After making the long trek to play Soham Town Rangers last Saturday, Kirkley & Pakefield FC had young Bailey Phipps go down injured after just 6 minutes with an injury that required hospital attention, to be replaced by Daniel Munro. The home team took the lead with a spectacular goal on 24 minutes by Ryan Sharman, the lead lasted only a minute before MaCauley Holt put the ‘Royals’ on level terms. On 29 minutes Junior Varela put Soham back in front, on 41 minutes the ‘Royals’ had a shot hit the post. The 54thminutes saw Ryan Sharman hit his second of the game to put the home team 3-1 up, the home keeper Fin Iron was forced to make an unbelievable save on 71 minutes with no further goals the home team savoured a 3-1 win and three hard fought points.
Kirkley & Pakefield FC team: A.Blowers, H.Creamer, K.Wing, L.Hammond (C.Swan), J.Lawrence, L.Flower, B.Phipps (D.Munro), B.George, C.Russell, N.Russell, M.Holt.
This Saturday Kirkley & Pakefield FC 1st do not have a league match.
There were farcical scenes last Saturday at the Lavish Life Competitions Stadium for the ‘Reserves’ home game Brandon Town. To start with the visitors only turned up with ten players, after a minutes silence was observed the game kick-off with the home team having most of the attacking and taking the lead with a good strike from Kale Brown shortly after a surprise breakaway the visitors equalised only for Thomas Harmer to score a neat goal for the Reserves to retake the lead. During the first half Brandon were further reduced to eight men after two of their players left the field with injures. With the second half barely started another visiting player fell to the ground and came off now with only seven players, a further player was supposedly injured so with only six players left on the field match official Richard Daniels had no option but to abandon the game with the ‘Royals’ 2-1 ahead. This was a truly unsatisfactory afternoon and one the visitors should be ashamed of. This Saturday the ‘Reserves’ are away at North Walsham Town 2.00 ko.
On Saturday the ‘Under 23s’ visited New Ground in Hethersett Athletic and came home with a very good 4-0 after goals from George Lansdale, Ethan Forsdicke, Connor Williams and Finley Dale. This Saturday they entertain Martham Reserves 2.00 ko.
Last Thursday evening, the AFC Royals U18s secured a victory over Great Yarmouth Town with a lone goal from James Hamilton, keeping them at the top of the league. They are set to play away at Beccles Town on Tuesday, November 12.

In the Suffolk County FA U18 Mid-Week Cup Round 2, both teams have home draws. K&PFC will face Lowestoft Town on Wednesday, November 20, while AFC Royals will take on Ipswich Wanderers on the following evening, Thursday, November 21. Both matches will kick off at 7:45 PM.