Match Report

Going in as confirmed underdogs, player/manager Jez Allen's team talk would have stressed the need to keep things tight for the first half hour, but conceding in the second minute did not help! Farnborough hit back almost immediately when a George Perry wide free kick found its way straight into the net. The rest of the half was dominated by Beckenham but not to the extent people had anticipated and leading scorer TJ Kode was always a threat up front, despite being very tightly marked.

Half-time came with the scores even but then Beckenham again scored early with a great strike from the edge of the box. They had evidently decided to up the tempo of their game and this told with two further goals to make the final score 4-1. Congratulations to them but also high praise for the Guild in defeat. Jez told us "I'm really proud of the whole team for the massive effort they put in on Saturday. Despite going down 1-0 early in the game we fought back to 1-1 at half-time. SCB definitely knew they were in a game. They scored a screamer to make it 2-1 and then we ran out of steam towards the end of game conceding a couple of scrappy goals. The support on the day from everyone was amazing."