Castle Donington Town FC vs Heanor Colliers + Holbrook St.Michaels Reserves - Match Reports
| Published: 14th April 2008 18:04 |
Heanor Colliers 0 vs Castle Donington Town FC 3
Holbrook ST.Michaels Reserves 1 vs Castle Donington Town FC 3
Castle Donington Town FC got two great results this week as they made their case for a late promotion bid to the Midlands Regional Alliance Premier Division.
At the business end if the season Donington are looking for the second spot for promotion as Willington FC claimed top place the previous week. Town FC still have a slight chance of going up, but they will have to win all their remaining 4 fixtures and are hoping results go their way.
Heanor Colliers were the first team to stand in front of Donington on the wednesday match. But Town got off to the ideal start when striker Tom Tribe got The Dons 1-0 up on 12 minutes. The home side had their chance to get back in the game when Donington keeper brought down the Heanor centre forward, but to Doningtons delight the spot kick was blasted over. Richard Fordham made Towns lead more comnfortable as he waited for the ball to come down to smash home. Heanor then got reduced to ten men when the centre half got booked twice for two outragous challenges. Karl Munton sealed Doningtons lead late on to make it an excellant 3-0 away win. Man of the Match went to Ben Millward.
Next up for Town was the away fixture to Holbrook St Michael Reserves who are fighting to stay in the divsion. Town grinded out their 1-0 half time lead when Jack Purkis linked up with striker partner Tom Tribe who provided the chance on a plate for Purkis to finnish. Richard Fordham made it two goals in two games with a delightful finish. Karl Muntons corner created confusion for the Holbrook defence as Purkis stabbed the ball home. The home side then got a goal after some scrapping defending from Town. The referee stamped his authority late on in the game pushing the Holbrook striker in a comedy fashion much to the delight of both sets of players and fans! Man of the Match went to Gary Fordham.
Assitant Manager Harry Deray said 'These were two very important wins, but your only as good as your next game and with have four cup finals now if we are to stand any chance of promotion'
Tom Tribe added 'All the players are fully focused on the challenge in the hand, we now want to get to where we think we deserve to be!'
Castle Donington Town FC face Holbrook St Michaels Reserves once again this time at home with a 3pm kick off. Monday night Town travel to Pastures with a 6.30pm kick off.
To keep up to date with Towns Progress please vist our website www.clubwebsite.co.uk/castledoningtontownfc
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