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LONDON INTERMEDIATE
CUP FINAL |
Cray Valley have eyes on unique quadruple
CRAY
VALLEY will be looking to win the London Intermediate Cup for a third
consecutive season when they play South London Alliance League Premier Division
champions elect, Metrogas at Bayliss Avenue in Thamesmead on Friday evening,
writes Barry Feist.
Valley are still without suspended striker Dean Flood and it is expected that
Derek Oldfield will keep his place for the final.
Oldfield has been in good form since being plucked out of the reserves to score
a hat-trick on his first team debut against Bearsted a fortnight ago and a goal
on Easter Monday against Stansfeld Oxford & Bermondsey Club takes his tally
to four goals in three games.
Kent County League top scorer Matt Knuckney is expected to partner Oldfield up
front. Knuckney has now his 28 goals in 30 games this season and has taken
over as leading scorer since Lee Sperring's move from Halls FC to Go Travel Kent
League side Maidstone United.
Captain, Dean White, who scored the third goal from the penalty spot on Easter
Monday against Stansfeld hopes to recover from a slight injury picked up in the
same game.
Cray Valley chairman Dave Wilson is extremely pleased with the success of the
team this year, which is on course to land a very unique QUADRUPLE.
"Over the past month the first team have reached the final of the London
Intermediate Cup, which we've won for the last two years, the Kent Intermediate
Challenge Shield, we've also reached the Inter-Regional Challenge Cup, which we
hold after last year's victory over University of Kent."
He praised the club's togetherness for the team's success, adding: "Our
continuing success is I feel, down to good organisation and training, a strong
sense of "team togetherness", and of course a squad of quality
players.
"Mark Edwards and his "team" work hard to ensure we maintain the
standards we've set ourselves."
If successful at Bayliss Avenue on Friday, Cray Valley can add the Kent
Intermediate Challenge Shield on Saturday 9th April when they take on Norton
Sports at Chatham Town's Maidstone Road ground.
Then if they defeat Old Roan at Cray Valley's Badgers Sports Ground at Middle
Park Avenue on Saturday 16th April, in the British Energy Kent County League
Premier Division, they will only need two more points from their last four
matches to secure the championship.
And they face Orpington in the Inter-Regional Challenge Cup Final at Welling
United's Park View Road ground on Wednesday 27th April.