This Weekend

Today (Sunday) I watched as my long time favourite team achieved a "One Nil to the Arsenal" to beat a Bournemouth team that had some good periods and decent shots but no luck. The only goal of the game was a header by David Luiz from a corner taken by Nicolas Pepe.

On a day when Manchester City lost at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers and Manchester United lost away at Newcastle I will take a narrow victory over dangerous opponents. Bournemouth will not go down if they continue to play with the same quality that they showed today.

The other of my teams playing Sunday were Exmouth away at Wellington.  The only information I have at this point in time is that the attendance was 315 but am I being lazy? Hold on while I dig deeper. Aaron Denney tees up Jordan Harris for the first goal (thanks twitter) and Ace High threads it through for Aaron Denney to slide it past the keeper. This side is fast becoming "My Team".

Yesterday (Saturday) my teams achieved the following results:

Nottingham Forest 1 Brentford 0 ... Move on.

Gillingham 3 Southend United 1 ... Simon Cox scored the Southend goal.

Crewe Alexandra 1 Exeter City 1 ... Dean Moxey got on the end of a Nicky Law cross for the goal.

Torquay United 2 AFC Fylde 1 ... The BBC reports:-

Matt Buse scored in added time to seal Torquay's National League victory over AFC Fylde at Plainmoor.

Kalvin Kalala's stunning volley from the edge of the box opened the scoring for the Gulls in the eighth minute.

Fylde refused to lie down, though, and grabbed an equaliser when Jordan Williams rounded Lucas Covolan Cauagnari and converted into an empty net after 52 minutes.

The Coasters thought they had picked up a vital point in their battle against relegation but were undone when Buse headed home in injury time.

Weymouth 4 St Albans City 1 ... Weymouth get through the third round qualifying of the F.A.Cup and are now into the Fourth Qualifying Round draw. One more win and they may get a Football League team.

Tiverton Town 2 Dorchester Town 1 ... The table shows that Tiverton are now top on 18 points.

Barnstaple Town 0 Moneyfields 3 ... Barnstaple continue the losing streak and are now in the relegation places with a goal difference of -18. The next worst goal difference is -7.

Honiton Town 3 Elmore 2 ... The Honiton Town page on Pitchero reported thus:-

Town welcomed Elmore to Mountbatten Park in the South West Peninsula East Division Fixture.

There was nothing to split the teams in the league table and the first half proved this with both teams cancelling themselves out. the teams went in level at half time 0 - 0.

Town came out for the second half and were the dominant side for the first 10 minutes. Owen McCreadie Taylor opened the scoring in the 49th minute when he had his back to goal and managed to loop the ball over the away keeper. Almost immediately after Harry Leisk had a great chance that he hit hard, but the Elmore keeper parried the shot away.

Slightly against the run of play Elmore equalised with a quick break from a Honiton attacked. The attacker managed to get the ball across from the right hand side by line and the ball found its way into the back of Hippos net. Elmore upped their game and grabbed their second in the 64th minute with an almost identical goal, which was tapped into The Hippos net.

Two minutes later McCreadie was through and ended up on the floor, with the home supporters screaming for a foul. The ref just waved play on to the despair of the home side.

Gaffer Doble made a few changes being Billy Knox and Cody Skinner on.

In the 70th minute, left back Blake Freemantle found himself about 25 yards out, with the ball at his feet he hit a fantastic shot which sailed into the Elmore net. 2-2.

Give Elmore their due they pushed on, and Luke Ashford in the Town goal made a selection of great saves to keep The Hippos in the game. Both sides wanted the win. Not to be outdone Elmores keeper made a great save.

Double rolled the dice for the last time when he took goal scorer OMT off and brought on Peter Knox in the 84th minute. As the clock was clicking down, he won the ball on the edge of the 18 yard box, twisting and turning he was trying to find a path to goal. Former Elmore player, Ash Small was free on the right, Knox played the ball across. Small again twisted and turned and slipped the ball into the corner of the net in the 88th minute pass the keeper.

Elmore immediately pushed to try and grab the equaliser, but The Hippos kept them out to win 3-2.

Man of the match for Honiton was their keeper, Luke Ashford, who made a number of excellent saves and also got studs across his chest after a high tackle from an Elmore player, who received a yellow card for his efforts

Town travel down to Plymouth Marjons next Saturday for their next fixture, hoping to put right their result a few weeks ago when they beat The Hippos in the cup.

Liverton United 0 Heavitree United 6 ... I watched my local side and to be honest there was some improvement. The home keeper managed to shout at the defence enough to keep them somewhere near the goal. Unfortunately none of them bothered to challenge the opposing forwards when needed. The absence of a defence is clearly a problem but shooting also needs more practice. The only powerful shot on target was straight at the keeper. I enjoy my football and one day I hope to see this team produce a match winning performance like the one away at Bovey Tracey.

My results from level 12 to 20 are my business.