1st Team v Biggleswade United

No. 52    Saturday 11th April 2015.     Spartan South Midlands League – Premier Division
Biggleswade United       0     
Kings Langley                 2 (Carter 2, Campana 4)        
Kings put themselves one step from the title with an incident packed opening four minutes at Second Meadow. They had the ball in the net inside sixty seconds, but finisher Alex Campana was judged offside. They responded immediately when  18 year old Steve Ward, who looked as if he’d occupied the number 2 shirt all season, rode three challenges to deliver the perfect pass with the outside of his foot to Tom Carter. The other wing back kept his cool to steer the ball past Grant Beckwith and Kings were on their way. Two minutes later, Lewis Toomey took the ball far right, bemused two defenders in taking the ball to the byeline and crossed for Campana to side foot home at the far post. With the sporting home crowd fearing the worst, United were to be applauded for closing ranks, marshalled by Nyasha Sagwete and although Kings turned on the style with their slick approach work, a Lewis Toomey chance when through, denied by Beckwith, was the closest they came to adding the vital third. On the resumption, both Toomey and Carter were guilty of misses, before United gambled, sacrificing Sagwete, going to three at the back and introducing Carbon up front. It led to their first on- target shot when Ant Ladyman had to tip over a Jack Boyd volley, but Kings responded with Nick Jackson just wide after a flowing move, before Beckwith finger-tipped Tom Carter’s close range shot onto the post, with the word ‘goal’ on everyone’s lips. When the keeper blocked a point blank shot from Lewis Toomey, it became apparent that the buffer of a third was not going to arrive and as United continued to try to play attractive football, the home support believed in a comeback until the final minutes of an entertaining and sporting encounter.