Match results and fundraising football

Christmas & New Year Football update

Heacham FC made it six points from six over the Christmas period with well earned and crucial wins away to Stowmarket Town (2-0) and, with probably one of their best performances of the season it has to be said, a deserved home win against high flying local rivals Downham Town (3-1). Their game against Walsham-le-Willows FC on Saturday was postponed due to a frozen pitch. Heacham are presently 13th in the Thurlow Nunn Premier Division, six places and now eighteen points clear of the drop zone and travel to 15th placed Harleston Town this coming Saturday (11th January).

FC St. Edmunds Hunstanton hosted a charity football match on Saturday, 28th December, with a post match presentation, raffle and auction in the Golden Lion Hotel raising over £1,000 in the process as a young first team took on an aging veterans side. Youth prevailed in the first half as the first team took a commanding 4-0 lead. However, as they tired, the veterans fitness and experience began to prevail as they clawed their way back to draw 4-4. Manager, Nigel King, said, “a great day out which we hope to make an annual affair. Thank you for all the kind donations from the players and supporters alike”.

Simon Massen, Chairman of Campaign Care ‘94, was very grateful, saying, “the two charities that will benefit are the Bob Champion Cancer Trust, a charity that has raised over £15 million for prostate cancer research and funds a research centre in Norwich, and the Norfolk Hospice Tapping House which provides palliative care at the hospice and in the community. This sum of money will be a welcome boost. On behalf of the Trustees of Campaign Care ‘94, I am very grateful to Nigel King and all the footballers as well as the spectators that got involved to make it a fantastic day. It was really very kind of them”.

Only one game beat the weather at the weekend, and what a game it proved to be as lowly FC St. Edmund’s Hunstanton hosted high flying local foes Heacham Minors FC Development in a six goal thriller in Division Two of the North West Norfolk League. The eagerly anticipated local derby at Hunstanton Recreation Ground was played out in front of nearly 100 spectators. Heacham took an early two goal lead as Lewis Nurse and Oliver Johnson netted before the hosts pegged them back to make it two apiece as Alfie Penn and Ryan King notched. A crucial third goal from James Boyden then put the visitors ahead again. With both teams creating chances, the next goal looked like it would prove pivotal. And so it proved as Tom Raisbury netted a late goal on the break, slotting home to make it 4-2 and secure Heacham all three points in what turned out to be a competitive affair played in the right spirit. Heacham remain 3rd in the division whilst Hunstanton still face a relegation battle sitting second from bottom.