MIDLAND FOOTBALL COMBINATION
PREMIER DIVISION

West Midlands Police (1) 2 Feckenham (1) 3

West Mids substitute Neil Fletcher will remember this match for good and bad reasons. He conceded an own goal, scored a superb goal and finally in the last minutes of the game, drifted into an offside position which resulted in Baljit Singh's goal being disallowed.

Lively feckenham started well and took the lead on 17 minutes, when a left wing corner was swung into the near post, headed towards goal and Brian Powell reacted quickly to nod the ball home from close range.

Police equalised in the last minute of the first half when Paul Probert launched a deep free kick into the Feckenham penalty area. Keeper David Inman came for the ball, then stopped and Richard frost rose above the defence and sent a back header into the unguarded net.

On 60 minutes feckenham regained the lead when an in ball found Lee Brosnan who raced on and fired home from the edge of the box, giving Police keeper Ross Bate no chance.

Feckenham increased their lead on 73 minutes, when a cross-cum-shot from David Unittt seemed to be going wide of the far post until Fletcher, attempting to put the ball out for a corner, only succeeded in the pushing the ball just inside the post.

Withtwo minutes of normal time remaining, Police puled a goal back when Jasvinder Shira put a left flank corner to the far post where Fletcher rifled home an unstoppable cross shot.

The on 90 minutes, came the 'goal' that wasn't. Mark Bellingham struck a firece cross and Singh side-footed home from close range, but the Assistant referee (perfectly placed) raised his flag for offside against Fletcher.

This defeat for West Mids., sees Feckenham leap frog above them in the league table and continue their impressive run of victories which must put them in contention for the Team of the Month Award.