 13.Gloucestershire FA Primary Cup, Round I: DDAS3 Tebby Res 1, Brimsham Green Res w/o v Suburbs

Utd, Westerleigh Spts Res w/o v Clifton RocketsRes, Clifton St Vinc B 3 Bristol Revolutions 6,Retainers A 0 West Town Utd 2, Bristol Sports 7Seymour Utd A 1, Warmley Utd 1 Cribbs B 2, LionRes 0 Hanham Ath B 5, Stoke Lane Ath 12 NCSFUtd 0, Real Fishponds w/o v Jersey Rgrs Res,Wanderers Res w/o v Cutters A, Dodington 2 IronActon B 4, Brandon Sports Res v Avonmouth A,Bradley Stoke Tn B 4 Cosmos Res 1, Greyfriars B 5Bristol Deaf 3, Sea Mills A 6 Torpedo B 5, KellawayRgrs Res 2 Sneyd Park B 4, De Veys Res 3Woodland Rgrs Res 1, Real St George 7 LongAshton A 1.Bristol Premier, Div I: Roman Glass St George Res0 Seymour Utd 1.District, Senior Div: Portville Warriors v AEK BocoRes (K Rawlings), Longwell Green Spts A 0 BslBarcelona 3, De Veys 1 Hallen A 4, Shire Res 0Pucklechurch Spts 0, Warmley Saints 0 NicholasWanderers Res 0, Wick Res v Henbury Res 8 WickRes 2.Div I: Bradley Stoke Tn 2 Hambrook 2, ChippingSodbury Tn Res 3 Winterbourne Utd A 6, Lebeq FCRes 1 Talbot Knowle Utd 3, Seymour Utd Res 3Mendip Utd Res 2, Soundwell Vic 3 Stanton Drew 0,St Pancras 5 Rangeworthy 1, Totterdown Utd Res vMiners pp.Div II: Frys Club A 2 AEK Boco 2, Bendix 4Frampton Ath Res 4, Chipping Sodbury Tn A 0 RealThornbury 8, Nicholas Wdrs A 0 Cribbs A 5,Hanham Ath Res 4 Greyfriars Ath Res 3, Iron ActonRes 4 DRG Frenchay Res 3, LLoydy Coalpit Heath 3Hartcliffe 2.Div III: Hallen B 8 Hillfields OB 2, Hambrook Res 3Henbury A 2, Olveston Utd Res 1 Horfield Utd 1,Patchway NE 2 Bsl Barcelona Res 0, PucklechurchSpts Res 3 Made For Ever Res 0, South BristolCentral 0 Stapleton 5, Yate Ath 7 Roman Glass StGeorge A 2.Suburban, Premier Div I: Fishponds OB 1 AshtonUtd 2.Div I: Broad Plain House Res 2 Ashton BackwellColts 2, Filton Ath 0 Oldbury 0, Kellaway Rgrs 1Avonmouth Res 5, Stoke Rgrs 3 Stoke Gifford Utd

Res 2, Tyndalls Park Rgrs v St Aldhelms Res pp.Div II: Almondsbury UWE A 3 Old Cothamians 2,Frys Club OB 5 Wanderers 1, Hanham Ath Sub 1Ridings High Res 4, Keynsham Tn A 8 AFCMangotsfield Res 1, Lawrence Weston Res 4 BristolTelephones Res 4, St Annes Tn 1 Ashton Utd Res 4.Div III: Downend Foresters Res 1 Bristol Bilbao 6,Old Cothamians Res 0 Severn Beach Res 0,Rockleaze Rgrs A 6 Coupland Insulation 3, SartanUtd 4 Fishpond OB Res 0.Div IV: Park Knowle 1 Winford PH 4.Div V: Lockleaze Community 2 Lawrence Weston A1.Div VI: Park Knowle Res 3 Bsl Spartak 3, TC Sports8 Winford PH Res 5.Bristol & Avon: Broad Walk Community Res 3Broad Plain A 6, Whitchurch Phoenix 7 WessexWdrs A 1.Downs, Div I: AFC Bohemia 1 Retainers 1, Ashley 4Portland OB 2, Cotswool 5 Jersey Rgrs 0, DACBeachcroft 4 Jamaica Bell 0, Lawes Jrs 3 Saints OB3.Div II: Clifton Rockets 0 Tebby AFC 1, Clifton StVinc Res 3 Ashley Res 0, Corinthians 1 TorpedoRes 4, Easton Cowboys 8 St Andrews 2, Hare OnThe Hill 5 Sporting Greyhound Res 1, Lion FC 2Sneyd Park Res 0, Old Cliftonians 7 Saints OB Res1.Weston-s-Mare & District, Atwell Shield PrelimRd: Clevedon Utd Res 9 Draycott 2.Div I: Berrow Res 1 Portishead Tn A 0, ChurchillClub 70 Res 0 Tickenham Utd 5, Hutton 0 CleeveWest Tn Res 0, Nailsea Utd A 2 Yatton Ath Res 0.Div II: Langford Rov Res 5 Congresbury Res 6, StGeorge(EIG) Res 4 Nailsea Utd B 6.Div III: AFC Nailsea 1 Shipham 2, Banwell Res 2Axbridge Tn 4.Div IV: Kewstoke Lions Res 1 King Alfred SC 1.Div V: Congresbury A 1 Selkirk Utd 2, Portishead TnColts 3 Shipham Res 1, Priory Rgrs 1 Portishead CT2.Div VI: Axbridge Tn Res 3 Burnham Utd B 2,Banwell A 3 Wedmore Res 2, Berrow A 5 WorleRgrs Res 5, Westend Res 1 AFC Nailsea Res 0.

� Danny Hunt, left, celebrates scoring for Longwell Green on Saturday

struggling Bishop Sutton, althoughJordan Richards’ goal was the onlyone of the opening period.

Luke Bryan, Connor Britton andDave Pollinger were on target in thesecond half, before Bryan completedhis double in scoring Bitton’s fifth.

Brislington and Cadbury Heath

drew 1-1, with the hosts coming frombehind to equalise in the second halfthrough David Peters after Matt Hux-ley had scored for Heath.

Bridport beat Ilfracombe 2-1, ChrisLuke replying to Stan Paxton’s lev-eller after Dan Wise had opened thescoring from the penalty spot.

In the First Division, Wellingtonscored twice in the last ten minutes towin 2-1 at Oldland, who took the leadthrough Jerome Ingram.

Simon Dennehy levelled matterswith ten minutes remaining beforeJames Clough grabbed the winner instoppage time.

treble check:Complete check for Littlewoods, Vernons and

Zetters: 3 = Score Draws, 2= No Score Draw or Void 1= Home or Away

chelsea .................... (0) 2 Fulham ....................(0) 0Oscar 52 Att 41,608Mikel 84liverpool ................. (0) 0 Southamptn ............(0) 1Att 44,755 Lovren 53Newcastle ................ (2) 2 hull ..........................(1) 3Remy 10, 44 Brady 26Att 51,523 Elmohamady 48 Aluko 76Norwich ................... (0) 0 Aston Villa ...............(1) 1Att 26,813 Kozak 30West brom............... (1) 3 Sunderland .............(0) 0Sessegnon 20 Att 24,595Ridgewell 76Amalfitano 90West ham ................ (1) 2 everton ....................(0) 3Morrison 31 Baines 62, 83Noble 76 (pen) Lukaku 85Att 34,952

Yesterday Arsenal .................... (2) 3 Stoke .......................(1) 1Ramsey 5 Cameron 26Mertesacker 36Sagna 72Att 50,002cardiff ...................... (0) 0 Spurs .......................(0) 1 Paulinho 90Att 27,815crystal Palace ......... (0) 0 Swansea ..................(1) 2 Michu 2 Dyer 48Att 22,466Man city .................. (2) 4 Man Utd ...................(0) 1Aguero 16, 47 Rooney 87Toure 45Nasri 50 Att 47,156 hOMe AWAY P W D L F A W D L F A PtsArsenal ..............5 2 0 1 5 4 2 0 0 6 2 12Spurs .................5 2 0 0 3 0 2 0 1 2 1 12Man City ............5 3 0 0 10 1 0 1 1 2 3 10Chelsea .............5 3 0 0 6 1 0 1 1 0 1 10Liverpool ............5 2 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 3 2 10Everton ..............5 1 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 5 4 9Southamptn .......5 0 2 0 1 1 2 0 1 2 1 8Man Utd .............5 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 2 5 6 7Swansea ............5 0 1 1 3 6 2 0 1 4 1 7Stoke .................5 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 2 2 4 7Hull ....................5 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 2 3 6 7Newcastle ..........5 1 1 1 3 3 1 0 1 2 5 7Aston Villa..........5 0 0 2 1 3 2 0 1 5 3 6West Brom .........5 1 0 2 3 3 0 2 0 1 1 5West Ham ..........5 1 0 2 4 4 0 2 0 0 0 5Cardiff ................5 1 1 1 3 3 0 1 1 1 3 5Norwich..............5 1 1 1 3 3 0 0 2 0 3 4Fulham...............5 0 1 1 2 4 1 0 2 1 3 4Crystal Pal .........5 1 0 2 3 4 0 0 2 1 4 3Sunderland ........5 0 0 2 1 4 0 1 2 2 7 1

Yesterday Wigan ....................... (1) 2 Ipswich ....................(0) 0Shotton 12Powell 90 Att 13,747 hOMe AWAY P W D L F A W D L F A PtsQPR ...................8 3 1 0 4 1 3 1 0 4 1 20Burnley ..............8 2 2 0 7 2 3 0 1 7 4 17Leicester ............8 3 1 0 7 3 2 1 1 6 5 17Blackpool ...........8 3 1 0 5 2 2 1 1 7 6 17Watford ..............8 2 2 0 10 4 2 1 1 9 5 15Nottm For ..........8 3 1 0 9 4 1 2 1 5 5 15Reading .............8 2 2 0 6 4 2 1 1 5 3 15Bournemth .........8 3 0 1 5 3 1 1 2 6 14 13Huddersfld ........8 2 2 0 8 3 1 1 2 2 3 12Brighton .............8 2 1 1 7 4 1 2 1 2 2 12Wigan ................7 2 2 0 8 5 1 0 2 4 3 11Derby .................8 0 1 3 2 8 3 1 0 12 4 11Leeds .................8 1 1 2 4 5 2 1 1 3 2 11Ipswich...............8 3 0 1 9 4 0 1 3 2 6 10Blackburn...........8 2 1 1 9 4 0 2 2 3 6 9Middlesbro’ ........8 0 3 1 6 7 1 2 1 6 7 8Millwall ...............8 1 0 3 4 8 1 2 1 4 6 8Birmingham .......8 1 1 2 5 4 1 0 3 3 7 7Doncaster ..........7 1 1 2 5 6 0 2 1 3 4 6Charlton .............7 1 0 2 2 3 0 2 2 5 7 5Sheff Wed ..........7 0 2 1 4 5 0 2 2 4 8 4Yeovil .................8 0 0 4 0 6 1 1 2 3 5 4Barnsley.............8 1 1 2 5 12 0 0 4 4 10 4Bolton ................8 0 2 2 3 5 0 1 3 3 11 3

colchester ............... (1) 1 crawley town .........(1) 1Sears 6 Sinclair 32Att 3,031Gillingham ............... (0) 0 bradford ..................(1) 1 Jones 9Notts county ........... (1) 2 tranmere .................(0) 0Labadie 7 Att 3,938Haber 79Oldham .................... (0) 1 crewe ......................(1) 1MacDonald 54 Turton 13Att 4,273Peterboro................. (2) 2 Mk Dons ..................(0) 1Tomlin 12 (pen) McLeod 74Assombalonga 34 Att 8,149Port Vale .................. (1) 3 coventry ..................(2) 2Pope 40 Wilson 35Loft 60 Moussa 43Birchall 83 Att 9,218Sheff Utd ................. (0) 0 Preston ....................(0) 1Att 16,319 Beavon 68Shrewsbury ............. (0) 0 Wolves .....................(0) 1 Sako 84 (pen)Att 9,510Stevenage................ (0) 1 carlisle ....................(1) 3Tansey 59 (pen) Miller 27 Robson 77 Amoo 85Att 2,526Swindon ................... (2) 3 bristol city ..............(2) 2Ajose 19, 43 Flint 9Ranger 87 Emmanuel-Thomas 36Att 11,598Walsall ..................... (1) 1 rotherham ..............(1) 1Mantom 33 Nardiello 21Att 5,002 hOMe AWAY P W D L F A W D L F A PtsL Orient ..............7 4 0 0 13 3 3 0 0 8 2 21Peterboro ..........8 3 0 1 5 4 3 1 0 14 4 19Wolves ...............8 3 0 1 9 4 3 1 0 6 2 19Preston ..............8 2 2 0 7 3 2 2 0 8 4 16Rotherham .........8 2 2 0 8 5 2 2 0 7 5 16Bradford .............8 3 1 0 12 2 1 2 1 5 5 15Walsall ...............8 1 2 1 5 6 3 0 1 5 1 14MK Dons ............8 2 2 0 7 4 1 2 1 4 4 13Crawley Town ....8 2 1 1 8 7 1 2 1 7 6 12Brentford ............7 2 1 0 4 1 1 2 1 6 9 12Swindon .............8 3 1 0 11 4 0 1 3 3 7 11Colchester .........8 1 2 1 4 4 1 2 1 4 5 10Port Vale ............8 2 1 1 7 7 1 0 3 4 7 10Shrewsbury........8 1 2 1 3 2 0 3 1 4 7 8Carlisle...............8 1 0 3 2 10 1 2 1 4 6 8Oldham ..............8 1 1 2 4 4 1 0 3 8 10 7Crewe ................8 1 2 1 7 9 0 1 3 1 9 6Stevenage .........8 0 1 3 5 9 1 1 2 1 4 5Tranmere ...........8 0 2 2 6 12 1 0 3 3 7 5Coventry ............8 3 1 0 13 9 1 1 2 9 7 4Bristol City .........8 0 2 2 4 8 0 2 2 9 11 4Sheff Utd............8 1 1 2 3 4 0 0 4 2 9 4Notts Co ............8 1 0 3 4 6 0 1 3 4 11 4Gillingham..........8 0 2 2 2 4 0 1 3 5 11 3

AFc Wimbledon ...... (0) 3 burton Albion .........(1) 1Pell 55 McGurk 30Midson 69 Att 4,005Frampton 74Accrington Stanley . (1) 1 rochdale .................(2) 2Odejayi 24 Lund 7Att 2,180 Hogan 13bristol rovers ......... (1) 2 hartlepool ...............(2) 2Harrold 35 James 36, 45O’Toole 90 Att 5,579bury ......................... (0) 1 Southend .................(1) 1Forrester 90 Coker 23Att 2,895exeter....................... (0) 0 Newport county .....(1) 2Att 4,614 Washington 23 Worley 70Mansfield ................. (2) 3 Northampton ...........(0) 0Hutchinson 31 Att 3,469Clucas 34Kouo-Doumbe 65 (og)Morecambe.............. (0) 2 Dag & red ...............(1) 2Amond 53 Ogogo 21Hughes 78 Murphy 90Att 1,790Oxford Utd ............... (0) 0 chesterfield ............(1) 1Att 7,187 Humphreys 30Portsmouth ............. (0) 0 Fleetwood town .....(0) 1 Bradley 67 (og)Att 15,809Scunthorpe .............. (0) 1 Plymouth .................(0) 0Esajas 62 Att 3,298torquay .................... (2) 4 cheltenham .............(1) 2Ball 3, 45 Harrison 13Hawley 49 Gornell 65Chapell 90 Att 2,407Wycombe ................. (0) 1 York..........................(0) 1Morgan 70 McGurk 64Att 4,015 hOMe AWAY P W D L F A W D L F A PtsChesterfield .......8 4 0 0 7 1 3 1 0 7 2 22Fleetwood T .......8 3 0 1 11 6 3 0 1 4 2 18AFC Wim ...........8 4 0 0 9 3 1 1 2 3 5 16Oxford Utd .........8 1 2 1 5 5 3 1 0 11 4 15Mansfield ...........8 2 2 0 8 2 2 1 1 4 4 15Wycombe ...........8 2 1 1 4 3 2 1 1 7 4 14Rochdale ...........8 3 1 0 7 2 1 1 2 3 4 14Morecambe........8 2 2 0 7 4 2 0 2 6 7 14Exeter ................8 3 0 1 6 4 1 2 1 3 4 14Scunthorpe ........8 2 2 0 5 2 1 2 1 4 4 13Newport County .8 2 1 1 8 5 1 2 1 5 5 12Burton Albion .....8 1 1 2 4 6 2 1 1 7 7 11Dag & Red .........8 2 2 0 6 2 0 2 2 4 9 10Southend ...........8 2 0 2 4 4 1 1 2 4 5 10Portsmouth ........8 1 0 3 4 7 1 3 0 8 7 9Torquay ..............8 1 2 1 6 6 1 1 2 4 7 9Plymouth............8 2 0 2 2 5 1 0 3 4 5 9Bury ...................8 2 1 1 8 4 0 1 3 4 7 8Bristol Rvrs ........8 2 2 0 6 4 0 0 4 1 6 8Hartlepool ..........8 1 0 3 3 5 0 3 1 2 5 6Cheltenham .......8 0 3 1 7 9 1 0 3 4 10 6York ...................8 1 1 2 2 4 0 1 3 4 8 5Northamptn ........8 1 1 2 6 6 0 0 4 0 7 4Accrington S ......8 0 1 3 3 6 0 0 4 2 10 1

hAlF tIMe 1 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 3 1 3 1 2 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 2 1 1 1 1

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49

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Arlesey.................................1 bideford ............................ 1banbury ...............................2 hitchin ............................... 1cambridge city ...................3 AFc totton ........................ 0chippenham ........................1 bedford town ................... 4corby ...................................2 chesham ........................... 1Frome town ........................0 hungerford town ............. 2hinckley Utd ........................2 bashley ............................. 0Poole town..........................0 burnham ........................... 0redditch ..............................2 biggleswade town ........... 2St Albans .............................1 Stourbridge ....................... 2St Neots town .....................2 truro city .......................... 0Weymouth ...........................0 hemel hempstead ............ 3

hOMe AWAY P W D l F A W D l F A PtHemel Hempstead .9 4 0 0 16 2 4 0 1 13 3 24Bideford .................9 3 1 0 11 2 2 3 0 9 6 19Chesham ...............9 3 1 0 11 5 3 0 2 10 7 19Poole Town ............9 2 3 0 9 7 3 1 0 9 5 19Cambridge City ......9 3 1 1 9 5 2 2 0 4 2 18Banbury .................9 3 0 2 8 7 2 1 1 8 7 16Stourbridge ............9 2 0 2 5 5 3 0 2 12 6 15Weymouth .............9 3 1 1 8 5 1 2 1 7 6 15Arlesey...................8 2 2 0 8 5 2 0 2 5 4 14Hungerford Town ...9 1 1 2 5 6 3 0 2 9 4 13St Albans ...............9 3 0 2 7 5 1 1 2 7 6 13Corby .....................9 4 0 1 9 6 0 1 3 2 11 13Hitchin....................8 2 2 0 6 3 1 1 2 4 5 12Bedford Town.........9 2 0 2 6 7 1 1 3 8 17 10Chippenham ..........8 1 0 3 5 8 2 0 2 7 4 9St Neots Town .......9 2 0 3 8 7 1 0 3 4 6 9Burnham ................8 0 1 2 2 6 2 2 1 7 4 9Truro City ...............8 0 2 1 3 5 2 1 2 8 10 9Biggleswade T .......8 1 2 1 5 3 0 3 1 5 6 8Redditch ................8 0 1 4 6 19 2 0 1 5 6 7Hinckley Utd ..........9 1 2 2 5 6 0 1 3 4 11 6AFC Totton.............9 1 0 3 8 13 1 0 4 5 13 6Frome Town ...........8 0 1 4 1 11 1 1 1 3 4 5Bashley ..................9 0 1 3 4 10 0 1 4 3 12 2

bath city ..............................0 Dover ................................. 2bromley ...............................3 basingstoke ...................... 2concord rangers ...............4 Maidenhead Utd ............... 1Dorchester...........................2 chelmsford ....................... 0eastbourne borough ..........4 Bishop’sStortford ............ 1eastleigh..............................1 hayes & Yeading .............. 0ebbsfleet United .................0 boreham Wood................. 0Gosport borough ...............2 tonbridge Angels ............. 0havant and W ......................0 Sutton Utd ......................... 5Staines town.......................3 Farnboro ........................... 2Whitehawk ...........................0 Weston-S-Mare ................. 0

hOMe AWAY P W D l F A W D l F A PtEastleigh ................9 4 1 0 6 1 3 0 1 7 3 22Bromley .................9 5 0 0 17 4 2 0 2 6 5 21Weston-S-Mare .....9 2 1 1 4 1 3 1 1 7 4 17Sutton Utd .............9 3 1 1 11 6 1 2 1 6 2 15Staines Town .........9 5 0 0 10 4 0 0 4 4 12 15Eastbourne Borough .8 2 2 0 7 3 2 0 2 3 4 14Bishop’s Stortford ..8 2 0 1 4 3 2 2 1 10 10 14Basingstoke ...........8 3 1 0 8 4 1 0 3 4 6 13Hayes & Yeading ...8 1 0 2 4 3 3 0 2 7 5 12Concord Rangers ..9 2 1 2 8 6 1 2 1 4 5 12Maidenhead Utd ....8 1 1 1 5 6 2 2 1 7 5 12Dover .....................9 1 0 3 3 5 3 0 2 4 2 12Whitehawk .............9 1 2 2 3 6 2 0 2 8 8 11Bath City ................8 1 2 2 6 7 1 1 1 3 3 9Ebbsfleet United ....9 0 4 1 2 4 1 2 1 7 6 9Havant and W........9 2 0 3 6 10 0 3 1 3 4 9Tonbridge Angels ...8 1 1 1 3 4 1 1 3 6 12 8Boreham Wood......9 1 1 2 5 8 1 1 3 3 8 8Farnboro ................5 2 0 0 3 0 0 1 2 6 8 7Chelmsford ............8 1 1 2 6 8 1 0 3 3 8 7Gosport Borough ...8 1 1 2 3 4 0 1 3 3 7 5Dorchester .............8 1 0 4 6 15 0 1 2 1 3 4

calor lge Premiercinderford ...........................1 Yate .................................... 2clevedon town ...................2 Guildford city ................... 1Didcot town ........................0 bishops cleeve ................ 4Fleet town ...........................0 cirencester ....................... 1Godalming town.................1 bridgwater town .............. 3Mangotsfield .......................1 Swindon Supermarine ..... 0Paulton ................................5 Merthyr town .................... 2Shortwood Utd ....................3 tiverton ............................. 3taunton ................................1 North leigh ....................... 3thatcham town ..................1 evesham ........................... 1Wimborne town ..................3 Stratford town .................. 3

hOMe AWAY P W D l F A W D l F A PtPaulton ..................8 3 1 1 16 8 3 0 0 14 5 19Swindon S .............9 5 0 0 14 4 1 1 2 5 7 19North Leigh ............8 4 0 0 17 2 2 0 2 7 5 18Bridgwater Town ....7 1 2 0 7 3 4 0 0 11 3 17Merthyr Town .........8 3 1 0 11 5 2 0 2 9 9 16Cirencester ............7 3 0 1 8 7 2 0 1 5 4 15Stratford Town .......9 1 1 2 4 9 2 2 1 14 11 12Thatcham Town .....8 1 2 1 3 6 2 1 1 8 7 12Tiverton ..................7 2 0 1 5 3 1 2 1 10 11 11Yate .......................8 2 0 2 8 8 1 2 1 7 8 11Wimborne Town .....9 2 2 0 13 6 0 2 3 2 6 10Cinderford ..............7 1 0 2 6 5 1 3 0 7 4 9Shortwood Utd .......8 1 2 1 11 11 1 1 2 7 5 9Bishops Cleeve .....7 2 0 2 10 8 1 0 2 6 7 9Godalming Town ....8 2 0 2 5 8 1 0 3 4 13 9Mangotsfield ..........6 2 1 0 7 4 0 1 2 2 6 8Taunton ..................8 1 3 1 7 6 0 1 2 6 9 7Evesham................7 1 2 0 8 6 0 1 3 3 12 6Fleet Town .............9 1 1 2 3 5 0 2 3 4 13 6Clevedon Town ......8 1 1 2 4 6 0 1 3 2 8 5Didcot Town ...........8 1 1 2 5 8 0 1 3 3 10 5Guildford City .........8 1 1 2 7 12 0 0 4 4 16 4

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barnsley .................. (1) 1 Watford ....................(3) 5Scotland 14 Deeney 7Att 9,850 Faraoni 18, Forestieri 43 Murray 69, Anya 79birmingham ............. (3) 4 Sheff Wed ................(0) 1Lingard 20, 29, 33, 51 Zayatte 67Att 14,379blackburn ................ (0) 0 huddersfld ..............(0) 0Att 14,582blackpool ................ (1) 2 leicester .................(0) 2Basham 19 Konchesky 72 (pen), King 74Ince 90 (pen) Att 15,317brighton ................... (0) 3 bolton ......................(1) 1Spearing 53 (og), Calderon 55 Lopez 29 (og)Buckley 57 Att 26,319charlton ................... (0) 0 Millwall ....................(1) 1Att 15,917 McDonald 38Derby ....................... (0) 1 reading ...................(0) 3Hughes 80 Pogrebnyak 47, 62Att 21,465 Blackman 90Doncaster ................ (1) 2 Nottm For ................(1) 2Macheda 34, 52 Cohen 39, Reid 81Att 12,253leeds ....................... (0) 1 burnley ....................(2) 2Smith 79, Att 26,465 Arfield 18, Vokes 42Middlesbrough ........ (2) 3 bournemouth ..........(2) 3Kamara 20, Carayol 32 Pitman 4 (pen), 12 (pen)Leadbitter 75 Woodgate 83 (og)Att 13,617Yeovil ....................... (0) 0 QPr .........................(0) 1Att 9,108 Austin 75 (pen)

Aldershot .............................2 Wrexham ........................... 0Alfreton town......................3 barnet ................................ 1braintree town....................1 Southport .......................... 0cambridge Utd ....................2 Forest Green ..................... 1chester Fc ..........................0 Grimsby ............................. 0Dartford ...............................3 kidderminster ................... 0Fc halifax ............................1 hereford ............................ 1hyde .....................................0 Welling .............................. 1luton ....................................3 lincoln city ...................... 2Macclesfield ........................3 Woking .............................. 2Nuneaton .............................1 Salisbury ........................... 2tamworth .............................0 Gateshead ......................... 1

hOMe AWAY P W D l F A W D l F A PtCambridge ...........10 5 0 0 12 2 2 3 0 5 3 24Nuneaton .............10 4 1 1 11 6 3 1 0 6 3 23Alfreton Town .......10 5 1 0 15 7 1 0 3 3 7 19Kiddermnstr .........10 3 0 1 8 5 3 0 3 8 9 18Salisbury ..............10 3 1 1 8 4 2 1 2 5 6 17Lincoln City ..........10 4 0 1 6 2 1 2 2 5 6 17FC Halifax ............10 5 1 0 13 4 0 1 3 5 12 17Barnet ..................10 2 2 0 8 4 2 2 2 10 9 16Luton....................10 3 3 0 9 3 1 1 2 2 3 16Forest Green .......10 3 1 0 13 2 1 2 3 8 12 15Welling .................10 2 2 1 9 6 2 1 2 9 8 15Braintree Town.....10 2 1 2 4 5 2 2 1 5 3 15Grimsby ...............10 2 1 1 6 4 2 2 2 3 6 15Southport .............10 3 1 0 6 3 1 0 5 4 11 13Hereford...............10 2 1 1 4 4 1 2 3 8 9 12Wrexham .............10 2 1 1 6 5 1 1 4 7 11 11Gateshead ...........10 1 1 3 6 10 2 0 3 5 7 10Dartford................10 2 0 3 6 6 1 1 3 2 8 10Tamworth .............10 1 2 3 6 9 1 1 2 3 6 9Woking .................10 0 2 2 5 8 2 0 4 8 10 8Chester FC ..........10 1 2 3 3 7 1 0 3 4 9 8Aldershot .............10 4 1 1 11 5 1 1 2 3 3 7Macclesfld............10 1 1 3 5 7 0 2 3 4 7 6Hyde ....................10 0 1 5 3 9 0 1 3 5 15 2*Aldershot deducted 10 points for entering administration

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Results

FA Vase and Toolstation League

Green resistRoman advanceto seal Vase win

LONGWELL Green held off a laterally from opponents Roman GlassSt George to win their FA Vasesecond qualifying round tie 3-2 atOaklands Park.

Playing on the newly-laid 3G sur-face at GFA headquarters, LongwellGreen took a two-goal lead into thebreak courtesy of a Danny Huntd o u bl e.

Alex Grimshaw added a third goalbefore Ian Power and Mikey Goldingstruck for the home side to make it atense finish, although LongwellGreen held on.

Winterbour ne also secured a 3-2away win – Ben Dowdell, KarimRendall and Jack Rhys-Jones scoringin the triumph at United ServicesPor tsmouth.

Hallen progressed with a 2-0 homevictory over Cowes, Tom Collett’spenalty and an Ashley Bennett strikeboth arriving after the interval.

Key n s h a m took the lead againstAshton & Backwell through JoshuaRice, but were beaten 3-1.

Almondsbury UWE beat Rad-stock 1-0 thanks to a Brett Agnewgoal, while the visitors had three mensent off in a melee inside the last fivem i nu t e s.

Odd Down hammered Wootton Bas-sett 7-0, with Brad Norris scoring thefirst two goals and Rory Kay adding athird before the interval.

Norris completed his hat-trickshortly after half-time before KyeSimpson, Mike Baker and Rich Daw-ley inflicted further punishmentupon the hapless visitors.

Bristol Manor Farm came from

behind to beat Corsham, Pete Shep-pard scoring the winner in extra-timeafter George Brimson had cancelledout Dan Lardner’s opener.

C r i bb s slipped to a 2-0 home defeatagainst Hamworthy, Greg Horlockbreaking the deadlock on 70 minutesand Paddy Hester’s penalty makingthe game safe late on.

Hengrove also slipped out of thecompetition with a 1-0 home reverse,against Laverstock & Ford, ElliottWykes scoring the only goal 20minutes from time.

Bradford went through with a 4-2victory over visiting Downton, DanKing, Sam Jordan, with two, andKieran Baggs on target for the homes i d e.

Shepton Mallet, meanwhile, took a3-1 win at Camelford with goals fromAshley Wilmott, James Vincent andLee Davidson.

The Toolstation League will alsohave continued representation in theVase from Warminster, who won 2-0at Brockenhurst; and Willand, whobeat Sherborne 5-3.

Buckland progressed with a 2-0 tri-umph at Exmouth, while Barnstaplemust replay with Newquay, followingtheir 2-2 draw in the Cornish resort.

However, Slimbridge crashed out4-1 at Farnham, Melksham lost 4-2 atFolland and Street were beaten 2-1 athome by Bovey Tracey.

Larkhall moved to the top of thePremier Division table, followingtheir 3-0 home victory over previousleaders Gillingham.

Tyler Sibbick’s penalty put thehosts ahead at the break and goalsfrom Jamie Lyons and Ross Lyewrapped up the points.

Bitton enjoyed a 5-0 home win over

Keith Watsonepsport@b-nm.co.uk

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21Football league Youth Alliance, South WestUnder-18: Bournemouth 3 Plymouth 0, Cheltenham1 Bsl Rovers 1, Exeter 1 Oxford Utd 5, NewportCounty 2 Swindon 2.South West Counties Youth: Bsl Academy 3 BathCity 5, Cirencester Acad 2 Andover Tn 3, DorchesterTn 0 Poole tn 7, Forest Green Rov 4 Newport Co 2,New Coll Acad 1 Salisbury City 2.FA Vase, Second Round Qualifying: AlmondsburyUWE 1 Radstock Tn 0, Bradford Tn 4 Downton 2,Bristol Manor Farm 2 Corsham Tn 1 (aet),Brockenhurst 0 Warminster Tn 2, Camelford 1Shepton Mallet 3, Cribbs 0 Hamworthy Utd 2,Exmouth Tn 0 Buckland Ath 2, Fareham Tn 4 BslAcademy 1, Folland Spts 2 Melksham Tn 2, Hallen 2Cowes Spts 0, Hengrove Ath 0 Laverstock & Ford 1,Keynsham Tn 1 Ashton & Backwell Utd 3, Newquay2 Barnstaple Tn 2, Odd Down 7 Wootton Bassett Tn0, Roman Glass St George 2 Longwell Green Spts3, Saltash Utd 5 Longwell Green Spts 3, UnitedServices Portsmouth 2 Winterbourne Utd 3, WillandRov 5 Sherborne Tn 3.Calor Southern League, Premier Div: Arlesey Tn 1Bideford 1, Banbury Utd 2 Hitchin Tn 1, CambridgeCity 3 AFC Totton 0, Chippenham Tn 1 Bedford Tn4, Corby Tn 2 Chesham Utd 1, Frome Tn 0Hungerford Tn 2, Hinckley Utd 2 Bashley 0, PooleTn 0 Burnham 0, Redditch Utd 2 Biggleswade Tn 2,St Albans City 1 Stourbridge 2, St Neots Tn 2 TruroCity 0, Weymouth 0 Hemel Hempstead Tn 3.Div I South & West: Cinderford Tn 1 Yate Tn 2,Clevedon Tn 2 Guildford City 1, Didcot Tn 0 BishopCleeve 4, Fleet Tn 0 Cirencester Tn 1, GodalmingTn 1 Bridgwater Tn 3, Mangotsfield Utd 1 SwindonSupermarine 0, Paulton Rovers 5 Merthyr Tn 2,Shortwood Utd 3 Tiverton Tn 3, Taunton Tn 1 NorthLeigh 3, Thatcham Tn 1 Evesham Utd 1, WimborneTn 3 Stratford Tn 3.Uhlsport Hellenic, Div I West: Carterton 5 NorthLeigh Utd 2, Clanfield 2 Tytherington Rocks 1,Letcombe 0 Easington Spts 1, Purton 4 ShortwoodUtd 0, Tuffley Rov 4 Old Woodstock Tn 0.Toolstation Western League, Premier Div: Bitton5 Bishop Sutton 0, Bridport 2 Ilfracombe Tn 1,

Brislington 1 Cadbury Heath 1, Larkhall Ath 3Gillingham Tn 0.Div I: Cheddar 2 Chard Tn 2, Devizes Tn 1Westbury Utd 1, Oldland Abbots 1 Wellington 2,Wincanton Tn 5 Calne Tn 4.David Wilson Homes Gloucestershire County:Berkeley Tn 1 Frampton Utd 5, Bishops Cleeve Res0 Gala Wilton 1, Bsl Telephones 3 Henbury 4,Ellwood 5 Chipping Sodbury Tn 2, Patchway Tn 1Longlevens 0, Rockleaze Rgrs 0 Hanham Ath 0,Thornbury Tn 1 Kingswood 2, Yate Tn Res 0 KingsStanley 2.Somerset FA Intermediate Cup, Round I: Aces 6Meadow Rgrs 1, Alcombe Rov 5 Westhill Spts 1,Burnham Utd 4 High Littleton 2, Camerton Ath 4Nether Stowey 0, Evercreech 0 Highbridge Tn 4.Somerset County, Premier Div: Bishops Lyd 0Weston St Johns 2, Bridgwater Tn Res 3 Nailsea Tn0, Clutton 3 Fry Club 2, Cutters Friday 8 Odd DownRes 2, Ilminster Tn 2 Stockwood Green 0, Minehead2 Langford Rov 2000 1, Nailsea Utd 4 Shirehampton1, Watchet Tn 4 Street Res 1, Yatton Ath 0 Berrow0.Div I: Burnham Utd 4 Purnell Spts 2, Congresbury 0Broad Plain House 3, Dundry Ath 3 Westfield 1,Frome Collegians 4 St George (EIG) 0, MiddlezoyRov 3 Banwell 2, Saltford 2 Shepton Mallet Res 2,Wrington Redhill 6 Clevedon Utd 1.Div II East: Welton Rov Res 4 Farrington Gurney 0,Ashton & Backwell Utd Res 0 Chilcompton Spts 5,Bishop Sutton Res 1 Peasedown Ath 2, ChewMagna 3 Imperial 0, Fry Club Res 3 Cutters FridayRes 0, Radstock Tn Res 3 Tunley Ath 0, StockwoodGreen Res 1 Long Ashton 3, Timsbury Ath 4Hengrove Ath Res 0.Div II West: Cleeve West Tn 0 Winscombe 0,Combe St Nicholas 6 Cheddar Res 2, North Curry 1Burnham Utd Res 0, Portishead Tn Res 4 NailseaTn Res 0, Staplegrove 2 Worle 4, Uphill Castle 5Churchill Club 70 0, Wells City Res 2 Glastonbury 2,Weston St Johns Res 1 Kewstoke Lions 2.Gloucestershire FA Senior Amateur Cup, RoundI: Brimsham Green 0 AFC Mangotsfield 3, Torpedo2 Almondsbury UWE Res 0, Bristol Athletic 1 Made

For Ever 5, Highridge Utd walkover v Avonmouth,Ridings High 1 Olveston Utd 3, Hallen Res w/o vSouthmead Utd Res, Eden Grove 2 Cribbs Res 5,Wick 2 Nicholas Wdrs 2 (Wick won 5-3 on pens),Longwell Green Spts Res 2 Tytherington Rocks Res0, Wessex Wdrs 1 Totterdown Utd 7, Old Sodbury 4Bitton Res 0, Greyfriars Ath 3 Sneyd Park 3 (Sneydwon 4-2 on pens), DRG Frenchay 1 LawrenceWeston 3, Frampton Ath 5 Downend Foresters 1,Little Stoke 2 Mangotsfield Spts 1, Glenside 5 OB 0Shaftesbury Crus 0 (Shaftesbury won 4-3 on pens),Stoke Gifford Utd 5 Brislington Cktrs 1, LebeqSaturday w/o v Winterbourne Utd Res, Mendip Utd 7St Aldhelms 1, AEK Boco 5 Lebeq Utd 1, PatchwayTn Res 2 Rockleaze Rgrs Res 1, SportingGreyhound 9 Totterdown POB 2, Oldland AbbotsRes 3 Clifton St Vinc 12, CAB Olympic SC w/o vStockwood Wanderers Res, Sea Mills Park 8Cadbury Heath Res 2, Old Georgians 1 BristolManor Farm Res 2.Gloucestershire FA Minor Cup, Round I: Glenside5 OB Res 1 Clifton St Vinc A 2, Shireway Spts 1Sneyd Park A 2, AEK Boco Colts 4 Stanton DrewRes 2, VCF Santos 4 Brandon Sports 1, ThornburyBaptist 4 Rangeworthy Res 2, Wessex Wdrs Res 1Wellington Wdrs 6, Shaftesbury Crus Res 8 BendixRes 0, Portland OB Res 2 Old Elizabethans 8,Crosscourt Utd Res 3 Westerleigh Spts 4, LuccombeGarage 1 Helios 7, Oldland Abbots A v BengalTigers w/o, Sea Mills Park Res 3 Greyfriars Ath A 2,Cadbury Heath A w/o v SAS Utd, Stoke Gifford A 0Soundwell Vic Res 3, Green Park Rgrs 3 TalbotKnowle Res 5, Mendip Utd A 4 Hillfields Baptist 3,Torpedo A 5 Warmley Saints Res 1, Iron Acton A 3Cesson 4, Old Georgians Res 0 Lawrence Rov Res4, Brislington Cktrs Res 6 Old Sodbury Res 1,Retainers Res 2 Evergreen 2 (Retainers won 4-2 onpens), Castle Green 0 Easton Cowboys Res 2, WickA 2 Highridge Utd A 1, Old Sodbury Res 5 PatchwayNE Res 2, Severnside 5 Cotham OB 3, FishpondsAth 8 North Bristol Catalans 1, Bradley Stoke Tn A 4Filton Ath Res 3, Staple Hill Orient 6 CounterslipBaptist 2, Cosmsos 1 Woodland Rgrs 13.Gloucestershire FA Primary Cup, Round I: DDAS3 Tebby Res 1, Brimsham Green Res w/o v Suburbs

Utd, Westerleigh Spts Res w/o v Clifton RocketsRes, Clifton St Vinc B 3 Bristol Revolutions 6,Retainers A 0 West Town Utd 2, Bristol Sports 7Seymour Utd A 1, Warmley Utd 1 Cribbs B 2, LionRes 0 Hanham Ath B 5, Stoke Lane Ath 12 NCSFUtd 0, Real Fishponds w/o v Jersey Rgrs Res,Wanderers Res w/o v Cutters A, Dodington 2 IronActon B 4, Brandon Sports Res v Avonmouth A,Bradley Stoke Tn B 4 Cosmos Res 1, Greyfriars B 5Bristol Deaf 3, Sea Mills A 6 Torpedo B 5, KellawayRgrs Res 2 Sneyd Park B 4, De Veys Res 3Woodland Rgrs Res 1, Real St George 7 LongAshton A 1.Bristol Premier, Div I: Roman Glass St George Res0 Seymour Utd 1.District, Senior Div: Portville Warriors v AEK BocoRes (K Rawlings), Longwell Green Spts A 0 BslBarcelona 3, De Veys 1 Hallen A 4, Shire Res 0Pucklechurch Spts 0, Warmley Saints 0 NicholasWanderers Res 0, Wick Res v Henbury Res 8 WickRes 2.Div I: Bradley Stoke Tn 2 Hambrook 2, ChippingSodbury Tn Res 3 Winterbourne Utd A 6, Lebeq FCRes 1 Talbot Knowle Utd 3, Seymour Utd Res 3Mendip Utd Res 2, Soundwell Vic 3 Stanton Drew 0,St Pancras 5 Rangeworthy 1, Totterdown Utd Res vMiners pp.Div II: Frys Club A 2 AEK Boco 2, Bendix 4Frampton Ath Res 4, Chipping Sodbury Tn A 0 RealThornbury 8, Nicholas Wdrs A 0 Cribbs A 5,Hanham Ath Res 4 Greyfriars Ath Res 3, Iron ActonRes 4 DRG Frenchay Res 3, LLoydy Coalpit Heath 3Hartcliffe 2.Div III: Hallen B 8 Hillfields OB 2, Hambrook Res 3Henbury A 2, Olveston Utd Res 1 Horfield Utd 1,Patchway NE 2 Bsl Barcelona Res 0, PucklechurchSpts Res 3 Made For Ever Res 0, South BristolCentral 0 Stapleton 5, Yate Ath 7 Roman Glass StGeorge A 2.Suburban, Premier Div I: Fishponds OB 1 AshtonUtd 2.Div I: Broad Plain House Res 2 Ashton BackwellColts 2, Filton Ath 0 Oldbury 0, Kellaway Rgrs 1Avonmouth Res 5, Stoke Rgrs 3 Stoke Gifford Utd

Res 2, Tyndalls Park Rgrs v St Aldhelms Res pp.Div II: Almondsbury UWE A 3 Old Cothamians 2,Frys Club OB 5 Wanderers 1, Hanham Ath Sub 1Ridings High Res 4, Keynsham Tn A 8 AFCMangotsfield Res 1, Lawrence Weston Res 4 BristolTelephones Res 4, St Annes Tn 1 Ashton Utd Res 4.Div III: Downend Foresters Res 1 Bristol Bilbao 6,Old Cothamians Res 0 Severn Beach Res 0,Rockleaze Rgrs A 6 Coupland Insulation 3, SartanUtd 4 Fishpond OB Res 0.Div IV: Park Knowle 1 Winford PH 4.Div V: Lockleaze Community 2 Lawrence Weston A1.Div VI: Park Knowle Res 3 Bsl Spartak 3, TC Sports8 Winford PH Res 5.Bristol & Avon: Broad Walk Community Res 3Broad Plain A 6, Whitchurch Phoenix 7 WessexWdrs A 1.Downs, Div I: AFC Bohemia 1 Retainers 1, Ashley 4Portland OB 2, Cotswool 5 Jersey Rgrs 0, DACBeachcroft 4 Jamaica Bell 0, Lawes Jrs 3 Saints OB3.Div II: Clifton Rockets 0 Tebby AFC 1, Clifton StVinc Res 3 Ashley Res 0, Corinthians 1 TorpedoRes 4, Easton Cowboys 8 St Andrews 2, Hare OnThe Hill 5 Sporting Greyhound Res 1, Lion FC 2Sneyd Park Res 0, Old Cliftonians 7 Saints OB Res1.Weston-s-Mare & District, Atwell Shield PrelimRd: Clevedon Utd Res 9 Draycott 2.Div I: Berrow Res 1 Portishead Tn A 0, ChurchillClub 70 Res 0 Tickenham Utd 5, Hutton 0 CleeveWest Tn Res 0, Nailsea Utd A 2 Yatton Ath Res 0.Div II: Langford Rov Res 5 Congresbury Res 6, StGeorge(EIG) Res 4 Nailsea Utd B 6.Div III: AFC Nailsea 1 Shipham 2, Banwell Res 2Axbridge Tn 4.Div IV: Kewstoke Lions Res 1 King Alfred SC 1.Div V: Congresbury A 1 Selkirk Utd 2, Portishead TnColts 3 Shipham Res 1, Priory Rgrs 1 Portishead CT2.Div VI: Axbridge Tn Res 3 Burnham Utd B 2,Banwell A 3 Wedmore Res 2, Berrow A 5 WorleRgrs Res 5, Westend Res 1 AFC Nailsea Res 0.

� Danny Hunt, left, celebrates scoring for Longwell Green on Saturday

struggling Bishop Sutton, althoughJordan Richards’ goal was the onlyone of the opening period.

Luke Bryan, Connor Britton andDave Pollinger were on target in thesecond half, before Bryan completedhis double in scoring Bitton’s fifth.

Brislington and Cadbury Heath

drew 1-1, with the hosts coming frombehind to equalise in the second halfthrough David Peters after Matt Hux-ley had scored for Heath.

Bridport beat Ilfracombe 2-1, ChrisLuke replying to Stan Paxton’s lev-eller after Dan Wise had opened thescoring from the penalty spot.

In the First Division, Wellingtonscored twice in the last ten minutes towin 2-1 at Oldland, who took the leadthrough Jerome Ingram.

Simon Dennehy levelled matterswith ten minutes remaining beforeJames Clough grabbed the winner instoppage time.

treble check:Complete check for Littlewoods, Vernons and

Zetters: 3 = Score Draws, 2= No Score Draw or Void 1= Home or Away

chelsea .................... (0) 2 Fulham ....................(0) 0Oscar 52 Att 41,608Mikel 84liverpool ................. (0) 0 Southamptn ............(0) 1Att 44,755 Lovren 53Newcastle ................ (2) 2 hull ..........................(1) 3Remy 10, 44 Brady 26Att 51,523 Elmohamady 48 Aluko 76Norwich ................... (0) 0 Aston Villa ...............(1) 1Att 26,813 Kozak 30West brom............... (1) 3 Sunderland .............(0) 0Sessegnon 20 Att 24,595Ridgewell 76Amalfitano 90West ham ................ (1) 2 everton ....................(0) 3Morrison 31 Baines 62, 83Noble 76 (pen) Lukaku 85Att 34,952

Yesterday Arsenal .................... (2) 3 Stoke .......................(1) 1Ramsey 5 Cameron 26Mertesacker 36Sagna 72Att 50,002cardiff ...................... (0) 0 Spurs .......................(0) 1 Paulinho 90Att 27,815crystal Palace ......... (0) 0 Swansea ..................(1) 2 Michu 2 Dyer 48Att 22,466Man city .................. (2) 4 Man Utd ...................(0) 1Aguero 16, 47 Rooney 87Toure 45Nasri 50 Att 47,156 hOMe AWAY P W D L F A W D L F A PtsArsenal ..............5 2 0 1 5 4 2 0 0 6 2 12Spurs .................5 2 0 0 3 0 2 0 1 2 1 12Man City ............5 3 0 0 10 1 0 1 1 2 3 10Chelsea .............5 3 0 0 6 1 0 1 1 0 1 10Liverpool ............5 2 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 3 2 10Everton ..............5 1 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 5 4 9Southamptn .......5 0 2 0 1 1 2 0 1 2 1 8Man Utd .............5 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 2 5 6 7Swansea ............5 0 1 1 3 6 2 0 1 4 1 7Stoke .................5 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 2 2 4 7Hull ....................5 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 2 3 6 7Newcastle ..........5 1 1 1 3 3 1 0 1 2 5 7Aston Villa..........5 0 0 2 1 3 2 0 1 5 3 6West Brom .........5 1 0 2 3 3 0 2 0 1 1 5West Ham ..........5 1 0 2 4 4 0 2 0 0 0 5Cardiff ................5 1 1 1 3 3 0 1 1 1 3 5Norwich..............5 1 1 1 3 3 0 0 2 0 3 4Fulham...............5 0 1 1 2 4 1 0 2 1 3 4Crystal Pal .........5 1 0 2 3 4 0 0 2 1 4 3Sunderland ........5 0 0 2 1 4 0 1 2 2 7 1

Yesterday Wigan ....................... (1) 2 Ipswich ....................(0) 0Shotton 12Powell 90 Att 13,747 hOMe AWAY P W D L F A W D L F A PtsQPR ...................8 3 1 0 4 1 3 1 0 4 1 20Burnley ..............8 2 2 0 7 2 3 0 1 7 4 17Leicester ............8 3 1 0 7 3 2 1 1 6 5 17Blackpool ...........8 3 1 0 5 2 2 1 1 7 6 17Watford ..............8 2 2 0 10 4 2 1 1 9 5 15Nottm For ..........8 3 1 0 9 4 1 2 1 5 5 15Reading .............8 2 2 0 6 4 2 1 1 5 3 15Bournemth .........8 3 0 1 5 3 1 1 2 6 14 13Huddersfld ........8 2 2 0 8 3 1 1 2 2 3 12Brighton .............8 2 1 1 7 4 1 2 1 2 2 12Wigan ................7 2 2 0 8 5 1 0 2 4 3 11Derby .................8 0 1 3 2 8 3 1 0 12 4 11Leeds .................8 1 1 2 4 5 2 1 1 3 2 11Ipswich...............8 3 0 1 9 4 0 1 3 2 6 10Blackburn...........8 2 1 1 9 4 0 2 2 3 6 9Middlesbro’ ........8 0 3 1 6 7 1 2 1 6 7 8Millwall ...............8 1 0 3 4 8 1 2 1 4 6 8Birmingham .......8 1 1 2 5 4 1 0 3 3 7 7Doncaster ..........7 1 1 2 5 6 0 2 1 3 4 6Charlton .............7 1 0 2 2 3 0 2 2 5 7 5Sheff Wed ..........7 0 2 1 4 5 0 2 2 4 8 4Yeovil .................8 0 0 4 0 6 1 1 2 3 5 4Barnsley.............8 1 1 2 5 12 0 0 4 4 10 4Bolton ................8 0 2 2 3 5 0 1 3 3 11 3

colchester ............... (1) 1 crawley town .........(1) 1Sears 6 Sinclair 32Att 3,031Gillingham ............... (0) 0 bradford ..................(1) 1 Jones 9Notts county ........... (1) 2 tranmere .................(0) 0Labadie 7 Att 3,938Haber 79Oldham .................... (0) 1 crewe ......................(1) 1MacDonald 54 Turton 13Att 4,273Peterboro................. (2) 2 Mk Dons ..................(0) 1Tomlin 12 (pen) McLeod 74Assombalonga 34 Att 8,149Port Vale .................. (1) 3 coventry ..................(2) 2Pope 40 Wilson 35Loft 60 Moussa 43Birchall 83 Att 9,218Sheff Utd ................. (0) 0 Preston ....................(0) 1Att 16,319 Beavon 68Shrewsbury ............. (0) 0 Wolves .....................(0) 1 Sako 84 (pen)Att 9,510Stevenage................ (0) 1 carlisle ....................(1) 3Tansey 59 (pen) Miller 27 Robson 77 Amoo 85Att 2,526Swindon ................... (2) 3 bristol city ..............(2) 2Ajose 19, 43 Flint 9Ranger 87 Emmanuel-Thomas 36Att 11,598Walsall ..................... (1) 1 rotherham ..............(1) 1Mantom 33 Nardiello 21Att 5,002 hOMe AWAY P W D L F A W D L F A PtsL Orient ..............7 4 0 0 13 3 3 0 0 8 2 21Peterboro ..........8 3 0 1 5 4 3 1 0 14 4 19Wolves ...............8 3 0 1 9 4 3 1 0 6 2 19Preston ..............8 2 2 0 7 3 2 2 0 8 4 16Rotherham .........8 2 2 0 8 5 2 2 0 7 5 16Bradford .............8 3 1 0 12 2 1 2 1 5 5 15Walsall ...............8 1 2 1 5 6 3 0 1 5 1 14MK Dons ............8 2 2 0 7 4 1 2 1 4 4 13Crawley Town ....8 2 1 1 8 7 1 2 1 7 6 12Brentford ............7 2 1 0 4 1 1 2 1 6 9 12Swindon .............8 3 1 0 11 4 0 1 3 3 7 11Colchester .........8 1 2 1 4 4 1 2 1 4 5 10Port Vale ............8 2 1 1 7 7 1 0 3 4 7 10Shrewsbury........8 1 2 1 3 2 0 3 1 4 7 8Carlisle...............8 1 0 3 2 10 1 2 1 4 6 8Oldham ..............8 1 1 2 4 4 1 0 3 8 10 7Crewe ................8 1 2 1 7 9 0 1 3 1 9 6Stevenage .........8 0 1 3 5 9 1 1 2 1 4 5Tranmere ...........8 0 2 2 6 12 1 0 3 3 7 5Coventry ............8 3 1 0 13 9 1 1 2 9 7 4Bristol City .........8 0 2 2 4 8 0 2 2 9 11 4Sheff Utd............8 1 1 2 3 4 0 0 4 2 9 4Notts Co ............8 1 0 3 4 6 0 1 3 4 11 4Gillingham..........8 0 2 2 2 4 0 1 3 5 11 3

AFc Wimbledon ...... (0) 3 burton Albion .........(1) 1Pell 55 McGurk 30Midson 69 Att 4,005Frampton 74Accrington Stanley . (1) 1 rochdale .................(2) 2Odejayi 24 Lund 7Att 2,180 Hogan 13bristol rovers ......... (1) 2 hartlepool ...............(2) 2Harrold 35 James 36, 45O’Toole 90 Att 5,579bury ......................... (0) 1 Southend .................(1) 1Forrester 90 Coker 23Att 2,895exeter....................... (0) 0 Newport county .....(1) 2Att 4,614 Washington 23 Worley 70Mansfield ................. (2) 3 Northampton ...........(0) 0Hutchinson 31 Att 3,469Clucas 34Kouo-Doumbe 65 (og)Morecambe.............. (0) 2 Dag & red ...............(1) 2Amond 53 Ogogo 21Hughes 78 Murphy 90Att 1,790Oxford Utd ............... (0) 0 chesterfield ............(1) 1Att 7,187 Humphreys 30Portsmouth ............. (0) 0 Fleetwood town .....(0) 1 Bradley 67 (og)Att 15,809Scunthorpe .............. (0) 1 Plymouth .................(0) 0Esajas 62 Att 3,298torquay .................... (2) 4 cheltenham .............(1) 2Ball 3, 45 Harrison 13Hawley 49 Gornell 65Chapell 90 Att 2,407Wycombe ................. (0) 1 York..........................(0) 1Morgan 70 McGurk 64Att 4,015 hOMe AWAY P W D L F A W D L F A PtsChesterfield .......8 4 0 0 7 1 3 1 0 7 2 22Fleetwood T .......8 3 0 1 11 6 3 0 1 4 2 18AFC Wim ...........8 4 0 0 9 3 1 1 2 3 5 16Oxford Utd .........8 1 2 1 5 5 3 1 0 11 4 15Mansfield ...........8 2 2 0 8 2 2 1 1 4 4 15Wycombe ...........8 2 1 1 4 3 2 1 1 7 4 14Rochdale ...........8 3 1 0 7 2 1 1 2 3 4 14Morecambe........8 2 2 0 7 4 2 0 2 6 7 14Exeter ................8 3 0 1 6 4 1 2 1 3 4 14Scunthorpe ........8 2 2 0 5 2 1 2 1 4 4 13Newport County .8 2 1 1 8 5 1 2 1 5 5 12Burton Albion .....8 1 1 2 4 6 2 1 1 7 7 11Dag & Red .........8 2 2 0 6 2 0 2 2 4 9 10Southend ...........8 2 0 2 4 4 1 1 2 4 5 10Portsmouth ........8 1 0 3 4 7 1 3 0 8 7 9Torquay ..............8 1 2 1 6 6 1 1 2 4 7 9Plymouth............8 2 0 2 2 5 1 0 3 4 5 9Bury ...................8 2 1 1 8 4 0 1 3 4 7 8Bristol Rvrs ........8 2 2 0 6 4 0 0 4 1 6 8Hartlepool ..........8 1 0 3 3 5 0 3 1 2 5 6Cheltenham .......8 0 3 1 7 9 1 0 3 4 10 6York ...................8 1 1 2 2 4 0 1 3 4 8 5Northamptn ........8 1 1 2 6 6 0 0 4 0 7 4Accrington S ......8 0 1 3 3 6 0 0 4 2 10 1

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Arlesey.................................1 bideford ............................ 1banbury ...............................2 hitchin ............................... 1cambridge city ...................3 AFc totton ........................ 0chippenham ........................1 bedford town ................... 4corby ...................................2 chesham ........................... 1Frome town ........................0 hungerford town ............. 2hinckley Utd ........................2 bashley ............................. 0Poole town..........................0 burnham ........................... 0redditch ..............................2 biggleswade town ........... 2St Albans .............................1 Stourbridge ....................... 2St Neots town .....................2 truro city .......................... 0Weymouth ...........................0 hemel hempstead ............ 3

hOMe AWAY P W D l F A W D l F A PtHemel Hempstead .9 4 0 0 16 2 4 0 1 13 3 24Bideford .................9 3 1 0 11 2 2 3 0 9 6 19Chesham ...............9 3 1 0 11 5 3 0 2 10 7 19Poole Town ............9 2 3 0 9 7 3 1 0 9 5 19Cambridge City ......9 3 1 1 9 5 2 2 0 4 2 18Banbury .................9 3 0 2 8 7 2 1 1 8 7 16Stourbridge ............9 2 0 2 5 5 3 0 2 12 6 15Weymouth .............9 3 1 1 8 5 1 2 1 7 6 15Arlesey...................8 2 2 0 8 5 2 0 2 5 4 14Hungerford Town ...9 1 1 2 5 6 3 0 2 9 4 13St Albans ...............9 3 0 2 7 5 1 1 2 7 6 13Corby .....................9 4 0 1 9 6 0 1 3 2 11 13Hitchin....................8 2 2 0 6 3 1 1 2 4 5 12Bedford Town.........9 2 0 2 6 7 1 1 3 8 17 10Chippenham ..........8 1 0 3 5 8 2 0 2 7 4 9St Neots Town .......9 2 0 3 8 7 1 0 3 4 6 9Burnham ................8 0 1 2 2 6 2 2 1 7 4 9Truro City ...............8 0 2 1 3 5 2 1 2 8 10 9Biggleswade T .......8 1 2 1 5 3 0 3 1 5 6 8Redditch ................8 0 1 4 6 19 2 0 1 5 6 7Hinckley Utd ..........9 1 2 2 5 6 0 1 3 4 11 6AFC Totton.............9 1 0 3 8 13 1 0 4 5 13 6Frome Town ...........8 0 1 4 1 11 1 1 1 3 4 5Bashley ..................9 0 1 3 4 10 0 1 4 3 12 2

bath city ..............................0 Dover ................................. 2bromley ...............................3 basingstoke ...................... 2concord rangers ...............4 Maidenhead Utd ............... 1Dorchester...........................2 chelmsford ....................... 0eastbourne borough ..........4 Bishop’sStortford ............ 1eastleigh..............................1 hayes & Yeading .............. 0ebbsfleet United .................0 boreham Wood................. 0Gosport borough ...............2 tonbridge Angels ............. 0havant and W ......................0 Sutton Utd ......................... 5Staines town.......................3 Farnboro ........................... 2Whitehawk ...........................0 Weston-S-Mare ................. 0

hOMe AWAY P W D l F A W D l F A PtEastleigh ................9 4 1 0 6 1 3 0 1 7 3 22Bromley .................9 5 0 0 17 4 2 0 2 6 5 21Weston-S-Mare .....9 2 1 1 4 1 3 1 1 7 4 17Sutton Utd .............9 3 1 1 11 6 1 2 1 6 2 15Staines Town .........9 5 0 0 10 4 0 0 4 4 12 15Eastbourne Borough .8 2 2 0 7 3 2 0 2 3 4 14Bishop’s Stortford ..8 2 0 1 4 3 2 2 1 10 10 14Basingstoke ...........8 3 1 0 8 4 1 0 3 4 6 13Hayes & Yeading ...8 1 0 2 4 3 3 0 2 7 5 12Concord Rangers ..9 2 1 2 8 6 1 2 1 4 5 12Maidenhead Utd ....8 1 1 1 5 6 2 2 1 7 5 12Dover .....................9 1 0 3 3 5 3 0 2 4 2 12Whitehawk .............9 1 2 2 3 6 2 0 2 8 8 11Bath City ................8 1 2 2 6 7 1 1 1 3 3 9Ebbsfleet United ....9 0 4 1 2 4 1 2 1 7 6 9Havant and W........9 2 0 3 6 10 0 3 1 3 4 9Tonbridge Angels ...8 1 1 1 3 4 1 1 3 6 12 8Boreham Wood......9 1 1 2 5 8 1 1 3 3 8 8Farnboro ................5 2 0 0 3 0 0 1 2 6 8 7Chelmsford ............8 1 1 2 6 8 1 0 3 3 8 7Gosport Borough ...8 1 1 2 3 4 0 1 3 3 7 5Dorchester .............8 1 0 4 6 15 0 1 2 1 3 4

calor lge Premiercinderford ...........................1 Yate .................................... 2clevedon town ...................2 Guildford city ................... 1Didcot town ........................0 bishops cleeve ................ 4Fleet town ...........................0 cirencester ....................... 1Godalming town.................1 bridgwater town .............. 3Mangotsfield .......................1 Swindon Supermarine ..... 0Paulton ................................5 Merthyr town .................... 2Shortwood Utd ....................3 tiverton ............................. 3taunton ................................1 North leigh ....................... 3thatcham town ..................1 evesham ........................... 1Wimborne town ..................3 Stratford town .................. 3

hOMe AWAY P W D l F A W D l F A PtPaulton ..................8 3 1 1 16 8 3 0 0 14 5 19Swindon S .............9 5 0 0 14 4 1 1 2 5 7 19North Leigh ............8 4 0 0 17 2 2 0 2 7 5 18Bridgwater Town ....7 1 2 0 7 3 4 0 0 11 3 17Merthyr Town .........8 3 1 0 11 5 2 0 2 9 9 16Cirencester ............7 3 0 1 8 7 2 0 1 5 4 15Stratford Town .......9 1 1 2 4 9 2 2 1 14 11 12Thatcham Town .....8 1 2 1 3 6 2 1 1 8 7 12Tiverton ..................7 2 0 1 5 3 1 2 1 10 11 11Yate .......................8 2 0 2 8 8 1 2 1 7 8 11Wimborne Town .....9 2 2 0 13 6 0 2 3 2 6 10Cinderford ..............7 1 0 2 6 5 1 3 0 7 4 9Shortwood Utd .......8 1 2 1 11 11 1 1 2 7 5 9Bishops Cleeve .....7 2 0 2 10 8 1 0 2 6 7 9Godalming Town ....8 2 0 2 5 8 1 0 3 4 13 9Mangotsfield ..........6 2 1 0 7 4 0 1 2 2 6 8Taunton ..................8 1 3 1 7 6 0 1 2 6 9 7Evesham................7 1 2 0 8 6 0 1 3 3 12 6Fleet Town .............9 1 1 2 3 5 0 2 3 4 13 6Clevedon Town ......8 1 1 2 4 6 0 1 3 2 8 5Didcot Town ...........8 1 1 2 5 8 0 1 3 3 10 5Guildford City .........8 1 1 2 7 12 0 0 4 4 16 4

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barnsley .................. (1) 1 Watford ....................(3) 5Scotland 14 Deeney 7Att 9,850 Faraoni 18, Forestieri 43 Murray 69, Anya 79birmingham ............. (3) 4 Sheff Wed ................(0) 1Lingard 20, 29, 33, 51 Zayatte 67Att 14,379blackburn ................ (0) 0 huddersfld ..............(0) 0Att 14,582blackpool ................ (1) 2 leicester .................(0) 2Basham 19 Konchesky 72 (pen), King 74Ince 90 (pen) Att 15,317brighton ................... (0) 3 bolton ......................(1) 1Spearing 53 (og), Calderon 55 Lopez 29 (og)Buckley 57 Att 26,319charlton ................... (0) 0 Millwall ....................(1) 1Att 15,917 McDonald 38Derby ....................... (0) 1 reading ...................(0) 3Hughes 80 Pogrebnyak 47, 62Att 21,465 Blackman 90Doncaster ................ (1) 2 Nottm For ................(1) 2Macheda 34, 52 Cohen 39, Reid 81Att 12,253leeds ....................... (0) 1 burnley ....................(2) 2Smith 79, Att 26,465 Arfield 18, Vokes 42Middlesbrough ........ (2) 3 bournemouth ..........(2) 3Kamara 20, Carayol 32 Pitman 4 (pen), 12 (pen)Leadbitter 75 Woodgate 83 (og)Att 13,617Yeovil ....................... (0) 0 QPr .........................(0) 1Att 9,108 Austin 75 (pen)

Aldershot .............................2 Wrexham ........................... 0Alfreton town......................3 barnet ................................ 1braintree town....................1 Southport .......................... 0cambridge Utd ....................2 Forest Green ..................... 1chester Fc ..........................0 Grimsby ............................. 0Dartford ...............................3 kidderminster ................... 0Fc halifax ............................1 hereford ............................ 1hyde .....................................0 Welling .............................. 1luton ....................................3 lincoln city ...................... 2Macclesfield ........................3 Woking .............................. 2Nuneaton .............................1 Salisbury ........................... 2tamworth .............................0 Gateshead ......................... 1

hOMe AWAY P W D l F A W D l F A PtCambridge ...........10 5 0 0 12 2 2 3 0 5 3 24Nuneaton .............10 4 1 1 11 6 3 1 0 6 3 23Alfreton Town .......10 5 1 0 15 7 1 0 3 3 7 19Kiddermnstr .........10 3 0 1 8 5 3 0 3 8 9 18Salisbury ..............10 3 1 1 8 4 2 1 2 5 6 17Lincoln City ..........10 4 0 1 6 2 1 2 2 5 6 17FC Halifax ............10 5 1 0 13 4 0 1 3 5 12 17Barnet ..................10 2 2 0 8 4 2 2 2 10 9 16Luton....................10 3 3 0 9 3 1 1 2 2 3 16Forest Green .......10 3 1 0 13 2 1 2 3 8 12 15Welling .................10 2 2 1 9 6 2 1 2 9 8 15Braintree Town.....10 2 1 2 4 5 2 2 1 5 3 15Grimsby ...............10 2 1 1 6 4 2 2 2 3 6 15Southport .............10 3 1 0 6 3 1 0 5 4 11 13Hereford...............10 2 1 1 4 4 1 2 3 8 9 12Wrexham .............10 2 1 1 6 5 1 1 4 7 11 11Gateshead ...........10 1 1 3 6 10 2 0 3 5 7 10Dartford................10 2 0 3 6 6 1 1 3 2 8 10Tamworth .............10 1 2 3 6 9 1 1 2 3 6 9Woking .................10 0 2 2 5 8 2 0 4 8 10 8Chester FC ..........10 1 2 3 3 7 1 0 3 4 9 8Aldershot .............10 4 1 1 11 5 1 1 2 3 3 7Macclesfld............10 1 1 3 5 7 0 2 3 4 7 6Hyde ....................10 0 1 5 3 9 0 1 3 5 15 2*Aldershot deducted 10 points for entering administration

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DINGS forwards’ coach Jason For-ester admitted he drew a huge sigh ofrelief following his side’s first win ofthe season against Taunton Titans onS at u rd ay.

Crusaders lost their opening twogames against Southend and Chin-nor and the former Wales and New-port Gwent Dragons flankerunderlined the need for his players tobuck their losing trend and registerthat all-important first victory.

He said: “We ’ve got the monkey offour back now, and I’m delighted forthe boys. If I’m brutally honest, wewere poor last week, and I don’t think

anyone will argue with that state-ment.

“We spoke all week about doing thebasics well – scrum, line-out, defence,accuracy and all the little things, thatmake a big difference. But it seemedthat it was just talk, judging by theway we started the game – we justd i d n’t front up in the first-half.

“But as the game went on, thingsstarted falling into place. We grew inconfidence, and, especially duringthe second-half, played some goodrugby. The first win of your campaignis vital for building momentum andconfidence. We’re off the mark, sonow the focus shifts to building onthis performance and developing ourg ame-plan.”

Crusaders, in the end, deservedlytoppled the Titans, but few wouldhave predicted the final outcomeafter the opening quarter, as the vis-itors dominated proceedings andwere by far the better side. Dings

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Dings come good in the secondhalf to secure their first victory

looked woefully short of confidence,ideas and application during alow-key first-half, with even the nor-mally reliable boot of full-back MarkWoodrow misfiring, as the home sidestruggled for inspiration.

Taunton cruised into asecond-minute lead, when full-backConor Hartley strolled over for a try,after brushing past some poor de-fending, allowing fly-half Gary King-dom an easy conversion to make it7-0.

The visitors were all over Dings,and threatened to cut loose – theydoubled their lead thanks to a penaltytry on 18 minutes. But the Titansline-out supply began to dry up,largely due to the athleticism ofDings flanker Matt Lane, who put inan impressive performance on hisleague début Time and time again,Lane rose highest at the front of theline-out to steal the visitors’ posses-sion. The former Cleve flanker got

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Clifton continuetheir unbeatenstart to season

CLIFTON moved to the top of the SSENational League Two South table,after their third straight victory ofthe season.

Darren Lloyd’s side, fresh fromwins over Canterbury and HartpuryCollege, continued their impressivestart to their campaign with victoryover newly-prompted outfit Ampt-hill.

Clifton director of rugby Lloyd, des-pite being delighted by his side’slatest victory, believes that it’s tooearly to talk about his team as genu-ine promotion candidates.

He said. “We were by no-meansperfect in the first-half, but we im-proved in the second-half, and thisgroup is begin-ning to un-derstandwhat ittakes towin tightm at ch e s.

“T hey(Ampt-hill) werea well-or-ganised side,and will causeplenty of teams headaches this sea-son.

“We introduced a number of newfaces into the team, with Josh God-dard and Harry Goodfield doing wellfor us today, and the rest of our young-sters getting better week on week.

“We ’re not looking any furtherthan our game with Bishop Stortfordnext week, and promotion is notsomething that has entered ourt h o u g h t s.

“We ’ve only had three games, andt h e re ’s plenty of rugby to be playedbetween now and the end of the sea-son. We’re just enjoying our rugby atthe moment, and looking forward tonext week’s challenge.”

For the second time this season,Clifton came from behind to securethe spoils with a magnificentsecond-half display.

Prop Rupert Freestone, scrum-halfMatt Britton and wing GeorgeKarayiannis added touchdowns tothe first-half try tally from impress-ive centre Will Pomphrey (2), pic-tured, and full-back John Mason,while fly-half Charlie Foley added 12points with the boot.

There was little to choose betweenthe sides during a tentative and mis-take-ridden first-half.

The lead see-sawed, with neitherside able to dominate the other forany length of time.

Clifton trailed 17-13 at the turn-around, but Freestone’s try early inthe second-half opened thefloodgates, as Clifton dominated theremainder of the contest, scoring afurther 17 points, while restrictingthe home side to just two penaltiesfrom Rory Teague.

Clifton play their first home gameto be played at Clifton College againstBishop Stortford on Saturday(2.30pm).

through a mountain of work in de-fence, and worked well alongside SamSteer and Mike Uren in theb a ck - row.

After missing his first two attemptsat goal, Woodrow found his radar, andtwo successful penalty attempts sawhis side go into the break trailing 14-6.Stern half-time words by the Dingscoaches appeared to do the trick, asthe home side re-emerged full ofvigour, and a new-found hunger. WingOllie Reyland, another Dings dé-butante became increasingly in-volved in the game, and caused thevisitors plenty of problems with aseries of powerful charges along thetouchline. Crusaders rattled up 18unanswered points, with tries byhooker Dave Wheeler and replace-ment prop Josh Lloyd, plus two pen-alties and a conversion by Woodrow,before Kingdom slotted a 70th-minutepenalty, to earn the Titans a losingb o nu s - p o i n t .

We e k e n d ’s rugby results

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20Aviva Premiership: Sale 26 Wasps 22, Worcester13 Harlequins 37.Greene King IPA Championship: Cornish Pirates20 Leeds 27, Plymouth Alb 34 Moseley 34.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21Aviva Premiership: Gloucester 26 Northampton24, Leicester 31 Newcastle 6, London Irish 23Exeter Chiefs 29,Greene King IPA Championship: Jersey 26Bedford Blues 14, Rotherham 77 Ealing 9.SSE National One: Blackheath 29 Fylde 31,Blaydon 25 Esher 35, Cinderford 31 Hull Ionians 7,Doncaster 38 Worthing 17, Henley 6 Rosslyn Park6, Old Albanians 29 Tynedale 17, Richmond 31Coventry 32, Wharfedale 26 LoughboroughStudents 29.SSE National Two South: Ampthill 20 Clifton 37,Canterbury 33 Cornish AB 25, Dings Crus 24Taunton 17, Exmouth 33 Bournemouth 18,Hartpury Coll 19 Cambridge 13, London Irish WG35 Bishops St 37, Redruth 38 Southend 7,

Shelford 19 Chinnor 24.National Three South: Avonmouth OB 10Worcester 19, Barnstaple 19 Amersham & Ch 7,Bracknell 17 Weston-s-Mare 14, Brixham 10Redingensians 30, Chippenham 10 Old Reds 21,Lydney 52 Newton Abbot 25, Old Patesians 29 OldCentralians 27.South West One West: Camborne 16 Bideford 7,Cleve 37 Wadebridge 25, Clevedon 28 Thornbury28, Coney Hill 5 Hornets 39, Cullompton 32Bridgwater & Alb 3, N Petherton 25 Sidmouth 6, StAustell 29 Chard 10.Western Counties North: Avon 21 North Bristol19, Barton Hill 43 Old Bristolians 20, Berry Hill 43Bsl Harlequins 20, Chew Valley 26 Matson 20,Cirencester 6 Drybrook 20, Midsomer Norton 16Keynsham 24, Oldfield OB 8 Chosen Hill FP 46.Gloucester Premier: Bsl Saracens 12 Hucclecote3, Newent 52 Southmead 0, St Mary’s OB 31Painswick 19, Stroud 40 Gordon League 15,Tewkesbury 21 Frampton Cott 30, Whitehall vDursley pp.

Gloucester One: Bishopston 18 Bream 14,Kingswood 15 Gloucester OB 7, Longlevens 30Chipping Sodbury 14, Old Colstonians 24Brockworth 20, Old Richians 22 Ashley Down OB19, Widden OB 10 Chelt Saracens 13.Gloucester Two: Aretians 6 Bredon Star 32, OldCryptians 48 Cotham Park 19, Ross-on-Wye 55Cheltenham CS 5, Spartans 27 Broad Plain 6, StBrendan’s OB 17 BAC 10, Westbury 18 GloucesterAB 25.Gloucester Three: Cainscross 61 Hardwicke & Q7, Smiths 64 Norton 10, Tredworth 34Minchinhampton 7.Somerset Premier: Gordano 29 Yatton 7,Keynsham 15 Bsl Barb 30, Nailsea & Backwell 8Winscombe 15, Old Reds 20 Wiveliscombe 19, StBernadette’s OB 27 Tor 15, Stothert & Pitt 30Taunton 0, Weston-s-Mare 31 Minehead Barb 9.Somerset I: Bridgwater & Alb 34 Wells 5, CastleCary 31 Midsomer Norton 19, Chard 19 NorthPetherton 37, Hornets 30 Wellington 10, Imperial 17Crewkerne 14, Old Reds v Clevedon away w/o,

Yatton 50 Old Sulians 11.Somerset II North: Bsl Harlequins v Chew Valleypp, Old Culverhaysians 24 Midsomer Norton 24,Oldfield OB 3 Keynsham 31, Walcot 0 Gordano 51,Weston-s-Mare 19 Clevedon 26, Winscombe 10Nailsea & Backwell 52.Somerset II South: Bridgwater & Alb 0Burnham-on-Sea 31, Somerton 51 Minehead Barb17, Taunton 53 Ivel Barb 0, Tor 29 Hornets 22,Wiveliscombe 3 Cheddar Valley 29, Wyvern 41Morganians 19.Somerset III North: Avon 36 Bath OE 17, Imperialw/o v Walcot, Keynsham 12 Bsl Barb 7, MidsomerNorton w/o v Old Sulians, Stothert & Pitt 147 Yatton0.Somerset III South: Castle Cary 31 Chard 20,Wellington 16 Martock 10.

YESTERDAYAviva Premiership: Saracens 31 Bath 17.Greene King IPA Championship: Bristol 31London Scottish 1, Nottingham 18 London Welsh46.

Dings 24

Taunton 17

Ampthill 20

Clifton 37

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Ashton revels in Saracens’ new way of thinking

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SARACENS director of rugby MarkMcCall hailed “exce ptional” ChrisAshton as Bath were blown away31-17 in their Aviva Premiershipmatch at Allianz Park.

Ashton failed to breach the white-wash – fellow England wing DavidStrettle scored twice – but he washighly influential with his runningoff the ball and support work.

The 26-year-old, pictured, is fight-ing for his Test place and McCall hasseen enough in three matches thisseason to know he should be involvedagainst Australia, Argentina andNew Zealand this autumn.

McCall said: “Chris judges himselfpurely on whether he scores a try ornot, but for the last two weeks he’sbeen exceptional.

“He’s taken a lot of stick over thelast 12 months or so for various as-pects of his game, but he was brilliant

against Bath. One thing he’s brilliantat is scoring tries and that will hap-pen, but his work on the ball, hiscollisions and his kick chase wereat an international level.

“It was a wonderful tackleon George Ford near theend, but the way he didthings that aren’t thatsexy was important aswe l l .

“David Strettle is 4-1up in tries after threegames, but Chris was ex-ceptional. He’s hungry toget better.”

Alex Goode – making hiscomeback from shoulder surgery –and Matt Stevens also crossed asSaracens raced into a 31-3 half-timelead that effectively secured a thirdsuccessive bonus-point win.

The London club are four points

clear at the Premiership summit andhave now scored 13 tries.

McCall added: “Our attacking sys-tem is different, we made a big

change in the summer to thataspect of our game.

“We had a system thatwas in place for threeyears that we felt in thesummer was handicap-ping some of the play-ers we have.

“We were looking forsomething which got our

good ball carriers on theball more often. It’s much

more flexible.“It’s a work in progress, we’re

nowhere near where we want to bewith it.

“But you can see often Schalk Britsand the two Vunipolas got theirhands on the ball.”

SEBASTIAN Vettel was again in aclass of his own as he completed adouble hat-trick to furtherstrengthen his grip on claiming afourth successive Formula One worldt i t l e.

In taking the chequered flag inSingapore for the third consecutivetime under the lights of the MarinaBay Street Circuit, it was also Vettel’sthird straight win this season afterrecently triumphing in Belgium andI t a ly.

With Ferrari’s Fernando Alonsosecond, the Spaniard is now 60 pointsadrift, with Lotus’ Kimi Raikkonen98 down after he clambered into thetop three with a bad back and from13th on the grid.

As for Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton,he could only finish fifth behind Mer-cedes team-mate Nico Rosberg toleave the Briton 96 points down onVe t t e l .

Booed again on the podium, Vettelsaid: “The start was quite hairy, I keptthe inside clear, but Nico went in toodeep (into turn one).

“I was able to get the place back,which was crucial because we hadgood pace, but then we had the safetyc a r.

“After that again we had the pace,and the car was incredible, whichd o e s n’t happen by accident. It was apleasure to drive it around this crazyt r a ck . ”

Despite his increasing gap toAlonso, Vettel added: “I’m not reallylooking at the championship toomuch, just enjoying the moment.”

Alonso was thrilled with his secondplace as he said: “We knew we didn’thave the pace, that we had to inventsomething, and the first opportunity

was at the start.“This is a fantastic podium, a

second place that feels like a win. RedBull were too fast all weekend, so wehave to congratulate them for a fant-astic weekend, and next we have to dob e t t e r. ”

For a matter of seconds – and onlyfor a matter of seconds – Vettel wassecond-best off the line as he had togive way to Rosberg going into turno n e.

There would likely have been mil-

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lions around the world cheering sucha move, only for the joy to beshort-lived and give way to groans asRo s b e r g ’s momentum forced him tocut the corner.

That allowed Vettel to sweep backinto the lead, and from there he putthe pedal to the metal and blazedaway into a four-second lead after justtwo laps.

Behind the reigning three-timeschampion Alonso produced anotherof his storming starts, as he knows hehas to do these days given his car’sshortcomings in qualifying.

From seventh on the grid, Alonsopowered past Lotus’ Romain Gros-jean, Mark Webber in his Red Bulland Hamilton.

H a m i l t o n’s woes off the line sawhim also fall behind Felipe Massa inhis Ferrari, and although he man-aged to gain the place back, he went

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Quesne’s birdie blitz claims winFRANCE’S Julien Quesne surprisedhimself by claiming his secondEuropean Tour title yesterday thanksto a brilliant finish in the ItalianOpen in Turin.

Quesne began the day four shots offthe lead and looked out of contentionwhen he ran up a double-bogey six onthe second, but birdied the fourth andsixth and then stormed home in 31.

Quesne, whose previous win camein the Open de Andalucia last year,said: “I am very proud of this backnine. My attitude was very good thisweek and I think this is the key. Toenjoy a second win on the EuropeanTour is like a dream for me.

“After my double bogey I just keptcalm. I was thinking the winnerwould be 15 under and I was only fiveunder. I thought ‘just keep workingand we will see what happens’.

“I am surprised to be here. The

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flags were very difficult all week so itwas very difficult to make birdies andeasy to make some bogeys.”

The victory lifts Quesne to 41st onthe Race to Dubai – the top 60 qualifyfor the season-ending DP World TourChampionship in Dubai – while Hig-gins climbs from 163rd to 111th.

The top 110 after the Perth Inter-national in mid-October will keeptheir playing privileges for 2014,meaning if Higgins can advance fur-ther he will avoid a 14th visit to thedreaded qualifying school.

Higgins, who had managed just oneprevious top-three finish in morethan 200 European Tour events, bird-ied the 18th to match playing partnerWe b s t e r ’s closing 68, the 2005 cham-pion having threatened to claim hissecond Italian Open title when heholed from 60ft across the 17thg reen.

Wiggins marchesto title in theTour of BritainSIR Bradley Wiggins completed vic-tory in the Tour of Britain yesterdayas Mark Cavendish won the 88-kilo-metre eighth and final stage in cent-ral London.

Cavendish triumphed in a sprintfinish at the end of 10 8.8km laps onWhitehall after a near-perfect leadoutfrom Omega Pharma-QuickStepteam-mate Alessandro Petacchi.

Team Sky’s Wiggins, wearing theleader’s gold jersey, rolled in safely inthe bunch to claim overall victory.

In claiming his first stage race tri-umph since the 2012 Tour de France,Wiggins became the second Britishwinner in the 10th edition of ther a c e.

Jonathan Tiernan-Locke won theTour of Britain in 2012, earning amove to Team Sky, which has nowwon its home race at the fourth at-tempt.

Wiggins rode last year’s event,abandoning with a chest infectionand after making a U-turn at onepoint to go back to support Cav-endish, then his team-mate.

After a challenging year – he with-drew from May’s Giro d‘Italia andmissed the defence of his Tour deFrance title as Chris Froome won –Wiggins is now in top form ahead ofWe d n e s d ay ’s time trial at the RoadWorld Championships in Italy.

The final-day success for Britishchampion Cavendish, who also wonstage four in north Wales and stageseven to Guildford, saw him claimvictory in the concluding stage of theTour of Britain for a third successiveyear. It was his tenth stage win in ther a c e.

Wiggins and Cavendish’s ability iswell known, but the eight-day raceshowed the depth of Britain’s talents,with Simon Yates, riding for the Brit-ish under-23 team, placing third over-all.

Yates has had a memorable year,winning the points race at February’sTrack World Championships and twostages of the prestigious junior racethe Tour de l‘Ave n i r.

beyond the track limits and wasordered to cede position.

From that point on, even throughthe first round of the pit stops, therace became a procession featuringprecious little action.

That was until lap 25 when DanielRicciardo made an astonishing erroras he ploughed the nose of his ToroRosso into the barrier at turn 18.

It sparked the ninth safety car peri-od in six grands prix around thistrack, and for a short while it at leastsuggested Vettel’s cruise to the linewas in danger.

A number of drivers pitted for asecond time, including the likes ofAlonso, Grosjean, Massa, McLaren’sJenson Button, Raikkonen and Ser-gio Perez in his McLaren.

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DINGS forwards’ coach Jason For-ester admitted he drew a huge sigh ofrelief following his side’s first win ofthe season against Taunton Titans onS at u rd ay.

Crusaders lost their opening twogames against Southend and Chin-nor and the former Wales and New-port Gwent Dragons flankerunderlined the need for his players tobuck their losing trend and registerthat all-important first victory.

He said: “We ’ve got the monkey offour back now, and I’m delighted forthe boys. If I’m brutally honest, wewere poor last week, and I don’t think

anyone will argue with that state-ment.

“We spoke all week about doing thebasics well – scrum, line-out, defence,accuracy and all the little things, thatmake a big difference. But it seemedthat it was just talk, judging by theway we started the game – we justd i d n’t front up in the first-half.

“But as the game went on, thingsstarted falling into place. We grew inconfidence, and, especially duringthe second-half, played some goodrugby. The first win of your campaignis vital for building momentum andconfidence. We’re off the mark, sonow the focus shifts to building onthis performance and developing ourg ame-plan.”

Crusaders, in the end, deservedlytoppled the Titans, but few wouldhave predicted the final outcomeafter the opening quarter, as the vis-itors dominated proceedings andwere by far the better side. Dings

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Dings come good in the secondhalf to secure their first victory

looked woefully short of confidence,ideas and application during alow-key first-half, with even the nor-mally reliable boot of full-back MarkWoodrow misfiring, as the home sidestruggled for inspiration.

Taunton cruised into asecond-minute lead, when full-backConor Hartley strolled over for a try,after brushing past some poor de-fending, allowing fly-half Gary King-dom an easy conversion to make it7-0.

The visitors were all over Dings,and threatened to cut loose – theydoubled their lead thanks to a penaltytry on 18 minutes. But the Titansline-out supply began to dry up,largely due to the athleticism ofDings flanker Matt Lane, who put inan impressive performance on hisleague début Time and time again,Lane rose highest at the front of theline-out to steal the visitors’ posses-sion. The former Cleve flanker got

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Clifton continuetheir unbeatenstart to season

CLIFTON moved to the top of the SSENational League Two South table,after their third straight victory ofthe season.

Darren Lloyd’s side, fresh fromwins over Canterbury and HartpuryCollege, continued their impressivestart to their campaign with victoryover newly-prompted outfit Ampt-hill.

Clifton director of rugby Lloyd, des-pite being delighted by his side’slatest victory, believes that it’s tooearly to talk about his team as genu-ine promotion candidates.

He said. “We were by no-meansperfect in the first-half, but we im-proved in the second-half, and thisgroup is begin-ning to un-derstandwhat ittakes towin tightm at ch e s.

“T hey(Ampt-hill) werea well-or-ganised side,and will causeplenty of teams headaches this sea-son.

“We introduced a number of newfaces into the team, with Josh God-dard and Harry Goodfield doing wellfor us today, and the rest of our young-sters getting better week on week.

“We ’re not looking any furtherthan our game with Bishop Stortfordnext week, and promotion is notsomething that has entered ourt h o u g h t s.

“We ’ve only had three games, andt h e re ’s plenty of rugby to be playedbetween now and the end of the sea-son. We’re just enjoying our rugby atthe moment, and looking forward tonext week’s challenge.”

For the second time this season,Clifton came from behind to securethe spoils with a magnificentsecond-half display.

Prop Rupert Freestone, scrum-halfMatt Britton and wing GeorgeKarayiannis added touchdowns tothe first-half try tally from impress-ive centre Will Pomphrey (2), pic-tured, and full-back John Mason,while fly-half Charlie Foley added 12points with the boot.

There was little to choose betweenthe sides during a tentative and mis-take-ridden first-half.

The lead see-sawed, with neitherside able to dominate the other forany length of time.

Clifton trailed 17-13 at the turn-around, but Freestone’s try early inthe second-half opened thefloodgates, as Clifton dominated theremainder of the contest, scoring afurther 17 points, while restrictingthe home side to just two penaltiesfrom Rory Teague.

Clifton play their first home gameto be played at Clifton College againstBishop Stortford on Saturday(2.30pm).

through a mountain of work in de-fence, and worked well alongside SamSteer and Mike Uren in theb a ck - row.

After missing his first two attemptsat goal, Woodrow found his radar, andtwo successful penalty attempts sawhis side go into the break trailing 14-6.Stern half-time words by the Dingscoaches appeared to do the trick, asthe home side re-emerged full ofvigour, and a new-found hunger. WingOllie Reyland, another Dings dé-butante became increasingly in-volved in the game, and caused thevisitors plenty of problems with aseries of powerful charges along thetouchline. Crusaders rattled up 18unanswered points, with tries byhooker Dave Wheeler and replace-ment prop Josh Lloyd, plus two pen-alties and a conversion by Woodrow,before Kingdom slotted a 70th-minutepenalty, to earn the Titans a losingb o nu s - p o i n t .

We e k e n d ’s rugby results

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20Aviva Premiership: Sale 26 Wasps 22, Worcester13 Harlequins 37.Greene King IPA Championship: Cornish Pirates20 Leeds 27, Plymouth Alb 34 Moseley 34.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21Aviva Premiership: Gloucester 26 Northampton24, Leicester 31 Newcastle 6, London Irish 23Exeter Chiefs 29,Greene King IPA Championship: Jersey 26Bedford Blues 14, Rotherham 77 Ealing 9.SSE National One: Blackheath 29 Fylde 31,Blaydon 25 Esher 35, Cinderford 31 Hull Ionians 7,Doncaster 38 Worthing 17, Henley 6 Rosslyn Park6, Old Albanians 29 Tynedale 17, Richmond 31Coventry 32, Wharfedale 26 LoughboroughStudents 29.SSE National Two South: Ampthill 20 Clifton 37,Canterbury 33 Cornish AB 25, Dings Crus 24Taunton 17, Exmouth 33 Bournemouth 18,Hartpury Coll 19 Cambridge 13, London Irish WG35 Bishops St 37, Redruth 38 Southend 7,

Shelford 19 Chinnor 24.National Three South: Avonmouth OB 10Worcester 19, Barnstaple 19 Amersham & Ch 7,Bracknell 17 Weston-s-Mare 14, Brixham 10Redingensians 30, Chippenham 10 Old Reds 21,Lydney 52 Newton Abbot 25, Old Patesians 29 OldCentralians 27.South West One West: Camborne 16 Bideford 7,Cleve 37 Wadebridge 25, Clevedon 28 Thornbury28, Coney Hill 5 Hornets 39, Cullompton 32Bridgwater & Alb 3, N Petherton 25 Sidmouth 6, StAustell 29 Chard 10.Western Counties North: Avon 21 North Bristol19, Barton Hill 43 Old Bristolians 20, Berry Hill 43Bsl Harlequins 20, Chew Valley 26 Matson 20,Cirencester 6 Drybrook 20, Midsomer Norton 16Keynsham 24, Oldfield OB 8 Chosen Hill FP 46.Gloucester Premier: Bsl Saracens 12 Hucclecote3, Newent 52 Southmead 0, St Mary’s OB 31Painswick 19, Stroud 40 Gordon League 15,Tewkesbury 21 Frampton Cott 30, Whitehall vDursley pp.

Gloucester One: Bishopston 18 Bream 14,Kingswood 15 Gloucester OB 7, Longlevens 30Chipping Sodbury 14, Old Colstonians 24Brockworth 20, Old Richians 22 Ashley Down OB19, Widden OB 10 Chelt Saracens 13.Gloucester Two: Aretians 6 Bredon Star 32, OldCryptians 48 Cotham Park 19, Ross-on-Wye 55Cheltenham CS 5, Spartans 27 Broad Plain 6, StBrendan’s OB 17 BAC 10, Westbury 18 GloucesterAB 25.Gloucester Three: Cainscross 61 Hardwicke & Q7, Smiths 64 Norton 10, Tredworth 34Minchinhampton 7.Somerset Premier: Gordano 29 Yatton 7,Keynsham 15 Bsl Barb 30, Nailsea & Backwell 8Winscombe 15, Old Reds 20 Wiveliscombe 19, StBernadette’s OB 27 Tor 15, Stothert & Pitt 30Taunton 0, Weston-s-Mare 31 Minehead Barb 9.Somerset I: Bridgwater & Alb 34 Wells 5, CastleCary 31 Midsomer Norton 19, Chard 19 NorthPetherton 37, Hornets 30 Wellington 10, Imperial 17Crewkerne 14, Old Reds v Clevedon away w/o,

Yatton 50 Old Sulians 11.Somerset II North: Bsl Harlequins v Chew Valleypp, Old Culverhaysians 24 Midsomer Norton 24,Oldfield OB 3 Keynsham 31, Walcot 0 Gordano 51,Weston-s-Mare 19 Clevedon 26, Winscombe 10Nailsea & Backwell 52.Somerset II South: Bridgwater & Alb 0Burnham-on-Sea 31, Somerton 51 Minehead Barb17, Taunton 53 Ivel Barb 0, Tor 29 Hornets 22,Wiveliscombe 3 Cheddar Valley 29, Wyvern 41Morganians 19.Somerset III North: Avon 36 Bath OE 17, Imperialw/o v Walcot, Keynsham 12 Bsl Barb 7, MidsomerNorton w/o v Old Sulians, Stothert & Pitt 147 Yatton0.Somerset III South: Castle Cary 31 Chard 20,Wellington 16 Martock 10.

YESTERDAYAviva Premiership: Saracens 31 Bath 17.Greene King IPA Championship: Bristol 31London Scottish 1, Nottingham 18 London Welsh46.

Dings 24

Taunton 17

Ampthill 20

Clifton 37

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Ashton revels in Saracens’ new way of thinking

Formula One

Rugby

SARACENS director of rugby MarkMcCall hailed “exce ptional” ChrisAshton as Bath were blown away31-17 in their Aviva Premiershipmatch at Allianz Park.

Ashton failed to breach the white-wash – fellow England wing DavidStrettle scored twice – but he washighly influential with his runningoff the ball and support work.

The 26-year-old, pictured, is fight-ing for his Test place and McCall hasseen enough in three matches thisseason to know he should be involvedagainst Australia, Argentina andNew Zealand this autumn.

McCall said: “Chris judges himselfpurely on whether he scores a try ornot, but for the last two weeks he’sbeen exceptional.

“He’s taken a lot of stick over thelast 12 months or so for various as-pects of his game, but he was brilliant

against Bath. One thing he’s brilliantat is scoring tries and that will hap-pen, but his work on the ball, hiscollisions and his kick chase wereat an international level.

“It was a wonderful tackleon George Ford near theend, but the way he didthings that aren’t thatsexy was important aswe l l .

“David Strettle is 4-1up in tries after threegames, but Chris was ex-ceptional. He’s hungry toget better.”

Alex Goode – making hiscomeback from shoulder surgery –and Matt Stevens also crossed asSaracens raced into a 31-3 half-timelead that effectively secured a thirdsuccessive bonus-point win.

The London club are four points

clear at the Premiership summit andhave now scored 13 tries.

McCall added: “Our attacking sys-tem is different, we made a big

change in the summer to thataspect of our game.

“We had a system thatwas in place for threeyears that we felt in thesummer was handicap-ping some of the play-ers we have.

“We were looking forsomething which got our

good ball carriers on theball more often. It’s much

more flexible.“It’s a work in progress, we’re

nowhere near where we want to bewith it.

“But you can see often Schalk Britsand the two Vunipolas got theirhands on the ball.”

SEBASTIAN Vettel was again in aclass of his own as he completed adouble hat-trick to furtherstrengthen his grip on claiming afourth successive Formula One worldt i t l e.

In taking the chequered flag inSingapore for the third consecutivetime under the lights of the MarinaBay Street Circuit, it was also Vettel’sthird straight win this season afterrecently triumphing in Belgium andI t a ly.

With Ferrari’s Fernando Alonsosecond, the Spaniard is now 60 pointsadrift, with Lotus’ Kimi Raikkonen98 down after he clambered into thetop three with a bad back and from13th on the grid.

As for Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton,he could only finish fifth behind Mer-cedes team-mate Nico Rosberg toleave the Briton 96 points down onVe t t e l .

Booed again on the podium, Vettelsaid: “The start was quite hairy, I keptthe inside clear, but Nico went in toodeep (into turn one).

“I was able to get the place back,which was crucial because we hadgood pace, but then we had the safetyc a r.

“After that again we had the pace,and the car was incredible, whichd o e s n’t happen by accident. It was apleasure to drive it around this crazyt r a ck . ”

Despite his increasing gap toAlonso, Vettel added: “I’m not reallylooking at the championship toomuch, just enjoying the moment.”

Alonso was thrilled with his secondplace as he said: “We knew we didn’thave the pace, that we had to inventsomething, and the first opportunity

was at the start.“This is a fantastic podium, a

second place that feels like a win. RedBull were too fast all weekend, so wehave to congratulate them for a fant-astic weekend, and next we have to dob e t t e r. ”

For a matter of seconds – and onlyfor a matter of seconds – Vettel wassecond-best off the line as he had togive way to Rosberg going into turno n e.

There would likely have been mil-

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Vettel closes inon his fourthsuccessive title

lions around the world cheering sucha move, only for the joy to beshort-lived and give way to groans asRo s b e r g ’s momentum forced him tocut the corner.

That allowed Vettel to sweep backinto the lead, and from there he putthe pedal to the metal and blazedaway into a four-second lead after justtwo laps.

Behind the reigning three-timeschampion Alonso produced anotherof his storming starts, as he knows hehas to do these days given his car’sshortcomings in qualifying.

From seventh on the grid, Alonsopowered past Lotus’ Romain Gros-jean, Mark Webber in his Red Bulland Hamilton.

H a m i l t o n’s woes off the line sawhim also fall behind Felipe Massa inhis Ferrari, and although he man-aged to gain the place back, he went

Golf

Quesne’s birdie blitz claims winFRANCE’S Julien Quesne surprisedhimself by claiming his secondEuropean Tour title yesterday thanksto a brilliant finish in the ItalianOpen in Turin.

Quesne began the day four shots offthe lead and looked out of contentionwhen he ran up a double-bogey six onthe second, but birdied the fourth andsixth and then stormed home in 31.

Quesne, whose previous win camein the Open de Andalucia last year,said: “I am very proud of this backnine. My attitude was very good thisweek and I think this is the key. Toenjoy a second win on the EuropeanTour is like a dream for me.

“After my double bogey I just keptcalm. I was thinking the winnerwould be 15 under and I was only fiveunder. I thought ‘just keep workingand we will see what happens’.

“I am surprised to be here. The

Cycling

flags were very difficult all week so itwas very difficult to make birdies andeasy to make some bogeys.”

The victory lifts Quesne to 41st onthe Race to Dubai – the top 60 qualifyfor the season-ending DP World TourChampionship in Dubai – while Hig-gins climbs from 163rd to 111th.

The top 110 after the Perth Inter-national in mid-October will keeptheir playing privileges for 2014,meaning if Higgins can advance fur-ther he will avoid a 14th visit to thedreaded qualifying school.

Higgins, who had managed just oneprevious top-three finish in morethan 200 European Tour events, bird-ied the 18th to match playing partnerWe b s t e r ’s closing 68, the 2005 cham-pion having threatened to claim hissecond Italian Open title when heholed from 60ft across the 17thg reen.

Wiggins marchesto title in theTour of BritainSIR Bradley Wiggins completed vic-tory in the Tour of Britain yesterdayas Mark Cavendish won the 88-kilo-metre eighth and final stage in cent-ral London.

Cavendish triumphed in a sprintfinish at the end of 10 8.8km laps onWhitehall after a near-perfect leadoutfrom Omega Pharma-QuickStepteam-mate Alessandro Petacchi.

Team Sky’s Wiggins, wearing theleader’s gold jersey, rolled in safely inthe bunch to claim overall victory.

In claiming his first stage race tri-umph since the 2012 Tour de France,Wiggins became the second Britishwinner in the 10th edition of ther a c e.

Jonathan Tiernan-Locke won theTour of Britain in 2012, earning amove to Team Sky, which has nowwon its home race at the fourth at-tempt.

Wiggins rode last year’s event,abandoning with a chest infectionand after making a U-turn at onepoint to go back to support Cav-endish, then his team-mate.

After a challenging year – he with-drew from May’s Giro d‘Italia andmissed the defence of his Tour deFrance title as Chris Froome won –Wiggins is now in top form ahead ofWe d n e s d ay ’s time trial at the RoadWorld Championships in Italy.

The final-day success for Britishchampion Cavendish, who also wonstage four in north Wales and stageseven to Guildford, saw him claimvictory in the concluding stage of theTour of Britain for a third successiveyear. It was his tenth stage win in ther a c e.

Wiggins and Cavendish’s ability iswell known, but the eight-day raceshowed the depth of Britain’s talents,with Simon Yates, riding for the Brit-ish under-23 team, placing third over-all.

Yates has had a memorable year,winning the points race at February’sTrack World Championships and twostages of the prestigious junior racethe Tour de l‘Ave n i r.

beyond the track limits and wasordered to cede position.

From that point on, even throughthe first round of the pit stops, therace became a procession featuringprecious little action.

That was until lap 25 when DanielRicciardo made an astonishing erroras he ploughed the nose of his ToroRosso into the barrier at turn 18.

It sparked the ninth safety car peri-od in six grands prix around thistrack, and for a short while it at leastsuggested Vettel’s cruise to the linewas in danger.

A number of drivers pitted for asecond time, including the likes ofAlonso, Grosjean, Massa, McLaren’sJenson Button, Raikkonen and Ser-gio Perez in his McLaren.

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A hard week at the office ends with victory for the Swans

Premier League

Premier League

SWANSEA manager MichaelLaudrup was proud of his playersafter a dominant victory at CrystalPalace capped a “fantastic week”.

Despite less than 72 hours earlierdemolishing Valencia at the Mestalla,the Welsh side showed no sign of aEuropa League hangover as theyeased to a 2-0 win at Selhurst Park.

Palace were left chasing shadowsfrom the outset, with Michu’s strikeafter 80 seconds followed by a NathanDyer effort moments into the secondh a l f.

It could – and should – have been amuch larger margin of victory for

Swansea, with that the only frus-tration for manager Laudrup afterthe match.

However, following Monday’shard-fought draw with Liverpooland the win in Spain, theDane’s overriding emotionwas pride after winning atSelhurst Park.

“It has been a fantasticwe e k , ” Laudrup said.“Before the start, Ithought this particu-larly would be the mostdifficult game because itwas on the back of Liverpooland Valencia.

“This was the third game in onlysix days, with the travelling and allthat. You have to play an away gamehere against a different type of foot-ball, more direct.

“I thought this was going to be the

MANCHESTER City captain VincentKompany played down the impact ofhis side’s thumping 4-1 derby winover rivals Manchester United.

Sergio Aguero’s brace and furtherstrikes from Yaya Toure and SamirNasri earned City a win which re-flected their dominant performance.

The game rekindled memories oftheir 6-1 away win over United intheir Premier League title-winningcampaign two years ago, but Kom-pany dismissed suggestions they hadmade a “s t at e m e n t ” in the title race.

He said: “I think you make a state-ment over the whole season. It’s tooearly to say it’s a defining game.

“When we won 6-1 at Old Trafford, Isaid we needed to stay humble, it’sonly three points.

“But it gives us all the confidenceand allows fans to celebrate for acouple of days.”

Asked about why his side were sodominant, Kompany said: “M ay b ethe game meant a little bit more to usthan to them.

“We ’ve been looking forward to it,our fans have been speaking about itfor a long time and we needed towin.

“We have a fantastic home recordand we know there is no reason weshould fear the opposition.”

Ko m p a ny ’s manager Manuel Pel-legrini said: “I’m very happy.

“The way we played is the way Iwant this team to play, very similar toagainst Newcastle. We played the way

we work all week.”United’s consolation goal came via

a stunning Wayne Rooney free-kicklate on, while captain Patrice Evraheaded a corner by the Englandstriker against a post.

And Pellegrini said: “We went 4-0up and Manchester United didn’thave a really clear chance apart froma beautiful free-kick by Rooney andone corner.

“We have been playing irregular inother games, but it is normal in thismoment of the season.

“This was a high test today and theplayers had a great answer.”

Opposite number David Moyes ad-mitted: “We didn’t play well, theywere better. They started muchstronger and quicker.

“We ’ll get better, there’s a long sea-son to go. We’ll put this behind us andmove on.”

Moyes accepted Toure’s goal justbefore half-time, giving City thetwo-goal cushion their first periodwarranted, was crucial.

“Losing the second goal just beforehalf-time changed it and they cameout well again second half,” he said.

“Great credit to the lads that theykept going, kept working away andgot a goal at the end.

“Wayne Rooney’s performance wasoutstanding, he didn’t deserve to bein a losing team.”

United have seven points fromtheir opening five games, having lostto rivals City and Liverpool, andMoyes repeated his unease at thetesting start allocated to his side bythe fixture computer.

“It could be a lot better but we didsay it was a difficult start,” he said.

“I said at the time I wasn’t con-vinced, the way the balls came out ofthe Premier League bag, and I’m stillnot.” � City’s Samir Nasri wheels away after hitting his side’s third goal

City run Unitedragged with afour-goal salvo

Premier League

Mourinho tellsMata to followE ss i e n ’s lead

CHELSEA manager Jose Mourinhohas told Juan Mata to follow theexample of Michael Essien in order toconvince him of his worth.

Ghana midfielder Essien, whospent last season on loan at RealMadrid under Mourinho, was notnamed in Chelsea’s ChampionsLeague squad and will on Tuesdaynight make his first appearance of theseason at Swindon in the Capital OneCup, when World Cup winner Matawill also feature.

Mourinho has not been swayed byM at a ’s reputation as Chelsea playerof the year in each of the last twoseasons and demands more.

“He’s not the same as Essien,”Mourinho said.

“Essien didn’t play one singleminute and I left him out of theChampions League list.”

M at a ’s projected appearance at theCounty Ground will be his fourth ofthe season for Chelsea, having failedto convince Mourinho of his talentsin starts against Aston Villa, Evertonand a substitute appearance versusB a s l e.

While Mata must deliver as an in-dividual, Mourinho is also targetinga collective improvement after end-ing a four-match winless run, andbouncing back from successive de-feats, with a 2-0 win over Fulham.

Others on the periphery will alsoplay at Swindon, including DavidLuiz, Essien, Cesar Azpilicueta andRyan Bertrand, while the likes ofOscar, Mourinho’s favoured play-maker, and Ashley Cole rest ahead ofS at u rd ay ’s London derby with Tot-tenham.

He added: “We have to work toimprove. Now the head is cleaner,now we have to work on othert h i n g s.

“The boys who I give two days off,they have to enjoy their little hol-i d ay.

“The beginning of the season wasquite hard for us.

“Now we have a period of fourconsecutive matches away. We playSwindon, Tottenham, Norwich andSteaua (Bucharest) all of them awayfrom home.

“We have to prepare ourselves thebest we can. And everyone’s going toplay, because we have four consec-utive matches.”

Oscar opened the scoring againstFulham and John Obi Mikel nettedhis third goal in 282 games forChelsea – his first in the PremierLeague and his first since scoringtwice in successive rounds of the FACup against lower league oppositionin January 2007.

Nigeria midfielder Mikel toldChelsea TV: “I am pretty happy aboutit. It has been a long time and the guyshave been killing me about it.

“They say you go to the nationalteam and score but you don’t score forChelsea so it was good for me to getmy first Premier League goal. Iscored in the FA Cup a couple oft i m e s.

“I do practise scoring in trainingsometimes, but I don’t get into thepositions often.”

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most difficult game, so I am reallypleased with what the players didt o d ay.

“It always helps when you score inthe first minute, but even so you

have to play over 90m i nu t e s.

“I thought we reallydominated the gamefrom the first to the lastsecond.

“The only thing is,we should have scored

more goals because wehad the chances to score

five or six like we had onThursday, but it is of course

difficult not to be pleased whenyou win 3-0 and 2-0 in just threed ay s. ”

One of the best performers in thatsix-day period has been Michu, pic-t u re d .

After starring for Swansea last sea-son, the 27-year-old began this seasoncomparatively slowly – until thisweek, that is.

Michu netted against Liverpooland Valencia, before producing aman-of-the-match display in southLondon.

“I don’t know if he is back to hisbest, because what is his best?”Laudrup asked. “I don’t look at himas just a goalscorer because for me heis not even a centre-forward. He hasalways been an offensive midfielderthan can score goals, but can also playas a centre-forward.

“I don’t look at Michu just as agoalscorer so I don’t see it as a prob-lem when he does not score for threeg ames.”

M i ch u ’s form last season saw himrewarded with a new and improvedfour-year deal in January.

Crystal Palace 0

Swansea 2

Premier League

PAULINHO netted his first PremierLeague goal in stoppage time to giveTottenham victory and finally endthe resistance of Cardiff keeper DavidMarshall.

Spurs dominated large sections ofthe game at Cardiff City Stadium butwere denied on countless occasionsas the Scot made crucial saves fromRoberto Soldado, Christian Eriksen,Paulinho and Gylfi Sigurdsson.

Even when former Swansea manSigurdsson did beat Marshall, pic-tured, his effort struck the crossbar,but Paulinho finally made their dom-inance tell as he tapped in ErikLamela’s pass from close range to seala 1-0 win.

Cardiff created few clear chancesbut felt they had twice come out onthe wrong end of decisions by theof ficials.

The first came when Hugo Llorisappeared to handle outside his area

They crafted a fine chance forSoldado, after a thrilling burst fromAndros Townsend, but Marshall wasable to turn the Spaniard’s shotround the post.

Kyle Walker followed the winger’slead as he took off from inside his ownhalf on a run that took him into theCardiff box, where Ben Turner madea crucial tackle.

Marshall soon found himselfseverely overworked saving twice

from Eriksen, the secondcoming after Turner

had recovered frombeing horribly ex-posed by Soldado toget a block in.

Sigurdsson alsostungthe Scotland keep-

er’s palms, butCardiff then enjoyed a

better spell up tohalf-time, and they were ag-

grieved not to be leading at theb re a k .

Lloris’ poor control of a back passgifted Cardiff a corner, which Turnerheaded in at the far post, but refereeMark Clattenburg ruled the keeper

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Marshall’s one-man mission endswith a last-minute goal by Spurs

as Fraizer Campbell attempted toround him, although replays sugges-ted it was a very tight call.

The second saw Ben Turner’s head-er from a corner chalked off afterAron Gunnarsson was adjudged tohave impeded Lloris.

Although Spurs would take astranglehold on proceedings, Cardiffmade a purposeful opening, withKevin Theophile-Catherine heavilyinvolved on his home debut.

The Bluebirds should have led inthe seventh minute. KyleN a u g h t o n’s misdirected passwas left by Michael Dawson,but lacked the weight to getback to Lloris.

Campbell pounced but hewas robbed of the ball as heattempted to round Lloris onthe edge of the box, with re-plays suggesting the French-man had handled outside hisa re a .

Spurs boss Andre Villas-Boas hadbemoaned his side’s run of threegames in six days earlier this week,but he need not have worried abouttheir ability to perform, as theysettled down and assumed control.

Premier League

Th e re ’s more tocome from Ozil,claims Wenger

MANAGER Arsene Wenger is in nodoubt there is more to come fromclub-record signing Mesut Ozil afterwatching the Germany playmakercreate all of his side’s goals in the winover Stoke at the Emirates Stadium,which sent Arsenal top of theBarclays Premier League.

First Aaron Ramsey smashed inhis seventh goal of an impressiveseason after Ozil’s fifth-minutefree-kick was parried by Stoke goal-keeper Asmir Begovic, but GeoffCameron swept in a deserved equal-iser for the visitors.

However, the class of Ozil – signedfrom Real Madrid on deadline day ina £43million seal – proved the dif-ference as his corner was flickedhome by compatriot Per Mertesackerto give Arsenal the lead once morebefore half-time, and then anotherpin-point deadball delivery madesure of all three points when BacarySagna looped in a header on 72m i nu t e s.

“I believe that once he is com-pletely integrated we will see evenmore of him, but he has shown todaythat he is a great player,” saidWeng er.

“Ozil is a player, when you look athis numbers, the assists are not acoincidence, it is just the reality of hisg ame.

“You could see today he has a goodpace as well. At the moment he fo-cuses a lot on his passing, but he cancreate individually as well.”

Arsenal have responded with sevenstraight wins since they were beaten3-1 at home on the opening day of theseason – and if Ozil continues hisimpressive displays, Wenger’s squadcould be set for a long-overdue sus-tained assault on the Premier Leaguet i t l e.

Wenger, though, moved to playdown any early talk of ending almosta decade without a trophy.

He said: “Ozil gave a lift to every-body at the club and, for the rest, itwill be the quality of our teamworkand our team play that will decidet h at .

“The only thing of our position atthe moment is that we are in a po-sition where we can focus on im-provement in a stable environment,so that is a good basis. For the rest,[in] the table everyone is mathem-atically together.

“We have shown again another as-pect as well, that we can dig deep andfight when we are a bit under pres-sure. When the third goal went in, wejust kept the result.”

Theo Walcott suffered a minor ab-dominal strain during the warm-up.

had been impeded by Gunnarsson. Itappeared a soft decision.

Cardiff ’s gradual improvementcontinued at the start of the secondhalf, with Craig Bellamy racing clearonly for Lloris to cut out his pull-backfor Peter Whittingham.

But the hosts were again indebtedto Marshall moments later. Sig-u rd s s o n’s shot from the edge of thebox came back off the crossbar to fallto Soldado in acres of space, but hewas again denied by the keeper’s legs.Sigurdsson was involved once morewhen he scampered round Theo-phile-Catherine to tee up Paulinho,but again Marshall was up to thetask.

Cardiff boss Malky Mackay threwon Peter Odemwingie in place ofCampbell for his debut, and the Ni-gerian almost enjoyed a dream startas he curled wide of the left-handupright.

It proved a brief respite as Spurscontinued to pile on the pressure, butCardiff held firm as the game enteredthe final 15 minutes.

Marshall could do nothing to keepout the Brazilian’s final effort frominside the six-yard box.

Cardiff City 0

Tottenham Hotspur 1

Arsenal 3

Stoke City 1

Chelsea 2

Fulham 0

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A hard week at the office ends with victory for the Swans

Premier League

Premier League

SWANSEA manager MichaelLaudrup was proud of his playersafter a dominant victory at CrystalPalace capped a “fantastic week”.

Despite less than 72 hours earlierdemolishing Valencia at the Mestalla,the Welsh side showed no sign of aEuropa League hangover as theyeased to a 2-0 win at Selhurst Park.

Palace were left chasing shadowsfrom the outset, with Michu’s strikeafter 80 seconds followed by a NathanDyer effort moments into the secondh a l f.

It could – and should – have been amuch larger margin of victory for

Swansea, with that the only frus-tration for manager Laudrup afterthe match.

However, following Monday’shard-fought draw with Liverpooland the win in Spain, theDane’s overriding emotionwas pride after winning atSelhurst Park.

“It has been a fantasticwe e k , ” Laudrup said.“Before the start, Ithought this particu-larly would be the mostdifficult game because itwas on the back of Liverpooland Valencia.

“This was the third game in onlysix days, with the travelling and allthat. You have to play an away gamehere against a different type of foot-ball, more direct.

“I thought this was going to be the

MANCHESTER City captain VincentKompany played down the impact ofhis side’s thumping 4-1 derby winover rivals Manchester United.

Sergio Aguero’s brace and furtherstrikes from Yaya Toure and SamirNasri earned City a win which re-flected their dominant performance.

The game rekindled memories oftheir 6-1 away win over United intheir Premier League title-winningcampaign two years ago, but Kom-pany dismissed suggestions they hadmade a “s t at e m e n t ” in the title race.

He said: “I think you make a state-ment over the whole season. It’s tooearly to say it’s a defining game.

“When we won 6-1 at Old Trafford, Isaid we needed to stay humble, it’sonly three points.

“But it gives us all the confidenceand allows fans to celebrate for acouple of days.”

Asked about why his side were sodominant, Kompany said: “M ay b ethe game meant a little bit more to usthan to them.

“We ’ve been looking forward to it,our fans have been speaking about itfor a long time and we needed towin.

“We have a fantastic home recordand we know there is no reason weshould fear the opposition.”

Ko m p a ny ’s manager Manuel Pel-legrini said: “I’m very happy.

“The way we played is the way Iwant this team to play, very similar toagainst Newcastle. We played the way

we work all week.”United’s consolation goal came via

a stunning Wayne Rooney free-kicklate on, while captain Patrice Evraheaded a corner by the Englandstriker against a post.

And Pellegrini said: “We went 4-0up and Manchester United didn’thave a really clear chance apart froma beautiful free-kick by Rooney andone corner.

“We have been playing irregular inother games, but it is normal in thismoment of the season.

“This was a high test today and theplayers had a great answer.”

Opposite number David Moyes ad-mitted: “We didn’t play well, theywere better. They started muchstronger and quicker.

“We ’ll get better, there’s a long sea-son to go. We’ll put this behind us andmove on.”

Moyes accepted Toure’s goal justbefore half-time, giving City thetwo-goal cushion their first periodwarranted, was crucial.

“Losing the second goal just beforehalf-time changed it and they cameout well again second half,” he said.

“Great credit to the lads that theykept going, kept working away andgot a goal at the end.

“Wayne Rooney’s performance wasoutstanding, he didn’t deserve to bein a losing team.”

United have seven points fromtheir opening five games, having lostto rivals City and Liverpool, andMoyes repeated his unease at thetesting start allocated to his side bythe fixture computer.

“It could be a lot better but we didsay it was a difficult start,” he said.

“I said at the time I wasn’t con-vinced, the way the balls came out ofthe Premier League bag, and I’m stillnot.” � City’s Samir Nasri wheels away after hitting his side’s third goal

City run Unitedragged with afour-goal salvo

Premier League

Mourinho tellsMata to followE ss i e n ’s lead

CHELSEA manager Jose Mourinhohas told Juan Mata to follow theexample of Michael Essien in order toconvince him of his worth.

Ghana midfielder Essien, whospent last season on loan at RealMadrid under Mourinho, was notnamed in Chelsea’s ChampionsLeague squad and will on Tuesdaynight make his first appearance of theseason at Swindon in the Capital OneCup, when World Cup winner Matawill also feature.

Mourinho has not been swayed byM at a ’s reputation as Chelsea playerof the year in each of the last twoseasons and demands more.

“He’s not the same as Essien,”Mourinho said.

“Essien didn’t play one singleminute and I left him out of theChampions League list.”

M at a ’s projected appearance at theCounty Ground will be his fourth ofthe season for Chelsea, having failedto convince Mourinho of his talentsin starts against Aston Villa, Evertonand a substitute appearance versusB a s l e.

While Mata must deliver as an in-dividual, Mourinho is also targetinga collective improvement after end-ing a four-match winless run, andbouncing back from successive de-feats, with a 2-0 win over Fulham.

Others on the periphery will alsoplay at Swindon, including DavidLuiz, Essien, Cesar Azpilicueta andRyan Bertrand, while the likes ofOscar, Mourinho’s favoured play-maker, and Ashley Cole rest ahead ofS at u rd ay ’s London derby with Tot-tenham.

He added: “We have to work toimprove. Now the head is cleaner,now we have to work on othert h i n g s.

“The boys who I give two days off,they have to enjoy their little hol-i d ay.

“The beginning of the season wasquite hard for us.

“Now we have a period of fourconsecutive matches away. We playSwindon, Tottenham, Norwich andSteaua (Bucharest) all of them awayfrom home.

“We have to prepare ourselves thebest we can. And everyone’s going toplay, because we have four consec-utive matches.”

Oscar opened the scoring againstFulham and John Obi Mikel nettedhis third goal in 282 games forChelsea – his first in the PremierLeague and his first since scoringtwice in successive rounds of the FACup against lower league oppositionin January 2007.

Nigeria midfielder Mikel toldChelsea TV: “I am pretty happy aboutit. It has been a long time and the guyshave been killing me about it.

“They say you go to the nationalteam and score but you don’t score forChelsea so it was good for me to getmy first Premier League goal. Iscored in the FA Cup a couple oft i m e s.

“I do practise scoring in trainingsometimes, but I don’t get into thepositions often.”

Manchester City 4

Manchester United 1

most difficult game, so I am reallypleased with what the players didt o d ay.

“It always helps when you score inthe first minute, but even so you

have to play over 90m i nu t e s.

“I thought we reallydominated the gamefrom the first to the lastsecond.

“The only thing is,we should have scored

more goals because wehad the chances to score

five or six like we had onThursday, but it is of course

difficult not to be pleased whenyou win 3-0 and 2-0 in just threed ay s. ”

One of the best performers in thatsix-day period has been Michu, pic-t u re d .

After starring for Swansea last sea-son, the 27-year-old began this seasoncomparatively slowly – until thisweek, that is.

Michu netted against Liverpooland Valencia, before producing aman-of-the-match display in southLondon.

“I don’t know if he is back to hisbest, because what is his best?”Laudrup asked. “I don’t look at himas just a goalscorer because for me heis not even a centre-forward. He hasalways been an offensive midfielderthan can score goals, but can also playas a centre-forward.

“I don’t look at Michu just as agoalscorer so I don’t see it as a prob-lem when he does not score for threeg ames.”

M i ch u ’s form last season saw himrewarded with a new and improvedfour-year deal in January.

Crystal Palace 0

Swansea 2

Premier League

PAULINHO netted his first PremierLeague goal in stoppage time to giveTottenham victory and finally endthe resistance of Cardiff keeper DavidMarshall.

Spurs dominated large sections ofthe game at Cardiff City Stadium butwere denied on countless occasionsas the Scot made crucial saves fromRoberto Soldado, Christian Eriksen,Paulinho and Gylfi Sigurdsson.

Even when former Swansea manSigurdsson did beat Marshall, pic-tured, his effort struck the crossbar,but Paulinho finally made their dom-inance tell as he tapped in ErikLamela’s pass from close range to seala 1-0 win.

Cardiff created few clear chancesbut felt they had twice come out onthe wrong end of decisions by theof ficials.

The first came when Hugo Llorisappeared to handle outside his area

They crafted a fine chance forSoldado, after a thrilling burst fromAndros Townsend, but Marshall wasable to turn the Spaniard’s shotround the post.

Kyle Walker followed the winger’slead as he took off from inside his ownhalf on a run that took him into theCardiff box, where Ben Turner madea crucial tackle.

Marshall soon found himselfseverely overworked saving twice

from Eriksen, the secondcoming after Turner

had recovered frombeing horribly ex-posed by Soldado toget a block in.

Sigurdsson alsostungthe Scotland keep-

er’s palms, butCardiff then enjoyed a

better spell up tohalf-time, and they were ag-

grieved not to be leading at theb re a k .

Lloris’ poor control of a back passgifted Cardiff a corner, which Turnerheaded in at the far post, but refereeMark Clattenburg ruled the keeper

� To t t e n h a m ’s Brazilian midfielder Paulinho celebrates grabbing a late winner over Cardiff at the Cardiff City stadium yesterday

Marshall’s one-man mission endswith a last-minute goal by Spurs

as Fraizer Campbell attempted toround him, although replays sugges-ted it was a very tight call.

The second saw Ben Turner’s head-er from a corner chalked off afterAron Gunnarsson was adjudged tohave impeded Lloris.

Although Spurs would take astranglehold on proceedings, Cardiffmade a purposeful opening, withKevin Theophile-Catherine heavilyinvolved on his home debut.

The Bluebirds should have led inthe seventh minute. KyleN a u g h t o n’s misdirected passwas left by Michael Dawson,but lacked the weight to getback to Lloris.

Campbell pounced but hewas robbed of the ball as heattempted to round Lloris onthe edge of the box, with re-plays suggesting the French-man had handled outside hisa re a .

Spurs boss Andre Villas-Boas hadbemoaned his side’s run of threegames in six days earlier this week,but he need not have worried abouttheir ability to perform, as theysettled down and assumed control.

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Th e re ’s more tocome from Ozil,claims Wenger

MANAGER Arsene Wenger is in nodoubt there is more to come fromclub-record signing Mesut Ozil afterwatching the Germany playmakercreate all of his side’s goals in the winover Stoke at the Emirates Stadium,which sent Arsenal top of theBarclays Premier League.

First Aaron Ramsey smashed inhis seventh goal of an impressiveseason after Ozil’s fifth-minutefree-kick was parried by Stoke goal-keeper Asmir Begovic, but GeoffCameron swept in a deserved equal-iser for the visitors.

However, the class of Ozil – signedfrom Real Madrid on deadline day ina £43million seal – proved the dif-ference as his corner was flickedhome by compatriot Per Mertesackerto give Arsenal the lead once morebefore half-time, and then anotherpin-point deadball delivery madesure of all three points when BacarySagna looped in a header on 72m i nu t e s.

“I believe that once he is com-pletely integrated we will see evenmore of him, but he has shown todaythat he is a great player,” saidWeng er.

“Ozil is a player, when you look athis numbers, the assists are not acoincidence, it is just the reality of hisg ame.

“You could see today he has a goodpace as well. At the moment he fo-cuses a lot on his passing, but he cancreate individually as well.”

Arsenal have responded with sevenstraight wins since they were beaten3-1 at home on the opening day of theseason – and if Ozil continues hisimpressive displays, Wenger’s squadcould be set for a long-overdue sus-tained assault on the Premier Leaguet i t l e.

Wenger, though, moved to playdown any early talk of ending almosta decade without a trophy.

He said: “Ozil gave a lift to every-body at the club and, for the rest, itwill be the quality of our teamworkand our team play that will decidet h at .

“The only thing of our position atthe moment is that we are in a po-sition where we can focus on im-provement in a stable environment,so that is a good basis. For the rest,[in] the table everyone is mathem-atically together.

“We have shown again another as-pect as well, that we can dig deep andfight when we are a bit under pres-sure. When the third goal went in, wejust kept the result.”

Theo Walcott suffered a minor ab-dominal strain during the warm-up.

had been impeded by Gunnarsson. Itappeared a soft decision.

Cardiff ’s gradual improvementcontinued at the start of the secondhalf, with Craig Bellamy racing clearonly for Lloris to cut out his pull-backfor Peter Whittingham.

But the hosts were again indebtedto Marshall moments later. Sig-u rd s s o n’s shot from the edge of thebox came back off the crossbar to fallto Soldado in acres of space, but hewas again denied by the keeper’s legs.Sigurdsson was involved once morewhen he scampered round Theo-phile-Catherine to tee up Paulinho,but again Marshall was up to thetask.

Cardiff boss Malky Mackay threwon Peter Odemwingie in place ofCampbell for his debut, and the Ni-gerian almost enjoyed a dream startas he curled wide of the left-handupright.

It proved a brief respite as Spurscontinued to pile on the pressure, butCardiff held firm as the game enteredthe final 15 minutes.

Marshall could do nothing to keepout the Brazilian’s final effort frominside the six-yard box.

Cardiff City 0

Tottenham Hotspur 1

Arsenal 3

Stoke City 1

Chelsea 2

Fulham 0

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SEPTEMBER15 Cornish Pirates (Sandy Park)................................................................... 21-2322 London Scottish (H) .................................................................................. 31-1828 Jersey........................................................................................................... (A)

OCTOBER6 Bedford........................................................................................................... (H)12 B&I Cup .................................................................................................... Rnd 119 B&I Cup .................................................................................................... Rnd 227 Nottingham ................................................................................................... (H)

NOVEMBER2 Plymouth ........................................................................................................ (A)9 London Welsh ................................................................................................ (A)17 Rotherhamv (H)23 Cornish Pirates ............................................................................................. (A)

DECEMBER1 Leedsv (H)8 B&I Cup ...................................................................................................... Rnd 315 B&I Cup ..................................................................................................... Rnd 421 Ealing (A)

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JUNE4 Championship final.................................................................................. 2nd leg

LEAGUE ONEAUGUST

3 Bradford (H)................................................................................................................ 2-26 Gillingham (Capital One, First Round) (A) ................................................................. 2-011 Coventry (A) ............................................................................................................ 4-517 Wolverhampton (H) ................................................................................................. 1-224 MK Dons (A) ............................................................................................................ 2-227 Crystal Palace (Capital One, Second Round) (H)................................................... 2-131 Gillingham (A) .......................................................................................................... 1-1

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APRIL5 Preston ....................................................................................................................... (H)12 Walsall ...................................................................................................................... (A)19 Notts County............................................................................................................. (H)21 Stevenage ................................................................................................................ (A)26 Crewe ....................................................................................................................... (H)

MAY3 Crawley Town............................................................................................................. (A)

LEAGUE TWOAUGUST

3 Exeter (A) .................................................................................................. 1-26 Watford (Capital One Cup, First Round) (H) ............................................. 1-310 Scunthorpe (H) ........................................................................................ 0-017 Newport County(A) .................................................................................. 0-124 York (H) ................................................................................................... 3-231 Northampton (H) ...................................................................................... 1-0

SEPTEMBER4 Bristol City (JPT, First Round) (A) .............................................................. 1-27 Plymouth (A) .............................................................................................. 0-114 Dag & Red (A) ......................................................................................... 0-221 Hartlepool (H) .......................................................................................... 2-228 Southend .................................................................................................. (A)

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MAY3 Mansfield ................................................................................................... (H)

Bristol City 2013-14The season so far . . .

Bristol Rovers 2013-14The season so far . . .

Writes for theGreen ’Un

DavePayne

Columnist

I’m ready to tackle some old City and Rovers favourites in a charity match at Hallen

Bristol Rugby 2013-14The season so far . . .

MY appearances on afootball pitch arerapidly dwindling,which is hardly sur-prising as I am nowin my fifties. I amreally too old to

even play in the over-35s games that Iget asked to participate in regularlyon Sunday mornings.

However, I have agreed to play in acharity match that is being held thisThursday at the home of Hallen FC.

Organiser Mark Jakeways is ar-ranging for former players of Hallento take on a team of well-knownex-Bristol City and Rovers favourites,along with a sprinkling of localcelebrities that have appeared on tele-vision.

I believe Mark is hoping to attract aweather man, a chef and somebodythat has appeared in a reality tele-vision show.

If that doesn’t get the punters flyingthrough the turnstiles, I don’t knowwhat will!

Mark has created a poster advert-ising the match, with boobs and ballsbeing the strapline for parts of the

male and female anatomy that areaffected by cancer, which will benefitfrom money raised at the event.

Glancing through the selected play-ers representing Hallen on the night,a few are very well known to me.Goalkeeper Dave Mogg has been a palof mine since our junior school days,where we played alongside each otherfor Bristol Boys.

As a youngster, Dave was very pop-ular at school with the ladies – thedinner ladies that is! He would eatanything put on his plate, so it’s notsurprising really that he’s in suchgreat shape nowadays!

I heard he had a real scare recently– apparently, someone told him hislocal kebab shop was closing down,but thankfully it was just a rumour.

The last time we played in a charitygame together he could not even benddown to pick the ball out of his net,due to a chronic back problem. But, tobe fair to him, quite a few werenestled in the corner, so it obviouslygot painful after a while.

Another good friend of ours alsoplaying in the match on Thursday isGrantley Dicks.

He played for Hallen at one timeduring his playing career, but alsospent several seasons at Bath City. Heis now assistant manager at Hallen,and is very vocal when barking outinstructions from the touchline. Hetold me once that although he shoutsout a lot, it always makes sense to theplayers. I believe that if he put threeletters in front of that word he would

be correct: non-sense! Funnilyenough, along with Dave and Grant-ley, I played in an over-35s tourna-ment held in Barbados a decade or soago. What a fantastic time we had,especially coming home as victors. Ican still recall the moment when wearrived at our hotel.

Their faces both lit up when theyread the sign emblazoned in brightneon lights, ‘All-you-can-eat buffet!’

The game kicks-off at 7pm at Moor-house Lane, the home of Hallen, onThursday, when their new floodlightswill be switched on.

Afterwards, in the clubhouse, therewill be a memorabilia auction whichfeatures some fantastic items. Pleasecome along to the game, where entryis by donation.