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DEAL TOWN  1-3  HASHTAG UNITED
The FA Trophy First Round
Saturday 24 October 2026
Stephen McCartney reports from The Charles Sports Ground

Hashtag United deservedly booked their place in the Second Round of The FA Trophy by ending Deal Town’s longest ever run in the competition.

Sammy Knott’s side were gifted the lead when Sam Park’s long ball was hit towards the corner of the Deal Town penalty area and calling goalkeeper James Tonkin and his centre-half Alfie Foster left it for each other outside the box and attacking midfielder Misha Djemaili rolled the ball into the empty net inside the opening six minutes.

Deal Town put in a lacklustre first-half performance and Tonkin made amends by denying Hashtag striker Ellis Devereux.

Jack Penny’s switch to Ashley Miller saw the wide attacker cut inside and his shot was arrowing into the top far corner, but for the head of Hashtag centre-half Joe Debell.

Deal Town produced a well-worked three-man move to grab an equaliser a couple of minutes before the interval.

Penny’s ball down the line was flicked inside by Miller down the left and Ben Chapman took a touch and curled his shot into the far corner from 16-yards for his ninth goal of the season.

The wet and stormy conditions got worse as the game went on and it would be unfair to be critical of Deal’s performance in such awful conditions.

Miller’s cross was met by five-goal Jamie Kennedy’s downward header, which brought a fine one-handed diving save from visiting keeper Joseph Whitney just before the hour.

Matthew Wooldridge’s throw from the left was cracked towards goal by an unpressed Park from 35-yards, which was palmed over by Tonkin, before the Isthmian League Division One North visitors’ doubled their lead in the 64^th minute.

The impressive Djemaili floated in a cross towards the back post and Devereux buried his free header into the near corner.

Deal Town’s central midfielder Jacob Strouts put in substitute striker Tom Chapman, who was fouled inside the penalty area by Hashtag centre-half Nathan Wilson and referee Byron Beard pointed to the spot towards the climax.

However, one of the Hashtag management staff left his dug-put climbed over the permitter fencing, walked in front of the main stand and from close to the Deal Town dug-out called over goalkeeper Whitney, who looked at a device for some inside information and was cautioned by the referee for 'leaving the field without permission, as the assistant referee Jacob Miller appeared to be oblivious to the cheeky act happening close to him.

There was a 91-second delay and Miller’s right-footed penalty (towards the left corner) was saved by Whitney, who dived to his right, leaving Deal Town’s manager Steve King enraged whilst standing within his dug-out and during the post-match press conference.

Hashtag counter-attacked down the middle of the pitch with Devereux, before finding sub Joe Poyton inside the box before the ball was set back to Devereux, who clinically curled his shot around the diving Tonkin to find the bottom far corner inside stoppage time.

Full report and reaction from Steve King to follow on Sunday.

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SEVENOAKS TOWN  2-1  AFC CROYDON ATHLETIC
Isthmian League South East Division
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Stephen McCartney reports from Greatness Park

SEVENOAKS TOWN manager Marcel Nimani says he was pleased with his side’s consistent performance after deservedly beating managerless AFC Croydon Athletic at Greatness Park to climb into the play-off zone for the second time this season.

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