The last of the five grounds in this season's Wessex Premier to visit and a bit of a holy grail as I've been trying to clear the grounds of the top flight of Wessex league football for a few years now.
Drove down on the M27 and realised as I came off at the junction that this was the way I'd driven to Matt's in Woolston about 10 years previously. Despite this, I still managed to overshoot the entrance to the ground and had to u turn to get to the ground.
The game kicked off in overcast conditions and the weather didn't improve much throughout although there were a few bursts of sunlight through the clouds. The familar faces on the VTFC team where Tyronne Bowers and Ryan Ashford, both of whom had joined from Eastleigh. Bowers was playing as a makeshift striker and scored a cracking 30 yard effort in the first half, topped off with a Lua Lua gymnastic style celebration. VFFC had been pressurising Horndean from the start, assisted by Horndean's keeper not being able to kick with any distance and had hit the post and had a goal disallowed before that effort.
A minute later and it all seemed in vain. Horndean had managed a quick counter attack and a lob over the keeper from the edge of the box meant it was 1.1 going into half time.
The second half followed a similar pattern but Horndean were unlucky not to score on a couple of occasions. They got stretched at the back and conceded a second goal with a long shot past the keeper. In trying to restore parity, they got hit with a sucker punch of a goal in the last minute, created and scored by 2 of the VTFC substitutes. The ball curled beautfully into the corner to finally defeat Horndean.
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