We start again

 Saturday 5 December 2020, North Greenford United 2 Walsham-Le-Willows 1 - FA Vase 2nd Round, Berkeley Fields

Arrived to find a very narrow entrance to the car park, so decided to park in the road, seems a car can get through but the club have no one on gate all time so second gate is padlocked shut- narrow gates would be mentioned again!

Basic ground, but a good crowd in attendance with a few from Suffolk. Very evn first 7 minutes then a Walsham player went to ground, seemed he may have broke his collar bone and was in a bad way - they decided not to put him on a stretcher and instead wait for an ambulance.

After about 25 minutes the ambulance arrived, but could not get through the gates to the ground as they were too narrow for the ambulance!!

Player left for hospital and the first half re-started with 40 minutes injury time!

Walsham were caught cold and Northwood put the pressure on and took the lead, this did walk the visitors up and they got back on terms after missing a few other chances to get level.

Second half was even with both teams playing good football - it was the home team who scored with not long left on the clock, but long enough for the home keeper to have to make a great save from a direct free kick.

North Greenford go into the 3rd Round, but neither team really deserved to lose.

Yet another cup game!

 Wednesday 7 October 2020, Walsham-Le-Willows 1 Ipswich Town Under 23s 3 - Suffolk Premier Cup, 2nd Round, Summer Lane

Another cup game and another win! To make it even better, a win with style, opponents also played good football, a good crowd and a world class goal from a young Ipswich centre back!

We might not be able to watch the first team at the moment, but at least the Under 16s and a young Under 23 side are keeping us entertained! 

A club with ambition

 Saturday 22 August 2020, Halesworth Town 4 Walsham-Le-Willows Reserves 2 - Dairy Hill, PSF

A change of plan saw us head up the A12 to Halesworth, an opportunity to complete the Suffolk and Ipswich league, Senior Division plus look at newly promoted Halesworth.

What i saw on the pitch makes me think Halesworth will have no problem surviving in the Senior division and may even challenge those at the top, however what i also found was a club with ambition- a club official told me that they wanted to be in the Jewson league in 2 years and they certainly have the room to build a ground for promotion and also the crowds to make sure enough money comes through the turnstiles. A club with ambition that the whole town seems to want to get behind.

 

Embarrassing

Tuesday 13 November 2012 - Walsham Le Willows 1 Ipswich Town Reserves 5, Suffolk Premier Cup - Summer lane
Saturday 17 November 2012 - Leicester City 6 Ipswich Town 0, Championship, King Power Stadium

On Tuesday we saw our club in a good light, taking a strong team to play a village side and Big Mick charming the locals then today we were a joke - or as Mick said on Radio 5 - 'embarrassing'

Extra time and rain

Tuesday 17 October 2012, Walsham-Le-Willows FC 0 Hadleigh United 2 (aet) Fa Vase Round 1, Replay - Summer Road

Nil nil after 90 minutes, torrential rain and I could have been in Warsaw, thought it was going to be an even longer night as I could see it going to penaltys but Hadleigh get two goals in extra time and go through.

Good sized crowd for a mid week game.