Sydenhams Wessex Premier League (Wednesday 19-12-07)

After collecting their first winning double against Romsey Town the previous Saturday the Hammers picked up their first losing double of the season on Wednesday night when they lost 3-0 to high flying Wimborne Town. The Magpies always play good football, and United would have needed to have been at their very best to get a favourable result from this match, but unfortunately they were not.

Not for the first time this season Hamworthy got away to the worst possible starts falling behind after only two minutes. A Tom Vavrecka shot took a deflection, and beat Martin Peters to give Wimborne the lead. This settled any nerves they may have had in the process, and gave United an uphill fight from the onset. The Hammers had their fair share of possession and always looked dangerous from set pieces, but never looked like finishing off with a goal. The Magpies continued to play some excellent football and increased their lead in the thirty fourth minute. Ex- Hammer Tom McCormack fed the ball through to Steve Whitcher who finished from fifteen yards. The score remained 2-0 at the interval.

The second half saw Wimborne continuing to be in command playing with good movement, and always looking strong at the back. With just under fifteen minutes remaining Wimborne scored their third goal with some of the best football of the night. James Stokoe scored with a close range header after some excellent passing and movement to create the opening for him to score. There were no further goals leaving the Hammers beaten, but not disgraced after losing to a team that deserve to be up there in the promotion race at the end of the season.

Phil Simkins comments after the game acknowledged that Wimborne were the better side and thought they played some excellent football. He would like to now see them go on and clinch promotion after playing the best football against us of any of our previous opponents.

Team: M. Peters, M. Hubbard, S. Gilbert, B. Williams, N. Walker, M. Dean, S. Legg, M. Connnet(L. Thomas), C. Mutch (A. Marsh) W,.Byerley ( D. Williams), Unused Sub: M. Kenway

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