Pitching In Isthmian Performance of the Month Awards, April/May 2022

It seems only fitting that we honour the honoured in this last set of awards for the season. Our Pitching In Isthmian Performance of the Month awards should come as no surprise.

Pitching In Isthmian Premier

We’re off to Cheshunt, who had three wins in contention for this award- two of them over Bishop’s Stortford- but we went for Monday’s Pitching In Isthmian Premier Play Off Final win at Hornchurch. The best team undoubtedly won the game, and had it not been for some magnificent goalkeeping from the Urchins the margin could have been greater.

You can read all about the match here. And we know that the Ambers already have a bigger prize to take joy from, but we hope that they’ll take this award with our best wishes for a fabulous first season at Step Three.

Pitching In Isthmian North

We are going to give this award to our Pitching In Isthmian North Play Off Winners, but not for their play off win. Instead, we’re honouring Canvey Island for their thirteen-nil walloping of Romford.

Romford have sadly been everyone’s whipping boys in the latter stages of the campaign, but that aside, the idea of a side scoring thirteen goals looked rather far fetched until the Gulls did it. Bradley Sach got five, Evans Kouassi lost the fight for the match ball despite scoring three, Conor Hubble got a couple, and Odei Martin Sorondo, Mason Hall and Elliott Ronto grabbed the others.

There were many other fine candidates, but you can’t really ignore a thirteen goal haul, can you? Many congratulations to Canvey.

Pitching In Isthmian South Central

Sunday’s Pitching In Isthmian South Central Play Off Final was an absolutely extraordinary game of football. You can read all about it here, but in short, with ten seconds left of added time we were putting the black and white ribbons on the trophy, only for Chertsey Town to equalise two seconds later. We then saw the Curfews go two-one up and Hanwell Town go down to ten men, so surely it was all over- only it wasn’t! Somehow the ten men managed not only to equalise but to score a winner, delivering one of the best team performances we’ve witnessed in a long time.

Whether they are Isthmian or Southern next season, congratulations to Hanwell Town and the best of luck. We’ve got another trophy for you!

Pitching In Isthmian South East Division

Herne Bay arrived at Ashford United for the Pitching In Isthmian South Central Play Off Final with a rather mediocre record against their hosts- but it certainly wasn’t mediocre by the end. Bay upset the odds and earned themselves a first season at Step Four with a deserved victory and an excellent team performance. You can ready about it here- and now they’ve a second shiny trophy to remember it by!

Pitching In is a Grassroots Sports Investment Programme launched by GVC, the multi-national sports-betting and gaming group which owns Ladbrokes and Coral. The partnership covers all three leagues that make up Steps 3 & 4 of the National Leagues System.

Pitching In has been set up with the objective of supporting, protecting and encouraging grassroots sports in the UK through a range of initiatives.

In addition to financial support, a key focus of the partnership will be to facilitate and encourage members of the community to become volunteers, and do some pitching in of their own. A Pitching In volunteering scheme will be established to link GVC’s Ladbrokes and Coral shop colleagues with their local clubs.

For more information on Pitching In please visit the website here.

Follow the Pitching In Isthmian League on Instagram. Head here or search for theisthmianleague on your app. We're also on Facebook and Twitter.