The stormy weather helped to blow away the Christmas cobwebs, but both sides started quietly in this re-arranged league match (too many mince pies over Christmas?). George Bucknall showed the rest of the team how we should be playing, putting himself in good attacking positions and showing composure on the ball. David Bridge, playing left midfield was also managing to find some space out wide. However, for the first twenty minutes or so neither side really looked like scoring. South's defence of Steve Morrell, Andy Passmore, Sam Lansdell and Neil Sneade looked to have all under control.

The deadlock was unfortunately broken by March Town. A fairly scrappy goal put them one up. South then had a nightmare fifteen minute period. George Bucknall took a knock and had to be subbed off, then David Bridge's back gave up. Luckily, South had two reinforcements (Tim Gass and captain Rod Richardson), but this was not enough to stop two March goals going in, in quick succession.

It was soon looking like another horrible drubbing for South, but in the nick of time several players picked up their game. Chris Clegg, playing at central mid, started to provide the forward players with some good balls. Andy Kennedy seemed to have the better of his marker on the right hand side and came very close to scoring from a quickly taken free hit. [The near miss still haunts him – Ed.]

However, it was James Bridge who managed to find the back of the net. Taking the ball into the D, he seemed to have the impossible task of having two defenders and a very large guy with a lot of padding (aka the goalkeeper) in between him and the goal. However, a reverse stick shot at an impossibly acute angle somehow surprised everyone and came to a rest in the goal. At 3-1 South suddenly had a glimmer of hope going into the second half.

Both teams picked up their game in the second half. Sam Lansdell and Neil Sneade were coming forward well from defence and Andy Kennedy and Wilco Dijkstra were putting some promising moves together. Generally, the team was passing much better. Tom James in goal was kept busy and made some very good saves, but it was unfortunately March Town that managed to polish off their win with another well taken goal.

South could take many positives from their second half performance, but the team could really do with chalking up a win sometime soon!