Football round-up: Chapple's early strike earns Marlow narrow win over Northwood

Marlow 1, Northwood 0

An early goal from Curtis Chapple earned Marlow all three points at home against Northwood.

Chapple struck decisively for the hosts in the fifth minute and the Blues held on for a narrow, but much-needed victory.

Mark Bartley’s side have been in good recent form, having banded together following the revelation of a 50 per cent cut to the playing budget.

The 14th placed Blues visit promotion chasers Hartley Wintney on Tuesday night.

--

Flackwell Heath 1, Binfield 3

Flackwell Heath’s fine recent form was brought to an abrupt halt by Binfield at Wilks Park.

The Heathens were without Charlie Samuel, Dean Allen and Ryan Tackley for the clash and those three were very much missed it seems.

Sean Moore fired the Moles ahead on the hour mark and doubled the visitors advantage 13 minutes later, while Gary Smith rounded off Binfield’s scoring before Heath grabbed a late consolation.

The result all but ends the Heathens slim hopes of automatic promotion.

--

Thatcham Town 2, Windsor 2

Windsor warmed up for next weekend’s FA Trophy quarter final tie at Stockton Town by picking up an impressive result at Thatcham Town.

It might have been even better for the Royalists who briefly led 2-1 through Kieran Knight’s 62nd minute strike. However, Thatcham levelled matters just a minute later through Shane Cooper-Clarke.

Riccardo Cannon found the net from Paul Coyne’s free kick in the 29th minute to give Windsor the lead but again their lead was short lived with Thatcham replying through Jarra two minutes later.

--

Bracknell Town 2, Burnham 0

Relegation threatened Burnham contributed to their own downfall in today’s 2-0 defeat at Bracknell Town.

With the scores level early in the second half Burnham were reduced to 10 men before they gifted the Robins a further advantage by scoring a 66th minute own goal.

With the Blues now a goal and a man down, TJ Bohane made certain of the points with 14 minutes to play.

--

Holyport 0, Wallingford Town 5

Holyport’s unbeaten league run, which stretched back to mid-October, was ended in spectacular fashion by their clinical visitors to Summerleaze Village.

Wallingford led 2-0 at the break, their second goal coming from the penalty spot five minutes before the interval.

Port needed a big second 45 minutes to rescue the situation, but instead they were well off the pace and conceded another three goals to their rampant visitors.

--

Cheltenham Town 0, Wycombe Wanderers 2

There was a happy return to Whaddon Road for Scott Brown who kept a clean sheet in the Chairboys’ 2-0 win.

A seventh win from eight matches saw the Wanderers move back up to second in League 2.

Gareth Ainsworth’s men settled this tie in the first half with Adebayo Akinfenwa twisting and turning before firing in the first in the 40th minute. Better was to follow before the half-time whistle when Akinfenwa played in Paris Cowan-Hall who swept home to make it 2-0.