Centre out of FA Sunday Cup (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

Centre out of FA Sunday Cup

9:53am Monday 6th November 2006 in Football By Gazette Sport Reporter

CHIPPENHAM Sunday League champions Corsham Centre crashed out of the FA Sunday Cup on penalties.

Playing in front of representatives of the Wiltshire FA, Centre were beaten by Lodge Cottrell from Lichfield after an entertaining match.

Lodge came out the sharper from the start and took the lead but Corsham's Liam Ralph saw his shot come off a defender and into the net to level the scores. The Lichfield side dominated the first period but could not add to their score.

In the second half Corsham Centre again went behind, conceding a goal from a dead ball training ground routine, but to their credit the heads did not drop and they hit back again when a Simon Gray shot fell to Ross Lye who hit in the Corsham side's second.

In the last 20 minutes Corsham had a further four guilt edge chances but failed to convert any of them and the game drifted into extra time.

With no further goals in time added on the harrowing penalty shoot out finally decided the result with the Chippenham Sunday League boys being the unfortunate losers (6-5).