Fairy Tale Finale

Bridges got back to winning ways and even had a fairy tale ending as they made a minor dent to Lancing’s play off ambitions.

They took just eight minutes to open the scoring when brilliant work on the right by Nabeel Ghannam ended with an inch perfect low cross to NOEL LEIGHTON, who finished clinically.  And just two minutes later they were gifted a second when Samuel Michael Bull’s back pass was fumbled into his own net by keeper LOUIS ROGERS.

Leighton almost punished Rogers soon after and both he and Ghannam were denied as Bridges continued to surge forward.

Charlie Bennett shot wildly over early in the second half as Lancing tried to respond before Leighton was just wide following excellent work by Bryan Villavicencio. But after 69 minutes LEIGHTON showed his strength to get past three defenders before driving his side’s third.

Jasper Sheik tipped over a Knory Scott free kick but Leighton was then denied his hat trick when his shot crashed against the crossbar.

In the fourth of six added minutes a corner by Charlie Gibson was guided home by JACK LOUIS MEERES for a consolation for the visitors, but there was still time for that fairy tale finale when 16 year old GEORGE FALZON won a free kick and then met Ibrahim Jalloh’s perfect delivery to dive and head home on his Bridges debut.

			Home				Away				Total
			P	W	D	L	P	W	D	L	P	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	Pts
	1	Cray Valley PM	14	7	7	0	12	12	0	0	26	19	7	0	64	19	+45	64
	2	Ramsgate	14	12	1	1	12	8	2	2	26	20	3	3	69	24	+45	63
	3	Sittingbourne	14	9	1	4	12	7	5	0	26	16	6	4	60	24	+36	54
	4	Lancing	14	8	1	5	14	8	1	5	28	16	2	10	52	45	+7	50
	5	Herne Bay	14	7	4	3	13	6	4	3	27	13	8	6	54	40	+14	47
	6	Chichester City	14	6	1	7	14	7	4	3	28	13	5	10	52	34	+18	44
	7	Three Bridges	13	8	2	3	13	4	3	6	26	12	5	9	62	50	+12	41
	8	Sheppey United	14	7	3	4	12	4	4	4	26	11	7	8	48	36	+12	40
	9	Sevenoaks Town	14	6	5	3	13	4	1	8	27	10	6	11	46	41	+5	36
	10	Ashford United	14	8	0	6	12	3	3	6	26	11	3	12	41	48	-7	36
	11	Hythe Town	9	3	4	2	12	6	2	4	21	9	6	6	39	30	+9	33
	12	Burgess Hill Town	13	5	3	5	13	3	6	4	26	8	9	9	42	45	-3	33
	13	Horndean	10	6	0	4	13	2	4	7	23	8	4	11	37	42	-5	28
	14	Broadbridge Heath	13	4	5	4	14	3	2	9	27	7	7	13	39	45	-6	28
	15	Merstham	13	5	2	6	14	2	4	8	27	7	6	14	40	56	-16	27
	16	Littlehampton Town	13	4	3	6	13	3	2	8	26	7	5	14	33	56	-23	26
	17	East Grinstead Town	11	2	3	6	14	5	0	9	25	7	3	15	32	58	-26	24
	18	Phoenix Sports	14	3	4	7	14	2	2	10	28	5	6	17	36	76	-40	21
	19	Erith & Belvedere	14	3	2	9	14	2	3	9	28	5	5	18	16	62	-46	20
	20	Beckenham Town	12	2	3	7	13	1	2	10	25	3	5	17	33	64	-31	14