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Seaford Town
0 Peacehaven &
Telscombe 2 |
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Tues
22nd Feb, 2011. Brighton
Charity Cup, 1st Round |
MATCH FACTS BELOW
Peacehaven comfortably saw off Seaford to set up
a tie against Horsham in the Brighton Charity
Cup. Two goals in the first half decided a
scrappy, untidy match.
The
Brighton Charity Cup is rarely at the top of
teams priorities at the start of the season, but
tends to assume a significance once spring
approaches, and other opportunities for
silverware disappear. That was definitely the
case for these sides, who would both have seen
this as their last chance to claim a trophy.
Peacehaven’s side included a number of
youngsters, but any suggestion that Pete Edwards
wasn’t interested in the Competition would have
been dispelled by a look at the bench, which
incuded Ashley Rees, Ryan Bradley and Rob
O’Toole.
Seaford have been hampered by a number of
departures recently, in what has proved to be a
rather disappointing season. One of those to
have left is James MacKenzie, and he returned to
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Despite losing winger Darren Wall to
an early injury Peacehaven had taken little time to
establish their dominance in the match. They took
the lead when MacKenzie won the ball near the half
way line and released Craig Bunch, who was just
being played onside by Leon Cumming. His return ball
to MacKenzie presented the winger with a simple
finish for his first goal for Peacehaven.
Seaford were having plenty of the
ball, but they were lacking punch in attack, and
caused little trouble to a visiting defence in which
Adam Kneller was making his first return to the
Crouch. Their best opportunity came when Simon
Stevens put an unchallenged header over the bar, but
they fell further behind when a clever chip from
MacKenzie found Bunch at the far post, and he
smashed home from a full one yard.
The second half became
increasingly ragged, with Seaford attempting to
force the breakthrough which would get them back in
the match. As their frustration grew, some of the
tackling became increasingly "X-Rated". Dave Bull,
the referee, was certainly in a lenient mood, and
players on both sides could count themselves lucky
to escape censure for some their challenges.
In the end Seaford ran out of
steam, and Peacehaven were able to progress to an
intriguing looking 2nd Round tie with troubled
Horsham.
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Tuesday 22nd Feb 2011.
Brighton Charity Cup, 1st Round. |
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Seaford Town |
0 - 2 |
Peacehaven & Telscombe |
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Shelden
Levett |
1 |
Joe
Adams |
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Liam
McCann |
2 |
Craig
Hall |
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Michael
Brown |
3 |
Tom
Tyler |
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Tom
Chapman |
4 |
Adam
Kneller |
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Leon
Cumming
50
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5 |
Connor
Saunders |
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Lewis Parsons |
6 |
Harrison
Cullinane |
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Sam Hamblin |
7 |
James
MacKenzie
8
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Joe Haffenden
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8 |
Callum
Wiltshire |
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Lucas Mann |
9 |
Craig
Bunch
29
HT
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Simon Stevens
71
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10 |
Matt
Lago |
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B Billings |
11 |
Darren
Wall
2
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Substitutes |
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Danny Andrews
50
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12 |
Ashley Rees
HT
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Tom Morton
71
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14 |
Rob O'Toole
66
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Rafa Ciupinski |
15 |
Freddie
Barker
2
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Richard Brown |
16 |
Ryan
Bradley |
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Peacehaven Man Of The Match |
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Adam Kneller |
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