On This Day – 20th April
On This Day – 20th April – 2019
SCEFL Premier Division
AFC Croydon Athletic 1-2 Punjab United
Canterbury City 3-0 Beckenham Town
Chatham Town 1-2 Cray Valley PM
Corinthian 5-1 Deal Town
Croydon 1-0 Crowborough Athletic
Glebe 1-0 Bearsted
Hollands & Blair 3-0 Rusthall
K Sports 1-1 Fisher
Sheppey United 2-3 Erith Town
Tunbridge Wells 0-1 Lordswood
Just a week out from the end of the season Cray Valley kept themselves on course for the title with a 2-1 away win at Chatham Town. Anthony Edgar got a double for the Millers who still had Corinthian on their tails after they beat Deal Town 5-1.
Renford Tenyue scored a double for Canterbury City in a 3-0 win over Beckenham and Justin Ascheri got the first of the game as Hollands & Blair beat Rusthall – a result that would see the Rustics confirmed as relegated.
Will Johnson-Cole hit a double as Punjab United won at AFC Croydon and Lee Friend got the only goal of the game as Glebe beat Bearsted.
Charlie Gee was on target from the spot as Croydon defeated Crowborough Athletic and Joe Kane continued his goal streak with the winner for Lordswood at Tunbridge Wells.
Erith Town came out best in a 5-goal thriller at Sheppey United. Steadman Callender, Louis Valencia and Razzaq Coleman were on target for the Dockers in a 3-2 win.
K Sports and Fisher drew 1-1 in the only match of the day to finish level.
On This Day – 20th April – 2017
London FA Senior Cup
Cray Valley PM 3-2 Dulwich Hamlet
They may not be one of our sides now but they were back in 2017 so we celebrated with Cray Valley as they overcame Dulwich Hamlet to reach the London FA Senior Cup final.
The Millers reached this semi-final the hard way after beating Welling United 3-1 and AFC Wimbledon 2-1 before then showing great character to come back from being 2-0 down inside half-an-hour to beat Dulwich Hamlet 3-2 after extra time.
Hamlet raced into a two goal lead through Dumaka and Akinyemi before Taylor McDonagh curled in a beautiful solo goal to bring them back into the game in the final 17 minutes while Ben Francis capped off a hardworking night up front on his own with a cool finish to force extra-time.
Aaron Rhule sealed Cray Valley’s passage into the final early in the added period set up a Final against Met Police which the Millers would incredibly go on to win.
On This Day – 20th April – 2015
SCEFL Premier Division
Tunbridge Wells 3-3 Greenwich Borough
The Monday night football came from the Culverden Stadium, on this day in 2015 and gave us a classic with Tunbridge Wells and Greenwich Borough drawing 3-3.
Paul Vines scored a double for Borough and Brendon Cass scored twice for Wells with Chris Seenan and Jamie Humphris getting the other goals in a thrilling game.
Greenwich Borough would finish the season in 4th with Wells one place lower in 5th.