A FRENETIC first five minutes at Cherrywood Road kicked off the contest between Farnborough and Tiverton; the hosts nearly scored from the kick off, before ceding a chance to Tiverton, then charging down the other end for another narrow miss.
GLENN Howes says it was always an ambition to become manager at a club he played for after being appointed at Dorchester Town – and then immediately took on his old team!
STEVE BAKER is glad Harrow Borough got the big draw he felt the whole club deserved when they were paired with former FA Cup winners Portsmouth – and the Boro boss was even happier they avoided Dagenham & Redbridge!
FARNBOROUGH’S faithful have been clamouring for weeks for manager Spencer Day to rummage in the box marked ‘Farnborough squad jigsaw puzzle’ to see if he could find that missing number nine-shaped piece.
The Southern League club hosted a celebrity match last Sunday, with more than 1,400 at their Meadow home watching the likes of X-factor winner James Arthur and football freestyler Jeremy Lynch get on the scoresheet as a Bucks Mind XI beat a United in the Community XI 7-5 thriller.
Recent contests between Farnborough and Taunton Town have been as feisty as cornered badgers but with Boro ever improving and the Peacocks perennial promotion contenders, this made for another keenly-contested affair.
After undergoing knee surgery last year, Ciardini, at 33, assumed his playing career was over and it wasn’t long before he was getting his football fix in front of the telly with fast food and beer can in hand.
FANS, sunshine and goals made for a pleasing start to the season for Paul Hughes’ Hayes as Francis Amartey, Hassan Jalloh and Jamie Hanlon notched one apiece.