Vale stay top- with Southall and Chertsey hot on their heels

Leaders Raynes Park Vale knew that any slip up could see them dethroned by Southall or Chertsey Town, but they remained at the top of the pile after a narrow victory at Metropolitan Police. The game had only one goal, and it was scored by Jerry O’Sullivan after twenty three minutes.

Southall stretched their unbeaten run to seven matches and held onto second place with a three-one win at Westfield. The Woking side came into the match with a six match unbeaten run of their own- indeed, a six match winning run- but they fell behind on twenty three minutes, William Montague continuing his fine form with a fifth goal in eight matches for The All. Westfield levelled just before the hour mark, Luke Elliott up from the back to score his first of the season, but that sparked Jaden Thompson-Brissett into life, and he converted a penalty before making sure of the points with a third goal in the last minute, taking his total for the campaign to fifteen.

Chertsey Town won a six goal thriller at Northwood, and remain third. The Curfews hit a purple patch midway through the first half, which brought three goals in nine minutes, Conor Lee, Gianluca Botti and Toby Little making it three-nil after half an hour, but Dan Williams quickly got one back for the Woods and a penalty on sixty four minutes, converted by Carl Stewart, made things interesting. Six minutes from time the Curfews made it four-two, Sam Omperon with their fourth, and that was that.

Marlow are fifth, courtesy of a three-one win over Ashford Town at the Robert Parker Stadium. Dawid Rogalski continued his fine run in front of goal, opening the scoring for the visitors after eight minutes- his thirteenth of the campaign- and it was nil-two at the break, Rhys Harper putting his side two up. With a quarter of an hour left the Tangerines halved the arrears, Jack Arnold giving the home fans hope, but five minutes from time Ben Mulley made sure for Marlow, three-one the final score.

Chipstead are sixth, the Chips scoring the only goal as Ascot United came to the High Road. The goal came early, Martin Sontan scoring after fourteen minutes, and for once the Yellas attack failed to score. That’s one point from their last five matches for the visitors.

Uxbridge are seventh, ending Hartley Wintney’s unbeaten run. The Row were on their own patch, and they entertained their fans by taking the lead after nineteen minutes, Marcio Neves with the goal- but that was as god as it got. Uxbridge went down to ten men five minutes before the break, a red card for Kai Hobbs, but they levelled just before the break anyway, George Moore with the goal- and then the hosts joined them on ten men, Mark Amaning seeing red. The ten men of the visitors coped better than the ten men of the hosts, and Uxbridge took the lead through Mikel Platt just before the hour, the same player making it three-one and sealing victory fifteen minutes from time.

South Park Reigate were our big scorers, hitting five against Thatcham Town. The Sparks fell behind on twenty one minutes, Nathan Jones scoring for the Kingfishers, but that just made them angry and they were ahead within twelve more minutes, Jack Tucker and Aidan Brown with the goals. After the break Sam King, Ben Jordan (from the spot) and Deondre Date made it three, four, five- and Sparks ending the day in eighth.

Corinthian-Casuals and Binfield welcomed two hundred and eight fans to King George’s Field. Sadly, however, neither side welcomed a goal.

We had another draw as Hanworth Villa took on Guernsey, but that had all the entertainment you could wish for, as the Green Lions came from three-nil and four-two down to earn a point. A double from Kyen Nicholas and a third from Sam Merson seemed to leave the Villains home and dry within half an hour, but Matt Loaring got one back for the visitors nine minutes before the break and soon after the restart David Merris pulled it back to three-two. Merson had surely made things safe when he got the hosts fourth with twenty two minutes left, but Ryan-Zico Black quickly pulled a goal back, and right at the end the visitors got a penalty, Loaring keeping his cool to earn them a point.

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