Not so long ago, this pre-season friendly made perfect sense, and I was looking forward to it but now, due to the FA's new coefficient, we are just a few days before the extra-preliminary round it didn't look so appealing. The players seemed to agree as they tentatively saw out this game out, while Farnham played with more freedom.
Another reason to hold the friendly may have been to cash in on their large supporter base, but it appeared the only person who came to watch Farnham was Marc White as he prepares for his friendly against them soon. Marc did not have to wait for Farnham to open the scoring when they were awarded an absolute stinker of a penalty. Hardly any contact but he pointed to the spot and it was 0-1.
Farnham soon raced to a three-goal lead when twice Sonny rushed off his line to close down a pass, only to be beaten and the ball calmly rolled into an empty net. 0-3 and half time.
To be fair, Leatherhead did come out and for the first time looked really committed to get into the game and got their reward from penalty. Sam De St. Croix stepped up and obviously felt bad about scoring against his old team so sent the 'keeper the right way and it was saved. He scored on the follow up for this penalty, but when we got awarded another one for handball, he sent the 'keeper the same way and it was saved.
Farnham made it 1-4 from a nice move down the right to finish us off. That concludes the preseason friendlies, and now we get stuck into the FA Cup and the visit of Phoenix Sports on Saturday…