Sukkotingham Forest are 90 minutes away from becoming Maccabi GB Southern Football League Division Two champions in what has been a dream debut season for them.
Sunday morning’s thumping 12-0 win over 40 Year Wanderers was their ninth from ten league games and saw them open up a 13-point gap at the top of the table, meaning they’re just one victory away from clinching the title.
Their latest three points came thanks to hat-tricks from Matty Lee and Josh Morris, Dillon Caine and Louis Sherry scored two each, with Benjamin Byre and Josh Davidson goals completing the rout. HMH Camden are the only team who can now catch them, though even if they win their remaining five games, Forest would just need a win in their next game against Bocher Juniors on 5th January to secure top spot.
Manager Sam Nagioff said: “It was a fantastic and clinical performance all over the pitch. We had six different goalscorers and had complete domination in the match from start to finish.”
Forest have one hand on silverware as their nearest challengers Temple Fortune slumped to a 9-3 home defeat to HMH Camden. Having won the reverse fixture 6-1, goals from Gal Alkalay, Saul Simons, Joe Winter were the only plus points for Fortune to take on the day.
Rapid Viennas claimed their third league win of the season, moving up to fifth place in the table, as they came away from Mill Hill Minyan with a 4-1 win. Jonah Miller scored for Minyan.
It’s a lot tighter at the top of the Division One table with just one point separating the top two. Millbrook Park Calcio lead the way as Joel Walters’ strike proved to be the difference in their 1-0 win over Mill Hill Dons.
Hot on their heels are Yallatasary, who maintained their 100% winning start to make it eight wins from eight games, thanks to a 5-1 win over Brady FC. Max Davis and Freddie Land scored two goals each, with Dylan Richard netting their fifth. Manager Buddy Smith said: “It was a special performance. We spent 30 minutes training and working on corner routines and scored our fifth directly from a corner. Defensively we were very sound apart from one error. We’re in a great place and are building more confidence every week. I’m very proud of the entire squad, nobody is getting complacent, we’re taking it game by game.” While a point behind, they also crucially have two games in hand.
HMH B’s recent run of good form continued as goals from Daniel Slavid, Harry Earle, Joe Stander and Rocco Lewis saw them come away from Brook Farm Rovers with a 4-2 win. Manager Nick Berger said: “It was an impressive display.” Raphi Auret and Zachary Rose scored for Rovers, for whom Toby Cohen said: “Another disappointing result in tough conditions. We dominated for large parts, but couldn’t put them away when we were on top. Two late goals due to lack of concentration gave the game away.”
HMH A are the new leaders of the Premier Division as their emphatic 8-2 win at Real Madreidel saw them leapfrog Hendon United and Geez Park Rangers to go a point clear at the top. Reigning champions Oakwood have somewhat reversed an alarming run of form as they moved off the bottom of the table by beating bottom side Hapoel Hampstead 3-1. Ethan Radus scored for Hampstead.
Hendon United were in cup action as they booked their place into the quarter-finals of the London Sunday Challenge Cup, beating Heavy Hitters FC 4-3. Rocky Spitzer scored their four goals, with manager Alex Rosenthal saying: “It was a special performance all round as we came from behind twice. It was a tough game in challenging conditions, I’m immensely proud of all the lads.”
Andrew Binstock scored four first half goals for Scrabble Masters in their 10-1 cup win over Hendon Harriers.
There was just one game played in the Maccabi Masters Football League and it saw league leaders Scrabble book their place into the next round of the Nathan Horwitz Cup as four first half goals from Andrew Binstock inspired them to a 10-1 win over Hendon Harriers. Jon Isaacs helped himself to a hat-trick, with Tim Levene, Mark Wagman and Jonny Summerfield also on target. Zohar Sharifa scored Harriers’ consolation.
