Those Were The Days; 9th April 2016

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THOSE WERE THE DAYS
9th April 2016

Isthmian (Ryman) League; Premier Division

Farnborough 0 HRBFC 3 (Hutchinson 14’, Kiernan 37’, Diarra 47’) Att; 348

Farnborough;-
Aaron Bufton; Dean Joseph-Whittingham (Harry Knight, 45’), Freddie Grant, CJ Fearn, Jack Smith, Terrell Forbes, Jack Barton, Charlie Allen (Usman Adeniji, 80’), Dennis Oli (Trevor Mutero, 63’), Oliver Bailey, Matt Ball.
Unused Sub; Melvin Minter.

HRBFC;-
Mark Smith; Tom Jelley, Josh Casey, Kieran Murphy, Moussa Diarra, Leon Solomon (Joe Hicks, 74’), Eddie Hutchinson, Tom Beere, Nicke Kabamba (Charlie Moone, 86’), Brendan Kiernan, Jamal Lowe.
Unused Subs; Erbil Bozkurt (Gk), Shaquille Hippolyte-Patrick, Michael Kamara.

Having accounted for Leatherhead and Brentwood Town in their previous two matches, Hampton took another giant step on the way to winning the Championship. Starting positively, Hampton were in charge from the first whistle. Hutchinson opened the scoring when he guided the ball past Aaron Bufton in the 14th minute. Bufton came under pressure again when Kiernan and Murphy both went close. Hampton went 2-0 ahead when Kabamba flicked a header on to Kiernan, who supplied the finish. The result was never in doubt when a few minutes into the second half, a floated free-kick was met on the half-volley by centre-back Diarra. Lowe almost made it 4-0 in the last few minutes, but his effort was deflected over the cross-bar. Hampton keeper, Smith, had precious little to do, given the control that the Beavers exercised over Farnborough.

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