Starting XI			Stur Star Man: Dave Johnston
1	Andy Talbot
2	Jack Geddes		Goals:
3	Scott Bennett		Stur: Steve Johnston, Luke Geddes
4	Ryan Hall
5	Matt Lambert
6	Ciaran Miller		Substitutes
7	Steve Johnston		12	Joe Wood (for Bennett, 45)
8	Dave Johnston		14	Richie Davies
9	Luke Geddes		15
10	Erkan Mete
11	Tom Rudd

This was meant two be a match between the two club's second strings. One of the two clubs played by the spirit of the rules, one didn't. If you check out the result you would probably be wrong if you guessed which was which.

Stur were forced into a pre match reshuffle because Joe Wood was sitting in a broken down works van somewhere on the A31, so assistant boss Scott Bennett pulled on his boots and took to the pitch.

Cheered on by the apprentice Stretford Enders who suddenly appeared from nowhere, and whose entire repertoire consisted of yelling "woooooooooh, you're shit, aaaahhhh" whenever the opposition keeper took a goal kick, Stur took the game to their opponents from the off. The home side's intent was signalled early when Luke Geddes created two good chances for himself but fired both wide. Tom Rudd then hit a left foot effort just wide of the upright.

At this point you would have been hard pushed to guess which one of the two sides were a Senior League team and the Stur second string took a deserved lead mid way through the half when the Upwey keeper could only parry an Erkan Mete shot and Luke Geddes was on hand to put the rebound into the back of the net.

HT: 1-0

Having been rescued by the AA, Joe Wood came on at half time in place of Scott Bennett who had turned in a valiant shift at left back.

Unlike their second string in the reverse fixture, the Upwey first XI were at least interested in playing football rather than fighting and goading the opposition, but that played straight into Stur's hands. There aren't many teams in Dorset Division 2 who can match the boys when it comes to playing the beautiful game as it should be played and on this evidence there aren't many in the Senior League either. Steve Johnston doubled the lead on the hour when he hit a super finish over the top of the advancing Upwey keeper.

Five minutes from time, the home side were wishing the AA had left Wood sitting in his lay by when he dallied on the ball too long and was robbed by an Upwey attacker who raced through and shot past Andy Talbot. It made for a nervy last five minutes, but the home side held on reasonably comfortably to take a well deserved three points.

The importance of the victory was underlined when it emerged that title rivals Blandford Sports had hammered eleven past Stickland in the night's other fixture and closed the previously insurmountable looking goal difference to a less comfortable level. Two games left, it is still in our hands. The time for strong nerves and stout hearts is approaching.