football rambles

Dennis Lightning has stepped down early as the boss of Ely City, although he was going to at the end of the season. However, his move upstairs was expediated by the new regieme bringing in 3 new players without telling him. This idea seemed to have bak fired on Saturday when Ely lost 2-1. However Trevor Munns was the talk of the town after the Robins beat high flying Leiston on Tuesday night (even though that town seems to be Newmarket as only the Newmarket journal covered the match, neither of the Ely papers seemed to have bothered with it). Munns who used to be the boss of local rivals Mildenhall seemed to have changed the culture of the club over night and there were no long throws, pointless off side trap or hoofing it up the field, much to Ben Lawrence's dad's chagrin, as this meant his son was dropped and that he probably won't be getting back in the team. Funnily enough he seemed resigned to the fact (his dad) as when he wasn't slagging off Munns to us he was cha...

On Tuesday night Ely take on the ambitious Leiston FC, who are arguably enjoying their most successful season since they were founded in 1880. Leiston were promoted to the Eastern Counties League in 2001 and reached the Premier League in 2004. This season they have been chasing promotion and at the time of writing are in third place behind Lowestoft and CRC, although they are 16 points behind Lowestoft. This season saw them have their best run in the FA Cup when they reached the first round proper and were the lowest ranked club to do so. They got their after beating Conference club Lewes in a replay away, 3-1. A win that added to their opponents financial troubles. In the first round they played Conference North team Fleetwood Town in front of a record home crowd of 1250. Unfortunately, it was not to be their day and if they had overcome Fleetwood and beaten Chesterfield in the second round they would have set up a mouth watering derby against Ipswich Town. However, it was not to be. ...

Leiston FC, who play in the Eastern Counties League. The same league as Ely City managed to beat Conference National strugglers Lewes 3-1 away in the FA Cup Qualifiers last night. Therefore they will play in the first round of the FA Cup and will be the lowest position team to play in the FA Cup proper this season. They might have wanted the chance to get an even bigger scalp, but they will play Conference North team Fleetwood Town, at the moment they are in a mid table position in the Ridgeon's League, but due to FA Cup commitments have played considerably fewer games than most teams due to their cup commitments