Bromsgrove Sporting 2 (0) v (0) 1 Fairfield Villa

Smedley Crooke Cup Saturday 18 February 2012

Bromsgrove Sporting scraped into the Smedley Crooke Cup semi-finals with a hard fought 2-1 win over Fairfield Villa.

Whilst Fairfield looked the brighter side they were eventually undone by some poor defending and the loss of keeper Hancox to injury at half-time.

It wasn’t untilt he last 20 minutes that the game got lively as Sporting had a shot cleared off the line and Joe Brookes contrived to hit defender Steve Frost when the goial was at his mercy but Sporting went two goals up with striked from Jon Rogers on 78 minutes and a Bradley Williamson header on 81 before Fairfield hit back through Jamie Hatfield on 83 minutes..

Fairfield pushed on to try and take the game into extra-time.  They had a couple of chances that keeper Mole dealt with well before some poor finishing meant they ultimately came up shortbut ultimately came up short as Sporting were able to hang on for a 2-1 win and a semi-final place against Boldmere or Cadbury Athletic

Sporting line up: Mole, Fellows, Roberts (Harris), Martin, Thurbon, Brookes, Draper,  Wilkes, Rogers Jon (Molesworth) Turk, Banner (Williamson). Subs not used: Rogers G, Jenvey

Fairfield line up. Hancox (Rogers), Hatfield, Pratt, Parish, Frost, Slevin, Beagan, McGlen, Gaffney (Rousell),  Sproston, Smith  Subs not used: Morgan, Wroe, Hopwood

Cards:  – none.

 Man of the Match – Sporting - Jon Rogers,