Punjab United 2-1 Erith & Belvedere - For our club now Step Four is very important and we can get there, insists proud Punjab United manager Chipie Sian

Punjab United 2 – 1 Erith & Belvedere
Location	Elite Venue, Dunkirk Close, Gravesend, Kent DA12 5ND
Kickoff	26/04/2025 15:00

PUNJAB UNITED  2-1  ERITH & BELVEDERE
Presence & Co Southern Counties East Football League Premier Division
Saturday 26 April 2025
Stephen McCartney reports from Elite Venue

PUNJAB UNITED manager Jugjit (Chipie) Sian says he’s feeling proud of securing a maiden place in the Southern Counties East Football League Premier Division play-offs and wants to become the first Asian outfit to reach the Isthmian League.

Sian was clearly upset when his side were thrashed by Jamie Coyle’s Whitstable Town 4-1 here on Tuesday 8 April, but Jimmy Anderson’s Rusthall went from third-place to sixth (which is their highest ever league finish) as they choked under pressure while Punjab United rested.

The Rustics lost 2-0 at runners-up VCD Athletic before Coyle’s men issued a statement win in a 6-0 win at Jockey Farm Stadium on Easter Saturday before Rusthall were then held to a 1-1 draw by ninth-placed finishers Tunbridge Wells at Culverden Stadium, on the same day that Jack Barry scored a dramatic late winner for Sian in a 2-1 win at Stansfeld.

Sian’s side booked their place in the play-offs with a tension filled 2-1 win over seventh-placed finishers Erith & Belvedere, as Rusthall held champions Faversham Town to a goal-less draw at home.

Midfielder Jack Hopkins capped off an excellent campaign by scooping the post-match on-the-pitch player awards by scooping the Players’ player award, as well as the joint Managers’ player award along with Jordan Campbell.

Roman Campbell scooped the Top Scorer Award with 17 goals, while Wayne Bushell picked up the Fans’ Award.

Hopkins pounced on a mistake from goalkeeper Ben Rankine to give the home side a 21^st minute lead, scoring his 13^th goal of the season.

However, Erith & Belvedere levelled through central midfielder Tommy Whitnell, 36, who headed in his seventh goal of the season, following their first corner of the game.

The Deres were level for only 200 seconds as Punjab United striker Stefan Payne swept home the winner to settle a tense final league game of the season.

Punjab United will be without winger Anthony Adesite for the Play-Off Final (should Punjab get there) against Whitstable Town or Fisher on Monday 5 May because he was sent off in stoppage time.

“I’m absolutely really happy.  I think it’s been one of the top achievements that I’ve done to get this team up there this year. I’m buzzing, I’m absolutely buzzing because the boys deserve it,” said Sian.

“We’ve been up there for 95% of the season. It’s not a fluke that Punjab are up there.  People wrote us off, they wrote us off, they wrote us off. It’s what Punjab does, comes back and bite you on the (backside), so listen, fair play to us. We’ve done alright, we’ve done really well, now see what happens.

“I had people behind me on the phone saying ‘Faversham’s still 0-0, just imagine if Rusthall score?’  Honestly, I had it all in that dug out.

“Listen, I was always confident.  The amount of chances we created in the first half, I thought we’ll definitely get a few more.

“No disrespect to Erith & Belvedere, they came out and came to play and came to fight and fair play to them but I think first half it showed. We could’ve been three or four nil up. We missed a hat-full of chances, I thought, to make it easy on ourselves and this is what happens when you don’t kill off teams, they always come back and give you a scare don’t they and that’s what happened again.”

Erith & Belvedere joint-manager Jamie Phipps added: “I think a draw would’ve been a fair result. It’s been the story of our season. We don’t take our chances when they come up and then we make a mistake and get punished for it, which is what happened today.

“We got back into the game, equalised and three minutes later or whatever how long it was, made a mistake, got punished. We made a couple of chances at the end, just didn’t take it. The keeper in fairness pulled off a couple of saves.

“It’s disappointing to finish with three losses but overall it’s a season of ifs and buts really, so we’ll re-group and go again next year.

“We’ve done well in the last few weeks considering our season was effectively done. We couldn’t make the play-offs but we’ve actually played well in the last few weeks.

“We went down to Tunbridge Wells with a scratch side and had a load of 18-year-old kids. The only time we let ourselves down was Holmesdale last week (losing 3-1).  We played well but again missed chances cost us.”

Erith & Belvedere (who finished on 50 points, 13 wins, 11 draws and 14 defeats), started the game on the front foot against fifth-placed finishers Punjab United (20 wins, seven draws and 11 defeats).

Attacking midfielder Ladic Melconian stabbed the ball through to striker Danny Lear who struck the base of the near-post from an offside position after only 22 seconds.

“We came out, we started really well but that’s how we try to approach every game, you won’t see anything different because Punjab are trying to get in the play-offs. We just approach every game in the same manner and try to win it,” added Phipps.

Roman Campbell was a threat in the air for a direct Punjab United, who bypassed midfield with long balls throughout the contest.

The away side had a high line for Stephen Ratcliff’s free-kick and Reece Deakin rose at the back post and visiting goalkeeper Ben Rankine caught the ball at the second attempt high to his left.

Punjab United were feeling nervous and Erith & Belvedere were the better side during the early exchanges and were a threat down the left with holding midfielder Ryan Fowler in the thick of the action.

Rankine lined up a three-man wall for Payne’s right-footed free-kick from 30-yards, which flashed just past the foot of the left-hand post in the 15^th minute.

Punjab United were gifted their lead, however, when it came with 20 minutes and 27 seconds on the clock, thanks to a goalkeeping error.

Left-back Ratcliff drilled a long left-footed ball from the halfway line into the Erith & Belvedere box and Rankine (playing only his second game of his career) dropped the ball and Hopkins knocked the ball into the empty goal.

“It was a bit of a fluke that one but listen the keeper will be kicking himself for that because that was a gift but I’ll take it,” admitted Sian, who was full of praise for Hopkins.

“He’s been unbelievable especially when Lea Dawson got injured (ACL) at Snodland (24 September).  Hoppo and Dawson were on fire in the middle, we were unbeaten and to be honest (since Dawson’s injury), Hoppo’s been immense.

“Fourteen goals from central midfield has been unreal mate. He deserves that. He’s been excellent. He’s been a great warrior in the changing room as well, getting the boys to pick themselves up when we’re down and that’s what a good bloke does.”

Phipps said: “I think probably 99 times out of 100, the referee blows up and gives a foul for that but he didn’t. Ben probably should’ve punched it rather than catching it.

“But like I say, Ben’s a young lad, he’ll learn from it and I think he had one or two in the second half when he came out and punched it, so he obviously did learn from the first half.

“But I don’t know whether it was a foul. It’s hard to see from where we were mate but it’s just one of those things. He’s a young lad and youngsters are going to make mistakes and you have to legislate for that but he’s done well. He’s done really, really well in the two games that he’s played.”

Erith & Belvedere made just the one change from their last outing against Holmesdale and Phipps revealed why goalkeeper Charlie Cottrell was not in Gravesend today.

“Sadly for Charlie, he’s a Crystal Palace supporter and he decided to go to Wembley to watch them (beat Aston Villa 3-0) in The FA Cup Semi-Final today, so that was the reason why Charlie wasn’t here but that’s alright.

“Ben played at Tunbridge Wells and done really well and I thought he done well again today. He’s an 19-year-old lad, still learning his trade and his experience of Tunbridge Wells and today will help him going forward but I thought overall he done well but Charlie’s gone to Wembley.”

Another long ball was played into the left-channel where Payne dominated centre-half Frederick Cray before drilling a left-footed shot towards the top left-hand corner, but Rankine tipped the ball over the crossbar.

“I think he should’ve scored to be fair, I think he should’ve scored but that’s a good chance and we created a good chance,” admitted Sian.

“We worked on it on Thursday, we know how Erith & Belvedere set up, so that’s all we worked on, shape and everything else and I think we cut them open didn’t we?”

When asked how he picked himself up when all seemed lost after that Whitstable beating, Sian replied: “I felt maybe I put too much emotion into that game because I felt if we won that game we would’ve been in the play-off anyway. I really felt that because results went our way after that because we lost in that manner when we didn’t really turn up. We didn’t play well. You were there, we gave some poor goals away and that wasn’t us.

“I was a bit down for a few days. I was at a wedding after that game and the boys said on the Group Chat ‘the results have gone our way.’  I didn’t really think nothing off it, ‘we’ll see where we are after two weeks’, and I think that gave everyone a lift as soon as we found out the results went our way.  You see the performance on Monday at Stansfeld, that’s what happens.”

Phipps added: “It was probably going wide. It looked like it was going wide from where I was to be honest but Ben doesn’t know that and he’s got to do his thing and he got a touch on it, so fair play to him.

“He’s a good kid, I think he’s got a bright future. He kicks the ball really well.”

Phipps added:  “It was a bit of a scrappy game. They didn’t look to play too much in through midfield. They were quite direct and we looked to play. I thought we played some good stuff at times.”

Ratcliff delivered a quality free-kick into the away side’s penalty area and Roman Campbell rose at the far post and knocked his header across the goalkeeper and dropped just past the foot of the far post.

Sian said: “Roman’s been excellent. I just feel if we had him at the beginning of the season where would we be? I don’t think we’d be in the play-offs; we might be winning the bloody League!

“He’s unbelievable that kid. He’s been absolutely brilliant and he deserves his award as well. He’s unlucky not to win Player of the Year to be fair, it was close.”

Adesite delivered the home side’s second corner deep towards the far post where Barry came up from the back to steer his header wide of the right upright.

Erith & Belvedere created their only chance in the 36^th minute when Barry was booked by referee Thomas Nicholls for catching Lear from behind.

Melconian’s right-footed free-kick from 35-yards was delivered to the back post where Cray got round the back to steer his header past the near post.

Phipps said: “There were a load of players in the way from where we was standing, it looked like a free header. He came round the back but it didn’t hit the target with it.”

Sian added: “Luckily, we had a bit of a challenge on him for that. We had a bit of pressure on him. 

“That was their only chance they had in the first half. I didn’t really see nothing from them in the first half and I said that to them at half-time.

“I said ‘come on, they’re going to come out at you a little bit because they’ve got nothing to lose,’ but secondly we can’t keep getting them a few little off chances and we need to kill the game off.

“I said to them straight, ‘don’t let teams like this ruin what we want to do’, you have to go out and we have to grind out results.

“It’s not going to be pretty second half. We’ve had enough chances in the first half to make it three or four nil and make it easy for us but we missed them, so we need to go out second half and make sure we don’t concede.”

Phipps (who jointly-manages the side with Billy Hamlin) added: “Just go and enjoy yourself and carry on trying to play. We’ve got some fantastic footballers in our group and technically good players and as the season comes to a close, pitches become more and more difficult but we still tried to play.

“We just said ‘go and enjoy the last 45 minutes of the season and see what it brings us.’

“We want to get all the subs on and give them some minutes as well. That was always the plan, so it was just more of the same of the first half because I thought we were well in the game but just go and just enjoy it and go and enjoy the last 45 minutes.”

Punjab United were attacking down the slope at Elite Venue in the second half and they upped their tempo as they went in search for a play-off clinching winner.

Right-back Kyden Lewin Thomas was composed as he cut out a long diagonal ball from Anthony Morrison before feeding Roman Campbell, who laid the ball off to Adesite, who dragged his first-time right-footed drive across the keeper and past the far post in the 51^st minute.

Erith & Belvedere called goalkeeper Owen Bushell into making a save at the second attempt shortly afterwards.

Recalled left-back Ronnie McClean threw the ball to holding midfielder Ryan Fowler, who cut in before winger Harry Day hit an angled drive towards the far corner, which was initially spilt by the goalkeeper, before comfortably gathering.

Phipps said: “The goalmouth’s are quite bobbly so any shot that bounces in and around the goalkeeper is always going to be difficult for him to take but he did well grabbing it at the second time.”

Sian admitted: “He was lucky there! I don’t know what he was doing for that, Owen. It didn’t really go nowhere, it just spilled in front of him, so that was a nothing shot from them really.”

Erith & Belvedere made a tense afternoon even tenser by equalising with 17 minutes and 37 seconds on the clock, following their first of two corners.

Melconian swung the ball in from the left, there was plenty of movement from both sides at the near-post but Whitnell buried his free header into the centre of the goal.

“Billy’s delighted because we’ve been trying that all year and it hasn’t worked until today,” revealed Phipps.

“Strachan normally goes around the back but I think people are becoming a little bit wise to it, so we changed it up today, with Tommy coming round the back and it actually worked, so it’s nice when a plan comes together!

“I think we were good value for an equaliser, I’ve got to be honest. They started to get twitchy the longer the game went on. They started to slow things down etc, etc but I thought we were good value for it.”

Hamlin and Phipps brought Whitnell to Park View Road from Stansfeld with them and having played at a higher level, Phipps was full of praise for their scorer, who is staying at Park View Road next season.

“Tommy’s been fantastic, as all the boys have really. His quality is undeniable, even now when he’s coming towards the end of his career but we’ve had the conversation and he thinks he’s good for another season, so we’ll be seeing him again next year, which is fantastic.”

Sian said: “I was like fuming with that because I called it. We said it and we told Hoppo ‘to get someone else with you,’ and Owen got blocked by two or three players and that’s why I had a go at them afterwards.

“It was easy (to punch the ball) because it was in the six-yard box but just a few mistakes there, which I weren’t happy with and look, it happens, you make a mistake and you get punished.”

When asked how his heart-rate was at that time, Sian replied: “It was c**p, it was awful! I was thinking ‘it can’t go bad today, please god, not today,’ but thank god, football makes you smile one minute and makes you angry the next.”

Punjab United sealed the deal with a sublime through ball and clinical strike, with 20 minutes and 57 seconds on the clock.

Adesite ignored a pass on the outside to Lewin Thomas for a potential overlapping run on the right and drew out Erith & Belvedere left-back McClean and played a sublime 20-yard pass along the deck into Payne, who swept a clinical right-footed shot past the advancing Rankine to find the bottom near (right) corner from 12-yards.

Payne has scored seven goals this season for three clubs in this division, scoring for Faversham Town (2), Lydd Town (3) and this was his second for Sian.

“Listen, that’s why we brought him in for that experience,” said Sian.

“Before they scored, I thought ‘do I change it and go back to three in the middle’ but we kept him on and thank god I did to be honest because that was a great finish what he done.  It was calm, cool and that settled us in the end really. The boys needed that.”

When asked what Payne brings to the dressing room, Sian replied: “I never knew Stefan but I only played against him. I always spoke to him off the pitch, nice bloke but when you bring a guy like that to this football club, you think is he going to be, what’s the attitude going to be like? He’s at Punjab, is he going to be doing what he does?

“But he’s been the first one to training, he’s been unreal. We put him on the bench for a few weeks because Roman was flying and he’s been excellent, honestly, really good guy and when he speaks, they listen. He’s another Paul Vines, when someone speaks at that level when they’ve played at a higher level, everyone listens.

“Sometimes I leave it to him in the changing room. I say my two minutes and leave people like Vinsey, Dawson and Stefan to say what they’ve got to say to the players because sometimes they need that.”

Phipps admitted: “The disappointing part about it was to concede so soon after equalising and that’s happened a few times this year. I don’t know whether we kind of switch off or we’re just not concentrating.

“I don’t know who said it but someone once said, ‘you’re always most vulnerable once you’ve scored,’ and that’s been the case a few times this year.

“The communication probably wasn’t there between the back four. I think he’s run off the back of Strachan and he’s finished it well but he’s been around a long time and you expect him to finish in those positions and he did.”

Erith & Belvedere had a go and pushed Cray into central midfield and Melconian played the ball to Cray before Fowler cracked a right-footed drive from 35-yards, which was comfortably caught by Owen Bushell in the 77^th minute.

Alimamy Mansaray’s recycled ball was cleared out to McClean who drilled a left-footed volley straight into Owen Bushell’s midriff from 35-yards before the keeper made a big save to thwart Cray inside the final three minutes.

“In any game when you’re 2-1 down with five minutes or so to go, you’ve got nothing to lose, so we still didn’t go too direct, we still tried to play to get the equaliser and a couple of good strikes but straight down the keeper’s throat. You expect him to save those,” added Phipps.

Sian said: “To be honest, we got a bit lazy, tracking and I was going to change, that’s why we stuck Roman right on that number four (Fowler) for the last 10 or 20 minutes just to make sure we stuck up in midfield.

“That ricochet to him, how bad can that go? Ricochet went over there and it was done. It was a great save from Owen.”

After being booked by referee Thomas Nicholls for an 85^th minute foul on Melconian, Adesite picked up his second yellow card and then a red (45:15) for a foul on McClean and will now miss the Play-Off Final.

“I don’t know, I don’t know. It’s very unfair for the lad isn’t it really,” said Sian.

“Oh good, yes, it’s just, I don’t know how you appeal these sorts of things. I don’t think we can because its two yellow’s but it is what it is. I’ll speak to the lad. I think he’s a bit upset in there because he knows (he misses the play-off final), but we’re not worried about the final, we’ve got to look at the next game first.”

With Erith & Belvedere pushing bodies forward, Hopkins broke and tried to score with a right-footed chip from 35-yards but Rankine (who often decided to punch rather than catch crosses during the game) back-peddled and made a comfortable save.

Reflecting on their seventh-placed finish and hopes for next season, Phipps replied: “We take a little bit of satisfaction of being the best of the rest, which is effectively what we are.

“We’re not happy with seventh because we think with the quality that we’ve got in the group, we should’ve at least make the play-offs but like you say after 38 games the table doesn’t lie. We are where we are for a reason and we’ll be optimistic that if we can keep the majority of what we’ve got and add a few in, we’re optimistic that we can be there or there abouts and not just in the play-offs next season.

“We’ll certainly won’t fear anyone. With Faversham coming out of the division, it will make it a more of a level playing field. I’m not sure what the situation with teams coming down from the Isthmian. I’m guessing it will probably be Phoenix and Hythe who will come into the SCEFL but we’ll be optimistic.

“This is mine and Billy’s first (full) season at the club and we’ve learnt a lot and we’ve learnt a lot about the players and we’re optimistic that we’ll be in and around that.

“Lots of managers go ‘we’re going to do this, we’re going to do that,’ but what I will say is we’re optimistic that we’ll be up there or there abouts. I’m not saying we will be but we’re optimistic that we’ll be. I’ll never be that arrogant to say we’re going to do this, we’re going to do that because football has a habit of biting you on the backside as you know.”

Faversham Town claimed the title with a 1-0 win at Tunbridge Wells on 15 April, which was Tommy Warrilow’s first league title of his career.  The Lilywhites completed the 38 match campaign on 88 points.

VCD Athletic (81), Whitstable Town (75), Fisher (67) and Punjab United (67) will be the play-off quartet.

Rusthall (64) miss out and Erith & Belvedere, Sutton Athletic and Tunbridge Wells all finish with 50 points and Larkfield & New Hythe complete their maiden campaign at this level in tenth-place on 49.

There were only 10 points separating seventh-place and seventeenth-placed Hollands & Blair, proving this ninth-tier division is the toughest in England.

Corinthian (48), Bearsted (48), Holmesdale (48), Glebe (45), Kennington (41), Stansfeld (41) and Hollands & Blair (40) follow.

Lydd Town escape the drop on 38 points, with Snodland Town (35) and Lordswood (28) finishing beneath the relegation line.

Now it’s time for the play-off on Tuesday night.

Whitstable Town host Ajay Ashanike’s Fisher, while Sian takes his side to Crayford to lock horns with Ross Baker and Danny Joy’s VCD Athletic, a battle of two contrasting styles.

“It’s going to be tough, it’s going to be 100 miles per hour but I don’t fear anyone in this league,” insisted Sian.

“Someone said to me earlier on, ‘how nervous were you? Did you sleep last night or were you more nervous for Deal Town (6-0 win, Kent Senior Trophy Final, 16 April 2023)?’

“No, I wasn’t nervous for Deal, all week I’ve been telling them ‘we’re going to win’ and I had my team selection a week before. I knew exactly how we were going to set up and how we were going to play but this sort of game I was nervous as c**p to be honest. I couldn’t sleep last night.

“I don’t know what it was. It’s nerve wracking because you get teams chasing you. That was just a one-off but I think it’s when Punjab come alive, at a one-off game.

“I wouldn’t rule us off or write us off that Punjab aren’t going to lose at VCD, trust me. This team will surprise you and why not? Why can’t Punjab go for a play-off push? Why can’t we get promoted? Why do we have to worry about other teams saying they’re going to win? Why can’t Punjab United win? It’s as simple as that and that’s what I told the boys at the end in the huddle.

“Why can’t we win it? Why is everyone worried about VCD or Whitstable winning it? I see everyone’s writing glorious stuff about all of them, look how good they all are.  Well, how good are we? Let’s see how good we are, let’s see how good they are.

“It’s going to be a good game, they’re good people there. We’ve played really well there a few weeks ago (22 March) and it was two-all and second half we really dominated and we should’ve won that.

“They know that we’re not coming here to muck about. We’re coming here to win and if we do it, great. It will be unbelievable for the club but we’re going to give it a good go.

“I’m really proud to get where we are with the level of football and good players, good teams investing money and time. Listen, we’re not the big boys no more like we used to be in the Kent County League.

“But we’re alright. We’re a good club. We’ve got a good committee, with a good management team and I can’t do it without them lot.  This club can’t run without people like that. That is why we’re lucky, we’re blessed, we’ve got a good club.

“Listen, we’ll give it our best shot and whatever happens, happens and great. If we don’t get there, we’ll try again next year but listen we’ve got a great chance.  Exactly what I said to them, why can’t you get to Step Four?  I leave you with that question and said to the boys at the end, why can’t you lot get there? Do something to make history for yourselves and it will always be written that this team got to Step Four.

“I’m not saying that we are but we can believe right? It’s the whole point of football, nothing’s over until it’s over, so we’ll go into Tuesday first and that’s more important. Get prepped, get ready and we’ll come out on fire.”

When asked about injuries for Tuesday’s make-or-break tie, Sian replied: “We’ve got a couple. We’ve got Chris Edwards who didn’t play today, slight tweak on his hamstring or his thigh, one of the two, I can’t remember. We’ll look at him on Monday, have a little walk through and probably put him through a fitness test.

“We’re just waiting on William Johnson-Cole, without him going to work or not but I’m sure I can sort that one with his boss. I’ve got to speak to my business partner, let him off so we’ll see what he says.

“I always set the target, when we joined the Kent County League, the target was this club needs to get to Step Four (Isthmian League South East). We get to Step Four, I’ve done my job. Everything behind it will come behind it slowly. The (3G pitch next year), the youth teams.  For our club now, Step Four is very important and we can get there.

“I don’t know how long it will take me to get there, hopefully this season. You just don’t know but this club needs to be there because off it I’m going to build it but on it, if I can get them there, cor blimey, the biggest.

“There’s not many Asian clubs are up there, you see right, this is the whole point of it all. We need to make a mark and get our teams up there and play at the greatest level.

“Sporting Khalsa (sixth-placed finishers in the Northern Premier League Midlands Division) are playing Step Four. We need to be up there with it why not?  Why can’t we be there from Kent? No one else is doing it. We should be doing it, why not?

“I want these kids (playing football on the pitch during the post-match interview) to go and play at a semi-pro level, a great level and if they can play at a great level they can get picked, they can get looked at (by pro clubs) and that’s the whole point of getting this club where it is and not miss a generation again.

“So that’s the whole point in trying to get this club to Step Four. I want all of our youth teams to think we can do this.”

Reflecting on this gripping promotion race, Sian concluded: “We’ve done amazing. I must admit my emotions are always up and down like a yo-yo.  This is what I love about football, forget about the Premier League, this non-league football is amazing!

“It’s been amazing. I think it’s been the best. I think it’s been the best one.  When Chatham and Sheppey won it, we knew it was a two-horse race and it wasn’t competitive but this play-off has made it amazing and this year is unbelievable.

“Rusthall went 20 games unbeaten, Whitstable have got to the FA Vase Final and fair play to them, what an achievement that is for someone in our league.

“Is it the best League? Of course it is! This League is unbelievable and to us to be in that top five, wow! I’m loving it, absolutely loving it!”

Punjab United: Owen Bushell, Kyden Lewin Thomas, Stephen Ratcliff, Jack Hopkins, Jack Barry, Wayne Bushell, Reece Deakin, Jordan Campbell, Roman Campbell, Stefan Payne (Ayomide Majekodunmi 89), Anthony Adesite.
Subs: Alfie Moynes, William Johnson-Cole, Arun Suman, Robert Curtis

Goals: Jack Hopkins 21, Stefan Payne 66

Booked: Jack Barry 36, Jordan Campbell 82, Anthony Adesite 85

Sent Off: Anthony Adesite 90

Erith & Belvedere: Ben Rankine, Anthony Morrison (Rohan Pinto 77), Ronnie McClean, Ryan Fowler (Donnell Anderson 84), Robert Strachan, Frederick Cray, Harry Day, Tommy Whitnell (Alimamy Mansaray 73), Danny Lear, Ladic Melconian, Frederick Baker (Tyller Davis-Whitlock 70).

Goal: Tommy Whitnell 63

Attendance: 264
Referee: Mr Thomas Nicholls
Assistants: Mr Jack Matthews & Mr Graham Smart