Scots Grey 6-2 St Margarets
The FA Carlsberg Sunday Cup
Third Round
Sunday 7 December 2008
Winning clubs will receive £300 from The FA
Scots Grey won an extraordinary game 6-2 against St Margarets to book a place in the Fourth Round of The FA Sunday Cup.
After 35 minutes, St Margarets were 2-0 up and coasting but a strange seven minutes saw the hosts score four goals, two from Damon Rennicks and one each from Jamie Moore and Alan Jefferies, to lead 4-2 at half-time.
Jefferies scored a further two in the second-half and St Margarets were unable to recover.
Scots Grey's club secretary Steve Osbourne was naturally delighted with the result and said: "It was a cracking game and a brilliant advert for Sunday football. We were lucky not to go 3-0 down but our keeper, Ross Whalin, pulled off a fantastic save and after that the players responded well.
"We scored four goals before half-time, which killed them. Both managers had to change their half-time plans, we were about to bring on two subs but in the end, they weren't needed.
"I went through every emotion during the match. We have a tendency to start slowly and I thought when they went 2-0 up, here we go again. But the players responded quickly after Whalin's save and from there, it was one-way traffic."
There won't be a repeat of last year's Final after runners-up Coundon Conservative lost 3-1 to Oyster Martyrs. Elsewhere, there were wins for Magnet Tavern, Bulls Head, Wycombe Town, Lebeq Tavern Courage and Lakeside Athletic. Club Lewsey and Enfield Rangers are also through, although they both needed penalties to progress to the next round.
Seven games were cancelled due to poor weather including holders Hetton Lyons away tie against Thornhill Lees.
