Amesbury Town 3 Fleet Spurs 1 (Sydenhams Football League (Wessex) Division 1) – Saturday 19 February
This was a strange game that Spurs presented to Amesbury with a number of elementary errors.
Fleet Spurs 3 Old Farnboronians 2 (after extra time) (Aldershot Divisional FA Senior Invitation Challenge Cup 3rd round)
A remarkable and tense cup-tie unfolded at Southwood on Wednesday. Spurs managed to scrape through despite an appalling lack of discipline – they picked up seven bookings during the game.
Fleet Spurs 5 Ringwood Town 1 (Sydenhams Football League (Wessex) Division 1)
This was a game that after a tricky start for Spurs turned into a comfortable and well merited victory against a Ringwood side missing several first-choice players.
Pewsey Vale 4 Fleet Spurs 1 (Sydenhams Football League (Wessex) Division 1)
Another disappointing performance and result for Spurs with all four Pewsey goals resulting from sloppy defending. However, Vale were the better side and thoroughly deserved their victory.
Tadley Calleva 1 Fleet Spurs 4 (Sydenhams Football League (Wessex) Division 1)
Although Spurs weren’t at their best on Tuesday night, this performance was chalk and cheese compared to their embarrassing capitulation against Verwood on Saturday.
The game started brightly and after ten minutes an excellent through ball from Grant Nesbitt set Sam Knowles free and the striker scored with a powerful drive. Five minutes later, Dean Peltohaka celebrated his first start for Tadley by equalising with a thunderous left-foot drive from the edge of the box that rocketed in off the underside of the bar – an unstoppable shot. There were chances at both ends, until five minutes before half-time Knowles restored Fleet’s lead with an accurate shot into the corner from the best part of thirty yards following some intricate build-up play in midfield. The sides turned round with Spurs perhaps slightly flattered by their lead.
Fleet Spurs 2 Verwood Town 7 (Sydenhams Football League (Wessex) Division 1)
Following their good midweek cup victory against Cove, Spurs may have felt confident of a good result against Verwood, whom they had beaten 4-1 earlier in the season. If they did, their confidence was misplaced, as they were well beaten by a far better side on the day. If a 7-2 scoreline looks like a hammering, it’s not misleading. It was.
Hythe & Dibden 1 Fleet Spurs 3 (Sydenhams Football League (Wessex) Division 1)
This was a game that Spurs might have – probably should have – won comfortably, but where they eventually had to struggle to overcome the gallant ten men of Hythe.
Fleet Spurs 2 Warminster Town 3 (Sydenhams Football League (Wessex) Division 1)
Petersfield Town 2 Fleet Spurs 6 (Sydenhams Football League (Wessex) Division 1)
In their first game since 20 November, Spurs made a splendid start by to the new year with a convincing victory over a good Petersfield side, though the game was not as comfortable for them as the score suggests. Indeed, had it not been for an outstanding performance by 18-year-old David Pitt, making his first start for the club in a competitive fixture, the result might have been very different.
Fleet Spurs 3 Hythe & Dibden 0 (Sydenhams Football League (Wessex) Division 1)
This was a convincing performance by Spurs that led to a well deserved victory.
The first twenty minutes were even, with Hythe looking slightly the better side but with no real chances for either side. Then new assistant manager Neil Selby came on for Luke Walsh, who had picked up a hamstring strain, and the game began to move in Fleet’s favour, something that was to continue until the final whistle. Five minutes after Selby’s entry, he got on the end of a cross from George Short and although the ball ran free, Grant Nesbit fired home, the ball taking a slight deflection off a Hythe defender’s leg. Five minutes before the break, another Short cross picked out Selby, who made space for himself and shot powerfully and unstoppably past Matt Willsher to double Spurs’ advantage.