Monday, 1 April 2013

Borrelli earns Lido the win

Luke Borrelli was the hero as Afan Lido picked up a morale-boosting 2-1 win at home to Newtown in the Welsh Premier League on Easter Monday.

Simon Prangley put the home side ahead on eight minutes, but just before the half hour mark Zac Evans levelled things up.

Knowing a victory today would put them in second in the Conference, moving three points clear of Connah’s Quay and above Llanelli on goal difference, the visitors would also have been buoyed by a late winner against Llanelli on the weekend.

But it was Lido who came forward again, with the basement club scoring the winner through Luke Borrelli on 72 minutes to earn just their sixth league win of the season.

Their future is still up in the air of course. Even if they do finish bottom, Llanelli’s expected drop out of the league for financial reasons would earn them a reprieve.

In the Championship, a bizarre occurrence at Richmond Park saw the game between Carmarthen Town and Airbus UK Broughton called off – the match officials failed to show up.

With no reason yet given for the confusion by league organisers, Airbus will have made the seven-hour-plus round trip for nothing, something they described as a “farce” in an official statement.

“Someone, somewhere is to blame and we’ll leave it with the powers that be to find out the circumstances behind the embarrassing situation,” said their chief operating officer Stewart Roberts.

The clubs are due to meet again this Saturday (April 6), but this time at Airbus’ The Airfield ground.

In the Welsh League Division One, Monmouth Town and Tata Steel fought out a 1-1 draw at Chippenham Sports Ground, a result that further dents Monmouth’s fading title hopes, but is a vital point for Tata in their fight against relegation.

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