Clapton CFC’s first ever goalscorer Liam Smyth popped up to head home a late winner in the BBC Essex Premier Cup quarter-final.

Clapton CFC’s first ever goalscorer Liam Smyth popped up to head home a late winner in the BBC Essex Premier Cup quarter-final.
The Clapton CFC men’s first team bounced back to winning ways with a thumping quarter-final league cup victory over high-flyers Larkspur Rovers.
The women’s first team started 2022 with a thumping home cup win but it was a tougher challenge than the final score suggests.
Games between these two sides always guarantee goals, but unfortunately the men’s first team lost out to the odd goal in five.
The Clapton CFC men’s first team notched up their 50th competitive win but they didn’t have it all their own way in this end to end cup tie.
It couldn’t have been much harder end to the year for the men’s first team than a trip to Brentham, the side with the annoying habit of denying us wins late on.
Match report on women’s first team’s FA Cup third round loss to Plymouth Argyle Women in Saltash, Cornwall, 12 December 2021.
A draw and two defeats in the previous three games had seen the Tons fall off the top of the division, but this victory put Geoff Ocran’s men firmly back in the chasing pack.
The last time these two sides met they played out a 14-goal thriller/madness, however this time was to be much different.
In the history of the Women’s FA Cup, no seventh tier side has ever progressed to the third round proper. No-one had ever beaten a side four tiers above. Both records: shutdown.