After their dreadful start against East Cowes Vics on Saturday, Spurs came back to form on Thursday night with a comprehensive victory at Andover.
The first quarter of the game was uneventful with both sides giving the ball away far too easily, but after 20 minutes, Luke Walsh outpaced the home defence following a fine through ball from George Short and slipped the ball past Dave Tasker in the New Street goal for the opener.  Ten minutes later, Tom Chillery crossed from the right and Andover’s Antony Waters unfortunately doubled Fleet’s score, leaving Tasker helpless with a powerful attempted clearance.  Shaken by this, the home side conceded again within half a minute as Tanfield crossed for Adam Crittenden to hammer the ball home.  When the fates are against a team, they generally stay that way.  First of all, Phil Boddy spectacularly cleared a goal-bound shot from skipper Danny Sullivan off the line, and then just before the break, Ben Clisby hit a cross-cum-shot from the right hand-touchline almost on the half-way line and it flew into the net inside the near post, just as intended (says Clisby).
Five minutes after the restart, Crittenden doubled his personal tally with a fine individual goal from a narrow angle.  To make matters worse, New Street then had defender Gary Stockwell dismissed for what the officials deemed to be denying Ben Edwards a clear goal-scoring opportunity.  As often happens, going down to 10 men spurred the home side into producing their best football of the match and Danny Sullivan reduced the arrears after hesitancy in the Spurs defence.  Indeed a few minutes later only a fine save by Mark Appleby prevented a second.  However, as Andover tired Spurs again stamped their authority on the game, and sub Sam Knowles celebrated his return from honeymoon with a couple of goals.  The first came when he broke through and coolly beat the advancing keeper.  The second was from another fine cross from Stuart Tanfield, who was back to something like his best form.  There was still time for the evening to get even worse for New Street as Sullivan was sent of for his second bookable offence.

 Overall this was an encouraging performance by a young Spurs side that was missing several important players. 

 Team: Mark Appleby, Ben Clisby, Ben Edwards (c), Phil Boddy, Adam Kennedy, Tom Chillery, George Short, Luke Thorn (sub Chris Payne 60), Stuart Tanfield, Adam Crittenden (sub Amartey Armar  62), Luke Walsh (sub Amartey Armar 60).