Bromsgrove Sporting 4 (3) v (0) 1 Fairfield Villa
Mid Com Division 1 Monday 26 December 11.30 a.m.
Christmas comes but once a year and sometimes you have to wait until Boxing Day to get your presents. Thankful recipients of a woeful Fairfield defensive performance, Steve Frost excepted, Sporting were grateful to get back to winning ways.
Fairfield started on the front foot but should have gone behind to Sportings first attack when keeper Hancock did well to save from Banner but Keith Draper should have scored when the defence cleared the ball to him inside the box but he took an extra touch and the chance went begging.
Sporting's first gift on 6 minutes came courtesy of an own goal as they scrambled a corner clear to the edge of the box and Draper hit a shot that was going wide of the left hand post but hit a defender and bottom right corner of the net.
It was 2-0 on 20 minutes as Turkington slipped when trying to control the ball on half-way and was robbed by Banner who ran 40 yards and slotted home.
Three nil soon followed on 24 minutes as Jon Rogers stretched out a foot and diverted a Draper cross from 8 yards.
The thing was that apart from the goals the teams were pretty evenly matched and it was only a better defensive display that gave Sporting the 3 goal half-time advantage as defenders cleared three Fairfield goal bound attempts off the line. The first half took an age to complete as there was a stoppage for a clash of heads between Conway and Pratt with the Fairfield defender unable to continue.
Fairfield did get back into the game briefly as O'Connell had a free header from a corner to make it 3-1 on 57 minutes but Rogers beat the defensive high line again on 66 minutes to seal the 4-1 victory.
Sporting had time to rest Banner and Wilkes as Bright and Jenvey made substitute appearances and Sporting will hope to press on from here and improve upon their 6th place in the league.
Next Saturday sees Sporting in Cup action at the Victoria Ground against Inkberrow with a 3 pm kick off
Sporting line up: Savage, Fellows (Molesworth), Harris, Martin, Thurbon, Brookes, Draper , Wilkes (Jenvey), Conway, Rogers Jon, Banner (Bright).
