Without doubt this is one game that the Manor will want to put to bed very early, but despite the scoreline the team on the whole played quite well. Early chances fell to both sides and Manor’s Asa Pamplin was guilty of two misses in the first 10 mins. With 20 mins of the game gone both sides looked quite equal, but then the Ryman Div 1 side started to show their class, slick passing, and two front men who looked capable of destroying the most solid of defences, slowly began taking hold of the game. By the time the interval came the visitors found themselves 4-0 to the good and with Manor now reduced to 10 men, Lewis Passfield being cautioned twice in the first half for late challenges, they faced more than a uphill task in trying to turn the game around. Delroy Forde missed a golden opportunity to pull a goal back just before the break when he raced onto a Danny Midford through ball only to see his timely chip beat the keeper and hit the side netting. The second half was a carbon copy of the first, with the visitors taking control from the off and keeping Manor on the back foot for considerable spells. Despite three more goals being conceded by Manor in the second half they still had their chances and it was again Forde who squandered the easiest of them all, when he firstlyrounded the keeper and fired wide with the goal at his mercy and then struck the bar from a penalty, it just wasn’t going to be his or Manors night. Manor’s M.O.M went to Glen Connolly for a tireless display in Midfield even when the odd’s were stacked against him.

Team: Prince, Snazel, Scales, Young, Marsh, Connolly, D Midford,
Passfield, Fola, Pamplin, Forde, Subs – Knapman, Richards, Jenkins,
McTasney & Barratt.