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Combined Counties League • 8th February 2020 • Grand Drive

The last game of the season before Lockdown was intro-
duced and an abrupt end to Farnham's promotion hopes

omeone once remarked that there World of Adventures!
Sare ‘Lies, damned lies, and statistics’. The second half was again devoid of
The statistics show that before this game; many chances, but with Farnham hav-
second in the table, Farnham Town had ing the lion’s share of the possession, and
scored 46 goals this season, fewer goals always looking the more likely to score,
than Westside on 49 goals, who are 15th the aforementioned lob over the keeper
in the table and have five games in hand. broke the deadlock. A penalty for hand-

Farnham are set to win promotion sim- ball provided Farnham with an opportu-
ply because they don’t give many goals nity to finish off the game, but goalkeep-
away, 25 so far this season, only Jersey er Alfee Burridge guessed well to make
Bulls have conceded fewer. an excellent save.
So statistically this game wasn’t going to Farnham may have rued their missed
be high scoring, and the statistics didn’t penalty with 7 minutes of added time
lie, Farnham’s top goalscorer Charlie to play, but a somewhat dreary game fin-
Oakley’s second-half goal; a lob over the ished with a win for the home side. Farn-
goalkeeper from 20 yards out, grabbed ham look certain to win promotion, but
the points. they didn’t shine today.
Good defending from United in the first
half denied Farnham any clear goalscor-
ing opportunities. Julien Saka making
his debut in the first team looked im-
pressive and Cameron Black had an-
other excellent game, cutting out those
high balls, and at one point he seemed to
run across the halfway line with the ball
spinning on his head! Perhaps some-
thing he’d learnt from visiting the seal
enclosure across the road at Chessington