football rambles

Ely booked themselves a place in the Semi finals of the Cambridgeshire Invitation Cup and lined up an away tie with Cambridge City after beating Soham Town Rangers on Tuesday night. The weather was at last mild after 3 weeks without a competitive game and what seemed like an eternity of poor weather beforehand. The Robins looked dead and buried after just 17 minutes after going behind to a goals from Simpson and Richards on 10 and 17 minutes. The sides had seemed fairly evenly matched up until then, but some diabolical defending from Ely let Soham get a couple of early goals. Ely got back into the game just before half time when Brady Stone scored from one of Ben Lawrence's long throws. Lawrence who usually gets some decent long throws into the box was further aided by the fact that there was a lot of space around the pitch at Soham and he always looked a danger from this position. Just after half time Ely looked hungry to get back in the game and on 50 minutes Dave Smith pulled t

February has been a fairly sparse month with hardly any home fixtures and even the home fixtures all beig called off Ely won yesterday, but I was at work, so the only game so far tis month has been Soham Town Rangers V Ely City in the Cambridgeshire Cup. More of that in a moment.

A couple of weeks ago the demise of Whitton United was announced and their record was eradicated from the Eastern Counties League. It seems a little strange though as their reserves are playing and not doing too badly in the Reserves League, this seemed a bit starnge, so I decided to do a little bit of research. After all it was only on November 15th that Whitton beat Ely 3-0 at the Unwin ground and in the 1960s they were one of the most successful teams in Suffolk. It would appear that their promotion when they nicked 3rd place on the last day of the season last season to get into the Premier league was a step too far for the club. The club were struggling in the Premier and were below Ely when they announced their decision to throw in the towel. The board had already left the club and the cost of bringing the ground up to scratch was estimated at £20,000 (it's a little bit worrying that Ely also have until the end of the season to bring their ground up to scratch too). At the sam