The better team won.

Cambridge South, without some key regulars, were unable to prevent Bourne taking control with good team play and an early lead using their experience and pace to put constant pressure on the away defence. Passmore, Evans, Glover and sweeper Bailey stood up well, except for Andy Passmore who spent more time horizontal than vertical in his heroic and often successful efforts to halt the attacking hordes.

Bourne had numerous short corners and were unable to score from any, which is testament to the South defence and assured goalkeeping of man-of-the-match Shabhaz Ali. In fact, the relatively few attacking short corners that were won by the away team were more sucessful as all resulted in good shots at goal from Ta and Lewis, but sadly none reached the net.

South did have attacks, with Andy Lewis tricky as always and Dan Schofield finding good positions and lively throughout. Unfortunately the final decisive pass wouldn't come and the Bourne defence allowed few efforts on goal from open play.

Although South kept the score to 1-0 for most of the game, the midfield and attack gradually retreated back to help out in defence, leaving few options to break out. Towards the end this trend was reversed in a last ditch attempt to salvage something and South's best moves came in the final quarter. Tired legs and desperation resulted in us not quite capitalising on this, and Bourne rattled in three goals in the last ten minutes to make the scoreline more one-sided than most of the match warranted.