Game 35: Salisbury City Reserves 7.1 Raynes Park Vale Reserves (Suburban League) 03.05.08

With the local league season over, decided to head up to the Ray Mac to see Salisbury’s reserve team in their last home game of the season. The team have been a class above in the Suburban League this season, unbeaten in the league to date and only one defeat in the two cup competitions they entered.


It was a really warm sunny day and took a stroll around the ground, which made a change from the segregation. Bumped into Malx from the Salisbury forum who showed me the new turnstiles the club have bought from Portsmouth that are going to be installed at the away end during the summer break.


The game was entertaining to watch and there was only one team in it. The scoring went as follows:

3 mins Gates with a low shot 1.0
20 mins Gates header from the rebound after missing a penalty 2.0
30 min Fisher penalty shot past the keeper 3.0


55 min Walsh with a long shot over the keeper 4.0
57 min Gates hat trick, a shot at the edge of the box into corner of net 5.0
73 min Gates went up with keeper for a high ball and nodded it in with his head 6.0
75 min Raynes Park get a penalty following a handball, shot under the Salisbury keeper 6.1
81 min Young shot from close in after Holmes shot deflected out by the keeper 7.1


Fisher’s penalty was the 100th goal the team has scored this season. It will be interesting to see if any of the team make the step up to the first team next year or if they will depart for local sides lower in the pyramid to play regular first team football.