1st Team v Amersham Town

No. 50   Tuesday 29th April 2014.     Spartan South Midlands League – Division 1
Kings Langley                                4 (Jackson 20,42, Insley 39,68)
Amersham Town                            0
Two first half goals from Nick Jackson ensured that the promotion race between Kings and Bedford will go to the wire when the teams meet on Saturday. Amersham have also suffered long term injuries and fixture pile-ups and felt they had little option but to ‘park the bus’, inviting Kings to find a way round it. Despite possession and goalmouth incident, there was no end result until Gary Connolly rescued a blocked pass in the twentieth minute and played a through ball to Nick Jackson, enabling him to beat keeper Ashley Smith with a precision shot. The pattern of resistance then resumed until Kings made the second and vital break after another twenty minutes. Again the skipper was the architect, drifting wide to the left wing before playing Paul Insley in with a diagonal pass for him to lash the ball home. Within a few minutes Town had been breached again, this time by a more direct route. Liam Tack’s good run to the corner was halted by Callum Adebiyi, who launched a long ball down the middle and Nick Jackson used his experience to lob the advancing keeper and give a 3-0 interval scoreline. Craig Preston and Jonny Munday took the opportunity to come forward and put second half headers narrowly over, but mid-half, Sam Izzard played a first time ball up the touchline to Nick Jackson, who took it to the byeline before crossing low for Paul Insley to convert from close range. A Town free kick was narrowly over on 85 minutes, but in truth, Steve Bourke hardly had a shot to deal with. Any thoughts that a result on Saturday might not be required were dispelled by the surprise news that Bedford had emphatically ended Sun’s 25 game unbeaten run four miles down the road with a shock 4-1 scoreline. So whatever the result at Arlesey in 48 hours’ time, it will all be decided on Saturday.