Back-to-back big wins

By swanstuff25/2/2017 18:32Sat Feb 25 18:32:22 2017

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I was asked today when was the last time we enjoyed back-to-back 4-0 wins.

I've only looked at post-War records and could find NO occasions when we've done exactly that.

However, we have achieved back-to-back wins by four (or more) clear goals at least a dozen times, the most recent being in 2008 -

15 Mar 2008 H Leyton RL p W 5-1 Butler 3, H Newton, Nwokeji
18 Mar 2008 H Horsham RL p W 4-0 Nwokeji, Scarlett, Butler, Sargent-p

It happened two other times in Steve Cordery's period as Manager -

25 Sep 2007 H Carshalton Athletic RL p W 4-0 Scarlett, Asombang, Toppin, Nwokeji
29 Sep 2007 A Crowborough Athletic FAC2q W 5-1 Charles-Smith, Cook 2(2ps), Nwokeji 2

10 Dec 2005 H Heybridge Swifts RL p W 5-1 Sippetts 2, Murphy, Guy 2
13 Dec 2005 H Cove SCC2 W 6-1 Gourgel, Currie 2, Hunter 3

But before that, you have to go back to 1974, under Ken Ballard, and even then both pairs included a Premier Midweek Floodlight Cup match, which (a bit like the Southern Combination Cup game v Cove above) involved a less-than-full-strength line-up -

16 Nov 1974 H St Albans City RIL 2 W 6-0 Soutar, O'Rourke 2, Bax, Love, Salkeld
19 Nov 1974 H Hampton PMFL d W 5-0

16 Oct 1974 A Feltham PMFL d W 7-1 Bax, Beasant, Salkeld p, Soutar 2, og (Hayward), Brown
19 Oct 1974 A Hertford Town RIL 2 W 5-0 Soutar 3, Bennett, O'Rourke

Before that, I have found the following, and you'll note that one of them was a run of THREE successive 4+ goal wins -

24 Apr 1971 H Huntley & Palmers SL W 5-0 Cox-p, Warner, og (Baker), D King, Talbot
27 Apr 1971 H Bracknell Town SL W 8-0 D King 5, Cooley 2, Warner

13 Feb 1971 A Berkhamsted Town SL W 5-0 D King 3, Tizzard 2
20 Feb 1971 H Bracknell Town SLC1 W 5-1 og (Openshaw), Cooley-2ps, Warner 2

21 Nov 1970 A Crown & Manor SL W 4-0 Warner, Lay, England, Borst
28 Nov 1970 A Tring Town SL W 5-0 Cooley 4, D King
05 Dec 1970 H Berkhamsted Town SL W 4-0 Cooley 3, Lay

23 Jan 1965 H Huntley & Palmers SLC1 W 7-1 Watmore, Warner 3, Payne 3
30 Jan 1965 H Leighton Town fr W 6-1 D Aldridge p, Payne 2, og (Tyas), Watmore, Warner

28 Jan 1961 H Huntley & Palmers SLC1 W 7-0 Fruin, Ellis 2, Fairbairn, Cotton 2, Pratt p
04 Feb 1961 H Kingsbury Town SL W 4-0 OG, Ellis, Poole 2

26 Dec 1955 H Princes Risborough Town HL W 6-0 Collins 4, J Fruin, Harris
31 Dec 1955 A Abingdon Town HL W 7-2 Francis 4, Hasley, J Fruin, Watmore

Edited by swanstuff at 18:32:44 on 25th February 2017

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