Those Were The Days; 15th January 1972

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THOSE WERE THE DAYS
15th January 1972

Middlesex Senior Cup 1st Round

Kingsbury Town 0 Hampton 1 (Farren 25')

Hampton;-
Ron Whiteaker; Alan Earl, Peter Minor (Hugh Lindsay, 82’), Ken Reed, Steve Markham, Ian Wenlock, Peter Farren, Phil Sperling, Peter Allen, Simon Johnson, Jeff Sillett.

An away win in the Middlesex Senior Cup for Hampton but a couple of Hampton players needed medical treatment after the game. After just ten minutes a clash of heads between Johnson and home centre-half, G Wilson, left the Hampton player with a nasty gash over his left eye. After treatment, Johnson completed the game but had to go to hospital after the game to be ‘stitched up’. With around ten minutes of the contest left, Minor was involved in a clash with P Somers and was stretchered off with damaged ankle ligaments – apparently the two players had had a few run-ins during the game, Lindsay coming on as a substitute. As for the game itself, on a decent pitch, Hampton played up the slope in the first half. Farren made an early chance for Johnson and Sillett, but neither could get a definitive touch to the cross. The only goal of the game came in the 25th minute. A throw-in Earl found Johnson who played a short ball to Allen, the ball was helped on to Farren whose half-hit shot was still good enough to beat J Milton. Kingsbury looked to be in a good chance of an equaliser but R Kember was adjudged to have pushed Whiteaker. Hampton lived dangerously in the second half, Markham cleared off the line and Whiteaker mad a diving save from K Booth. Farren had a lobbed shot beat Milton but not the cross-bar whilst Lindsay went close with a free-kick.


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