With Arsenal and Brentford out of action due to the international matches taking place I can concentrate on the lower leagues and let you know what I am finding.
League One) Plymouth Argyle 2 Burton Albion 0
Argyle versus Albion got me to thinking about the derivation of words. So I look up the word Argyle and I am surprised to find that it means a pattern composed of diamonds of various colours on a plain background. This seems to be a reasonable description of tartan. I felt that there was a Scottish feel to the word. The word Albion is defined as a literary term for Britain or England so we had an England versus Scotland match and it seems that Scotland won.
As far as the football was concerned Luke Jephcott returned from injury to score the opening goal after 25 minutes. Byron Moore scored the second early in the second half.
The Team on the day:
1) Mike Cooper
2) Kelland Watts
4) Will Aimson
6) Niall Canavan (Captain)
7) Frank Nouble
10) Danny Mayor
15) Conor Grant
17) Byron Moore
18) Tyrese Fornah
31) Luke Jephcott
32) George Cooper
Substitutes used:
8) Joe Edwards
11) Dom Telford
14) Ben Reeves
The home team report ends "Burton toiled until the end but Argyle were simply too strong in all departments".
League Two) Southend United 2 Exeter City 2
Southend took the lead in the first half but Exeter equalised leaving the score 1-1 at half time.
Southend took the lead in the second half but Exeter equalised so the score was 2-2 at full time.
Joel Randall scored the equaliser in the first half.
Alex Fisher came on after 82 minutes and equalised in the last minute of injury time.
The team on the day:
1) Lewis Ward
6) Rory McArdle
8) Jake Taylor
10) Archie Collins
11) Randell Williams
12) Ryan Bowman
14) Joel Randall
15) Tom Parkes
17) Matt Jay
20) Lewis Page
30) Joshua Key
Substitutes used:
2) Jake Caprice
9) Ben Seymour
18) Alex Fisher
The home report ends "Fisher picked the ball up 20 yards from goal and curled a(n) unstoppable shot into the top corner of the net with his weaker foot".
National League) Weymouth 0 Sutton United 1
The team on the day:
21) Jack Bycroft (goalkeeper)
2) Brennan Camp
4) Josh Wakefield
7) Alefe Santos
15) Josh Leslie-Smith
16) Andreas Robinson
17) Calvin Brookes
20) Cody Cooke
23) Cameron Murray
24) TomWhelan
26) Ollie Harfield
Substitutes used:
8) Jake McCarthy
19) Jack Hoey
The home report started "Jack Bycroft shone for the Terras" and goes on "left Cody Cooke isolated up front" then continues "It took 80 minutes for the away side to finally break the defensive resilience of the Terras". There then follows the emotional phrase "The frustrations boiled over into added time as players from both sides clashed on the near side of the pitch". Well, as I was not there, the "near side" of the pitch means nothing to me. "The final score was 1-0 to Sutton." Well, actually I had picked that up from the score at the top.
National League South) Bath City 2 Billericay 0
Cannot find the full team anywhere so I have simply found out that:
Tommy Conway scored both of the goals.
Bath City are now 9th in the table.
Southern League Premier Division South) Dorchester 1 Tiverton 0
Tiverton Town are still top of the table despite this defeat.
Southern League Division One South) Slimbridge 4 Barnstaple 1
Tornado Bello scored the Barnstaple goal.
Western League Premier Division) Match postponed due to the COVID issue
SWPE) F.A.Vase match) Longwell Green 2 Bovey Tracey 1
Bovey Tracey are out of the F.A.Vase for another year.
Devon Premier) St Martins 3 Liverton United 0
Liverton United are now 12th in the table.
That completes the Men in the Pyramid. I will worry about leagues below the pyramid.
