Moatsiders climb out of the bottom two

Merstham fans have been seeing the green shoots of recovery from their side for some weeks now, but last night the climb up the table started in earnest as the Moatsiders crushed relegation rivals Sutton Common Rovers by three goals to nil.

Merstham have proved difficult to beat in recent weeks, and indeed had only lost two out of nine matches heading into last night's encounter. Their problem has been a difficulty turning one point into three- six draws from those nine matches stifling their progress and perhaps not giving them justified reward for their industry. Their visitors, however, were in terrible form- losing their previous eight matches- and that run stretched to nine, with two goals before half time and another twelve minutes from time doing the damage.

Adam Allen opened the scoring on thirty two minutes- his first of the season- whilst just before the break Aaron Good added another. Any chance of a Rovers comeback ended when a goalscorer so good they named him twice- Adam Adam- made it three, and confirmed his side's escape from the bottom two- Tooting & Mitcham United their replacement. Tooting, incidentally, are the next visitors to Moatside- on Saturday.

The Moatsiders are now only one point behind fourth bottom Rovers- and have a considerably superior goal difference.

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