The Lip!
Welcome to The Lip. Leatherhead FC's alternative "unofficial" website. Up the Tanners!
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Rayners Lane are coming!
Our hosts are sitting comfortably in 11th place, while we sit two points from safety…
Kick off at 7.45. See you there!
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Harrow Borough 2 - 2 Tanners
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Travelling Tanners
Two new signings do bolster the ranks though. A defender with full international caps for Ireland and nine appearances for Southampton (where was he at Moneyfields), and a striker who scored 28 goals last season.
Kick off at 3pm. Good luck fellas!
Tuesday, October 08, 2024
It’s off!
South Park are coming!
We play another side below us (although, we are running out of options in that department) as only goals scored keeps us above them.
Kick off at 7.45 (I hope, there's been no mention of pitch inspections). See you there!
Saturday, October 05, 2024
Hastings United are coming!
Hastings United come to the Grove for the Trophy.
Kick off at 3pm. Good luck fellas.
Thursday, October 03, 2024
Moneyfields 2 - 1 Tanners
Another last-minute goal brings another disappointing result on a night that was disappointing from start to finish.
Arriving at the ground and I was a little deflated. I understand Moneyfields have had a lot of trouble in even getting the ground ready, so I am sympathetic, but the provision for supporters was somewhat lacking. Hot food constituted of a lukewarm budget sausage roll (£3!), a bar that resembled a doctor's waiting room and space behind the far goal was limited to just a few feet. A ground with a trainline running by it is a wonderful thing and that did lift my spirits.
Not for long though, as we conceded a penalty in the opening couple of minutes. Handball in the box (apparently) and they stepped up to make it 1-0.
Leatherhead brushed themselves off and started pressing for an equaliser and it came on the half hour. A high and hopeful ball was chased by Date and the defender failed to make any contact with it, allowing him to run on uncontested. He calmly slotted it past the isolated 'keeper to make us think we could go on and win the game. Oh, how wrong we were.
In the second half, the game became shrouded in ham acting, poor officiate and controversy. Moneyfields had deployed the dark arts throughout the game; going down screaming with broken limbs only to dust themselves off later so we knew what we were in for.
It started when badly Karczewski was fouled when running in on goal and he gave them a taste of their own medicine. Their number 6 did not like this and stood over our player to remonstrate and somehow the writhing player made contact and down he went clutching his leg. A ref should look at this and laugh but over he went to the assistant who claimed he saw something, and a straight red was offered.
This actually ignited Leatherhead into an attacking force and we played some of our best football but, as with Saturday, we were prone to the counter attack. Sonny had saved us on three or four occasions until the last minute of regular time when a long ball was met by a player who lobbed him to get the hosts their first win and doubling their tally for the season so far.
Onto Saturday then and the arrival of Hastings in the crappy Trophy.
Tuesday, October 01, 2024
Travelling Tanners
I hope the good people of Moneyfields do not go away as happy with tonight's result as they did last night. Tonight we make one of our longer trips, down to the South Coast, for this league fixture.
Our hosts sit in the relegation zone, with three draws to their name. We sit just one point above them…
Kick off at 7.45. Directions can be found here. See you there!