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BRIGHOUSE Town, despite creating 14 clear cut chances to score and arguably playing their best football of the season since the pre-season friendlies, went out of the FA Trophy at in form Kendal Town in the second qualifying round.

It didn’t help that they lost their skipper and kingpin centre back Kurt Harris in the 29th minute with a badly broken toe and having to rearrange the defence also missing injured former Rotherham Utd centre back Harrison Beeden (ankle).

Town had early chances as Alhassane Keita, Laurence Sorhaindo, Javelle Clarke and Edward Church attacked the home goalmouth but blocks and narrow misses prevented a score.

The Mintcakes took the lead in the 34th minute with the only goal of the game when Emil Jaaskelainan dispossessed Sam Reed and then steered the ball wide of Town’s new goalkeeper loan signing from Manchester United, Jacob Carney.

Town heads did not go down and they played some superb football in the second period but could not get the net despite Kendal striker Joe Hodgson being sent off for a second caution.

Town also had another debutant in fullback Jake Kelly who has previously played for Huddersfield Town and Sheffield United.

Lady Luck also deserted Town at Pickering Town on Tuesday night as they went down 1-0 to a 27th minute Harry Jessop goal.

It was a good performance from the visitors but nothing went for them after they settled down from an early onslaught the Pikes attack.

In the final 15 minutes Pickering keeper Charlie Andrew made three superb saves, two as he tipped over the bar and one right down at his near post.

Town introduced two new players in midfielders Daniel Racchi and William Shepherd who is on a month-long loan from Salford City. Town’s on-loan goalkeeper Jacob Carney from Manchester United looked every bit a Premier League player after his somewhat nervy outing at Kendal and was unlucky not to keep a clean sheet as he saved the original shot on goal for the winner and was beaten by a rebound into his net.

Brighouse Town Ladies were in home 2nd Round Qualifying. FA Cup action on the Sunday against Spennymoor United and came out 6-0 winners.

Their scorers were Ellie Dobson (2), Drew Greene, Ellie White, Danielle Whitham and Amy Woodruff.

In the next round on Sunday, November 1st (1.00 pm) they will entertain Merseyrail Ladies.

On Saturday’ Town men entertain Pontefract Collieries (3.00), with the game being sponsored by Rastrick Cricket Club’s Midweek team, the Spoofers, who play in the Huddersfield Evening League

By Dave Parker

BRIGHOUSE TOWN are still looking for that first elusive victory of the new season after a dramatic 3-3 home draw with Runcorn Linnets on Monday night in front of a 346 crowd.

Town, despite having Shiraz Khan sent off in the 34th minute for alleged stamping in retaliation to an unpunished first offence by a Runcorn player, went 2-0 up with ten men ahead of half-time and made that 3-0 in the 51st minute.

Two minutes after the dismissal by Halifax referee Lewis Dawson after consultation with an assistant, Eddie Church weaved his way in from the left and then steered the ball past Paddy Wharton. Three minutes later Eli Hey chased a long ball and beat his defender before Wharton came out of his goal to challenge and the ricochet off the keeper spun to Josh Grant some 35 yards out who just neatly lobbed the ball into an empty net.

Runcorn were stunned, and so were the home supporters, at the superb response by a weakened Town team, and they were to be shocked further when play came down the right for Town in the 51st minute with Laurence Sorhaindo prominent and with Tom Haigh they got a ball out to Church coming in from the left who then from 18 yards out curled a tremendous shot beyond the reach of Wharton.

Unfortunately for Town five minutes later they gave away a penalty and Kurt Sherlock sent it past Matt Smith to make it 3-1.

With under 10 minutes to play Mr Dawson puled up injured and an appeal went out to the crowd for a qualified referee to take over on the line.

After some consultation on the touchline, Town’s media manager Damian Wales, a qualified referee, took over, with Keiran Dawson (no relation) going into the middle.

As play went into added time of nine minutes, Town were holding on with fresh legs having come on in the second period through Jack Boyle, Jordan Deacey and Alhassane Keita. However, in the 95th minute as the visitors threw everything at Town’s defence, Runcorn full-back Josh Brizzell unleashed a shot which just beat a diving Smith.

Then, there was more controversy as Mr K. Dawson went to the Runcorn bench and sent off one of their officials for continued verbal comments about the match official. With just a minute left of added on time, the visitors were awarded their second penalty and Sherlock made no mistake to level the scores.

In the game Town had four bookings and a sending off and surprisingly not one Runcorn player saw a card.

Town’s assistant manager Stacy Reed, whose teenage son Sam Reed made his debut at fullback, said the final result was like a defeat after what had been achieved ahead of the extensive `Fergie Time”.

On Saturday, Town entertain City of Liverpool (3.0) and then again on Monday night Dunston from Gateshead are the visitors (7.45).

They should have been away on the Saturday but the Liverpool City authorities, with their well publicised covid problems, have closed the Bootle stadium for two weeks.

The Match sponsor is TOG24 clothing www.tog24.com

Match ball sponsor – Lightcliffe Cricket Club Under 11s

Man of the Match sponsor – Brighouse Juniors FC Under 11s

There will also be some TOG24 products thanks to Mr Paul Ramsden for the Man of the Match.

All NPL clubs are now required by law to use the new NHS Covid-19 app.

New NHS QR posters – specific to each club – will be displayed to offer a quick, simple and secure way for supporters and visitors to register that they’ve been to the ground.

This will help NHS Test and Trace to identify and notify people who may have been exposed to the virus.

Players, spectators, coaches, match officials, staff / volunteers and all other visitors to the site aged 16 and above must provide their details.

The app is available on Android and iOS – details here: https://covid19.nhs.uk/help-downloading.html

Clubs must also retain a backup manual paper system, for those who do not have an appropriate smartphone to scan the code.

The NHS COVID-19 app has a feature that allows users to quickly and easily ‘check in’ to a venue by scanning the code. The information stays on the user’s phone. In England, you do not have to ask people who choose to ‘check in’ using the official NHS QR code to provide their contact details. If there is an outbreak associated with a venue, a message will be sent to the relevant app users with the necessary public health advice.

This will help to avoid the reintroduction of further lockdown measures.

In addition to maintaining and sharing records where requested and displaying an official NHS QR poster, everyone must also continue to follow other Government guidance to minimise the transmission of COVID-19. This includes maintaining a safe working environment and following social distancing guidelines.

Clubs have all been issued with an updated FAQ and COVID-19 guidance from the FA via the league.

Dave Parker

A SENDING off for Brighouse Town’s midfielder Tom Haigh with 20 minutes to go, as his side led 1-0, was the turning point in this pretty evenly matched opening league fixture in front of a 327 crowd.

After Joe Jagger had hit the post in the first half, as Town played against a strong wind, defences held sway and nothing else was anywhere near productive.

Shortly after Javelle Clarke had been substituted by Eli Hey, 57 minutes into the half and Jack Boyle pushed wide, he produced a superb ball a minute later across goal and Eddie Church, coming in from the left flank headed superbly beyond the reach of visiting keeper Chris Thompson.

Boyle was then put clear on goal but shot a little too early when he could have made more progress on the Clitheroe goal.

However, in the 69th minute Haigh, following up on a caution in the 51st minute, was shown a second yellow for a reckless tackle and then a red card.

Following the free kick the ball was in the Town goal area and was not cleared and the Clitheroe skipper Billy Priestley stabbed it past Matt Smith in the Town goal to equalise.

With a minute of normal time remaining Priestley won it for his side as he drove the ball in across the box to go in the far side of Smith’s goal.

Despite a great run by Hey, with a Clitheroe player pulling his shirt, Town failed to get an equalising goal and suffered their second successive league and cup defeat in seven days.

Town travel to Teeside on Saturday to take on Marske United who were in FA Cup action on Tuesday night, defeating Trafford 1-0 on the back of

a 4-2 away win last Saturday at City of Liverpool.

In order to keep his sizeable squad match fit, Vill Powell entertained Penistone Church on Tuesday night in a friendly and his charges came out 3-2 winners after leading 2-0 on the break through goals from Harrison Beeden-his first for the club since joining from Rotherham United-and Laurence Sorhaindo-his first since joining from Silsden.

The goal of the game came in the 54th minute from former FC Halifax Town and Ossett Utd wideman Shiraz Khan. Taking the ball down the left, Khan cut in and from 25 yards out sent in an absolute screamer to make it 3-0 and at the same time give Powell a boost as he was unfit for last Saturday’s game. He will also cushion, to some extent, losing Haigh to a match suspension following his dismissal in the Clitheroe game.

Penistone came back well in the final 30 minutes of the game and scored two goals through Luke McGinnell and former Town and Emley striker Alex O’Keefe.

Town, who will play host on Friday night at their Yorkshire Payments Stadium to an NHS charity game from the staff at Calderdale Hospital (7.00) in memory of two valued members who died earlier this year as a result of covid-19, will also hold a socially distanced Open Day on Saturday from 12 noon to show local residents and others in Brighouse and district their newly extended and renovated clubhouse.