FALMOUTH Town Reserves Team travelled to Vogue Park to take on top of the table and some might say title favourites St. Day in a battle of first against third, writes Jon Perrow. 

Despite the lack of game time, the match could not have started any better for Town as in the very first minute a lovely through ball from Darren Davey found Charlie Edney who raced through and finished superbly from the edge of the area giving former Falmouth Town goalie Steve Parker-Billinge no chance.

The match was being played at a frantic pace and it was real end-to-end stuff and this led to St. Day equalising in the 15th minute when the ball fell kindly to a St. Day forward who finished neatly past Captain and goalie Zach Telling.

The rest of the half played out with both defences on top with George Evans, Scott Yendle and Andy Miles taking everything that St Day could throw at them. Town themselves had numerous chances to get Edney and Kian Thomas in but the final ball was just not quite executed properly.

However, all the first half’s good work was undone when, within five minutes of the start of the second, St. Day scored a real scruffy goal when the ball after a great save from Telling bounced across the goal and was somehow squeezed in by a St Day player.

That was the start for Town though to really get a foothold of the game and to start to test St. Day. Jos Plummer replaced Davey on the 60-minute and almost immediately got onto the score sheet but just could not stretch his leg long enough to convert.

By now Town were having their best period of the match and were starting to exert some real pressure on St. Day but to their credit they stood up to the task. Town then had a massive chance in the 62nd minute to equalise when Oliver Perrow, back for Christmas from his studies in the USA and who has just won his own Conference Soccer Championship in California, put in a superb cross for Edney again who agonisingly couldn’t convert..

Despite Town being on top, this all changed in the 75th minute when Andy Miles who had been booked in the first half, picked up his second booking of the match in a bit of pushing and shoving with a St. Day player who appeared to head-butt Miles. Despite the alleged head-butt the St. Day player only got a booking.

After the sending-off, St Day sensed victory and could have made it 3-1 but for a brilliant save by Telling pushing the ball onto the bar. Towns 10 men just couldn’t hold on though and St.Day scored their third and fourth goals in the 42nd and 45th minute securing an unlikely 4-1 victory to take the spoils and three points.